Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

   1. subservient
   2. truculent
   3. pellucid
   4. stringent

2. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

3. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

   1. effervescence . . . enlivens
   2. verve . . . deforms
   3. torpor . . . dominates
   4. bravado . . . enervates
   5. sprightliness . . . muffles

4. We will do out work _____.

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

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

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

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

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

7. The reduction of unemployment should be ______ in government's economic policy.

   1. paragon
   2. paramount
   3. paradox
   4. partition

8. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

   1. an indication . . . soared
   2. a gauge . . . refined
   3. a signatory . . . fallen
   4. a refutation . . . descended
   5. a barometer . . . plummeted

9. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

   1. be
   2. is leaving
   3. must
   4. would be

10. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

    1. annihilated
    2. destroyed
    3. repeated
    4. finished

11. I do not have any _____.

    1. confident
    2. confidant
    3. confidential
    4. confederate

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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

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

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

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

17. Like human, animals must have a dentist _____ their teeth.

    1. fill
    2. filled
    3. filling
    4. to be filled

18. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

19. Truman tried to continue Roosevelt’s ________ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 1946, he had adopted a much tougher policy toward the Russians.

    1. cursory
    2. strict
    3. obligatory
    4. uncompromising
    5. conciliatory

20. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

21. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

22. He told me that he was not familiar ________ that subject.

    1. to
    2. on
    3. with
    4. about

23. He is _____ for promotion.

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

24. He _____ our help.

    1. resents
    2. recants
    3. remove
    4. resign

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

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

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