Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

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

2. We will do out work _____.

   1. latter
   2. later
   3. long
   4. after

3. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

   1. should
   2. would
   3. should have
   4. would have

4. _____ 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

5. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

   1. decent
   2. descent
   3. ascent
   4. jump

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

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

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

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

8. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

   1. finished
   2. are finish
   3. will finish
   4. have finished

9. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

   1. could
   2. can
   3. would
   4. will

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

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

11. We were _____ by the result.

    1. surprise
    2. surprised
    3. surprising
    4. to surprise of

12. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

13. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

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

14. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

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

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

16. 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

17. Your conduct is most _____.

    1. reprobate
    2. recidivist
    3. reprehensible
    4. regurgitate

18. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

    1. annihilated
    2. destroyed
    3. repeated
    4. finished

19. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

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

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

21. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

    1. effervescence . . . enlivens
    2. verve . . . deforms
    3. torpor . . . dominates
    4. bravado . . . enervates
    5. sprightliness . . . muffles

22. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

23. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

    1. reappeared
    2. eliminated
    3. returned
    4. regenerated
    5. exhumed

24. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

25. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

    1. controversial
    2. circumnutating
    3. abnormal
    4. irrelevant

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