Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

   1. makes
   2. has made
   3. had made
   4. is making

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. We ________ friends since we were children.

   1. had been
   2. have been
   3. are
   4. were

7. I do not have any _____.

   1. confident
   2. confidant
   3. confidential
   4. confederate

8. 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

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

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

10. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

11. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

    1. shortage
    2. deficiency
    3. poverty
    4. want

12. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

13. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

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

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

15. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

    1. felicitous . . . following
    2. grotesque . . . vacuity
    3. elegant . . . repertoire
    4. graceful . . . audience
    5. ungainly . . . readership

16. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

17. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

18. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

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

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

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

20. 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

21. A _____ of the medal was put on show at the museum.

    1. fable
    2. facsimile
    3. allegory
    4. cosmos

22. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

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

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

24. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

25. 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

Answers

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