Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. You must show _____ for out teachers.

   1. reverence
   2. adoration
   3. homage
   4. veneration

2. 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

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

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

4. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

   1. riches wealth
   2. person
   3. wealth
   4. work

5. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

   1. reappeared
   2. eliminated
   3. returned
   4. regenerated
   5. exhumed

6. He is _____ for promotion.

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

7. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

   1. capitulated
   2. desecrated
   3. minimized
   4. harassed

8. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

   1. has
   2. have
   3. were
   4. are

9. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

10. _____ 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

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

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

12. 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

13. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

14. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

    1. should
    2. would
    3. should have
    4. would have

15. 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

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

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

17. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

    1. an indication . . . soared
    2. a gauge . . . refined
    3. a signatory . . . fallen
    4. a refutation . . . descended
    5. a barometer . . . plummeted

18. We have _____ trust in you.

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

19. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

    1. continually
    2. continuously
    3. continually
    4. persistently

20. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

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

21. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

22. 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

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

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

24. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

25. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

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