Sentence Completion Practice Test 2
Q.1
Although is seems to have been a fixture of the square since the city’s origin, the produce market actually opened only _______.
- A. enthusiastically
- B. recently
- C. frequently
- D. illegally
- E. graciously
- Answer: B
Q.2
The grave problems that afficted him were the purely _______ ones of hunger, pain and fatigue.
- A. physical
- B. imaginary
- C. irrelevant
- D. hereditary
- E. coincidental
- Answer: A
Q.3
Her ability to analyze issues fairly and competently has earned her the _______ of even her most _______ peers.
- A. solicitation.. unbiased
- B. attention.. sympathetic
- C. suspicion.. discerning
- D. reputation.. knowledgeable
- E. respect.. exacting
- Answer: E
Q.4
Until the mid- 1800’s, the occasional reports by European explorers of the existence of gorillas were generally disbelieved and swiftly _______ the realm of tall tales.
- A. extracted from
- B. confused with
- C. relegated to
- D. compared to
- E. exalted to
- Answer: C
Q.5
The historian’s assertion that there is a _______ of verifiable information about nineteenth-century Native Americans is _______, for there exist many transcripts of authentic oral accounts of their activities.
- A. wealth.. fallacious
- B. shortage.. legitimate
- C. depletion.. irrefutable
- D. paucity.. erroneous
- E. surfeit.. implausible
- Answer: D
Q.6
This book has neither merit nor distinction, and it all but _______ whatever prestige the author may once have had.
- A. challenges
- B. maximizes
- C. epitomizes
- D. nullifies
- E. encompasses
- Answer: D
Q.7
Far from exercising a counter influence to intellectual orthodoxy, the movement itself has become a center of _______.
- A. conformity
- B. notoriety
- C. enmity
- D. theology
- E. idealism
- Answer: A
Q.8
People, being prisoners of _______, have made failing a basic metaphor for failure, from the fall of the stock market to the fall of government.
- A. politics
- B. gravity
- C. greed
- D. turbulence
- E. emotion
- Answer: B
Q.9
The movie avoids many of the _______ of the novel, bringing into sharper focus characters who originally were amiable or disagreeable _______.
- A. subtleties.. monsters
- B. excellencies.. stereotypes
- C. allusions.. individuals
- D. particulars.. nonentities
- E. shortcomings.. blur
- Answer: E
Q.10
Even the most insulated and _______ government has to be concerned today about the popular mind; some systems may be less _______ than others, but at some point all must pay attention.
- A. parochial.. vociferous
- B. corrupt.. theoretical
- C. arbitrary.. sensitive
- D. obscure.. reined
- E. vibrant.. responsive
- Answer: C
Q.11
Explanations given to the patient by the anesthetist prior to surgery often _______ anxiety and _______ the need for analgesics.
- A. intensify.. counteract
- B. parallel.. assume
- C. explore.. prepare
- D. relieve.. reduce
- E. ignore.. preclude
- Answer: D
Q.12
The jellyfish’s show pulsing action people it in a graceful, seemingly _______ drift, but its tentacles contain poison potent enough to stun a swimming human.
- A. sinister
- B. rhythmic
- C. murky
- D. harmless
- E. patient
- Answer: D
Q.13
The production’s slight romantic appeal depends on its two stars, who are _______ to watch oven when they are delivering _______ speeches.
- A. overbearing.. innocent
- B. farcical.. complex
- C. attractive.. creative
- D. impossible.. dull
- E. pleasant.. empty
- Answer: E
Q.14
The murderous capriciousness of Nero infused the Roman Empire with such pervasive _______ that not even the most _______ citizens felt safe.
- A. distaste.. vulgar
- B. paranoia.. suspicious
- C. enthusiasm.. apathetic
- D. unease.. oppressed
- E. panic.. distinguished
- Answer: E
Q.15
His inclination to succumb to flattery made him _______ to the _______ of people who wished to take advantage of him.
- A. immune.. predilection
- B. prejudicial.. intentions
- C. susceptible.. cajolery
- D. resistant.. blandishments
- E. amenable.. rejection
- Answer: C