Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

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

2. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

   1. only how
   2. how
   3. so how
   4. that how

3. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

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

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

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

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

6. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

   1. cursory
   2. strict
   3. obligatory
   4. uncompromising
   5. conciliatory

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

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

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

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

9. I will meet him when he _____ .

   1. will come
   2. had come
   3. would have come
   4. comes

10. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

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

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

12. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

13. He's been elected _____?

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

14. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

15. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

    1. out
    2. away
    3. down
    4. off

16. 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

17. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

    1. external
    2. perennial
    3. immortal
    4. inexhaustible

18. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

19. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

    1. reappeared
    2. eliminated
    3. returned
    4. regenerated
    5. exhumed

20. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

    1. faltering
    2. flexible
    3. unsteady
    4. wavering

21. 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

22. He was quite able _____ after himself.

    1. to looking
    2. for looking
    3. to look
    4. of looking

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

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

24. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating

25. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

    1. rampant . . . motive
    2. auspicious . . . occasion
    3. censorious . . . disinclination
    4. negative . . . incentive
    5. unassailed . . . reason

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