Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

   1. to
   2. from
   3. with
   4. on

2. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

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

3. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

   1. has
   2. has done
   3. had done
   4. is done

4. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

   1. pulled it up
   2. pulled it off
   3. pulled it away
   4. pulled it out

5. He is _____ for promotion.

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

6. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

   1. with
   2. from
   3. to
   4. for

7. Everyone in this universe is accountable to God _____ his actions.

   1. of
   2. against
   3. for
   4. about

8. 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

9. The police arrested him and his one _____.

   1. friend
   2. colleague
   3. accomplice
   4. operator

10. 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

11. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

12. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

    1. legal
    2. restrictive
    3. encompassing
    4. specific
    5. ecological

13. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

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

14. 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

15. It became _____ that he was going to die.

    1. visible
    2. distinct
    3. apparent
    4. manifest

16. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish

17. _____ 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

18. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

    1. possible
    2. the possibility
    3. to be possible
    4. possibly

19. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

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

20. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

22. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

23. 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

24. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

25. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

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

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