Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

   1. control . . . bankrupt
   2. monopolize . . . lucrative
   3. annul . . . profitable
   4. corner . . . factitious
   5. divest . . . remunerative

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

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

3. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

   1. exported . . . fertile
   2. marketed . . . urban
   3. preempted . . . fluvial
   4. eluded . . . indigenous
   5. cultivated . . . remote

4. Slovenia’s declared intention to ________ and Croatia’s decision to ________ the conference, aimed at preventing the breakup of the federation, are twin blows to Yugoslavian unity.

   1. secede . . . boycott
   2. withdraw . . . foster
   3. divide . . . consolidate
   4. recede . . . avoid
   5. patronize . . . exclude

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

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

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

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

7. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

   1. intelligent
   2. on
   3. at
   4. within

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

    1. doubt
    2. amity
    3. bitterness
    4. revenge

12. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

13. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

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

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

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

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

16. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

    1. suspicious
    2. daring
    3. guilty
    4. culpable

17. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

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

18. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

    1. ally
    2. allay
    3. rid
    4. palliate

19. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

    1. born
    2. borne
    3. bane
    4. boon

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

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

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

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

22. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

23. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement

24. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

25. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

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