Verbal - Sentence Completion

DIRECTIONS : Each question contains one or two blanks, and you have to find the best answer choice to make the sentence make complete sense.
6. More insurers are limiting the sale of property insurance in coastal areas and other regions _______ natural disasters.
  A.  safe from
  B.  according to
  C.  dsepite
  D.  prone to
7. Roman Regions _______the Mountain_______of Masada for three years before they were able to seize it.
  A. dissembled--- bastion
  B. assailed--- symbol
  C. besieged---citadel
  D. honed---stronghold

8. Unlike his calmer,more easygoing colleagues ,the senator was _________ ready to quarrel at the slightest provocation.
  A.  whimsical
  B.  irascible
  C.  gregarious
  D.  ineffectual
9. Jill was ________ by her employees because she often _______ them for not working hard enough.
  A.  deified-- goaded
  B.  loathed-- berated
  C.  disregarded-- eulogized
  D.  cherished-- decided
10. Reconstructing the skeletons of extinct species like dinosaurs is ________ process that requires much patience and effort by paleontologists.
  A.  a nascent
  B.  an aberrant
  C.  a worthless
  D.  an exacting
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