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Section 41<br />

Practice Test Three 247<br />

SECTION 4<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 />

(E) enormous<br />

©©©®•<br />

1. Mr. Chandler's ostentatious tastes were clearly<br />

displayed when he was made president of <strong>the</strong><br />

company, as <strong>the</strong> promotion caused him to - -----­<br />

his new ------- with even more vigor.<br />

(A) endure . . hardship<br />

(B) flaunt . . prosperity<br />

(C) undermine . . image<br />

(D) calculate . . successes<br />

(E) moderate . . consumption<br />

3. Although Edward once ------- <strong>the</strong> intense publicity<br />

his more famous colleagues received, he came to<br />

appreciate his ------- and relative anonymity.<br />

4.<br />

(A) envied . . privacy<br />

(B) celebrated . . popularity<br />

(C) imitated . . privilege<br />

(D) regretted . . isolation<br />

(E) refused . . generosity<br />

Mrs. Smith was ------- by her son's insolence,<br />

feeling exasperated by his refusal to behave.<br />

(A) fascinated<br />

(B) galled<br />

(C) uplifted<br />

(D) soo<strong>the</strong>d<br />

(E) disoriented<br />

5. The newly found eyewitness filled in many of <strong>the</strong><br />

gaps in <strong>the</strong> case, providing certainty where be<strong>for</strong>e<br />

<strong>the</strong>re had been a ------- of evidence.<br />

(A) spate<br />

(B) rev1s10n<br />

(C) dearth<br />

(D) dispersal<br />

(E) consensus<br />

2. Maria found it easy to ------- her meager winnings<br />

in <strong>the</strong> lottery, as her ticket was worth next to<br />

nothing.<br />

(A) digest<br />

(B) extol<br />

(C) impugn<br />

(D) <strong>for</strong>go<br />

(E) relish<br />

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