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. _____ 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

3. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

4. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

   1. old enough
   2. as old enough
   3. enough old
   4. enough old as

5. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

   1. fragments
   2. attrition
   3. intensity
   4. barbarism

6. 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

7. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

   1. possible
   2. the possibility
   3. to be possible
   4. possibly

8. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

   1. belief . . . prolix
   2. assumption . . . authentic
   3. idea . . . incredible
   4. tenet . . . specious
   5. canon . . . interesting

9. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

   1. used to
   2. was used to
   3. used
   4. was used to be

10. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

    1. reticent . . . reason
    2. demonstrative . . . provocation
    3. recusant . . . excuse
    4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
    5. emotional . . . antagonism

11. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

    1. depreciation
    2. despoliation
    3. obsolescence
    4. casualties

12. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

13. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

    1. acute
    2. ominous
    3. unusual
    4. insipid

14. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

15. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

    1. imminent
    2. eminent
    3. immanent
    4. permanent

16. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

17. You _____ care of your health.

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

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

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

19. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

    1. outstanding
    2. dubious
    3. impressive
    4. remarkable

20. 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

21. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish

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

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

23. The jury _____ him of murder.

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

24. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

    1. equinox
    2. nadir
    3. zenith
    4. solstice

25. I do not have any _____.

    1. confident
    2. confidant
    3. confidential
    4. confederate

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