Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

   1. has
   2. has done
   3. had done
   4. is done

2. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

   1. prosperity
   2. cowardice
   3. miser
   4. happiness

3. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

   1. continually
   2. continuously
   3. continually
   4. persistently

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

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

5. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

   1. control . . . bankrupt
   2. monopolize . . . lucrative
   3. annul . . . profitable
   4. corner . . . factitious
   5. divest . . . remunerative

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

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

7. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

   1. intelligent
   2. on
   3. at
   4. within

8. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

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

9. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

   1. device . . . reverberation
   2. holocaust . . . specter
   3. danger . . . spectacle
   4. liaison . . . probability
   5. explosion . . . calamity

10. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

    1. showing
    2. show
    3. showed
    4. to show

11. 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

12. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

    1. relegated . . . combination
    2. replicated . . . melding
    3. decanted . . . concurrence
    4. reproduced . . . disjunction
    5. intimated . . . knell

13. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

    1. since
    2. before
    3. for
    4. from

14. I am intent ________.

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

15. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

    1. subdued . . . hostile
    2. vehement . . . acrimonious
    3. reticent . . . cliché
    4. affable . . . adverse
    5. emotional . . . adroit

16. He _____ get up early.

    1. used
    2. used to
    3. is used to
    4. was used to be

17. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

    1. stubborn
    2. capricious
    3. just
    4. humorous

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

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

19. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked

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

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

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

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

22. That new law went into _____ last month.

    1. affect
    2. effect
    3. action
    4. selection

23. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

    1. intelligent
    2. judicial
    3. sensible
    4. discreetly

24. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

25. Your conduct is most _____.

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

Answers

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