Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. You _____ care of your health.

   1. had better to take
   2. had better take
   3. had better taken
   4. had taken better

2. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

3. 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

4. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

   1. as high as
   2. as high to
   3. so high to
   4. so high as

5. We will do out work _____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

   1. felicitous . . . following
   2. grotesque . . . vacuity
   3. elegant . . . repertoire
   4. graceful . . . audience
   5. ungainly . . . readership

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

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

11. I do not have any _____.

    1. confident
    2. confidant
    3. confidential
    4. confederate

12. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

    1. bores
    2. stimulates
    3. entices
    4. enervates

13. 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

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

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

15. 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

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

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

17. Salma's home looked as though it had been ________ from a rag bin; her expensive burner was her sole ________ of luxury.

    1. clean ... expensive
    2. computerized ... cost
    3. modernized ... symbol
    4. salvaged ... sign

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

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

19. The police arrested him and his one _____.

    1. friend
    2. colleague
    3. accomplice
    4. operator

20. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

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

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

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

22. 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

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

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

24. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

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

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

Answers

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