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Section 61<br />

Practice Test Ten 873<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 />

1.<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 />

The novelist shocked his editor by ------- <strong>the</strong> book<br />

on which he had been working <strong>for</strong> seven years and<br />

starting over.<br />

(A) abridging<br />

(B) supplementing<br />

(C) abandoning<br />

(D) truncating<br />

(E) praising<br />

2. The new film is so ------- that <strong>the</strong> public is<br />

polarized into a group of people who are angered<br />

by it and those who applaud <strong>the</strong> director's courage.<br />

(A) mundane<br />

(B) creative<br />

(C) controversial<br />

(D) pertinent<br />

(E) daunting<br />

3. The highway commission initially felt that <strong>the</strong> new<br />

road would be ------- and was surprised to find it<br />

------- to <strong>the</strong> city's transportation needs.<br />

(A) redundant . . irrelevant<br />

(B) unnecessary . . vital<br />

( C) inappropriate . . unsuited<br />

(D) dangerous . . attributable<br />

(E) scenic . . damaging<br />

4. The salesperson advised his frugal customer to<br />

buy <strong>the</strong> small gas grill, since it was <strong>the</strong> most ------­<br />

model.<br />

(A) tasteful<br />

(B) secure<br />

(C) costly<br />

(D) manageable<br />

(E) economical<br />

5. The film critic ------- <strong>the</strong> movie, saying that <strong>the</strong><br />

script lacked structure and <strong>the</strong> characters were<br />

laughably shallow.<br />

(A) derided<br />

(B) remembered<br />

(C) belied<br />

(D) praised<br />

(E) ignored<br />

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