Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

   1. suspicious
   2. daring
   3. guilty
   4. culpable

2. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

   1. mix
   2. blend
   3. unite
   4. compound

3. It became _____ that he was going to die.

   1. visible
   2. distinct
   3. apparent
   4. manifest

4. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

   1. to have
   2. on having
   3. to having
   4. in having
   5. with having

5. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

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

6. So ________ was the sales person's tone about the qualities of the new computer system that Najam nearly missed the ________ in its calculations in his budget.

   1. Persuasive ... flaw
   2. adopted ... accuracy
   3. harsh ... amount
   4. irritating ... greatness

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

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

8. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

9. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

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

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

11. 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

12. Though Aslam is poor, _____ he is honest.

    1. but
    2. nevertheless
    3. yet
    4. still

13. Failing the exam was a _____ disappointment to him.

    1. sour
    2. tart
    3. bitter
    4. acrid

14. 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

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

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

16. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

17. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

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

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

19. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

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

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

21. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

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

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

23. He was quite able _____ after himself.

    1. to looking
    2. for looking
    3. to look
    4. of looking

24. ________ must be distinguished from ________, which is the recognition of different categories of people without the inputing of any differences in rank.

    1. Totalitarianism . . . brotherhood
    2. Modification . . . ossification
    3. Classification . . . ramification
    4. Stratification . . . differentiation
    5. Finitude . . . infinitude

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

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

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