Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

   1. doesn't it
   2. isn't it
   3. hasn't it
   4. didn't it

2. The ____ of the headlights of the car almost blinded me.

   1. shine
   2. glare
   3. dazzle
   4. luminosity

3. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

   1. decent
   2. descent
   3. ascent
   4. jump

4. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

   1. bright
   2. vivid
   3. glaring
   4. telling

5. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

   1. stubborn
   2. capricious
   3. just
   4. humorous

6. He is _____ for promotion.

   1. illegible
   2. legible
   3. eligible
   4. ineligible

7. Napoleon's army was completely _____ in the battle of Waterloo.

   1. annihilated
   2. destroyed
   3. repeated
   4. finished

8. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

   1. subservient
   2. truculent
   3. pellucid
   4. stringent

9. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

   1. an advent
   2. a ukase
   3. an elision
   4. a precursor
   5. a subtext

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

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

11. the child ________ crying for three hours.

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

12. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

    1. and
    2. and in
    3. and also
    4. also

13. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

14. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

    1. an invidious . . . malleable
    2. a malign . . . philanthropic
    3. a ferocious . . . docile
    4. an infamous . . . self-serving
    5. a dissolute . . . venal

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

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

16. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

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

17. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

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

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

19. 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

20. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

21. 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

22. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

    1. relegated . . . combination
    2. replicated . . . melding
    3. decanted . . . concurrence
    4. reproduced . . . disjunction
    5. intimated . . . knell

23. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

24. The general public _____ a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to decrease.

    1. must buy
    2. must have bought
    3. must be buying
    4. must buying

25. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

    1. exported . . . fertile
    2. marketed . . . urban
    3. preempted . . . fluvial
    4. eluded . . . indigenous
    5. cultivated . . . remote

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