Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

   1. to
   2. on
   3. with
   4. about

2. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

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

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

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

4. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

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

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

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

6. Though Aslam is poor, _____ he is honest.

   1. but
   2. nevertheless
   3. yet
   4. still

7. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

   1. protects
   2. warms
   3. reflects
   4. absorbs

8. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

   1. showing
   2. show
   3. showed
   4. to show

9. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

   1. coward
   2. foolish
   3. brute
   4. ignorant

10. The chair is in the garden, please _____ it.

    1. bring
    2. fetch
    3. carry
    4. transport

11. By the twenty-first century, the computer _____a necessity in every home.

    1. became
    2. becoming
    3. has become
    4. will have become

12. He's been elected _____?

    1. hasn't he
    2. didn't he
    3. isn't he
    4. doesn't he

13. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

14. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

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

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

16. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

17. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

18. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

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

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

20. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

    1. equinox
    2. nadir
    3. zenith
    4. solstice

21. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

22. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

    1. charity
    2. enmity
    3. amiability
    4. pathology
    5. austerity

23. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

24. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

    1. maxims
    2. jurisdictions
    3. benchmarks
    4. affirmations
    5. vortices

25. I am intent ________.

    1. to win
    2. of winning
    3. on winning
    4. for winning

Answers

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