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ANSWERS AND COMPLETE
EXPLANATIONS FOR PRACTICE TEST 1
Section I: Reading
1. D. Information about subjective complements is listed under “complement, subjective,
with linking verb, 188-190.”
2. A. The entry under “Comparison, theme based on, 54-57” is the best place to look for information
about an essay that would compare the two planets.
3. C. The adjective versatile means accomplished in many areas, able to turn easily from one
subject to another, many-sided. The word comes from the Latin verb vertere, to turn.
4. B. Only this sentence is consistent in style with the rest of the paragraph. You should reject
choice A because it uses the first person (“I”), whereas the rest of the passage uses only
the third person (“he”). Similarly, choice C uses the second person (“you”). Eliminate
choice D for its careless use of the slangy “big deal,” and choice E because the language is
pompous.
5. B. The passage moves forward in time, from Robinson’s becoming a major-league player
in 1947 to his life after baseball and his 1962 election to the Hall of Fame. The other four
options are simply untrue; all of them misrepresent what actually happens in the passage.
6. E. Of the five connectives that might be used in the first blank space, the only possibilities
are choices C “Meanwhile” and E “However.” But choice C “Consequently” will not fit in
the second space, whereas choice E “Similarly” fits well. The first connective should indicate
a contrast: between the ancients and the “more modern.” The second conjunction
should indicate a similarity: between the “more modern” and the “1990s.”
7. A. The best of the five choices is “based on whim; capricious.”
8. E. This sentence opens with the comparison, “Like the names of stars,” which links the
subject of the first paragraph (the arbitrary names people give to stars) with the useful
terms called numbers. The point of the passage is that both are fictions that humans invented,
not eternal natural truths.
9. B. What the passage says about stars is that the constellations are merely useful fictions
humans made up that would make no sense at all looked at from any other point in the
universe except the earth, and that the names simply reflect the times when the names
were invented. You can infer that the author would believe that all a constellation can tell
us is what a few visible stars seemed to resemble when the Greeks gave them their names.
Nothing in the passage suggests that the author “believes in” astrology A, or that he or she
approves or disapproves of comics and cartoons D. Choice C is false; the author explicitly
says that the millennium “has no special significance in the natural world.” The author
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