Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

   1. would
   2. will
   3. does
   4. had

2. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

   1. prodigy
   2. prodigal
   3. primeval
   4. profligate

3. 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

4. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

   1. only how
   2. with
   3. at
   4. upon

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

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

6. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

   1. shortage
   2. deficiency
   3. poverty
   4. want

7. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

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

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

9. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

   1. had hardly taken
   2. hardly took
   3. hardly taken
   4. taken hardly

10. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

11. 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

12. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

    1. had
    2. have
    3. had had
    4. have had

13. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

14. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

15. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

    1. intelligent
    2. judicial
    3. sensible
    4. discreetly

16. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

    1. adopt
    2. adept
    3. adapt
    4. convert

17. 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

18. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

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

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

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

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

21. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

    1. worked
    2. were working
    3. had worked
    4. are working

22. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

    1. salutary . . . intimidate
    2. cautionary . . . mute
    3. pernicious . . . silence
    4. unexceptional . . . abstract
    5. perilous . . . augment

23. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

24. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

25. We were _____ by the result.

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

Answers

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