Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

   1. responsibility
   2. questioning
   3. credibility
   4. freedom
   5. credulousness

2. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

   1. an invidious . . . malleable
   2. a malign . . . philanthropic
   3. a ferocious . . . docile
   4. an infamous . . . self-serving
   5. a dissolute . . . venal

3. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

4. 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

5. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

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

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

7. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

8. His argument is quite _____.

   1. sickly
   2. unconvincing
   3. fragile
   4. infirm

9. I will meet him when he _____ .

   1. will come
   2. had come
   3. would have come
   4. comes

10. The ____ of the headlights of the car almost blinded me.

    1. shine
    2. glare
    3. dazzle
    4. luminosity

11. Face _____ with courage.

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

12. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

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

13. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

    1. alike
    2. the same as
    3. similar
    4. as

14. We must _____ this accord.

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

15. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

    1. adulatory
    2. avid
    3. rhetorical
    4. redundant

16. 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

17. 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

18. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

    1. pertinent
    2. prolix
    3. prolonged
    4. acrimonious

19. 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

20. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

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

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

22. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

    1. large amount
    2. large number
    3. little amount
    4. big amount

23. We will do out work _____.

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

24. Failing the exam was a _____ disappointment to him.

    1. sour
    2. tart
    3. bitter
    4. acrid

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

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

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