Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

   1. reappeared
   2. eliminated
   3. returned
   4. regenerated
   5. exhumed

2. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

   1. charity
   2. enmity
   3. amiability
   4. pathology
   5. austerity

3. His argument is quite _____.

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

4. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

   1. effervescence . . . enlivens
   2. verve . . . deforms
   3. torpor . . . dominates
   4. bravado . . . enervates
   5. sprightliness . . . muffles

5. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

   1. arise
   2. arisen
   3. arouse
   4. aroused

6. ________ 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

7. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

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

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

9. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

   1. pessimist
   2. optimist
   3. philanthropist
   4. profiteer

10. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

    1. illusion
    2. allusion
    3. delusion
    4. conclusion

11. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating

12. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

    1. prosperity
    2. cowardice
    3. miser
    4. happiness

13. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

    1. salutary . . . intimidate
    2. cautionary . . . mute
    3. pernicious . . . silence
    4. unexceptional . . . abstract
    5. perilous . . . augment

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

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

15. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

16. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

    1. achieve
    2. procure
    3. acquire
    4. attain

17. I will meet him when he _____ .

    1. will come
    2. had come
    3. would have come
    4. comes

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

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

19. 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

20. He _____ get up early.

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

21. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

22. He _____ our help.

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

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

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

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. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

    1. born
    2. borne
    3. bane
    4. boon

Answers

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