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Section 21<br />

Practice Test Twelve<br />

1017<br />

SECTION 2<br />

Time-25 Minutes<br />

24 Questions<br />

Directions: For each of <strong>the</strong> following questions, choose <strong>the</strong> best answer and darken <strong>the</strong> corresponding oval on<br />

<strong>the</strong> answer sheet.<br />

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each<br />

blank indicating that something has been omitted.<br />

Beneath <strong>the</strong> sentence are five words or sets of words<br />

labeled (A) through (E). Choose <strong>the</strong> word or set of<br />

words that, when inserted in <strong>the</strong> sentence, best fits<br />

<strong>the</strong> meaning of <strong>the</strong> sentence as a whole.<br />

EXAMPLE:<br />

Today's small, portable computers contrast<br />

markedly with <strong>the</strong> earliest electronic computers,<br />

which were -------.<br />

(A) effective<br />

(B) invented<br />

(C) useful<br />

(D) destructive<br />

2. Although <strong>the</strong> class was told by <strong>the</strong>ir math<br />

teacher that <strong>the</strong> exercises in <strong>the</strong> chapter review<br />

were ------- , <strong>the</strong> students knew that some<br />

questions on <strong>the</strong> exam would be <strong>the</strong> same as those<br />

found in <strong>the</strong> review.<br />

(A) pivotal<br />

(B) ritualistic<br />

(C) salient<br />

(D) supplementary<br />

(E) solemn<br />

(E) enormous © ® © ® e (A) abandoned<br />

1. Renowned buildings such as "Fallingwater" and<br />

<strong>the</strong> eminent Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in<br />

New York City ------- Frank Lloyd Wright as one<br />

of <strong>the</strong> most ------- architects of <strong>the</strong> 20th century.<br />

3. The prisoner was ------- even though he presented<br />

evidence clearly proving that he was nowhere near<br />

<strong>the</strong> scene of <strong>the</strong> crime.<br />

(B) indicted<br />

(C) exculpated<br />

(D) exhumed<br />

(E) rescinded<br />

(A) buoyed .. irrelevant<br />

(B) established .. prominent<br />

( C) surrendered .. prolific<br />

(D) decried .. cynical<br />

(E) categorized .. mundane<br />

4. Many towns bordering two countries have a<br />

heterogeneous population and can boast of a<br />

------- of different foods that incorporate a ------­<br />

of various ingredients.<br />

(A) multiplicity . . variety<br />

(B) proliferation . . moderation<br />

( C) ambivalence . . focus<br />

(D) dearth . . depletion<br />

(E) abridgment . . imitation<br />

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