Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

   1. salutary . . . intimidate
   2. cautionary . . . mute
   3. pernicious . . . silence
   4. unexceptional . . . abstract
   5. perilous . . . augment

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

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

3. You _____ care of your health.

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

4. The chair is in the garden, please _____ it.

   1. bring
   2. fetch
   3. carry
   4. transport

5. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

   1. assent
   2. ascent
   3. descent
   4. jump

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. We can not _____ any of out territory.

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

10. 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

11. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

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

12. My land is _____ to your Land.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

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

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

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

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

15. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

16. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

    1. with
    2. from
    3. to
    4. for

17. 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

18. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

19. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

    1. could
    2. can
    3. would
    4. will

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

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

21. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

22. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

23. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

24. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

25. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

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