Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. I will meet him when he _____ .

   1. will come
   2. had come
   3. would have come
   4. comes

2. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

   1. imminent
   2. eminent
   3. immanent
   4. permanent

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

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

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

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

5. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

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

6. The _____ arguments put forth for not disclosing the facts did not impress anybody.

   1. specious
   2. intemperate
   3. spurious
   4. convincing

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

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

8. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

   1. than
   2. to
   3. from
   4. of

9. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

   1. worked
   2. were working
   3. had worked
   4. are working

10. I insisted ________ my fee paid.

    1. to have
    2. on having
    3. to having
    4. in having
    5. with having

11. the child ________ crying for three hours.

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

12. The sea at that time was perfectly _____.

    1. harmonious
    2. concordant
    3. calm
    4. in agreement

13. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

14. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

15. I _____ him for a long time.

    1. am not met
    2. did not meet
    3. do not meet
    4. have not met

16. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

17. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

18. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

    1. be
    2. is leaving
    3. must
    4. would be

19. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

    1. large amount
    2. large number
    3. little amount
    4. big amount

20. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

21. The jury _____ him of murder.

    1. discharged
    2. acquitted
    3. absolved
    4. finished

22. 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

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

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

24. The price of food here is _____.

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

25. 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

Answers

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