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Practice Set 1: Sentence Completions

Read through the items and choose the order in which to attempt them. When you’re done, compare your decision-making process with ours.

1.	Drinking one alcoholic drink per day is strongly ___ by many doctors for its health benefits.

2.	At first, the stylish boutique was a ___ success, with hundreds of customers jamming its aisles each day; however, after its initially low prices rose, its popularity plummeted.

3.	Lucy often blames her lack of friends on her ___, although she is not particularly introverted.

4.	Rita was obviously ___ about her boyfriend’s behavior: she shredded his picture into tiny pieces.

5.	Nat King Cole was a ___ jazz singer whose voice still echoes on the radio today; interestingly, he always ___ the many cigarettes he smoked each day as his secret to his vocal prowess.

6.	Aspirin has recently been lauded as a ___; many experts believe that it can ___ all sorts of illness.

7.	A job in which one is paid solely on commissions can often be ___ because income is never guaranteed.

8.	Lorna always thought that raising one child would be ___ because her own mother had raised six children with seemingly no exertion; however, she told me that it is the most ___ task she has ever attempted.

9.	Carlos always chooses the most ___ Halloween costume each year, always sporting severed limbs, fake blood, or other ___ accessories.

10.	Although the speaker’s ideas were not ___, he could not seem to organize them and was described by many listeners as ___.

	(A)	intriguing . . . discombobulated
	(B)	vapid . . . muddled
	(C)	pedantic . . . loquacious
	(D)	base . . . glib
	(E)	spirited . . . voluble

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