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Section 6<br />

Practice Test Four<br />

5. Rosalind Franklin used <strong>the</strong> technique of X-ray<br />

crystallography to elucidate <strong>the</strong> microscopic<br />

structure of DNA by mapping <strong>the</strong> basic helical<br />

structure of <strong>the</strong> ------- molecules.<br />

(A) comprehensive<br />

(B) fallacious<br />

( C) insuperable<br />

(D) parochial<br />

(E) infinitesimal<br />

6. Anthropologists, psychologists, and dream workers<br />

have found common <strong>the</strong>mes in dreams that have<br />

come to be known as ------- dreams as <strong>the</strong>y ------­<br />

all generations and cultures.<br />

(A) provincial . . expand<br />

(B) universal . . transcend<br />

(C) personal . . deride<br />

(D) worldwide . . attain<br />

(E) intuitive . . describe<br />

7. The ------- decision made by a panicked hunter<br />

lost in scrubland to start a small fire to signal <strong>for</strong><br />

help led to an inferno that engulfed miles of San<br />

Diego County, leaving behind nothing but <strong>the</strong><br />

skeletal remains of bushes and trees scattered on<br />

barren, ------- hills.<br />

(A) conscientious . . despoiled<br />

(B) incompetent . . sustained<br />

(C) shrewd . . debilitated<br />

(D) innovative . . fertilized<br />

(E) imprudent . . denuded<br />

8. The soothing flow of <strong>the</strong> orator's words became<br />

progressively more steady and rhythmic; such ------­<br />

speaking was very mesmerizing.<br />

(A) cadent<br />

(B) specious<br />

(C) convoluted<br />

(D) adulatory<br />

(E) impassioned<br />

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