Sample Questions on Paragraph Completion

Directions ( Q 11-15 )Choose the correct option to complete the paragraph:

Q 11. This seems even more crucial today given the lack of boundary between home and the outside world. When your authors were growing up, the world beyond their local community only came through the newspapers, radio, and television, with access to the latter two time-limited. Now, with mobile phones, iPads, and other devices, there are no boundaries and few time limits. _____________________________________.

i) The world, for good and bad, is fully accessible, and the primacy of the messages delivered at home is under more challenge.

ii) This act of rebellion changed the course of Harry’s life, enabling him to get an education and do something other than walking a predetermined path.

iii) Like Ellen, Harry was also subject to a prophecy.

iv) Of our interviewers, Ellen was the one who seemed to have been chosen by destiny as a child.

v) None of the above.

Answer: Option- (i) is correct, it suits the meaning and context of the paragraph. 

Q 12. Beyond talking, there is also the question of what is modelled at home. With the rapid growth of the number of women in the workforce and the lessening of the number of women who are continuously at home full-time, many of us would intuitively assume that domestic duties are now more equitably shared. _______________________________________. The peak difference occurs in the age range of 35 to 44 years old, a time when families may need to look after children and spend time caring for ageing parents.

i) Given how grim much of the rest of Ellen’s childhood story is, it is a relief to know there was also some fun and humour.

ii) As well as being formally briefed about the team working, every day she overheard something new and intriguing.

iii) But the statistics show that there is still quite some way to go. A time-use study conducted in the United States in 2018 reveals that, on average, women spend two hours a day more than men on unpaid house and care work.

iv) Partly, it has happened because books and articles on women have caught our eyes.

v) None of the above.

Answer: Option- (iii) is correct, it suits the meaning and context of the paragraph. 

Q 13. At this stage of life, women are performing 8.8 hours a day of free work, while men are contributing 5.2 hours. Even when men and women both work full time, there is a 22 per cent difference in the time devoted to unpaid domestic and caring work. A look at who manages healthcare needs at home also shows substantial differences. ___________________________________________. When a child is too unwell to go to school, 40 per cent of mothers indicate that they are the adult who takes time off work to look after them, whereas only 3 per cent of fathers say that they shoulder that responsibility.

i) Informing these best guesses were two sources of information: our own life experiences and our understanding of the academic studies about women’s leadership.  

ii) Hypothesis might seem like an unusual word to use, but it had been on our lips since we first began to discuss writing this book.

iii) Our shared starting point was a set of best guesses about what might explain the numerical lack of women leaders and the ways we observed that they were treated differently from men.

iv) Around 80 per cent of mothers say that they are the parent who will take children to medical appointments, and over 75 per cent say that they do the follow-up, like ensuring that medication is taken. 

v) None of the above.

Answer: Option- (iv) is correct, it suits the meaning and context of the paragraph.

Q 14. It might be a hard message to absorb for fathers who are not currently regularly wielding a mop, washing the dishes or staying home to look after a sick child, but at-home modelling about sharing domestic duties is another aspect of creating an enabling, non-stereotyped environment. ________________________________________.

i) Research has shown that, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, girls were less likely to confine their answers to stereotypically female occupations if they had a dad who not only said he believed in a more equal distribution of domestic labour but did more tasks at home.

ii) A striking feature of Joyce’s recitation of her life story is the absence of references to her mother.

iii) Harry reminds us, though, that even in families where girls are nurtured and urged to aim high, poverty can flatten everything.

iv) Notably, this spirit of ambition for her was also in her grandmother.

v) None of the above.

Answer: Option- (i) is correct, it suits the meaning and context of the paragraph.

Q 15. __________________________________________________________. A family that creates the kind of free-from-gender-limits environment our women leaders grew up in, will be empowering her to be a leader.

i) This was a decision with formidable ramifications. In her ethnic group, bearing the name of her grandmother is more than symbolic.

ii) Consequently, her grandmother’s will for Joyce to become something else, to have a different life, was strong. 

iii) The ideas were suggested by Joyce, many of these things did not happen.

iv) ‘You go girl’ is a proven hypothesis and a real lesson for the parents and other relatives of young girls. 

v) None of the above.

Answer: Option- (iv) is correct, it suits the meaning and context of the paragraph.

Sentence completion is a type of question that can be found in the Verbal Ability section of many competitive tests and exams. The aim is to determine the ability to pick out the right word or words to complete a sentence. To answer this type of question as quickly and as accurately as possible, we should practice strategies such as making educated guesses and using context clues to narrow down our options.

The following article provides various tips and tricks to solve sentence completion questions easily. Practicing different types of questions on this topic will help a candidate score good marks. Sample Questions for sentence completion and paragraph completion are provided here for practice.