Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

   1. bright
   2. vivid
   3. glaring
   4. telling

2. _____ is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

   1. it is calcium
   2. that calcium
   3. calcium
   4. although calcium

3. 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

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

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

5. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

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

6. Face _____ with courage.

   1. misery
   2. poverty
   3. adversity
   4. affliction

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

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

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

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

9. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

10. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

11. I do not have any _____.

    1. confident
    2. confidant
    3. confidential
    4. confederate

12. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

13. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

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

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

15. 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

16. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

    1. intelligent
    2. judicial
    3. sensible
    4. discreetly

17. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

    1. be
    2. is leaving
    3. must
    4. would be

18. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

19. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

    1. device . . . reverberation
    2. holocaust . . . specter
    3. danger . . . spectacle
    4. liaison . . . probability
    5. explosion . . . calamity

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

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

21. We ________ friends since we were children.

    1. had been
    2. have been
    3. are
    4. were

22. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

    1. capitulated
    2. desecrated
    3. minimized
    4. harassed

23. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

24. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

25. We congratulate him _____.

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

Answers

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Practice Test Set 2
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