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Section 3<br />

Practice Test Five<br />

SECTION 3<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. Although Professor Chang's simple ------- was<br />

intended merely to gain more in<strong>for</strong>mation, <strong>the</strong><br />

student took it as a slight to her intelligence.<br />

(A) query<br />

(B) confession<br />

(C) dismissal<br />

(D) condemnation<br />

(E) credo<br />

2. Despite her dog's ------- appearance, Stephanie<br />

spent ------- amount of money on his grooming.<br />

(A) orderly . . an enormous<br />

(B) disheveled . . an inordinate<br />

(C) annoyed . . an un<strong>for</strong>tunate<br />

(D) distracted . . an unrealistic<br />

(E) agitated . . a considerable<br />

3. Although when it was first introduced to<br />

<strong>the</strong> market his invention had been <strong>the</strong> most<br />

technologically advanced of its time, less than<br />

a year later it was ------- by an even more<br />

sophisticated machine.<br />

4.<br />

(A) supplanted<br />

(B) redoubled<br />

(C) augmented<br />

(D) brandished<br />

(E) evaded<br />

Because he consistently advanced arguments based<br />

on possibilities and speculation ra<strong>the</strong>r than proven<br />

certainties, Jonas became known as a -------.<br />

(A) dogmatist<br />

(B) consultant<br />

(C) prodigy<br />

(D) materialist<br />

(E) <strong>the</strong>orist<br />

5. The ------- of <strong>the</strong> newly constructed temple was<br />

tragically violated by <strong>the</strong> vandals' offensive graffiti.<br />

(A) turpitude<br />

(B) sacrosanctity<br />

( C) perspicuity<br />

(D) verisimilitude<br />

(E) duplicity<br />

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