ISEE Verbal: Sentence Completion Practice Test 8

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1. You will have to speak to the head of the department; I am not ____ to give out that information.

  • A. willing
  • B. authorized
  • C. programmed
  • D. happy

2. Research in that field has become so ____ that researchers on different aspects of the same problem may be ____ each other's work.

  • A. secure ... bombarded with
  • B. partial ... surprised at
  • C. departmental ... inimical to
  • D. specialized ... unfamiliar with

3. She ____ the way things were done, but many of the ____ for which she broke ground were left to be fully realized by others.

  • A. disliked ... provocations
  • B. eliminated ... foundations
  • C. implemented ... buildings
  • D. revolutionized ... innovations

4. A change in environment is very likely to ____ a change in one's work habits.

  • A. affect
  • B. inflict
  • C. propose
  • D. effect

5. A shift to greater use of ____ or inexhaustible resources in the production of power would slow the depletion of ____ fuel materials.

  • A. synthetic ... regional
  • B. natural ... chemical
  • C. renewable ... irreplaceable
  • D. unknown ... fossil

6. A ____ is likely to give you ____ advice.

  • A. fool ... useful
  • B. doctor ... lethal
  • C. friend ... harmful
  • D. charlatan ... unreliable

7. An accident report should be written as soon as possible after the necessary ____ has been obtained.

  • A. bystander
  • B. formulation
  • C. information
  • D. permission

8. To protect the respondents' ____, names and social security numbers are ____ the questionnaires before the results are tabulated.

  • A. privilege ... referred to
  • B. privacy ... deleted from
  • C. information ... retained in
  • D. rights ... appended to

9. While fewer documents are being kept, the usefulness of those ____ is now ____ by an improved cataloging system.

  • A. printed ... documented
  • B. discarded ... concurred
  • C. read ... emblazoned
  • D. retained ... insured

10. The man ____ the speaker at the meeting by shouting false accusations.

  • A. corrected
  • B. argued with
  • C. disconcerted
  • D. interfered with

11. For the sake of public ____, public officials should avoid even the ____ of a conflict of interest.

  • A. confidence ... appearance
  • B. relations ... actuality
  • C. appearances ... apparition
  • D. commotion ... hint

12. A professional journalist will attempt to ____ the facts learned in an interview by independent ____.

  • A. endorse ... questions
  • B. query ... situation
  • C. garnish ... sources
  • D. verify ... investigation

13. The ____ of the award stopped by the financial aid office to pick up his check.

  • A. recipient
  • B. subject
  • C. donor
  • D. sponsor

14. He often, out of modesty, ____ his own contribution; without his efforts, ____, the program would still be in the planning stage.

  • A. affirms ... therefore
  • B. represses ... notwithstanding
  • C. belittles ... however
  • D. rescinds ... moreover

15. The committee was so ____ about the legitimate sources of the students' unrest that its recommendations were ____ value.

  • A. incensed ... of moderate
  • B. uninformed ... devoid of
  • C. uninterested ... depreciating in
  • D. blasé ... of incontestable