Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

   1. it be heated
   2. it heated
   3. it is heated
   4. it will be heated

2. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

   1. outstanding
   2. dubious
   3. impressive
   4. remarkable

3. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

   1. finished
   2. are finish
   3. will finish
   4. have finished

4. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

   1. mix
   2. blend
   3. unite
   4. compound

5. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

   1. ominous
   2. blithe
   3. monetary
   4. arduous
   5. auspicious

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

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

7. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

   1. scheduled
   2. requested
   3. obligated
   4. loaded

8. The police arrested him and his one _____.

   1. friend
   2. colleague
   3. accomplice
   4. operator

9. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

   1. coward
   2. charlatan
   3. poltroon
   4. craven
   5. demigod

10. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

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

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

12. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

13. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

    1. adulatory
    2. avid
    3. rhetorical
    4. redundant

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

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

15. You must _____ after hard work.

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

16. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

17. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

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

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

19. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

20. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

    1. boost
    2. hoist
    3. lift
    4. aid

21. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

    1. an invidious . . . malleable
    2. a malign . . . philanthropic
    3. a ferocious . . . docile
    4. an infamous . . . self-serving
    5. a dissolute . . . venal

22. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

23. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

24. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

    1. be
    2. is leaving
    3. must
    4. would be

25. 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

Answers

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