Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

   1. only how
   2. how
   3. so how
   4. that how

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

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

3. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

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

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

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

5. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

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

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

7. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

   1. legal
   2. restrictive
   3. encompassing
   4. specific
   5. ecological

8. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

   1. used to
   2. was used to
   3. used
   4. was used to be

9. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

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

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

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

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

12. I have no _____ motive in offering this advice, I seek no personal advantage.

    1. ulterior
    2. nominal
    3. disinterested
    4. incongruous

13. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

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

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

15. The primary ________ of the region’s cuisine, such as beans, legumes, and pasta, provide high levels of complex carbohydrates and often ________ meat as the primary source of protein in the diet.

    1. requirements . . . supplement
    2. components . . . replace
    3. fads . . . subjoin
    4. facet . . . duplicate
    5. ingredients . . . indemnify

16. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

17. His argument is quite _____.

    1. sickly
    2. unconvincing
    3. fragile
    4. infirm

18. He was quite able _____ after himself.

    1. to looking
    2. for looking
    3. to look
    4. of looking

19. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

    1. minatory
    2. exclamatory
    3. enigmatic
    4. surreptitious
    5. ameliorative

20. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

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

21. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

    1. effervescence . . . enlivens
    2. verve . . . deforms
    3. torpor . . . dominates
    4. bravado . . . enervates
    5. sprightliness . . . muffles

22. He's been elected _____?

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

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

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

24. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

25. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

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