Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

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

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

3. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

4. Because of his _____ personality he is always very difficult to handle.

   1. voluble
   2. volatile
   3. voluptuous
   4. expensive

5. The book is out of print and difficult to _____.

   1. achieve
   2. procure
   3. acquire
   4. attain

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

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

7. 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

8. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

   1. not only
   2. not
   3. neither
   4. no

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

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

10. Despite his illness, Inzamam was ________ in winning his team.

    1. disappointing
    2. useless
    3. vigorous
    4. instrumental

11. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

12. 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

13. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

    1. control . . . bankrupt
    2. monopolize . . . lucrative
    3. annul . . . profitable
    4. corner . . . factitious
    5. divest . . . remunerative

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

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

15. You must _____ after hard work.

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

16. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

    1. controversial
    2. circumnutating
    3. abnormal
    4. irrelevant

17. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

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

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

19. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

20. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

    1. aquatic
    2. ancient
    3. meretricious
    4. theological
    5. maritime

21. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

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

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

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

23. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

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

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

25. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

    1. charity
    2. enmity
    3. amiability
    4. pathology
    5. austerity

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