Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

2. He was quite able _____ after himself.

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

3. The primary ________ of the region’s cuisine, such as beans, legumes, and pasta, provide high levels of complex carbohydrates and often ________ meat as the primary source of protein in the diet.

   1. requirements . . . supplement
   2. components . . . replace
   3. fads . . . subjoin
   4. facet . . . duplicate
   5. ingredients . . . indemnify

4. He is _____ for promotion.

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

5. Heavy snows in the passes of the Pyrenees have seriously ________ rescuers trying to reach travelers surprised by the spring blizzards.

   1. excluded
   2. expedited
   3. rappelled
   4. assisted
   5. hampered

6. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

   1. would
   2. will
   3. does
   4. had

7. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

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

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

9. 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

10. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

    1. continually
    2. continuously
    3. continually
    4. persistently

11. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

12. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

    1. annihilated
    2. destroyed
    3. repeated
    4. finished

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

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

14. We congratulate him _____.

    1. on his success
    2. for his success
    3. at his success
    4. in his success

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

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

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

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

17. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

18. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

19. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

23. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

24. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

25. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

Answers

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