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Practice Test 2 Barron's

Question 1 of 25

1

One of the most effective vegetable protein substitutes is the soybean……....used to manufacture imitation meat products.

Select one or more of the following:

  • which can be

  • it can be

  • who can be

  • can be

Explanation

Question 2 of 25

1

………..1000 species of finch have been identified.

Select one or more of the following:

  • As many as

  • As many

  • As much as

  • Much as

Explanation

Question 3 of 25

1

The first electric lamp had two carbon rods from which vapor serves to conduct the current across the gap.

Select one or more of the following:

  • The first

  • which

  • serves

  • to conduct

Explanation

Question 4 of 25

1

A thunderhead, dense clouds that rise high into the sky in huge columns, produce hail, rain or snow.

Select one or more of the following:

  • A

  • rise

  • high

  • produce

Explanation

Question 5 of 25

1

According to the economic laws, the greater the demand, …….. the price.

Select one or more of the following:

  • higher

  • high

  • the higher

  • the high

Explanation

Question 6 of 25

1

Although no country has exactly the same folk music like that of any other, it is significant that similar songs exist among widely separated people.

Select one or more of the following:

  • no country

  • like

  • that

  • widely

Explanation

Question 7 of 25

1

Despite of the Taft-Hartley Act which forbids unfair union practices, some unions such as the air traffic controllers have voted to strike even though this action might endanger the national security.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Despite of

  • forbids

  • such as

  • to strike

Explanation

Question 8 of 25

1

The Continental United States is………. that there are four time zones.

Select one or more of the following:

  • much big

  • too big

  • so big

  • very big

Explanation

Question 9 of 25

1

Benjamin West contributed a great deal to American art:........

Select one or more of the following:

  • painting, teaching, and lecturing

  • painting, as a teacher and lecturer

  • painting, teaching, and as a lecturer

  • painting, a teacher, and a lecturer

Explanation

Question 10 of 25

1

Operant conditioning involves rewarding or punishing certain behave to reinforce or extinguish its occurrence.

Select one or more of the following:

  • behave

  • to reinforce

  • or extinguish

  • its occurrence

Explanation

Question 11 of 25

1

There is an unresolved controversy as to whom is the real author of the Elizabethan plays commonly credited to William Shakespeare.

Select one or more of the following:

  • There is

  • whom

  • is

  • commonly

Explanation

Question 12 of 25

1

A catalytic agent such platinum may be used so that the chemical reaction advances more rapidly.

Select one or more of the following:

  • such

  • so

  • advances

  • rapidly

Explanation

Question 13 of 25

1

Upon hatching ………

Select one or more of the following:

  • young ducks know how to swim

  • swimming is known by young ducks

  • the knowledge of swimming is in young ducks

  • how to swim is known in young ducks

Explanation

Question 14 of 25

1

The observation deck at the World Trade Center………… in New York.

Select one or more of the following:

  • was highest than any other one

  • was higher than any other one

  • was highest that any other one

  • was higher that any other one

Explanation

Question 15 of 25

1

When a patient’s blood pressure is much higher than it should be, a doctor usually insists that he will not smoke.

Select one or more of the following:

  • much

  • than it

  • should be

  • will not

Explanation

Question 16 of 25

1

It was the invent of the hand-held electronic calculator that provided the original technology for the present generation of small but powerful computers.

Select one or more of the following:

  • It

  • was

  • the invent

  • the present

Explanation

Question 17 of 25

1

……….. is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

Select one or more of the following:

  • It is calcium

  • That calcium

  • Calcium

  • Although calcium

Explanation

Question 18 of 25

1

Located in the cranial cavity in the skull the brain is the larger mass of nerve tissue in the human body.

Select one or more of the following:

  • in

  • the brain

  • larger

  • human body

Explanation

Question 19 of 25

1

Alike other forms of energy, natural gas may be used to heat homes, cook food, and even run automobiles.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Alike

  • may be used

  • to heat

  • run

Explanation

Question 20 of 25

1

An organ is a group of tissues capable to perform some special function, as, for example, the heart, the liver, or the lungs.

Select one or more of the following:

  • is

  • of tissues

  • to perform

  • for example

Explanation

Question 21 of 25

1

……….. withstands testing, we may not conclude that it is true, but we may retain it.

Select one or more of the following:

  • If a hypothesis

  • That a hypothesis

  • A hypothesis

  • Hypothesis

Explanation

Question 22 of 25

1

Insulin, it is used to treat diabetes and is secured chiefly from the pancreas of cattle and hogs.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Insulin, it is

  • to treat

  • is

  • chiefly

Explanation

Question 23 of 25

1

Not until a monkey is several years old……. to exhibit signs of independence from its mother.

Select one or more of the following:

  • it begins

  • does it begin

  • and begin

  • beginning

Explanation

Question 24 of 25

1

Since Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s father never approved of ……. Robert Browning, the couple eloped to Italy, where they lived and wrote.

Select one or more of the following:

  • her to marry

  • her marrying

  • she marrying

  • she to marry

Explanation

Question 25 of 25

1

In autumn, brilliant yellow, orange and red leaves are commonly to both the Sweet Gum tree and the Maple.

Select one or more of the following:

  • In autumn

  • commonly

  • to

  • and

Explanation