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Section 61<br />

Practice Test Five 437<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. Contrary to ------- about <strong>the</strong> likelihood that<br />

an asteroid will hit Earth, subsequent scientific<br />

calculations have ------- that such an event is<br />

unlikely.<br />

(A) <strong>the</strong>ories . . refuted<br />

(B) predictions . . challenged<br />

( C) speculations . . confirmed<br />

(D) disclaimers . . validated<br />

(E) doubts . . substantiated<br />

2. The research in areas of human ------- and<br />

exploration suggests that <strong>the</strong>se characteristics arise<br />

from both intrinsic motivations or drives to gain<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation and extrinsic explorative behavior.<br />

(A) orderliness<br />

(B) credulity<br />

( C) curiosity<br />

(D) shyness<br />

(E) morbidity<br />

3. Judge Sanchez had a reputation <strong>for</strong> being ------- ,<br />

presiding over his courtroom with fairness and<br />

impartiality.<br />

(A) equitable<br />

(B) immoderate<br />

(C) cumulative<br />

(D) unproductive<br />

(E) adulatory<br />

4. Marisa felt like a fraud, <strong>for</strong> while she professed her<br />

------- she knew she had ------- <strong>the</strong> un<strong>for</strong>tunate<br />

mistake.<br />

(A) profundity . . abhorred<br />

(B) enthusiasm . . condoned<br />

(C) innocence . . committed<br />

(D) immorality . . per<strong>for</strong>med<br />

(E) repentance . . condemned<br />

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