Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

   1. fill
   2. filled
   3. filling
   4. to be filled

2. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

3. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

   1. rambles
   2. roams
   3. digresses
   4. ranges

4. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

   1. forays . . . consciousness
   2. escapes . . . miasma
   3. appearances . . . discourse
   4. eclipses . . . scene
   5. invasions . . . liturgy

5. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

6. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

   1. pertinent
   2. prolix
   3. prolonged
   4. acrimonious

7. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

   1. control . . . bankrupt
   2. monopolize . . . lucrative
   3. annul . . . profitable
   4. corner . . . factitious
   5. divest . . . remunerative

8. 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

9. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

   1. could
   2. can
   3. would
   4. will

10. 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

11. 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

12. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

13. You _____ care of your health.

    1. had better to take
    2. had better take
    3. had better taken
    4. had taken better

14. 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

15. 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

16. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

17. We will do out work _____.

    1. latter
    2. later
    3. long
    4. after

18. 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

19. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

20. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

    1. scheduled
    2. requested
    3. obligated
    4. loaded

21. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

    1. attested
    2. censured
    3. interpreted
    4. transliterated
    5. attributed

22. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

    1. and
    2. and in
    3. and also
    4. also

23. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

    1. mix
    2. blend
    3. unite
    4. compound

24. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

25. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

    1. responsibility
    2. questioning
    3. credibility
    4. freedom
    5. credulousness

Answers

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