Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

   1. higher
   2. high
   3. the higher
   4. the high

2. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

   1. raise
   2. rises
   3. roses
   4. arises

3. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

4. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

   1. could
   2. can
   3. would
   4. will

5. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

   1. used to
   2. was used to
   3. used
   4. was used to be

6. We must _____ this accord.

   1. greet
   2. hail
   3. salute
   4. receive

7. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

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

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

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

9. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

   1. interminable
   2. cabalistic
   3. waggish
   4. vendible
   5. expressive

10. 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

11. His argument is quite _____.

    1. sickly
    2. unconvincing
    3. fragile
    4. infirm

12. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement

13. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

14. I _____ him for a long time.

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

15. 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

16. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

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

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

18. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

19. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

20. There was a lot of hustle and _____ in the market.

    1. bustle
    2. stir
    3. flutter
    4. ado

21. He _____ our help.

    1. resents
    2. recants
    3. remove
    4. resign

22. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

23. I am intent ________.

    1. to win
    2. of winning
    3. on winning
    4. for winning

24. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

25. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

    1. bores
    2. stimulates
    3. entices
    4. enervates

Answers

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