Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

   1. has
   2. have
   3. were
   4. are

2. He is _____ for promotion.

   1. illegible
   2. legible
   3. eligible
   4. ineligible

3. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

   1. interminable
   2. cabalistic
   3. waggish
   4. vendible
   5. expressive

4. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

   1. argue
   2. predict
   3. discuss
   4. influence

5. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

   1. bores
   2. stimulates
   3. entices
   4. enervates

6. 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

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

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

8. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

   1. faltering
   2. flexible
   3. unsteady
   4. wavering

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

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

10. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

    1. responsibility
    2. questioning
    3. credibility
    4. freedom
    5. credulousness

11. 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

12. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

13. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

    1. had
    2. have
    3. had had
    4. have had

14. The _____ arguments put forth for not disclosing the facts did not impress anybody.

    1. specious
    2. intemperate
    3. spurious
    4. convincing

15. The ________ of Darwin’s theory of evolution on Victorian religion was to create a bitter ________ of ideas and beliefs.

    1. result . . . moderation
    2. effect . . . conflict
    3. extension . . . growth
    4. origin . . . compromise
    5. influence . . . solidarity

16. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly

17. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

    1. accident
    2. rhythmic
    3. leisurely
    4. perpetual

18. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

19. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

20. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

21. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

22. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

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

23. You _____ care of your health.

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

24. That new law went into _____ last month.

    1. affect
    2. effect
    3. action
    4. selection

25. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

    1. fragments
    2. attrition
    3. intensity
    4. barbarism

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