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Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

  1. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

    1. forays . . . consciousness
    2. escapes . . . miasma
    3. appearances . . . discourse
    4. eclipses . . . scene
    5. invasions . . . liturgy
  2. 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
  3. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection
  4. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

    1. legal
    2. restrictive
    3. encompassing
    4. specific
    5. ecological
  5. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

    1. doesn't it
    2. isn't it
    3. hasn't it
    4. didn't it
  6. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered
  7. Salma's home looked as though it had been ________ from a rag bin; her expensive burner was her sole ________ of luxury.

    1. clean ... expensive
    2. computerized ... cost
    3. modernized ... symbol
    4. salvaged ... sign
  8. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate
  9. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

    1. prosperity
    2. cowardice
    3. miser
    4. happiness
  10. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating
  11. I will meet him when he _____ .

    1. will come
    2. had come
    3. would have come
    4. comes
  12. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish
  13. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement
  14. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

    1. stubborn
    2. capricious
    3. just
    4. humorous
  15. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited
  16. The primary ________ of the region’s cuisine, such as beans, legumes, and pasta, provide high levels of complex carbohydrates and often ________ meat as the primary source of protein in the diet.

    1. requirements . . . supplement
    2. components . . . replace
    3. fads . . . subjoin
    4. facet . . . duplicate
    5. ingredients . . . indemnify
  17. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in
  18. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

    1. to
    2. on
    3. with
    4. about
  19. 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
  20. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

    1. used to
    2. was used to
    3. used
    4. was used to be
  21. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge
  22. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

    1. an indication . . . soared
    2. a gauge . . . refined
    3. a signatory . . . fallen
    4. a refutation . . . descended
    5. a barometer . . . plummeted
  23. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously
  24. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly
  25. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

    1. should
    2. would
    3. should have
    4. would have

Answers

1 A 2 E 3 A 4 D 5 B
6 A 7 D 8 A 9 B 10 A
11 D 12 B 13 C 14 C 15 C
16 B 17 A 18 C 19 A 20 A
21 D 22 E 23 B 24 A 25 A

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