Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

   1. adopt
   2. adept
   3. adapt
   4. convert

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

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

3. Your conduct is most _____.

   1. reprobate
   2. recidivist
   3. reprehensible
   4. regurgitate

4. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

   1. pulled it up
   2. pulled it off
   3. pulled it away
   4. pulled it out

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

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

6. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

   1. subdued . . . hostile
   2. vehement . . . acrimonious
   3. reticent . . . cliché
   4. affable . . . adverse
   5. emotional . . . adroit

7. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

   1. ominous
   2. blithe
   3. monetary
   4. arduous
   5. auspicious

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

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

9. 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

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

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

11. 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

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

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

13. Though Aslam is poor, _____ he is honest.

    1. but
    2. nevertheless
    3. yet
    4. still

14. 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

15. Because of his _____ personality he is always very difficult to handle.

    1. voluble
    2. volatile
    3. voluptuous
    4. expensive

16. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

17. He's been elected _____?

    1. hasn't he
    2. didn't he
    3. isn't he
    4. doesn't he

18. I _____ him for a long time.

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

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

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

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

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

21. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

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

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

23. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

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

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

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

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

Answers

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