Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

   1. restorations . . . indefinitely
   2. recriminations . . . finally
   3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
   4. reparations . . . ultimately
   5. disbursements . . . immediately

2. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

   1. be
   2. is leaving
   3. must
   4. would be

3. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

   1. as high as
   2. as high to
   3. so high to
   4. so high as

4. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

   1. old enough
   2. as old enough
   3. enough old
   4. enough old as

5. He _____ our help.

   1. resents
   2. recants
   3. remove
   4. resign

6. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

   1. hatch
   2. produce
   3. breed
   4. conceive

7. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

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

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

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

9. 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

10. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

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

11. 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

12. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

13. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

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

14. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

    1. shortage
    2. deficiency
    3. poverty
    4. want

15. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

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

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

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

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

18. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

    1. prosperity
    2. cowardice
    3. miser
    4. happiness

19. 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

20. 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

21. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

    1. worked
    2. were working
    3. had worked
    4. are working

22. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

23. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

    1. bright
    2. vivid
    3. glaring
    4. telling

24. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

25. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

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

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