Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

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

2. 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

3. It is _____ to steal.

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

4. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

   1. fatal
   2. fateful
   3. crucial
   4. fating

5. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

   1. capitulated
   2. desecrated
   3. minimized
   4. harassed

6. 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

7. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

   1. imminent
   2. eminent
   3. immanent
   4. permanent

8. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

   1. strong
   2. lusty
   3. vigorous
   4. powerful

9. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

   1. would see
   2. will have seen
   3. would have seen
   4. will see

10. He's been elected _____?

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

11. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

12. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

13. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

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

14. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

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

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

17. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

    1. illusion
    2. allusion
    3. delusion
    4. conclusion

18. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

    1. fragments
    2. attrition
    3. intensity
    4. barbarism

19. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

20. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

21. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

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

22. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

23. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

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

24. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

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

25. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

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

Answers

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