Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. I have no _____ motive in offering this advice, I seek no personal advantage.

   1. ulterior
   2. nominal
   3. disinterested
   4. incongruous

2. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

   1. outstanding
   2. dubious
   3. impressive
   4. remarkable

3. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

   1. should
   2. would
   3. should have
   4. would have

4. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

   1. overt
   2. sporadic
   3. furtive
   4. fury

5. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

   1. doubt
   2. amity
   3. bitterness
   4. revenge

6. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

   1. formerly
   2. formally
   3. lastly
   4. old

7. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

   1. efface
   2. deface
   3. erase
   4. wipe away

8. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

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

9. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

10. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

    1. fragments
    2. attrition
    3. intensity
    4. barbarism

11. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

12. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

    1. assent
    2. ascent
    3. descent
    4. jump

13. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

    1. suspicious
    2. daring
    3. guilty
    4. culpable

14. He _____ our help.

    1. resents
    2. recants
    3. remove
    4. resign

15. I am intent ________.

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

16. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

    1. felicitous . . . following
    2. grotesque . . . vacuity
    3. elegant . . . repertoire
    4. graceful . . . audience
    5. ungainly . . . readership

17. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

    1. equinox
    2. nadir
    3. zenith
    4. solstice

18. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

    1. than
    2. to
    3. from
    4. of

19. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

    1. acute
    2. ominous
    3. unusual
    4. insipid

20. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

21. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

22. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

    1. responsibility
    2. questioning
    3. credibility
    4. freedom
    5. credulousness

23. Your conduct is most _____.

    1. reprobate
    2. recidivist
    3. reprehensible
    4. regurgitate

24. His argument is quite _____.

    1. sickly
    2. unconvincing
    3. fragile
    4. infirm

25. We ________ friends since we were children.

    1. had been
    2. have been
    3. are
    4. were

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