Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

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

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

3. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

   1. minatory
   2. exclamatory
   3. enigmatic
   4. surreptitious
   5. ameliorative

4. 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

5. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

   1. not only
   2. not
   3. neither
   4. no

6. 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

7. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

   1. scheduled
   2. requested
   3. obligated
   4. loaded

8. He was quite able _____ after himself.

   1. to looking
   2. for looking
   3. to look
   4. of looking

9. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

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

10. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

11. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

    1. lavish
    2. prodigal
    3. reckless
    4. unthrifty

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

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

13. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

14. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

15. We will do out work _____.

    1. latter
    2. later
    3. long
    4. after

16. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

17. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved

18. 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

19. We can not _____ any of out territory.

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

20. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

21. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

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

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

23. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

24. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

25. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

Answers

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