Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. What a _____ you were not hurt in the accident.

   1. prayers
   2. praise
   3. blessing
   4. consecration

2. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

   1. controversial
   2. circumnutating
   3. abnormal
   4. irrelevant

3. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

   1. pulled it up
   2. pulled it off
   3. pulled it away
   4. pulled it out

4. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

   1. plague
   2. series
   3. plethora
   4. dearth

5. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

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

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

7. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

   1. adopt
   2. adept
   3. adapt
   4. convert

8. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

   1. ally
   2. allay
   3. rid
   4. palliate

9. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

   1. showing
   2. show
   3. showed
   4. to show

10. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

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

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

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

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

13. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

    1. to
    2. on
    3. with
    4. about

14. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

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

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

16. 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

17. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

    1. only how
    2. how
    3. so how
    4. that how

18. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

    1. left
    2. is leaving
    3. had left
    4. will leave

19. 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

20. His argument is quite _____.

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

21. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

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

22. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

23. We were _____ by the result.

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

24. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

    1. old enough
    2. as old enough
    3. enough old
    4. enough old as

25. 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

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