Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

   1. adulatory
   2. avid
   3. rhetorical
   4. redundant

2. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

   1. enough food
   2. food as enough
   3. food enough
   4. enough the food

3. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

   1. beautician
   2. writer
   3. artistic
   4. artisan

4. He _____ get up early.

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

5. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

   1. legal
   2. restrictive
   3. encompassing
   4. specific
   5. ecological

6. We can not _____ any of out territory.

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

7. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

   1. device . . . reverberation
   2. holocaust . . . specter
   3. danger . . . spectacle
   4. liaison . . . probability
   5. explosion . . . calamity

8. We will do out work _____.

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

9. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

   1. will confirm
   2. confirm
   3. confirms
   4. must confirm

10. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

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

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

12. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

    1. turbid
    2. turgid
    3. torpid
    4. turbulent

13. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

    1. controversial
    2. circumnutating
    3. abnormal
    4. irrelevant

14. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

    1. overt
    2. sporadic
    3. furtive
    4. fury

15. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

    1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
    2. exiguous . . . vigorous
    3. avuncular . . . shrewd
    4. inept . . . dauntless
    5. incompetent . . . flaccid

16. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

18. 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

19. By the twenty-first century, the computer _____a necessity in every home.

    1. became
    2. becoming
    3. has become
    4. will have become

20. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

21. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

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

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

23. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

    1. amiable
    2. amicable
    3. likeable
    4. desirable

24. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

25. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

    1. reticent . . . reason
    2. demonstrative . . . provocation
    3. recusant . . . excuse
    4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
    5. emotional . . . antagonism

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