Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

   1. riches wealth
   2. person
   3. wealth
   4. work

2. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

3. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

   1. exported . . . fertile
   2. marketed . . . urban
   3. preempted . . . fluvial
   4. eluded . . . indigenous
   5. cultivated . . . remote

4. I _____ him for a long time.

   1. am not met
   2. did not meet
   3. do not meet
   4. have not met

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

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

6. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

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

7. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

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

8. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

9. I do not have any _____.

   1. confident
   2. confidant
   3. confidential
   4. confederate

10. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

11. 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

12. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

13. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

14. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

    1. assent
    2. ascent
    3. descent
    4. jump

15. 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

16. The _____ arguments put forth for not disclosing the facts did not impress anybody.

    1. specious
    2. intemperate
    3. spurious
    4. convincing

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

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

18. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

19. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

    1. higher
    2. high
    3. the higher
    4. the high

20. He _____ get up early.

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

21. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

    1. maxims
    2. jurisdictions
    3. benchmarks
    4. affirmations
    5. vortices

22. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

23. _____ is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

    1. it is calcium
    2. that calcium
    3. calcium
    4. although calcium

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

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

25. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

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