Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. It is _____ to steal.

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

3. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

   1. recipe
   2. receipt
   3. slip
   4. letter

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

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

5. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

   1. maxims
   2. jurisdictions
   3. benchmarks
   4. affirmations
   5. vortices

6. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

7. He could not _____ the incident from his memory.

   1. emboss
   2. paramount
   3. exculpate
   4. expunge

8. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

   1. annihilated
   2. destroyed
   3. repeated
   4. finished

9. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

10. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

    1. subservient
    2. truculent
    3. pellucid
    4. stringent

11. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

12. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

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

13. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

14. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

15. 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

16. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

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

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

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

18. He's been elected _____?

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

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

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

20. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

21. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

22. 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

23. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

24. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

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

25. 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

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