Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. We ________ friends since we were children.

   1. had been
   2. have been
   3. are
   4. were

2. 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

3. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

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

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

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

5. I do not have any _____.

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

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

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

7. He _____ get up early.

   1. used
   2. used to
   3. is used to
   4. was used to be

8. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

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

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

10. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

    1. acute
    2. ominous
    3. unusual
    4. insipid

11. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

    1. felicitous . . . following
    2. grotesque . . . vacuity
    3. elegant . . . repertoire
    4. graceful . . . audience
    5. ungainly . . . readership

12. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

13. His argument is quite _____.

    1. sickly
    2. unconvincing
    3. fragile
    4. infirm

14. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

    1. was
    2. were
    3. have been
    4. are

15. 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

16. You _____ care of your health.

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

17. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

18. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so ________ that she washes paper plates to be used again.

    1. affluent
    2. parsimonious
    3. indigent
    4. impoverished
    5. selfish

19. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

20. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

21. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

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

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

23. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

    1. hatch
    2. produce
    3. breed
    4. conceive

24. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

25. Because of his _____ personality he is always very difficult to handle.

    1. voluble
    2. volatile
    3. voluptuous
    4. expensive

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