Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

   1. as high as
   2. as high to
   3. so high to
   4. so high as

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

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

4. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

   1. reticent . . . reason
   2. demonstrative . . . provocation
   3. recusant . . . excuse
   4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
   5. emotional . . . antagonism

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

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

6. We should try to avoid one who is brave in words but not in _____.

   1. actions
   2. reaction
   3. job
   4. fighting

7. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

8. He _____ our help.

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

9. 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

10. The primary ________ of the region’s cuisine, such as beans, legumes, and pasta, provide high levels of complex carbohydrates and often ________ meat as the primary source of protein in the diet.

    1. requirements . . . supplement
    2. components . . . replace
    3. fads . . . subjoin
    4. facet . . . duplicate
    5. ingredients . . . indemnify

11. We congratulate him _____.

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

12. Your conduct is most _____.

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

13. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

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

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

15. It is _____ that students do not repay their loans.

    1. laudable
    2. unfortunate
    3. unforgivable
    4. regrettable

16. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

    1. external
    2. perennial
    3. immortal
    4. inexhaustible

17. It is important that the office _____ your registration.

    1. will confirm
    2. confirm
    3. confirms
    4. must confirm

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

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

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

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

20. One cannot ________ to be impressed by the structural and ________ differences between the United States as a federal union in 1789 and the United States as a federal union today.

    1. refuse . . . legal
    2. stop . . . attitudinal
    3. begin . . . economic
    4. fail . . . operational
    5. start . . . classical

21. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

    1. pays
    2. is paying
    3. paid
    4. had paid

22. I don't know _____ to value your qualities.

    1. only how
    2. how
    3. so how
    4. that how

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

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

24. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

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

25. 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

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