Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

2. Heavy snows in the passes of the Pyrenees have seriously ________ rescuers trying to reach travelers surprised by the spring blizzards.

   1. excluded
   2. expedited
   3. rappelled
   4. assisted
   5. hampered

3. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

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

4. You must show _____ for out teachers.

   1. reverence
   2. adoration
   3. homage
   4. veneration

5. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

   1. pessimist
   2. optimist
   3. philanthropist
   4. profiteer

6. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

   1. salutary . . . intimidate
   2. cautionary . . . mute
   3. pernicious . . . silence
   4. unexceptional . . . abstract
   5. perilous . . . augment

7. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

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

8. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

   1. adulatory
   2. avid
   3. rhetorical
   4. redundant

9. 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

10. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

    1. used to
    2. was used to
    3. used
    4. was used to be

11. 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

12. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

13. It is _____ that students do not repay their loans.

    1. laudable
    2. unfortunate
    3. unforgivable
    4. regrettable

14. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

15. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

16. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

17. 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

18. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

19. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

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

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

21. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

22. We should try to avoid one who is brave in words but not in _____.

    1. actions
    2. reaction
    3. job
    4. fighting

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

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

24. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

25. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

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