Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

   1. has
   2. have
   3. were
   4. are

2. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

   1. faltering
   2. flexible
   3. unsteady
   4. wavering

3. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

4. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

   1. prolong
   2. traverse
   3. go before
   4. repel

5. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

6. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

   1. left
   2. is leaving
   3. had left
   4. will leave

7. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

   1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
   2. congenial . . . a danger
   3. galling . . . a panacea
   4. anodyne . . . an emollient
   5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

8. Rather than ________ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ________ the problems, and the traffic jams are worse than ever.

   1. minimize . . . extenuated
   2. extol . . . compounded
   3. abate . . . decimated
   4. alleviate . . . aggravated
   5. emend . . . increased

9. Time alone will ____ those unpleasant memories.

   1. efface
   2. deface
   3. erase
   4. wipe away

10. 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

11. 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

12. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

13. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

14. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

    1. recipe
    2. receipt
    3. slip
    4. letter

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

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

16. 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

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

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

18. 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

19. The general public _____ a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to decrease.

    1. must buy
    2. must have bought
    3. must be buying
    4. must buying

20. 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

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

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

Answers

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