Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

2. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

   1. device . . . reverberation
   2. holocaust . . . specter
   3. danger . . . spectacle
   4. liaison . . . probability
   5. explosion . . . calamity

3. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

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

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

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

5. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

   1. capitulated
   2. desecrated
   3. minimized
   4. harassed

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

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

7. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

   1. pertinent
   2. prolix
   3. prolonged
   4. acrimonious

8. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

9. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

   1. prosperity
   2. cowardice
   3. miser
   4. happiness

10. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

    1. finished
    2. are finish
    3. will finish
    4. have finished

11. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

    1. unconstrained
    2. voluntary
    3. discretion
    4. gratuitous

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

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

13. 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

14. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

15. 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

16. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

    1. achieve
    2. procure
    3. acquire
    4. attain

17. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

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

18. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

19. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

20. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

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

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

22. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

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

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

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

24. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

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

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

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