Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

   1. illusion
   2. allusion
   3. delusion
   4. conclusion

3. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

4. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

   1. plague
   2. series
   3. plethora
   4. dearth

5. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

6. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

   1. used to
   2. was used to
   3. used
   4. was used to be

7. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

   1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
   2. congenial . . . a danger
   3. galling . . . a panacea
   4. anodyne . . . an emollient
   5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

8. I will meet him when he _____ .

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

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

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

10. 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

11. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

    1. decent
    2. descent
    3. ascent
    4. jump

12. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

    1. finished
    2. are finish
    3. will finish
    4. have finished

13. _____ 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

14. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

15. The price of food here is _____.

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

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

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

17. 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

18. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

19. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

    1. depreciation
    2. despoliation
    3. obsolescence
    4. casualties

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. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

22. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

    1. would
    2. will
    3. does
    4. had

23. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

24. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

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

25. 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

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