Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. The success of the English-Spanish simulcast must be ________ to Margo Quiroz, who interprets 40 different news items in each nightly newscast.

   1. attested
   2. censured
   3. interpreted
   4. transliterated
   5. attributed

2. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

   1. showing
   2. show
   3. showed
   4. to show

3. He _____ our help.

   1. resents
   2. recants
   3. remove
   4. resign

4. A _____ of the medal was put on show at the museum.

   1. fable
   2. facsimile
   3. allegory
   4. cosmos

5. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

   1. felicitous . . . following
   2. grotesque . . . vacuity
   3. elegant . . . repertoire
   4. graceful . . . audience
   5. ungainly . . . readership

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

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

7. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

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

8. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

   1. an indication . . . soared
   2. a gauge . . . refined
   3. a signatory . . . fallen
   4. a refutation . . . descended
   5. a barometer . . . plummeted

9. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

   1. intelligent
   2. on
   3. at
   4. within

10. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

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

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

12. I am intent ________.

    1. to win
    2. of winning
    3. on winning
    4. for winning

13. Unless the prevailing ________ attitude toward genetically altered food is changed, the biotech industry will have little ________ to pursue research and development.

    1. rampant . . . motive
    2. auspicious . . . occasion
    3. censorious . . . disinclination
    4. negative . . . incentive
    5. unassailed . . . reason

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

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

15. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

16. 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

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

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

18. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

19. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

    1. subdued . . . hostile
    2. vehement . . . acrimonious
    3. reticent . . . cliché
    4. affable . . . adverse
    5. emotional . . . adroit

20. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. When he _____ his hair cut, he went to the cinema.

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

25. We will do out work _____.

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

Answers

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