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Section 41<br />

Practice Test Seven<br />

607<br />

SECTION 4<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 />

3. Lacking sacred scriptures or codified -------,<br />

Shinto is more properly regarded as a legacy of<br />

traditional religious practices and basic values than<br />

as a <strong>for</strong>mal system of belief.<br />

(A) followers<br />

(B) boundaries<br />

(C) dogma<br />

(D) dispositions<br />

(E) strata<br />

(A) effective<br />

(B) invented<br />

4. We will face <strong>the</strong> idea of old age with ------- as long<br />

as we believe that it invariably brings poverty,<br />

(C) useful<br />

isolation, and illness.<br />

(D) destructive<br />

(A) regret<br />

(E) enormous © ® © ® e (B) apprehension<br />

1. Once he had intellectually ------- <strong>the</strong> difference<br />

between regional dialects, Fernando found himself<br />

speaking <strong>the</strong> language -------.<br />

(A) rejected . . considerately<br />

(B) grasped . . ef<strong>for</strong>tlessly<br />

( C) mastered . . implicitly<br />

(D) <strong>for</strong>gotten . . eloquently<br />

(E) recognized . . ambiguously<br />

2. The international newswire service - -----­<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation ------- so that events are reported all<br />

over <strong>the</strong> world shortly after <strong>the</strong>y happen.<br />

(A) records . . accurately<br />

(B) falsifies . . deliberately<br />

(C) verifies . . painstakingly<br />

(D) disseminates . . rapidly<br />

(E) suppresses . . thoroughly<br />

( C) enlightenment<br />

(D) veneration<br />

(E) reverence<br />

5. As a playwright, Pinter is renowned <strong>for</strong> his<br />

mundane settings, his ------- yet poetic dialogue,<br />

and his aggressive, often mean-spirited characters.<br />

(A) comprehensive<br />

(B) lyrical<br />

( C) colloquial<br />

(D) e<strong>the</strong>real<br />

(E) affirmative<br />

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