Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

   1. lavish
   2. prodigal
   3. reckless
   4. unthrifty

2. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

   1. only how
   2. how
   3. so how
   4. that how

3. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

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

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

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

5. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

6. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

   1. would
   2. will
   3. does
   4. had

7. 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

8. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

   1. alike
   2. the same as
   3. similar
   4. as

9. We congratulate him _____.

   1. on his success
   2. for his success
   3. at his success
   4. in his success

10. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

11. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

12. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

13. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

14. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

15. the child ________ crying for three hours.

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

16. 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

17. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

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. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

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

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

21. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

    1. and
    2. and in
    3. and also
    4. also

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

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

23. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

24. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

25. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

    1. argue
    2. predict
    3. discuss
    4. influence

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