Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

   1. was
   2. were
   3. have been
   4. are

2. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

   1. minatory
   2. exclamatory
   3. enigmatic
   4. surreptitious
   5. ameliorative

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

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

4. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

5. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

   1. hatch
   2. produce
   3. breed
   4. conceive

6. 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

7. If I ________ worked hard, I would have passed.

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

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

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

9. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

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

10. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

    1. higher
    2. high
    3. the higher
    4. the high

11. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

    1. coward
    2. foolish
    3. brute
    4. ignorant

12. That new law went into _____ last month.

    1. affect
    2. effect
    3. action
    4. selection

13. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

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

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

15. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

17. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

    1. left
    2. is leaving
    3. had left
    4. will leave

18. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

    1. overt
    2. sporadic
    3. furtive
    4. fury

19. 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

20. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

21. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

22. The company’s ________ produce new, daring, and socially relevant plays has made it the most ________, though not the most popular, theater group in the city.

    1. reluctance to . . . esoteric
    2. avidity to . . . congenial
    3. commitment to . . . provocative
    4. inability to . . . liberal
    5. eagerness to . . . regressive

23. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

    1. device . . . reverberation
    2. holocaust . . . specter
    3. danger . . . spectacle
    4. liaison . . . probability
    5. explosion . . . calamity

24. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

    1. maxims
    2. jurisdictions
    3. benchmarks
    4. affirmations
    5. vortices

25. We _____ go to movies quite frequently.

    1. used to
    2. was used to
    3. used
    4. was used to be

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3