Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

2. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

3. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

4. You _____ care of your health.

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

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

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

6. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

   1. subdued . . . hostile
   2. vehement . . . acrimonious
   3. reticent . . . cliché
   4. affable . . . adverse
   5. emotional . . . adroit

7. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

   1. soaked
   2. drenched
   3. damped
   4. moistened

8. 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

9. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

   1. philosophy
   2. conviction
   3. device
   4. tendency

10. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

    1. mix
    2. blend
    3. unite
    4. compound

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

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

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

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

13. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

    1. shortage
    2. deficiency
    3. poverty
    4. want

14. 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

15. 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

16. the child ________ crying for three hours.

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

17. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

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

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

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

19. 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

20. He is _____ for promotion.

    1. illegible
    2. legible
    3. eligible
    4. ineligible

21. Everyone in this universe is accountable to God _____ his actions.

    1. of
    2. against
    3. for
    4. about

22. 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

23. He could not _____ the incident from his memory.

    1. emboss
    2. paramount
    3. exculpate
    4. expunge

24. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

25. We were _____ by the result.

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

Answers

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