Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. I do not have any _____.

   1. confident
   2. confidant
   3. confidential
   4. confederate

3. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

   1. acute
   2. ominous
   3. unusual
   4. insipid

4. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

   1. left
   2. is leaving
   3. had left
   4. will leave

5. He _____ our help.

   1. resents
   2. recants
   3. remove
   4. resign

6. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

   1. old enough
   2. as old enough
   3. enough old
   4. enough old as

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

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

8. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

   1. makes
   2. has made
   3. had made
   4. is making

9. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

   1. bright
   2. vivid
   3. glaring
   4. telling

10. We ________ friends since we were children.

    1. had been
    2. have been
    3. are
    4. were

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

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

12. The police arrested him and his one _____.

    1. friend
    2. colleague
    3. accomplice
    4. operator

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

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

14. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

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

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

16. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

    1. lavish
    2. prodigal
    3. reckless
    4. unthrifty

17. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

    1. strong
    2. lusty
    3. vigorous
    4. powerful

18. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

19. 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

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

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

21. 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

22. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

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

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

24. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish

25. 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

Answers

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