Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

2. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

   1. external
   2. perennial
   3. immortal
   4. inexhaustible

3. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

4. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

   1. be
   2. is leaving
   3. must
   4. would be

5. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

6. We have _____ trust in you.

   1. perfect
   2. entire
   3. imperative
   4. absolute

7. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

   1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
   2. congenial . . . a danger
   3. galling . . . a panacea
   4. anodyne . . . an emollient
   5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

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

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

9. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

10. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

11. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

    1. accident
    2. rhythmic
    3. leisurely
    4. perpetual

12. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

    1. enough food
    2. food as enough
    3. food enough
    4. enough the food

13. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

14. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

15. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

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

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

17. It became _____ that he was going to die.

    1. visible
    2. distinct
    3. apparent
    4. manifest

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

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

19. 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

20. _____ 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

21. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

22. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

23. 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

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

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

25. 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

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