Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Despite his illness, Inzamam was ________ in winning his team.

   1. disappointing
   2. useless
   3. vigorous
   4. instrumental

3. There was a lot of hustle and _____ in the market.

   1. bustle
   2. stir
   3. flutter
   4. ado

4. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

5. 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

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

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

7. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

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

8. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

   1. it be heated
   2. it heated
   3. it is heated
   4. it will be heated

9. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

   1. higher
   2. high
   3. the higher
   4. the high

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

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

11. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

12. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

13. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

    1. reappeared
    2. eliminated
    3. returned
    4. regenerated
    5. exhumed

14. 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

15. We have _____ trust in you.

    1. perfect
    2. entire
    3. imperative
    4. absolute

16. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

17. 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

18. 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

19. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

    1. old enough
    2. as old enough
    3. enough old
    4. enough old as

20. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

21. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

    1. be
    2. is leaving
    3. must
    4. would be

22. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

    1. antiques
    2. antiquaries
    3. reliquaries
    4. patricians
    5. histrionics

23. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

    1. interminable
    2. cabalistic
    3. waggish
    4. vendible
    5. expressive

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

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

25. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

    1. achieve
    2. procure
    3. acquire
    4. attain

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3