In the name of ALLAH, the most beneficient, the most merciful

Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

  1. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

    1. worked
    2. were working
    3. had worked
    4. are working
  2. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly
  3. He was quite able _____ after himself.

    1. to looking
    2. for looking
    3. to look
    4. of looking
  4. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction
  5. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

    1. subservient
    2. truculent
    3. pellucid
    4. stringent
  6. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

    1. decent
    2. descent
    3. ascent
    4. jump
  7. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved
  8. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making
  9. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

    1. rampant . . . motive
    2. auspicious . . . occasion
    3. censorious . . . disinclination
    4. negative . . . incentive
    5. unassailed . . . reason
  10. 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
  11. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked
  12. 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
  13. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously
  14. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod
  15. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan
  16. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

    1. device . . . reverberation
    2. holocaust . . . specter
    3. danger . . . spectacle
    4. liaison . . . probability
    5. explosion . . . calamity
  17. 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
  18. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition
  19. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive
  20. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant
  21. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges
  22. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

    1. more quickly
    2. more quick
    3. quickly
    4. as quickly more
  23. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

    1. adopt
    2. adept
    3. adapt
    4. convert
  24. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh
  25. 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

Answers

1 B 2 A 3 C 4 C 5 B
6 B 7 C 8 B 9 D 10 E
11 C 12 D 13 B 14 B 15 D
16 B 17 E 18 B 19 B 20 C
21 C 22 A 23 C 24 C 25 C

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