Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

2. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

3. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

   1. defalcate
   2. devastate
   3. devour
   4. embezzle

4. 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

5. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

   1. antiques
   2. antiquaries
   3. reliquaries
   4. patricians
   5. histrionics

6. The jury _____ him of murder.

   1. discharged
   2. acquitted
   3. absolved
   4. finished

7. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

   1. effervescence . . . enlivens
   2. verve . . . deforms
   3. torpor . . . dominates
   4. bravado . . . enervates
   5. sprightliness . . . muffles

8. His argument is quite _____.

   1. sickly
   2. unconvincing
   3. fragile
   4. infirm

9. 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

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

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

11. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

12. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

13. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

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. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked

16. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

    1. alike
    2. the same as
    3. similar
    4. as

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

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

18. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

19. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

20. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

21. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

22. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

23. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

    1. device . . . reverberation
    2. holocaust . . . specter
    3. danger . . . spectacle
    4. liaison . . . probability
    5. explosion . . . calamity

24. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

    1. adulatory
    2. avid
    3. rhetorical
    4. redundant

25. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

Answers

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