Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

   1. prop
   2. support
   3. brace
   4. refresh

3. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

   1. boost
   2. hoist
   3. lift
   4. aid

4. 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

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

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

6. By the twenty-first century, the computer _____a necessity in every home.

   1. became
   2. becoming
   3. has become
   4. will have become

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

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

8. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

   1. formerly
   2. formally
   3. lastly
   4. old

9. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

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

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

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

11. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

12. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

13. Everyone in this universe is accountable to God _____ his actions.

    1. of
    2. against
    3. for
    4. about

14. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

15. 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

16. He is _____ for promotion.

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

17. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

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

18. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

19. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

    1. possible
    2. the possibility
    3. to be possible
    4. possibly

20. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

21. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

    1. has
    2. have
    3. were
    4. are

22. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

23. the child ________ crying for three hours.

    1. is
    2. has
    3. has been
    4. have been

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

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

25. We congratulate him _____.

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

Answers

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Practice Test Set 2
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