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Sentence Completion Test 12

In the following questions sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the best alternative.

1. He supported his arguments with ---------------- quotations.

a) irrelevant
b) apposite
c) opposite
d) adjudged

2. Don’t be under the ------------------ that you can succeed without working hard.

a) allusion
b) belief
c) illusion
d) faith

3. The students were asked to give a/an --------------------- of the whole novel in about 300 words.

a) content
b) abstract
c) extract
d) none of these

4. He ---------------- the bottle to show that there was not a drop left.

a) averted
b) turned
c) inverted
d) emptied

5. The bill was actually passed in a/an ---------------- form because members suggested several amendments.

a) extenuate
b) attenuate
c) mild
d) complete

6. He has great ----------------- for his grand children.

a) affection
b) affectation
c) affinity
d) none of these

7. The government has introduced a project to help -----------------, especially the weavers and ivory makers, find a market for their products.

a) artisans
b) partisans
c) artists
d) technicians

8. Spend wisely so that your expenditure does not ----------------- your income.

a) accede
b) exceed
c) cross
d) outwit

9. She asked him to -------------- his tongue.

a) bridal
b) bridle
c) rein
d) control

10. The hoarders and black marketers deserve ----------------- punishment.

a) corporate
b) corporal
c) competent
d) corpulent

11. His blindness is ----------------

a) congenial
b) conjunctive
c) congenital
d) none of these

12. He was ------------------ by her beauty.

a) captured
b) decapitated
c) captivated
d) connived

13. The visitor was given a -------------------- welcome.

a) ceremonious
b) ceremonial
c) celebrated
d) cold

14. Please convey my ----------------- to your brother.

a) compliments
b) complements
c) feelings
d) emotions

15. I shall tell you something, but keep it ---------------

a) confidence
b) confidential
c) confident
d) public

16. This practice does not ---------------- to the rules laid down by the council.

a) confirm
b) conform
c) support
d) rectify

17. Cancer is not a ---------------- disease.

a) serious
b) contagious
c) contiguous
d) contaminated

18. Several Indians have ---------------- to Australia in the last few years.

a) immigrated
b) emigrated
c) entered
d) visited

19. In my -----------------, a Third World War is very unlikely.

a) calculation
b) estimation
c) belief
d) prospect

20. In this collection, he has made a ------------- selection of light essays as well as thought provoking ones.

a) imprudent
b) judicious
c) judicial
d) legal

21. Tokyo is a --------------- city.

a) popular
b) populous
c) inhabited
d) uninhabited

22. In the olden days people believed that the earth was ---------------

a) stationary
b) stationery
c) moving
d) revolving

23. I am ----------------- about getting their support in this matter.

a) sanguine
b) hopeless
c) pessimistic
d) none of these

24. The robber ----------------- a pistol and threatened the passengers.

a) showed
b) displayed
c) used
d) brandished

25. He was ----------------- of the charge of theft.

a) released
b) acquitted
c) admitted
d) denied

Answers

1. apposite
2. illusion
3. abstract
4. inverted
5. attenuate
6. affection
7. artisans
8. exceed
9. bridle
10. corporal
11. congenital
12. captivated
13. ceremonious
14. compliments
15. confidential
16. conform
17. contagious
18. emigrated
19. estimation
20. judicious
21. populous
22. stationary
23. sanguine
24. brandished
25. acquitted