Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. 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

3. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

   1. oxymoron
   2. paradox
   3. metaphor
   4. antithesis

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

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

5. He was quite able _____ after himself.

   1. to looking
   2. for looking
   3. to look
   4. of looking

6. 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

7. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

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

8. It is _____ to steal.

   1. sinful
   2. corrupt
   3. immoral
   4. wicked

9. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

   1. accident
   2. rhythmic
   3. leisurely
   4. perpetual

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

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

11. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

    1. attested
    2. censured
    3. interpreted
    4. transliterated
    5. attributed

12. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

13. You _____ care of your health.

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

14. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

    1. intelligent
    2. judicial
    3. sensible
    4. discreetly

15. 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

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

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

17. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

    1. imminent
    2. eminent
    3. immanent
    4. permanent

18. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

19. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

    1. ally
    2. allay
    3. rid
    4. palliate

20. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

21. 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

22. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

    1. would see
    2. will have seen
    3. would have seen
    4. will see

23. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly

24. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

25. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

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