In the following paragraph, certain words are missing. Construct the paragraph by choosing the best alternatives from among the four choices (A, B, C, or D) for each of the blanks. More than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that is most accurate.
Only steadfastness of purpose and humility enable the student to shift his position to meet the new conditions in which new _____1_____ are born, or old ones are modified beyond recognition. And, the honest heart will keep him in touch with his fellow students, and furnish that sense of _____2_____ without which he travels an arid waste alone. I say _____3______ an honest heart – the honest head is prone to be cold and stern, given to judgement, not mercy, and not always able to entertain that true charity which, while it thinks no evil, is anxious to put the best possible ____4____ upon motives of fellow worker. It will foster, too, an attitude of generous, friendly _____5______ untinged by the green peril, jealously, that is best preventive of the growth of a bastard scientific spirit, loving seclusion and working in a lock-and-key laboratory, as ____6____ of light as is a thief.
1. A. truths B. ideas C. thoughts D. realities
2. A. comradeship B. camaraderie C. self-sufficiency D. self-adequacy
3. A. advisedly B. deliberately C. consciously D. purposely
4. A. interpretation B. perspective C. perception D. construal
5. A. rivalry B. spirit C. enthusiasm D. enmity
6. A. timorous B. afraid C. unsure D. apprehensive
Only steadfastness of purpose and humility enable the student to shift his position to meet the new conditions in which new _____1_____ are born, or old ones are modified beyond recognition. And, the honest heart will keep him in touch with his fellow students, and furnish that sense of _____2_____ without which he travels an arid waste alone. I say _____3______ an honest heart – the honest head is prone to be cold and stern, given to judgement, not mercy, and not always able to entertain that true charity which, while it thinks no evil, is anxious to put the best possible ____4____ upon motives of fellow worker. It will foster, too, an attitude of generous, friendly _____5______ untinged by the green peril, jealously, that is best preventive of the growth of a bastard scientific spirit, loving seclusion and working in a lock-and-key laboratory, as ____6____ of light as is a thief.
1. A. truths B. ideas C. thoughts D. realities
2. A. comradeship B. camaraderie C. self-sufficiency D. self-adequacy
3. A. advisedly B. deliberately C. consciously D. purposely
4. A. interpretation B. perspective C. perception D. construal
5. A. rivalry B. spirit C. enthusiasm D. enmity
6. A. timorous B. afraid C. unsure D. apprehensive
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