Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

   1. charity
   2. enmity
   3. amiability
   4. pathology
   5. austerity

2. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

   1. controversial
   2. circumnutating
   3. abnormal
   4. irrelevant

3. Heavy snows in the passes of the Pyrenees have seriously ________ rescuers trying to reach travelers surprised by the spring blizzards.

   1. excluded
   2. expedited
   3. rappelled
   4. assisted
   5. hampered

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

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

5. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

6. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

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

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

8. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

9. We congratulate him _____.

   1. on his success
   2. for his success
   3. at his success
   4. in his success

10. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

11. Slovenia’s declared intention to ________ and Croatia’s decision to ________ the conference, aimed at preventing the breakup of the federation, are twin blows to Yugoslavian unity.

    1. secede . . . boycott
    2. withdraw . . . foster
    3. divide . . . consolidate
    4. recede . . . avoid
    5. patronize . . . exclude

12. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

    1. as high as
    2. as high to
    3. so high to
    4. so high as

13. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

    1. receipt
    2. recipe
    3. formula
    4. technique

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

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

15. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

16. We were _____ by the result.

    1. surprise
    2. surprised
    3. surprising
    4. to surprise of

17. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

18. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

    1. rampant . . . motive
    2. auspicious . . . occasion
    3. censorious . . . disinclination
    4. negative . . . incentive
    5. unassailed . . . reason

19. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

    1. out
    2. off
    3. away
    4. over

20. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

    1. assent
    2. ascent
    3. descent
    4. jump

21. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

22. We can not _____ any of out territory.

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

23. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

    1. subservient
    2. truculent
    3. pellucid
    4. stringent

24. I am intent ________.

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

25. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

    1. doubt
    2. amity
    3. bitterness
    4. revenge

Answers

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