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Section 6<br />

700<br />

Practice Test Eight<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. She found her work so ------- that she lost<br />

herself in it and was completely ------- <strong>the</strong> noise<br />

surrounding her.<br />

(A) inspiring . . annoyed by<br />

(B) complex . . involved in<br />

(C) absorbing . . oblivious to<br />

(D) exhausting . . taken with<br />

(E) repetitive . . afraid of<br />

2. The graceful curves of <strong>the</strong> old colonial-era<br />

buildings that dominated <strong>the</strong> old part of <strong>the</strong><br />

city contrasted sharply with <strong>the</strong> modern, ------­<br />

subway stations and made <strong>the</strong> latter appear almost<br />

anachronistic.<br />

(A) rectilinear<br />

(B) grimy<br />

(C) festive<br />

(D) gigantic<br />

(E) efficient<br />

<br />

3. In contrast to <strong>the</strong>ir widespread image as ------­<br />

carnivores, many species of piranha are vegetarian.<br />

(A) nomadic<br />

(B) lugubrious<br />

( C) vorac10us<br />

(D) covetous<br />

(E) exotic<br />

4. Although both plants control soil erosion, kudzu<br />

disrupts <strong>the</strong> local ecology by displacing native<br />

flora, while vetiver has no ------- effects.<br />

(A) <strong>for</strong>eseeable<br />

(B) adverse<br />

( C) domestic<br />

(D) permanent<br />

(E) advantageous<br />

5. The world of Heinrich Boll's early novels is one<br />

of impersonal malice, thinly camouflaged with<br />

patriotic and o<strong>the</strong>r ------- cliches, in which relief<br />

is provided only by occasional ------- of genuine<br />

human emotion.<br />

(A) pragmatic . . absences<br />

(B) ideological . . manifestations<br />

( C) conceptual . . lapses<br />

(D) ephemeral . . loss<br />

(E) scholarly . . vestiges<br />

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