Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. The police arrested him and his one _____.

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

3. 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

4. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

   1. as high as
   2. as high to
   3. so high to
   4. so high as

5. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

   1. protects
   2. warms
   3. reflects
   4. absorbs

6. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

   1. pertinent
   2. prolix
   3. prolonged
   4. acrimonious

7. 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

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

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

9. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

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

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

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

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

12. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

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

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

14. He could not _____ the incident from his memory.

    1. emboss
    2. paramount
    3. exculpate
    4. expunge

15. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

16. Nadim met a _____ accident and died at the spot.

    1. fatal
    2. fateful
    3. crucial
    4. fating

17. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

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

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

19. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

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 will do out work _____.

    1. latter
    2. later
    3. long
    4. after

22. You will feel better when you _____ that tooth out.

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

23. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

24. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

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

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

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