Test of English as a Foreign Language - Sentence Completion

This book has neither merit nor distinction, and it all but _______ whatever prestige the author may once have had.

Far from exercising a counter influence to intellectual orthodoxy, the movement itself has become a center of

People, being prisoners of_______, have made failing a basic metaphor for failure, from the fall of the stock market to the fall of government.

The movie avoids many of the_______ novel, bringing into sharper focus characters that originally were amiable or disagreeable

Even the most insulated and _______ government has to be concerned today about the popular mind; some systems may be less _______ than others, but at some point...