Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. His argument is quite _____.

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

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

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

4. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

   1. to have
   2. on having
   3. to having
   4. in having
   5. with having

5. 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

6. He _____ our help.

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

7. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

   1. felicitous . . . following
   2. grotesque . . . vacuity
   3. elegant . . . repertoire
   4. graceful . . . audience
   5. ungainly . . . readership

8. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

   1. belief . . . prolix
   2. assumption . . . authentic
   3. idea . . . incredible
   4. tenet . . . specious
   5. canon . . . interesting

9. 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

10. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

    1. out
    2. off
    3. away
    4. over

11. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

12. It is _____ that students do not repay their loans.

    1. laudable
    2. unfortunate
    3. unforgivable
    4. regrettable

13. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

14. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

15. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

    1. fill
    2. filled
    3. filling
    4. to be filled

16. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

17. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

    1. palatable
    2. peremptory
    3. premeditated
    4. revolutionary

18. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

    1. would
    2. will
    3. does
    4. had

19. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

    1. bores
    2. stimulates
    3. entices
    4. enervates

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

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

21. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

    1. will confirm
    2. confirm
    3. confirms
    4. must confirm

22. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

23. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition

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

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

25. You _____ care of your health.

    1. had better to take
    2. had better take
    3. had better taken
    4. had taken better

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