Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

   1. scheduled
   2. requested
   3. obligated
   4. loaded

3. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

   1. feeble
   2. an octogenarian
   3. forgetful
   4. senile

4. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

   1. fill
   2. filled
   3. filling
   4. to be filled

5. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

   1. hatch
   2. produce
   3. breed
   4. conceive

6. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

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

7. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

   1. would
   2. will
   3. does
   4. had

8. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

   1. receipt
   2. recipe
   3. formula
   4. technique

9. The chair is in the garden, please _____ it.

   1. bring
   2. fetch
   3. carry
   4. transport

10. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

11. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

    1. attested
    2. censured
    3. interpreted
    4. transliterated
    5. attributed

12. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

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

13. We should try to avoid one who is brave in words but not in _____.

    1. actions
    2. reaction
    3. job
    4. fighting

14. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

    1. an invidious . . . malleable
    2. a malign . . . philanthropic
    3. a ferocious . . . docile
    4. an infamous . . . self-serving
    5. a dissolute . . . venal

15. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

16. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

    1. adulatory
    2. avid
    3. rhetorical
    4. redundant

17. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition

18. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

19. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

20. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

21. Your conduct is most _____.

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

22. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

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

23. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

    1. equinox
    2. nadir
    3. zenith
    4. solstice

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

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

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

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

Answers

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