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Section 8<br />

358 Practice Test Four<br />

SECTION 8<br />

Time-20 Minutes<br />

18 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 />

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1. Studies indicate that most people vaccinated <strong>for</strong><br />

smallpox may retain ------- immunity: experts<br />

have shown that protection from <strong>the</strong> vaccine ------­<br />

up to 75 years.<br />

(A) limited . . develops<br />

(B) diverse . . founders<br />

(C) variable . . declines<br />

(D) lengthy . . lasts<br />

(E) sedate . . soars<br />

2. The committee was established to help ------­<br />

undesirable traffic impacts such as air pollution<br />

and congestion by placing priority on <strong>the</strong><br />

development of pedestrian facilities that would<br />

connect neighborhoods.<br />

3.<br />

(A) engage<br />

(B) alleviate<br />

( C) transport<br />

(D) regenerate<br />

(E) trivialize<br />

Advisers warned <strong>the</strong> member of Congress to<br />

communicate directly and intelligibly; speech that<br />

required extensive ------- would bewilder and<br />

alienate <strong>the</strong> voters.<br />

(A) elucidation<br />

(B) mystification<br />

( C) recitation<br />

(D) alliteration<br />

(E) vocalization<br />

4. The school principal considered <strong>the</strong> student's<br />

actions so reprehensible that he termed <strong>the</strong>m ------­<br />

and refused to accept any excuse.<br />

(A) indefensible<br />

(B) surreptitious<br />

(C) indefatigable<br />

(D) comprehensive<br />

(E) corrective<br />

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