Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

   1. continually
   2. continuously
   3. continually
   4. persistently

3. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

   1. an advent
   2. a ukase
   3. an elision
   4. a precursor
   5. a subtext

4. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

   1. riches wealth
   2. person
   3. wealth
   4. work

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

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

6. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

   1. surrender
   2. abandon
   3. discontinue
   4. desert

7. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

   1. annihilated
   2. destroyed
   3. repeated
   4. finished

8. It is _____ to steal.

   1. sinful
   2. corrupt
   3. immoral
   4. wicked

9. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

   1. fatal
   2. fateful
   3. crucial
   4. fating

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

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

11. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

12. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

    1. alike
    2. the same as
    3. similar
    4. as

13. You _____ care of your health.

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

14. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

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

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

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

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

17. Salma's home looked as though it had been ________ from a rag bin; her expensive burner was her sole ________ of luxury.

    1. clean ... expensive
    2. computerized ... cost
    3. modernized ... symbol
    4. salvaged ... sign

18. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

    1. salutary . . . intimidate
    2. cautionary . . . mute
    3. pernicious . . . silence
    4. unexceptional . . . abstract
    5. perilous . . . augment

19. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

    1. relegated . . . combination
    2. replicated . . . melding
    3. decanted . . . concurrence
    4. reproduced . . . disjunction
    5. intimated . . . knell

20. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

21. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

22. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

23. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

    1. unconstrained
    2. voluntary
    3. discretion
    4. gratuitous

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

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

25. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

Answers

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Practice Test Set 2
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