Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

   1. more quickly
   2. more quick
   3. quickly
   4. as quickly more

2. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

   1. minimize . . . extenuated
   2. extol . . . compounded
   3. abate . . . decimated
   4. alleviate . . . aggravated
   5. emend . . . increased

3. 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

4. He's been elected _____?

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

5. We were _____ by the result.

   1. surprise
   2. surprised
   3. surprising
   4. to surprise of

6. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

   1. overt
   2. sporadic
   3. furtive
   4. fury

7. Your conduct is most _____.

   1. reprobate
   2. recidivist
   3. reprehensible
   4. regurgitate

8. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

   1. lavish
   2. prodigal
   3. reckless
   4. unthrifty

9. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

   1. defalcate
   2. devastate
   3. devour
   4. embezzle

10. 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

11. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

12. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

13. Slovenia’s declared intention to ________ and Croatia’s decision to ________ the conference, aimed at preventing the breakup of the federation, are twin blows to Yugoslavian unity.

    1. secede . . . boycott
    2. withdraw . . . foster
    3. divide . . . consolidate
    4. recede . . . avoid
    5. patronize . . . exclude

14. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

    1. bright
    2. vivid
    3. glaring
    4. telling

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

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

16. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

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

17. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

18. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

    1. than
    2. to
    3. from
    4. of

19. We congratulate him _____.

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

20. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

21. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

    1. with
    2. from
    3. to
    4. for

22. I have no _____ motive in offering this advice, I seek no personal advantage.

    1. ulterior
    2. nominal
    3. disinterested
    4. incongruous

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

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

24. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

    1. attested
    2. censured
    3. interpreted
    4. transliterated
    5. attributed

25. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

    1. receipt
    2. recipe
    3. formula
    4. technique

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3