Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

   1. illusion
   2. allusion
   3. delusion
   4. conclusion

3. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

   1. deliberately
   2. assiduously
   3. ingenuously
   4. deliriously

4. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

   1. turbid
   2. turgid
   3. torpid
   4. turbulent

5. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

   1. contagious
   2. contiguous
   3. infectious
   4. touchy

6. 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

7. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

8. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

   1. prolong
   2. traverse
   3. go before
   4. repel

9. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

   1. reticent . . . reason
   2. demonstrative . . . provocation
   3. recusant . . . excuse
   4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
   5. emotional . . . antagonism

10. 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

11. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

12. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

    1. childish
    2. childlike
    3. infantile
    4. puerile

13. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

14. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

    1. pays
    2. is paying
    3. paid
    4. had paid

15. The _____ arguments put forth for not disclosing the facts did not impress anybody.

    1. specious
    2. intemperate
    3. spurious
    4. convincing

16. 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

17. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

18. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

19. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

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

20. 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

21. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

22. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

23. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

    1. as high as
    2. as high to
    3. so high to
    4. so high as

24. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

25. 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

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