Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

   1. controversial
   2. circumnutating
   3. abnormal
   4. irrelevant

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

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

3. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

4. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

   1. that birds
   2. a bird
   3. the bird
   4. birds

5. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

   1. large amount
   2. large number
   3. little amount
   4. big amount

6. _____ is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

   1. it is calcium
   2. that calcium
   3. calcium
   4. although calcium

7. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

   1. reappeared
   2. eliminated
   3. returned
   4. regenerated
   5. exhumed

8. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

   1. alike
   2. the same as
   3. similar
   4. as

9. 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

10. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

    1. minimize . . . extenuated
    2. extol . . . compounded
    3. abate . . . decimated
    4. alleviate . . . aggravated
    5. emend . . . increased

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

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

12. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

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

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

14. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

15. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

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

16. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

    1. responsibility
    2. questioning
    3. credibility
    4. freedom
    5. credulousness

17. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

18. There was a lot of hustle and _____ in the market.

    1. bustle
    2. stir
    3. flutter
    4. ado

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

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

20. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

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

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

22. It became _____ that he was going to die.

    1. visible
    2. distinct
    3. apparent
    4. manifest

23. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

24. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

25. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

    1. stubborn
    2. capricious
    3. just
    4. humorous

Answers

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