Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. We were _____ by the result.

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

2. He _____ our help.

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

3. We must _____ this accord.

   1. greet
   2. hail
   3. salute
   4. receive

4. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

   1. fragments
   2. attrition
   3. intensity
   4. barbarism

5. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

   1. palatable
   2. peremptory
   3. premeditated
   4. revolutionary

6. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

7. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

   1. has had
   2. have had
   3. will have had
   4. had had

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

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

9. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

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

10. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

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

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

12. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

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

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

14. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked

15. We congratulate him _____.

    1. on his success
    2. for his success
    3. at his success
    4. in his success

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

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

17. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

18. Salma's home looked as though it had been ________ from a rag bin; her expensive burner was her sole ________ of luxury.

    1. clean ... expensive
    2. computerized ... cost
    3. modernized ... symbol
    4. salvaged ... sign

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

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

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

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

21. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

    1. antiques
    2. antiquaries
    3. reliquaries
    4. patricians
    5. histrionics

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

    1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
    2. avidity to . . . congenial
    3. commitment to . . . provocative
    4. inability to . . . liberal
    5. eagerness to . . . regressive

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