Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

   1. shortage
   2. deficiency
   3. poverty
   4. want

2. 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

3. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. I _____ him for a long time.

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

8. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

9. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

   1. exported . . . fertile
   2. marketed . . . urban
   3. preempted . . . fluvial
   4. eluded . . . indigenous
   5. cultivated . . . remote

10. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

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

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

12. 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

13. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

    1. would see
    2. will have seen
    3. would have seen
    4. will see

14. He _____ our help.

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

15. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

16. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

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

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

18. 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

19. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

    1. outstanding
    2. dubious
    3. impressive
    4. remarkable

20. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

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

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

22. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

    1. imminent
    2. eminent
    3. immanent
    4. permanent

23. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

    1. has had
    2. have had
    3. will have had
    4. had had

24. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

    1. had
    2. have
    3. have had
    4. will have had

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

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

Answers

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