Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

   1. prolong
   2. traverse
   3. go before
   4. repel

2. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

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

3. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

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

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

5. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

   1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
   2. widespread . . . intimidated
   3. immaterial . . . incriminated
   4. minor . . . untroubled
   5. evanescent . . . undeterred

6. I am intent ________.

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

7. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

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

8. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

   1. to
   2. from
   3. with
   4. on

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

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

10. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

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

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

12. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

13. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

14. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

15. My land is _____ to your Land.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

16. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

17. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

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

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

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

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

20. 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

21. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

    1. large amount
    2. large number
    3. little amount
    4. big amount

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

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

23. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

24. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved

25. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

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

Answers

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Practice Test Set 2
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