Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

2. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

3. The ________ of Darwin’s theory of evolution on Victorian religion was to create a bitter ________ of ideas and beliefs.

   1. result . . . moderation
   2. effect . . . conflict
   3. extension . . . growth
   4. origin . . . compromise
   5. influence . . . solidarity

4. All the family members will get together on the _____ day of Eid.

   1. suspicious
   2. obvious
   3. auspicious
   4. conspicuous

5. I do not have any _____.

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

6. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

7. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

   1. argue
   2. predict
   3. discuss
   4. influence

8. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

9. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

   1. handed down
   2. handed for
   3. handed in
   4. handed over

10. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

    1. bores
    2. stimulates
    3. entices
    4. enervates

11. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

12. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

13. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

14. 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

15. We have _____ trust in you.

    1. perfect
    2. entire
    3. imperative
    4. absolute

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

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

17. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

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

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

19. 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

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

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

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

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

22. He's been elected _____?

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

23. 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

24. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

    1. an advent
    2. a ukase
    3. an elision
    4. a precursor
    5. a subtext

25. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

Answers

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