Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. He's been elected _____?

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

3. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

   1. palatable
   2. peremptory
   3. premeditated
   4. revolutionary

4. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

5. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

6. 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

7. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

8. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

   1. withered
   2. delivered
   3. gathered
   4. scattered

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

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

10. The jury _____ him of murder.

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

11. 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

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

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

13. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

    1. equinox
    2. nadir
    3. zenith
    4. solstice

14. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

    1. intelligent
    2. judicial
    3. sensible
    4. discreetly

15. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

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

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

17. 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

18. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

19. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

20. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

    1. argue
    2. predict
    3. discuss
    4. influence

21. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

22. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

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

23. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

    1. as high as
    2. as high to
    3. so high to
    4. so high as

24. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

    1. interminable
    2. cabalistic
    3. waggish
    4. vendible
    5. expressive

25. The ________ of Darwin’s theory of evolution on Victorian religion was to create a bitter ________ of ideas and beliefs.

    1. result . . . moderation
    2. effect . . . conflict
    3. extension . . . growth
    4. origin . . . compromise
    5. influence . . . solidarity

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