Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

   1. shortage
   2. deficiency
   3. poverty
   4. want

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

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

3. We will do out work _____.

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

4. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

5. 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

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

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

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

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

8. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

   1. indifferent . . . evasion
   2. reluctant . . . compromise
   3. hostile . . . interference
   4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
   5. averse . . . expectation

9. 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

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. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

    1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
    2. avidity to . . . congenial
    3. commitment to . . . provocative
    4. inability to . . . liberal
    5. eagerness to . . . regressive

13. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

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

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

15. 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

16. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

17. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

18. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

19. 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

20. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

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

21. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

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

22. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

23. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

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

24. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

25. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

    1. hatch
    2. produce
    3. breed
    4. conceive

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