Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

6. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

   1. shortage
   2. deficiency
   3. poverty
   4. want

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

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

8. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

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

9. He _____ get up early.

   1. used
   2. used to
   3. is used to
   4. was used to be

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

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

11. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

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

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

13. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

14. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

    1. argue
    2. predict
    3. discuss
    4. influence

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

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

16. You _____ care of your health.

    1. had better to take
    2. had better take
    3. had better taken
    4. had taken better

17. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

18. A seventeen-year-old is not _____ to vote in an election.

    1. old enough
    2. as old enough
    3. enough old
    4. enough old as

19. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

    1. forays . . . consciousness
    2. escapes . . . miasma
    3. appearances . . . discourse
    4. eclipses . . . scene
    5. invasions . . . liturgy

20. The ____ of the rocket was so swift that it was out of sight in a few seconds.

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

21. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

    1. outstanding
    2. dubious
    3. impressive
    4. remarkable

22. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

    1. prosperity
    2. cowardice
    3. miser
    4. happiness

23. 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

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

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

25. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

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