Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

   1. accident
   2. rhythmic
   3. leisurely
   4. perpetual

2. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

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

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

4. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

   1. waters boils
   2. the water boils
   3. water bills
   4. water boil

5. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

   1. boost
   2. hoist
   3. lift
   4. aid

6. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

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

7. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

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. Salma's home looked as though it had been ________ from a rag bin; her expensive burner was her sole ________ of luxury.

   1. clean ... expensive
   2. computerized ... cost
   3. modernized ... symbol
   4. salvaged ... sign

10. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

    1. overt
    2. sporadic
    3. furtive
    4. fury

11. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

12. We congratulate him _____.

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

13. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

14. 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

15. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

    1. relegated . . . combination
    2. replicated . . . melding
    3. decanted . . . concurrence
    4. reproduced . . . disjunction
    5. intimated . . . knell

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

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

17. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

18. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

19. 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

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

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

21. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

22. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

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

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

24. What a _____ you were not hurt in the accident.

    1. prayers
    2. praise
    3. blessing
    4. consecration

25. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

Answers

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