Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. He's been elected _____?

   1. hasn't he
   2. didn't he
   3. isn't he
   4. doesn't he

2. What a _____ you were not hurt in the accident.

   1. prayers
   2. praise
   3. blessing
   4. consecration

3. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

   1. finished
   2. are finish
   3. will finish
   4. have finished

4. Failing the exam was a _____ disappointment to him.

   1. sour
   2. tart
   3. bitter
   4. acrid

5. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

   1. jaunty . . . insouciant
   2. tuneful . . . timorous
   3. cacophonous . . . careless
   4. catchy . . . lurid
   5. popular . . . flagrant

6. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

   1. raise
   2. rises
   3. roses
   4. arises

7. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

   1. higher
   2. high
   3. the higher
   4. the high

8. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

   1. pertinent
   2. prolix
   3. prolonged
   4. acrimonious

9. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

   1. plague
   2. series
   3. plethora
   4. dearth

10. Everyone in this universe is accountable to God _____ his actions.

    1. of
    2. against
    3. for
    4. about

11. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

12. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

13. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

14. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

    1. to
    2. from
    3. with
    4. on

15. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

16. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

    1. imminent
    2. eminent
    3. immanent
    4. permanent

17. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

18. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

    1. boost
    2. hoist
    3. lift
    4. aid

19. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

    1. showing
    2. show
    3. showed
    4. to show

20. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition

21. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement

22. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

    1. minatory
    2. exclamatory
    3. enigmatic
    4. surreptitious
    5. ameliorative

23. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

24. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

    1. will confirm
    2. confirm
    3. confirms
    4. must confirm

25. I am intent ________.

    1. to win
    2. of winning
    3. on winning
    4. for winning

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
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