Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

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

2. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

   1. imminent
   2. eminent
   3. immanent
   4. permanent

3. You must _____ after hard work.

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

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

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

5. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

   1. riches wealth
   2. person
   3. wealth
   4. work

6. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

   1. was
   2. were
   3. have been
   4. are

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

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

8. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

   1. subdued . . . hostile
   2. vehement . . . acrimonious
   3. reticent . . . cliché
   4. affable . . . adverse
   5. emotional . . . adroit

9. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

10. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

    1. childish
    2. childlike
    3. infantile
    4. puerile

11. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

12. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

13. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

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

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

15. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

    1. attested
    2. censured
    3. interpreted
    4. transliterated
    5. attributed

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

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

17. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

    1. stubborn
    2. capricious
    3. just
    4. humorous

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

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

19. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

    1. efface
    2. deface
    3. erase
    4. wipe away

20. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

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

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

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

22. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

    1. formerly
    2. formally
    3. lastly
    4. old

23. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

24. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

    1. higher
    2. high
    3. the higher
    4. the high

25. 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

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