Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. He was quite able _____ after himself.

   1. to looking
   2. for looking
   3. to look
   4. of looking

2. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

   1. boost
   2. hoist
   3. lift
   4. aid

3. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

   1. philosophy
   2. conviction
   3. device
   4. tendency

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

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

5. 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

6. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

   1. exceptional
   2. exceptionable
   3. exhaustible
   4. exhaustive

7. 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

8. 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

9. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

   1. out
   2. away
   3. down
   4. off

10. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

    1. scheduled
    2. requested
    3. obligated
    4. loaded

11. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

    1. legal
    2. restrictive
    3. encompassing
    4. specific
    5. ecological

12. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

    1. amiable
    2. amicable
    3. likeable
    4. desirable

13. 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

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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

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

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

19. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

20. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

21. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

    1. fill
    2. filled
    3. filling
    4. to be filled

22. He's been elected _____?

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

23. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

24. You _____ care of your health.

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

25. 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

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