Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. He's been elected _____?

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

3. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

4. I am intent ________.

   1. to win
   2. of winning
   3. on winning
   4. for winning

5. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

   1. argue
   2. predict
   3. discuss
   4. influence

6. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

   1. an indication . . . soared
   2. a gauge . . . refined
   3. a signatory . . . fallen
   4. a refutation . . . descended
   5. a barometer . . . plummeted

7. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

   1. mix
   2. blend
   3. unite
   4. compound

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

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

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

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

10. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

11. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

12. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

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

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

14. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

15. 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

16. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

    1. more quickly
    2. more quick
    3. quickly
    4. as quickly more

17. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

    1. aquatic
    2. ancient
    3. meretricious
    4. theological
    5. maritime

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

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

19. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

20. All the family members will get together on the _____ day of Eid.

    1. suspicious
    2. obvious
    3. auspicious
    4. conspicuous

21. His argument is quite _____.

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

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

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

23. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

24. So ________ was the sales person's tone about the qualities of the new computer system that Najam nearly missed the ________ in its calculations in his budget.

    1. Persuasive ... flaw
    2. adopted ... accuracy
    3. harsh ... amount
    4. irritating ... greatness

25. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

    1. efface
    2. deface
    3. erase
    4. wipe away

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