Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

   1. coward
   2. foolish
   3. brute
   4. ignorant

2. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

   1. would see
   2. will have seen
   3. would have seen
   4. will see

3. By the twenty-first century, the computer _____a necessity in every home.

   1. became
   2. becoming
   3. has become
   4. will have become

4. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

   1. exceptional
   2. exceptionable
   3. exhaustible
   4. exhaustive

5. I _____ him for a long time.

   1. am not met
   2. did not meet
   3. do not meet
   4. have not met

6. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

   1. hoard
   2. store
   3. rallied
   4. accumulate

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

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

8. _____ 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

9. We were _____ by the result.

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

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

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

11. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

12. One cannot ________ to be impressed by the structural and ________ differences between the United States as a federal union in 1789 and the United States as a federal union today.

    1. refuse . . . legal
    2. stop . . . attitudinal
    3. begin . . . economic
    4. fail . . . operational
    5. start . . . classical

13. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

14. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

15. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

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

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

17. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

    1. enough food
    2. food as enough
    3. food enough
    4. enough the food

18. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

    1. had
    2. have
    3. have had
    4. will have had

19. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

20. We have _____ trust in you.

    1. perfect
    2. entire
    3. imperative
    4. absolute

21. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

    1. adopt
    2. adept
    3. adapt
    4. convert

22. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

    1. has had
    2. have had
    3. will have had
    4. had had

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

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

24. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

    1. palatable
    2. peremptory
    3. premeditated
    4. revolutionary

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

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

Answers

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