Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

   1. exceptional
   2. exceptionable
   3. exhaustible
   4. exhaustive

2. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

   1. fragments
   2. attrition
   3. intensity
   4. barbarism

3. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

4. He is _____ for promotion.

   1. illegible
   2. legible
   3. eligible
   4. ineligible

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

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

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. It is _____ to steal.

   1. sinful
   2. corrupt
   3. immoral
   4. wicked

8. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

9. 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

10. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

    1. would see
    2. will have seen
    3. would have seen
    4. will see

11. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

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

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

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

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

14. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

15. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

    1. minimize . . . extenuated
    2. extol . . . compounded
    3. abate . . . decimated
    4. alleviate . . . aggravated
    5. emend . . . increased

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

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

17. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

18. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

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

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

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

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

21. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

    1. antiques
    2. antiquaries
    3. reliquaries
    4. patricians
    5. histrionics

22. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

23. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

    1. was
    2. were
    3. have been
    4. are

24. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

25. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

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