Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

   1. receipt
   2. recipe
   3. formula
   4. technique

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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

   1. coward
   2. charlatan
   3. poltroon
   4. craven
   5. demigod

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

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

8. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

   1. formerly
   2. formally
   3. lastly
   4. old

9. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

   1. expensive
   2. extensive
   3. spacious
   4. spatial

10. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

11. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

    1. external
    2. perennial
    3. immortal
    4. inexhaustible

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

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

13. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

14. 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

15. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

16. 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

17. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

    1. pessimist
    2. optimist
    3. philanthropist
    4. profiteer

18. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

    1. scheduled
    2. requested
    3. obligated
    4. loaded

19. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

20. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

21. He is _____ for promotion.

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

22. You must _____ after hard work.

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

23. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

    1. unconstrained
    2. voluntary
    3. discretion
    4. gratuitous

24. 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

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

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

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