Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

   1. will confirm
   2. confirm
   3. confirms
   4. must confirm

2. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

   1. efface
   2. deface
   3. erase
   4. wipe away

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

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

4. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

5. The jury _____ him of murder.

   1. discharged
   2. acquitted
   3. absolved
   4. finished

6. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

   1. acute
   2. ominous
   3. unusual
   4. insipid

7. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

   1. wholly
   2. whole
   3. as whole
   4. a whole as

8. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

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

9. He was quite able _____ after himself.

   1. to looking
   2. for looking
   3. to look
   4. of looking

10. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

    1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
    2. congenial . . . a danger
    3. galling . . . a panacea
    4. anodyne . . . an emollient
    5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

11. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

12. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

13. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

    1. has had
    2. have had
    3. will have had
    4. had had

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

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

15. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition

16. He _____ get up early.

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

17. 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

18. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

19. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved

20. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

    1. legal
    2. restrictive
    3. encompassing
    4. specific
    5. ecological

21. 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

22. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

23. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

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

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

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

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

Answers

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