Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

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

2. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

   1. paragon
   2. paramount
   3. paradox
   4. partition

3. We congratulate him _____.

   1. on his success
   2. for his success
   3. at his success
   4. in his success

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

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

5. The ____ of the headlights of the car almost blinded me.

   1. shine
   2. glare
   3. dazzle
   4. luminosity

6. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

   1. ominous
   2. blithe
   3. monetary
   4. arduous
   5. auspicious

7. The price of food here is _____.

   1. askance
   2. exorbitant
   3. outlandish
   4. usury

8. It became _____ that he was going to die.

   1. visible
   2. distinct
   3. apparent
   4. manifest

9. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

   1. surrender
   2. abandon
   3. discontinue
   4. desert

10. 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

11. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

12. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

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

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

14. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

    1. strong
    2. lusty
    3. vigorous
    4. powerful

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

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

16. 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

17. The general public _____ a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to decrease.

    1. must buy
    2. must have bought
    3. must be buying
    4. must buying

18. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

19. The jury _____ him of murder.

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

20. 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

21. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

22. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

23. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

24. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

25. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

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