Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

   1. unconstrained
   2. voluntary
   3. discretion
   4. gratuitous

2. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

   1. subservient
   2. truculent
   3. pellucid
   4. stringent

3. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

   1. pays
   2. is paying
   3. paid
   4. had paid

4. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

   1. to
   2. with
   3. upon
   4. over
   5. in

5. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

   1. should
   2. would
   3. should have
   4. would have

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

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

7. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

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

8. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

   1. receipt
   2. recipe
   3. formula
   4. technique

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

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

10. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

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

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

12. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

    1. reticent . . . reason
    2. demonstrative . . . provocation
    3. recusant . . . excuse
    4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
    5. emotional . . . antagonism

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

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

14. All the family members will get together on the _____ day of Eid.

    1. suspicious
    2. obvious
    3. auspicious
    4. conspicuous

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

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

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

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

17. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

18. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

    1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
    2. widespread . . . intimidated
    3. immaterial . . . incriminated
    4. minor . . . untroubled
    5. evanescent . . . undeterred

19. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

    1. formerly
    2. formally
    3. lastly
    4. old

20. ________ must be distinguished from ________, which is the recognition of different categories of people without the inputing of any differences in rank.

    1. Totalitarianism . . . brotherhood
    2. Modification . . . ossification
    3. Classification . . . ramification
    4. Stratification . . . differentiation
    5. Finitude . . . infinitude

21. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

    1. annihilated
    2. destroyed
    3. repeated
    4. finished

22. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

23. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

24. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

    1. strong
    2. lusty
    3. vigorous
    4. powerful

25. The primary ________ of the region’s cuisine, such as beans, legumes, and pasta, provide high levels of complex carbohydrates and often ________ meat as the primary source of protein in the diet.

    1. requirements . . . supplement
    2. components . . . replace
    3. fads . . . subjoin
    4. facet . . . duplicate
    5. ingredients . . . indemnify

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