Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

   1. trailed . . . captured
   2. defeated . . . recaptured
   3. out-polled . . . garnered
   4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
   5. evaded . . . achieved

3. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

4. His argument is quite _____.

   1. sickly
   2. unconvincing
   3. fragile
   4. infirm

5. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

   1. withered
   2. delivered
   3. gathered
   4. scattered

6. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

7. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

8. _____ is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

   1. it is calcium
   2. that calcium
   3. calcium
   4. although calcium

9. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

   1. feeble
   2. an octogenarian
   3. forgetful
   4. senile

10. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

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

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

12. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

    1. minatory
    2. exclamatory
    3. enigmatic
    4. surreptitious
    5. ameliorative

13. 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

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

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

15. I will meet him when he _____ .

    1. will come
    2. had come
    3. would have come
    4. comes

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

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

17. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

    1. since
    2. before
    3. for
    4. from

18. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

    1. pertinent
    2. prolix
    3. prolonged
    4. acrimonious

19. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

    1. used to
    2. was used to
    3. used
    4. was used to be

20. It became _____ that he was going to die.

    1. visible
    2. distinct
    3. apparent
    4. manifest

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

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

22. The ________ of Darwin’s theory of evolution on Victorian religion was to create a bitter ________ of ideas and beliefs.

    1. result . . . moderation
    2. effect . . . conflict
    3. extension . . . growth
    4. origin . . . compromise
    5. influence . . . solidarity

23. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

24. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

25. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

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

Answers

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