Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

   1. more quickly
   2. more quick
   3. quickly
   4. as quickly more

2. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

3. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

   1. bores
   2. stimulates
   3. entices
   4. enervates

4. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

   1. scheduled
   2. requested
   3. obligated
   4. loaded

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

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

6. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

   1. coward
   2. charlatan
   3. poltroon
   4. craven
   5. demigod

7. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

   1. born
   2. borne
   3. bane
   4. boon

8. The police arrested him and his one _____.

   1. friend
   2. colleague
   3. accomplice
   4. operator

9. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

   1. capitulated
   2. desecrated
   3. minimized
   4. harassed

10. We were _____ by the result.

    1. surprise
    2. surprised
    3. surprising
    4. to surprise of

11. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

    1. be
    2. is leaving
    3. must
    4. would be

12. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

    1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
    2. avidity to . . . congenial
    3. commitment to . . . provocative
    4. inability to . . . liberal
    5. eagerness to . . . regressive

13. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

    1. an advent
    2. a ukase
    3. an elision
    4. a precursor
    5. a subtext

14. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

    1. old enough
    2. as old enough
    3. enough old
    4. enough old as

15. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

    1. receipt
    2. recipe
    3. formula
    4. technique

16. He is _____ for promotion.

    1. illegible
    2. legible
    3. eligible
    4. ineligible

17. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

    1. strong
    2. lusty
    3. vigorous
    4. powerful

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

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

19. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

    1. accident
    2. rhythmic
    3. leisurely
    4. perpetual

20. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

    1. ally
    2. allay
    3. rid
    4. palliate

21. So ________ was the sales person's tone about the qualities of the new computer system that Najam nearly missed the ________ in its calculations in his budget.

    1. Persuasive ... flaw
    2. adopted ... accuracy
    3. harsh ... amount
    4. irritating ... greatness

22. You _____ care of your health.

    1. had better to take
    2. had better take
    3. had better taken
    4. had taken better

23. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

24. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

25. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

    1. bright
    2. vivid
    3. glaring
    4. telling

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