Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. You _____ care of your health.

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

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

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

4. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

   1. out
   2. off
   3. away
   4. over

5. We were _____ by the result.

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

6. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

   1. harmonious
   2. concordant
   3. calm
   4. in agreement

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

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

8. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

   1. finished
   2. are finish
   3. will finish
   4. have finished

9. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

   1. attested
   2. censured
   3. interpreted
   4. transliterated
   5. attributed

10. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

11. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

    1. faltering
    2. flexible
    3. unsteady
    4. wavering

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

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

13. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

    1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
    2. widespread . . . intimidated
    3. immaterial . . . incriminated
    4. minor . . . untroubled
    5. evanescent . . . undeterred

14. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

    1. indifferent . . . evasion
    2. reluctant . . . compromise
    3. hostile . . . interference
    4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
    5. averse . . . expectation

15. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

    1. controversial
    2. circumnutating
    3. abnormal
    4. irrelevant

16. Thermometer is a _____ to measure one's temperature.

    1. philosophy
    2. conviction
    3. device
    4. tendency

17. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

    1. to
    2. with
    3. upon
    4. over
    5. in

18. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

    1. charity
    2. enmity
    3. amiability
    4. pathology
    5. austerity

19. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

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

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

21. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

    1. trailed . . . captured
    2. defeated . . . recaptured
    3. out-polled . . . garnered
    4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
    5. evaded . . . achieved

22. I am intent ________.

    1. to win
    2. of winning
    3. on winning
    4. for winning

23. We have _____ trust in you.

    1. perfect
    2. entire
    3. imperative
    4. absolute

24. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

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

25. It became _____ that he was going to die.

    1. visible
    2. distinct
    3. apparent
    4. manifest

Answers

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