Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

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

2. 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

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

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

4. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

   1. exported . . . fertile
   2. marketed . . . urban
   3. preempted . . . fluvial
   4. eluded . . . indigenous
   5. cultivated . . . remote

5. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

   1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
   2. widespread . . . intimidated
   3. immaterial . . . incriminated
   4. minor . . . untroubled
   5. evanescent . . . undeterred

6. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

   1. annihilated
   2. destroyed
   3. repeated
   4. finished

7. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

   1. that birds
   2. a bird
   3. the bird
   4. birds

8. The price of food here is _____.

   1. askance
   2. exorbitant
   3. outlandish
   4. usury

9. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

   1. adopt
   2. adept
   3. adapt
   4. convert

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

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

11. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

12. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

    1. fill
    2. filled
    3. filling
    4. to be filled

13. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

    1. palatable
    2. peremptory
    3. premeditated
    4. revolutionary

14. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

15. Face _____ with courage.

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

16. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating

17. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

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

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

19. ________ must be distinguished from ________, which is the recognition of different categories of people without the inputing of any differences in rank.

    1. Totalitarianism . . . brotherhood
    2. Modification . . . ossification
    3. Classification . . . ramification
    4. Stratification . . . differentiation
    5. Finitude . . . infinitude

20. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

    1. forays . . . consciousness
    2. escapes . . . miasma
    3. appearances . . . discourse
    4. eclipses . . . scene
    5. invasions . . . liturgy

21. I _____ him for a long time.

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

22. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

    1. achieve
    2. procure
    3. acquire
    4. attain

23. 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

24. We must _____ this accord.

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

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

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

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3