Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

   1. antiques
   2. antiquaries
   3. reliquaries
   4. patricians
   5. histrionics

2. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

3. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

   1. deliberately
   2. assiduously
   3. ingenuously
   4. deliriously

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

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

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

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

6. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

   1. reticent . . . reason
   2. demonstrative . . . provocation
   3. recusant . . . excuse
   4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
   5. emotional . . . antagonism

7. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

   1. bright
   2. vivid
   3. glaring
   4. telling

8. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

   1. left
   2. is leaving
   3. had left
   4. will leave

9. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

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

10. 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

11. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved

12. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

    1. adopt
    2. adept
    3. adapt
    4. convert

13. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

    1. prolong
    2. traverse
    3. go before
    4. repel

14. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

15. 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

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

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

17. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

18. He _____ get up early.

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

19. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

    1. alike
    2. the same as
    3. similar
    4. as

20. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

21. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

22. The jury _____ him of murder.

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

23. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

    1. has
    2. have
    3. were
    4. are

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

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

25. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

Answers

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