Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

   1. overt
   2. sporadic
   3. furtive
   4. fury

2. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

   1. rampant . . . motive
   2. auspicious . . . occasion
   3. censorious . . . disinclination
   4. negative . . . incentive
   5. unassailed . . . reason

3. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

   1. belief . . . prolix
   2. assumption . . . authentic
   3. idea . . . incredible
   4. tenet . . . specious
   5. canon . . . interesting

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

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

5. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

   1. with
   2. from
   3. to
   4. for

6. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

   1. external
   2. perennial
   3. immortal
   4. inexhaustible

7. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

8. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

   1. control . . . bankrupt
   2. monopolize . . . lucrative
   3. annul . . . profitable
   4. corner . . . factitious
   5. divest . . . remunerative

9. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

   1. an invidious . . . malleable
   2. a malign . . . philanthropic
   3. a ferocious . . . docile
   4. an infamous . . . self-serving
   5. a dissolute . . . venal

10. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

11. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

    1. amiable
    2. amicable
    3. likeable
    4. desirable

12. 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

13. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

    1. subdued . . . hostile
    2. vehement . . . acrimonious
    3. reticent . . . cliché
    4. affable . . . adverse
    5. emotional . . . adroit

14. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

15. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. He's been elected _____?

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

20. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

21. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

22. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

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

23. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

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

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

25. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

Answers

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