Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Despite his illness, Inzamam was ________ in winning his team.

   1. disappointing
   2. useless
   3. vigorous
   4. instrumental

2. 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

3. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

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

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

5. 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

6. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

7. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

8. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

   1. subdued . . . hostile
   2. vehement . . . acrimonious
   3. reticent . . . cliché
   4. affable . . . adverse
   5. emotional . . . adroit

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

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

10. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

    1. prolong
    2. traverse
    3. go before
    4. repel

11. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

12. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

    1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
    2. congenial . . . a danger
    3. galling . . . a panacea
    4. anodyne . . . an emollient
    5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

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

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

14. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

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

15. We should try to avoid one who is brave in words but not in _____.

    1. actions
    2. reaction
    3. job
    4. fighting

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

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

17. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

18. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

    1. recipe
    2. receipt
    3. slip
    4. letter

19. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

    1. enough food
    2. food as enough
    3. food enough
    4. enough the food

20. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

    1. to have
    2. on having
    3. to having
    4. in having
    5. with having

21. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

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

22. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

    1. maxims
    2. jurisdictions
    3. benchmarks
    4. affirmations
    5. vortices

23. We have _____ trust in you.

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

24. the child ________ crying for three hours.

    1. is
    2. has
    3. has been
    4. have been

25. I have no _____ motive in offering this advice, I seek no personal advantage.

    1. ulterior
    2. nominal
    3. disinterested
    4. incongruous

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