Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

   1. prolong
   2. traverse
   3. go before
   4. repel

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

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

3. The general public _____ a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to decrease.

   1. must buy
   2. must have bought
   3. must be buying
   4. must buying

4. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

   1. protects
   2. warms
   3. reflects
   4. absorbs

5. The government was _____ of incompetence.

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

6. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

   1. plague
   2. series
   3. plethora
   4. dearth

7. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

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

8. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

9. _____ 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

10. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

    1. out
    2. away
    3. down
    4. off

11. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

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

12. I am astonished ________ his behavior.

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

13. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

    1. would
    2. will
    3. does
    4. had

14. 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

15. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

    1. acute
    2. ominous
    3. unusual
    4. insipid

16. We should try to avoid one who is brave in words but not in _____.

    1. actions
    2. reaction
    3. job
    4. fighting

17. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

    1. since
    2. before
    3. for
    4. from

18. 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

19. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked

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

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

21. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

22. There was a lot of hustle and _____ in the market.

    1. bustle
    2. stir
    3. flutter
    4. ado

23. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

    1. amiable
    2. amicable
    3. likeable
    4. desirable

24. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

25. 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

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