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Section 61<br />

Practice Test Four 347<br />

SECTION 6<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. The contamination of groundwater by landfill<br />

leachate is a threat to public health not only<br />

because of toxic chemicals that cause disease, but<br />

also because of------- chemicals that cause ------­<br />

physiological and psychological responses.<br />

(A) scurrilous . . elusive<br />

(B) noxious . . adverse<br />

(C) aggressive . . unprecedented<br />

(D) conciliatory . . numbing<br />

(E) studied . . amicable<br />

2. Abraham Lincoln distinguished himself as a<br />

remarkable ------- and was admired most <strong>for</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Gettysburg Address and his two inaugural<br />

speeches.<br />

(A) con<strong>for</strong>mist<br />

(B) moralist<br />

(C) orator<br />

(D) rival<br />

(E) compatriot<br />

3. Through <strong>the</strong> ef<strong>for</strong>ts of twenty heroic, ------­<br />

mushers, a life-saving serum was relayed by dogsled<br />

teams across <strong>the</strong> 67 4 miles of frigid Alaskan<br />

wilderness from Nenana to Nome in 1925 to save a<br />

town stricken with diph<strong>the</strong>ria.<br />

(A) empa<strong>the</strong>tic<br />

(B) indomitable<br />

( C) expeditious<br />

(D) idiosyncratic<br />

(E) astute<br />

4. The judge reduced <strong>the</strong> sentence of those involved<br />

in <strong>the</strong> corporate scandal who chose to be honest<br />

and enter <strong>the</strong> court proceedings with a ------- not<br />

found in most of <strong>the</strong> indicted, who were more ------­<br />

and refused to talk about <strong>the</strong> offense.<br />

(A) serenity . . placid<br />

(B) <strong>for</strong>thrightness . . reserved<br />

(C) fairness . . dilatory<br />

(D) meticulousness . . accessible<br />

(E) peevishness . . irritable<br />

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