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Section 3<br />

Practice Test Four<br />

SECTION 3<br />

Time-25 Minutes<br />

25 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. His discom<strong>for</strong>t was -------, coming and going<br />

regularly throughout <strong>the</strong> day.<br />

2.<br />

(A) unmediated<br />

(B) spontaneous<br />

(C) periodic<br />

(D) incidental<br />

(E) endemic<br />

Despite being in <strong>the</strong> midst of angry and noisy -------,<br />

Lucinda felt surprisingly -------.<br />

(A) discord . . tranquil<br />

(B) pomp . . daunting<br />

(C) banality . . conventional<br />

(D) turmoil . . controversial<br />

(E) serenity . . opportune<br />

3. The hospital's inept administration was so ------­<br />

that <strong>the</strong> doctors working <strong>the</strong>re considered <strong>the</strong><br />

facility a -------, debasing <strong>the</strong> entire medical<br />

profession.<br />

4.<br />

(A) apa<strong>the</strong>tic . . victory<br />

(B) exacting . . spectacle<br />

(C) astute . . debacle<br />

(D) negligent . . travesty<br />

(E) surreptitious . . triumph<br />

The new reflecting pool was -------, dazzling<br />

onlookers with its ------- in <strong>the</strong> bright sunlight.<br />

(A) unassuming . . audaciousness<br />

(B) capricious . . innocuousness<br />

( C) tawdry . . precociousness<br />

(D) vivacious . . insipidness<br />

(E) resplendent . . incandescence<br />

5. The composition's ------- was impossible to miss,<br />

as <strong>the</strong> series of rhythmic drum beats dominated <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r sounds.<br />

(A) cadence<br />

(B) speciousness<br />

(C) convolution<br />

(D) adulation<br />

(E) passion<br />

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