Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

   1. indifferent . . . evasion
   2. reluctant . . . compromise
   3. hostile . . . interference
   4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
   5. averse . . . expectation

2. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

   1. to
   2. on
   3. with
   4. about

3. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

   1. faltering
   2. flexible
   3. unsteady
   4. wavering

4. 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

5. I am intent ________.

   1. to win
   2. of winning
   3. on winning
   4. for winning

6. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

7. 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

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

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

9. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

   1. shortage
   2. deficiency
   3. poverty
   4. want

10. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

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

11. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating

12. We will do out work _____.

    1. latter
    2. later
    3. long
    4. after

13. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

    1. should
    2. would
    3. should have
    4. would have

14. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

15. It is _____ that students do not repay their loans.

    1. laudable
    2. unfortunate
    3. unforgivable
    4. regrettable

16. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

    1. minatory
    2. exclamatory
    3. enigmatic
    4. surreptitious
    5. ameliorative

17. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

18. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

19. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

20. I will meet him when he _____ .

    1. will come
    2. had come
    3. would have come
    4. comes

21. We congratulate him _____.

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

22. Though Aslam is poor, _____ he is honest.

    1. but
    2. nevertheless
    3. yet
    4. still

23. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

24. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

    1. pessimist
    2. optimist
    3. philanthropist
    4. profiteer

25. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

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

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3