Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Face _____ with courage.

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

2. It became _____ that he was going to die.

   1. visible
   2. distinct
   3. apparent
   4. manifest

3. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

   1. and
   2. and in
   3. and also
   4. also

4. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

   1. efface
   2. deface
   3. erase
   4. wipe away

5. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

   1. childish
   2. childlike
   3. infantile
   4. puerile

6. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

   1. recipe
   2. receipt
   3. slip
   4. letter

7. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

8. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

   1. deliberately
   2. assiduously
   3. ingenuously
   4. deliriously

9. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

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

10. The police arrested him and his one _____.

    1. friend
    2. colleague
    3. accomplice
    4. operator

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

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

12. Your conduct is most _____.

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

13. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

    1. more quickly
    2. more quick
    3. quickly
    4. as quickly more

14. 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

15. The price of food here is _____.

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

16. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

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

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

18. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

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

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

20. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

21. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

    1. fragments
    2. attrition
    3. intensity
    4. barbarism

22. the child ________ crying for three hours.

    1. is
    2. has
    3. has been
    4. have been

23. We were _____ by the result.

    1. surprise
    2. surprised
    3. surprising
    4. to surprise of

24. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

    1. suspicious
    2. daring
    3. guilty
    4. culpable

25. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

    1. accident
    2. rhythmic
    3. leisurely
    4. perpetual

Answers

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