Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

   1. assent
   2. ascent
   3. descent
   4. jump

2. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

   1. affection
   2. affectation
   3. love
   4. defection

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

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

4. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

5. 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

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

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

7. 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

8. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

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

9. What a _____ you were not hurt in the accident.

   1. prayers
   2. praise
   3. blessing
   4. consecration

10. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

    1. showing
    2. show
    3. showed
    4. to show

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

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

12. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish

13. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

14. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

15. The chair is in the garden, please _____ it.

    1. bring
    2. fetch
    3. carry
    4. transport

16. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

17. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

18. 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

19. 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

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

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

21. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

22. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

    1. prolong
    2. traverse
    3. go before
    4. repel

23. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

    1. pays
    2. is paying
    3. paid
    4. had paid

24. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

25. I will meet him when he _____ .

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

Answers

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