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Sentence Completion Test

33. Since you have failed three of the last four tests, you 40. Americans do not feel that ________ obedience and
cannot afford to be ________ about passing for the implicit submission to the will of another is necessary
term. in order to maintain a good government.
(A) courteous (A) titular
(B) relevant (B) blind
( C) sanguine ( C) partial
(D) passive (D) verbal
(E) indolent (E) stark

34. You are afraid to attack him directly, you, therefore, are 41. Because his occupation required that he work at night
resorting to ________ and sleep during the day, he had an exceptionally
(A) guile ________ complexion.
(B) effrontery (A) ghastly
( C) criticism (B) ruddy
(D) innuendo ( C) livid
(E) condemnation (D) plain
(E) pallid
35. His ________ remarks are often embarrassing because
of their frankness. 42. It is almost impossible at times to capture the
(A) sacrifice ________ of words when we translate them into a
(B) sadistic foreign language.
( C) frank (A) implications
(D) urbane (B) meanings
(E) ingenuous ( C) denotations
(D) connotations
36. The pioneers’ greatest asset was not their material (E) essence
wealth but their ________
(A) fortitude 43. As ________ head of the organisation, he attended
(B) simplicity social functions and civic meetings but had no
( C) largesse ________ in the formulation of company policy.
(D) companions (A) titular - voice
(E) possessions (B) complete - vote
( C) titular - pride
37. Your ________ tactics may compel me to cancel the (D) real - competition
contract because the job must be finished on time.
(A) dilatory (E) actual - superior
(B) offensive
( C) obstructive 44. Unlike the Shakespearean plays, the “closet dramas”
(D) infamous of the nineteenth century were meant to be ________
(E) confiscatory rather than ________
(A) seen - acted
38. Some students are ________ and want to take only the (B) read - acted
courses for which they see immediate value. ( C) quiet - loud
(A) theoretical (D) sophisticated - urbane
(B) stupid (E) produced - acted
( C) pragmatic
(D) foolish 45. The collapse of the financial empire set up by the
(E) opinionated small group was more than a ________; it affected
millions of small ________
39. Because I find that hot summer weather ________ me (A) threat - men
and leaves me very tired, I ry to leave the city every (B) vision - spectators
August and go to Maine. ( C) debacle - investors
(A) irritates (D) disaster - homeowners
(B) bores
( C) enervates (E) calamity - prospectors
(D) boils
(E) disturbs

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