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Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

  1. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

    1. used to
    2. was used to
    3. used
    4. was used to be
  2. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

    1. only how
    2. how
    3. so how
    4. that how
  3. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

    1. than
    2. to
    3. from
    4. of
  4. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

    1. minimize . . . extenuated
    2. extol . . . compounded
    3. abate . . . decimated
    4. alleviate . . . aggravated
    5. emend . . . increased
  5. His argument is quite _____.

    1. sickly
    2. unconvincing
    3. fragile
    4. infirm
  6. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has
  7. 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
  8. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate
  9. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

    1. prolong
    2. traverse
    3. go before
    4. repel
  10. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done
  11. 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
  12. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

    1. will confirm
    2. confirm
    3. confirms
    4. must confirm
  13. 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
  14. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

    1. doesn't it
    2. isn't it
    3. hasn't it
    4. didn't it
  15. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

    1. has had
    2. have had
    3. will have had
    4. had had
  16. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

    1. interminable
    2. cabalistic
    3. waggish
    4. vendible
    5. expressive
  17. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder
  18. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

    1. has
    2. have
    3. were
    4. are
  19. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious
  20. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

    1. control . . . bankrupt
    2. monopolize . . . lucrative
    3. annul . . . profitable
    4. corner . . . factitious
    5. divest . . . remunerative
  21. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

    1. effervescence . . . enlivens
    2. verve . . . deforms
    3. torpor . . . dominates
    4. bravado . . . enervates
    5. sprightliness . . . muffles
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Your conduct is most _____.

    1. reprobate
    2. recidivist
    3. reprehensible
    4. regurgitate

Answers

1 A 2 B 3 B 4 D 5 B
6 B 7 B 8 D 9 C 10 A
11 C 12 B 13 D 14 B 15 D
16 A 17 D 18 A 19 A 20 B
21 A 22 E 23 C 24 C 25 C

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