Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

   1. worked
   2. were working
   3. had worked
   4. are working

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

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

3. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

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

4. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

5. A _____ of the medal was put on show at the museum.

   1. fable
   2. facsimile
   3. allegory
   4. cosmos

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

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

7. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

   1. since
   2. before
   3. for
   4. from

8. Slovenia’s declared intention to ________ and Croatia’s decision to ________ the conference, aimed at preventing the breakup of the federation, are twin blows to Yugoslavian unity.

   1. secede . . . boycott
   2. withdraw . . . foster
   3. divide . . . consolidate
   4. recede . . . avoid
   5. patronize . . . exclude

9. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

   1. plague
   2. series
   3. plethora
   4. dearth

10. ________ 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

11. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

    1. out
    2. off
    3. away
    4. over

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

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

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

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

14. All the family members will get together on the _____ day of Eid.

    1. suspicious
    2. obvious
    3. auspicious
    4. conspicuous

15. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

    1. and
    2. and in
    3. and also
    4. also

16. 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

17. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

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

18. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

    1. depreciation
    2. despoliation
    3. obsolescence
    4. casualties

19. 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

20. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

    1. ally
    2. allay
    3. rid
    4. palliate

21. _____ 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

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

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

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

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

24. He is _____ for promotion.

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

25. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

Answers

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