Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

   1. fragments
   2. attrition
   3. intensity
   4. barbarism

2. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

   1. scheduled
   2. requested
   3. obligated
   4. loaded

3. 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

4. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

5. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

   1. strode . . . ejected
   2. proceeded . . . summoned
   3. minced . . . fomented
   4. shambled . . . roused
   5. swaggered . . . awakened

9. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

   1. hatch
   2. produce
   3. breed
   4. conceive

10. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

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

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

12. We have _____ trust in you.

    1. perfect
    2. entire
    3. imperative
    4. absolute

13. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

    1. pessimist
    2. optimist
    3. philanthropist
    4. profiteer

14. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

    1. as high as
    2. as high to
    3. so high to
    4. so high as

15. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

    1. interminable
    2. cabalistic
    3. waggish
    4. vendible
    5. expressive

16. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

17. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

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

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

19. 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

20. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

    1. recipe
    2. receipt
    3. slip
    4. letter

21. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

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

22. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

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

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

24. He was quite able _____ after himself.

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

25. He _____ get up early.

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

Answers

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