Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

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

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

3. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

   1. lavish
   2. prodigal
   3. reckless
   4. unthrifty

4. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

   1. handed down
   2. handed for
   3. handed in
   4. handed over

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

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

6. Heavy snows in the passes of the Pyrenees have seriously ________ rescuers trying to reach travelers surprised by the spring blizzards.

   1. excluded
   2. expedited
   3. rappelled
   4. assisted
   5. hampered

7. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

8. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

9. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

   1. rampant . . . motive
   2. auspicious . . . occasion
   3. censorious . . . disinclination
   4. negative . . . incentive
   5. unassailed . . . reason

10. I will meet him when he _____ .

    1. will come
    2. had come
    3. would have come
    4. comes

11. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

    1. would see
    2. will have seen
    3. would have seen
    4. will see

12. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

    1. prosperity
    2. cowardice
    3. miser
    4. happiness

13. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

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

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

15. We will do out work _____.

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

16. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

    1. capitulated
    2. desecrated
    3. minimized
    4. harassed

17. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

    1. more quickly
    2. more quick
    3. quickly
    4. as quickly more

18. 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

19. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

    1. reappeared
    2. eliminated
    3. returned
    4. regenerated
    5. exhumed

20. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

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

21. Your conduct is most _____.

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

22. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

23. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

24. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

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

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

Answers

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