Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. That new law went into _____ last month.

   1. affect
   2. effect
   3. action
   4. selection

2. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

   1. outstanding
   2. dubious
   3. impressive
   4. remarkable

3. He's been elected _____?

   1. hasn't he
   2. didn't he
   3. isn't he
   4. doesn't he

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

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

5. 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

6. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

   1. unconstrained
   2. voluntary
   3. discretion
   4. gratuitous

7. Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense "speed" is not always _____ "velocity".

   1. alike
   2. the same as
   3. similar
   4. as

8. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

   1. continually
   2. continuously
   3. continually
   4. persistently

9. The price of food here is _____.

   1. askance
   2. exorbitant
   3. outlandish
   4. usury

10. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

11. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

12. You _____ care of your health.

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

13. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

14. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

15. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement

16. We were _____ by the result.

    1. surprise
    2. surprised
    3. surprising
    4. to surprise of

17. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

    1. bright
    2. vivid
    3. glaring
    4. telling

18. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

19. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

    1. pays
    2. is paying
    3. paid
    4. had paid

20. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

    1. showing
    2. show
    3. showed
    4. to show

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

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

22. Your conduct is most _____.

    1. reprobate
    2. recidivist
    3. reprehensible
    4. regurgitate

23. Though Aslam is poor, _____ he is honest.

    1. but
    2. nevertheless
    3. yet
    4. still

24. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

25. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

    1. humane
    2. crucial
    3. reciprocal
    4. brutal

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