Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

   1. doubt
   2. amity
   3. bitterness
   4. revenge

2. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

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

3. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

   1. turbid
   2. turgid
   3. torpid
   4. turbulent

4. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

   1. bores
   2. stimulates
   3. entices
   4. enervates

5. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

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

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

7. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

   1. be
   2. is leaving
   3. must
   4. would be

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

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

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

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

10. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

11. 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

12. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

    1. argue
    2. predict
    3. discuss
    4. influence

13. 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

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

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

15. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

    1. mix
    2. blend
    3. unite
    4. compound

16. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

    1. suspicious
    2. daring
    3. guilty
    4. culpable

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

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

18. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

    1. riches wealth
    2. person
    3. wealth
    4. work

19. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

    1. continually
    2. continuously
    3. continually
    4. persistently

20. Heavy snows in the passes of the Pyrenees have seriously ________ rescuers trying to reach travelers surprised by the spring blizzards.

    1. excluded
    2. expedited
    3. rappelled
    4. assisted
    5. hampered

21. He was fined Rs. 100 for _____ driving.

    1. lavish
    2. prodigal
    3. reckless
    4. unthrifty

22. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

    1. born
    2. borne
    3. bane
    4. boon

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

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

24. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

25. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat much larger than.

    1. it
    2. itself
    3. its
    4. it has

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