Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

   1. makes
   2. has made
   3. had made
   4. is making

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

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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Failing the exam was a _____ disappointment to him.

   1. sour
   2. tart
   3. bitter
   4. acrid

9. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

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

10. You _____ care of your health.

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

11. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

12. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

    1. control . . . bankrupt
    2. monopolize . . . lucrative
    3. annul . . . profitable
    4. corner . . . factitious
    5. divest . . . remunerative

13. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

    1. illusion
    2. allusion
    3. delusion
    4. conclusion

14. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

    1. accident
    2. rhythmic
    3. leisurely
    4. perpetual

15. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

16. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

17. 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

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

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

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

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

20. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

    1. has
    2. have
    3. were
    4. are

21. 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

22. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

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

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

24. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

    1. boost
    2. hoist
    3. lift
    4. aid

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

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

Answers

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