Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

2. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

   1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
   2. congenial . . . a danger
   3. galling . . . a panacea
   4. anodyne . . . an emollient
   5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

3. We congratulate him _____.

   1. on his success
   2. for his success
   3. at his success
   4. in his success

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

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

5. 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

6. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

   1. very hard
   2. harder
   3. much hard
   4. the harder

7. 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

8. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

   1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
   2. avidity to . . . congenial
   3. commitment to . . . provocative
   4. inability to . . . liberal
   5. eagerness to . . . regressive

9. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

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

10. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

    1. efface
    2. deface
    3. erase
    4. wipe away

11. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

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

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

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

13. ________ 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

14. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

15. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

16. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

    1. relegated . . . combination
    2. replicated . . . melding
    3. decanted . . . concurrence
    4. reproduced . . . disjunction
    5. intimated . . . knell

17. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

    1. and
    2. and in
    3. and also
    4. also

18. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

    1. depreciation
    2. despoliation
    3. obsolescence
    4. casualties

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

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

20. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

21. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

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

22. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

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

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

24. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

25. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

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

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