Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

   1. handed down
   2. handed for
   3. handed in
   4. handed over

3. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

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

4. The price of food here is _____.

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

5. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

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

6. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

   1. faltering
   2. flexible
   3. unsteady
   4. wavering

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

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

8. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

   1. stubborn
   2. capricious
   3. just
   4. humorous

9. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

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

10. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

14. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

    1. an advent
    2. a ukase
    3. an elision
    4. a precursor
    5. a subtext

15. Face _____ with courage.

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

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

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

17. You must _____ after hard work.

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

18. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

    1. paragon
    2. paramount
    3. paradox
    4. partition

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

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

20. One cannot ________ to be impressed by the structural and ________ differences between the United States as a federal union in 1789 and the United States as a federal union today.

    1. refuse . . . legal
    2. stop . . . attitudinal
    3. begin . . . economic
    4. fail . . . operational
    5. start . . . classical

21. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

    1. doubt
    2. amity
    3. bitterness
    4. revenge

22. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

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

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

24. 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

25. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

    1. shortage
    2. deficiency
    3. poverty
    4. want

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