Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

   1. affection
   2. affectation
   3. love
   4. defection

2. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

   1. could
   2. can
   3. would
   4. will

3. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

   1. depreciation
   2. despoliation
   3. obsolescence
   4. casualties

4. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

   1. controversial
   2. circumnutating
   3. abnormal
   4. irrelevant

5. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

6. 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

7. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

   1. venal
   2. venial
   3. voracious
   4. veracious

8. The jury _____ him of murder.

   1. discharged
   2. acquitted
   3. absolved
   4. finished

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

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

10. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

11. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

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

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

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

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

14. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

15. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

    1. exported . . . fertile
    2. marketed . . . urban
    3. preempted . . . fluvial
    4. eluded . . . indigenous
    5. cultivated . . . remote

16. 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

17. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

18. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

19. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

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

20. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

21. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

22. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

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

23. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

    1. possible
    2. the possibility
    3. to be possible
    4. possibly

24. He _____ our help.

    1. resents
    2. recants
    3. remove
    4. resign

25. 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

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