Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Practice Set

    1. Directions:

      For each blank, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

    2. All Jon cared about was getting an A, so because the team project did not count toward his grade in the course, he felt the work and did not do his share.

      1. apathy toward
      2. zeal for
      3. loathing for
      4. cheerful about
      5. antagonism toward

    3. To her friends’ (i) , because she had never expressed an interest in travel, Lovia decided to teach English in Thailand, (ii) in that country for a year.

      1. delight
      2. astonishment
      3. dismay
      1. sojourning
      2. retiring
      3. persevering

    4. The citizens met with their senator to express (i) , arguing that if tax rates (ii) any further, taxes would become (iii) , allowing hard-working individuals to keep little of their well-earned income.

      1. euphoria
      2. composure
      3. apprehension
      1. economized
      2. escalated
      3. elaborated
      1. congruent
      2. confiscatory
      3. consummate

    1. Directions:

      Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

    2. Our manager holds as a that an employee with a messy desk is irredeemably lazy, and she therefore demands that all members of her staff keep their work areas meticulously organized.

      1. whim
      2. dogma
      3. hypothesis
      4. fancy
      5. tenet
      6. polity

    3. Elena liked Joe a great deal, but she soon tired of his friends, pseudointellectuals who propounded inane theories based on interpretations of neo-Marxism and existentialism.

      1. spurious
      2. terse
      3. fallacious
      4. succinct
      5. bellicose
      6. blithe

    4. Despite the many pleasures of staying in a hotel, such as a hot shower and clean sheets, many people such comforts in favor of cold water from a nearby stream and a sleeping bag in order to savor a revitalizing proximity to nature.

      1. extol
      2. deprecate
      3. renounce
      4. spurn
      5. discountenance
      6. eulogize