Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

   1. exported . . . fertile
   2. marketed . . . urban
   3. preempted . . . fluvial
   4. eluded . . . indigenous
   5. cultivated . . . remote

2. 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

3. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

   1. ally
   2. allay
   3. rid
   4. palliate

4. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

   1. forays . . . consciousness
   2. escapes . . . miasma
   3. appearances . . . discourse
   4. eclipses . . . scene
   5. invasions . . . liturgy

5. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

   1. contagious
   2. contiguous
   3. infectious
   4. touchy

6. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

7. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

8. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

9. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

   1. enough food
   2. food as enough
   3. food enough
   4. enough the food

10. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

11. Despite his illness, Inzamam was ________ in winning his team.

    1. disappointing
    2. useless
    3. vigorous
    4. instrumental

12. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

13. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

    1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
    2. avidity to . . . congenial
    3. commitment to . . . provocative
    4. inability to . . . liberal
    5. eagerness to . . . regressive

14. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

15. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

16. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

    1. felicitous . . . following
    2. grotesque . . . vacuity
    3. elegant . . . repertoire
    4. graceful . . . audience
    5. ungainly . . . readership

17. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

18. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

    1. pays
    2. is paying
    3. paid
    4. had paid

19. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

20. You _____ care of your health.

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

21. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

22. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

23. My land is _____ to your Land.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

24. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

    1. minimize . . . extenuated
    2. extol . . . compounded
    3. abate . . . decimated
    4. alleviate . . . aggravated
    5. emend . . . increased

25. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

    1. left
    2. is leaving
    3. had left
    4. will leave

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