Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. the child ________ crying for three hours.

   1. is
   2. has
   3. has been
   4. have been

2. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

   1. possible
   2. the possibility
   3. to be possible
   4. possibly

3. 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

4. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

   1. reappeared
   2. eliminated
   3. returned
   4. regenerated
   5. exhumed

5. Unless the environmentalists can draft a more ________ proposal, the courts will disallow their proposition as too vague.

   1. legal
   2. restrictive
   3. encompassing
   4. specific
   5. ecological

6. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

   1. wholly
   2. whole
   3. as whole
   4. a whole as

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

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

8. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

9. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

   1. the exposing
   2. from exposing
   3. from exposure
   4. expose

10. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

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

11. If you wait here, I _____ if the Manager is in.

    1. would see
    2. will have seen
    3. would have seen
    4. will see

12. You must _____ after hard work.

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

13. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

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

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

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

15. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

16. The meager ruins of the castle, which once covered 6 acres of ground, can now be of interest only to ________.

    1. antiques
    2. antiquaries
    3. reliquaries
    4. patricians
    5. histrionics

17. _____ is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

    1. it is calcium
    2. that calcium
    3. calcium
    4. although calcium

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

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

19. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

20. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

    1. decent
    2. descent
    3. ascent
    4. jump

21. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

    1. recipe
    2. receipt
    3. slip
    4. letter

22. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

    1. capitulated
    2. desecrated
    3. minimized
    4. harassed

23. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

    1. childish
    2. childlike
    3. infantile
    4. puerile

24. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

    1. fragments
    2. attrition
    3. intensity
    4. barbarism

25. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

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