Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

   1. illusion
   2. allusion
   3. delusion
   4. conclusion

2. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

   1. relegated . . . combination
   2. replicated . . . melding
   3. decanted . . . concurrence
   4. reproduced . . . disjunction
   5. intimated . . . knell

3. You must _____ after hard work.

   1. relax
   2. repose
   3. compose
   4. depose

4. You _____ care of your health.

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

5. He _____ our help.

   1. resents
   2. recants
   3. remove
   4. resign

6. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

   1. an invidious . . . malleable
   2. a malign . . . philanthropic
   3. a ferocious . . . docile
   4. an infamous . . . self-serving
   5. a dissolute . . . venal

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

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

8. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

   1. fatal
   2. fateful
   3. crucial
   4. fating

9. He is _____ for promotion.

   1. illegible
   2. legible
   3. eligible
   4. ineligible

10. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

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

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

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

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

13. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

    1. overt
    2. sporadic
    3. furtive
    4. fury

14. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

15. 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

16. 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

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

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

18. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

19. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

    1. pessimist
    2. optimist
    3. philanthropist
    4. profiteer

20. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

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

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

22. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

23. 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

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

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

25. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

Answers

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