Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

   1. acute
   2. ominous
   3. unusual
   4. insipid

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

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

3. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

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

4. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

   1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
   2. exiguous . . . vigorous
   3. avuncular . . . shrewd
   4. inept . . . dauntless
   5. incompetent . . . flaccid

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

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

6. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

   1. external
   2. perennial
   3. immortal
   4. inexhaustible

7. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

8. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

9. Your conduct is most _____.

   1. reprobate
   2. recidivist
   3. reprehensible
   4. regurgitate

10. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

    1. large amount
    2. large number
    3. little amount
    4. big amount

11. You _____ care of your health.

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

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

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

13. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

    1. pertinent
    2. prolix
    3. prolonged
    4. acrimonious

14. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

15. We ________ friends since we were children.

    1. had been
    2. have been
    3. are
    4. were

16. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

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

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

18. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

    1. achieve
    2. procure
    3. acquire
    4. attain

19. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

    1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
    2. widespread . . . intimidated
    3. immaterial . . . incriminated
    4. minor . . . untroubled
    5. evanescent . . . undeterred

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

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

21. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

    1. showing
    2. show
    3. showed
    4. to show

22. 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

23. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

24. ________ must be distinguished from ________, which is the recognition of different categories of people without the inputing of any differences in rank.

    1. Totalitarianism . . . brotherhood
    2. Modification . . . ossification
    3. Classification . . . ramification
    4. Stratification . . . differentiation
    5. Finitude . . . infinitude

25. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

    1. palatable
    2. peremptory
    3. premeditated
    4. revolutionary

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