Practice Test 2 Barron's

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Quiz on Practice Test 2 Barron's, created by Mario Brenes on 09/02/2016.
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Question 1

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One of the most effective vegetable protein substitutes is the soybean……....used to manufacture imitation meat products.
Answer
  • which can be
  • it can be
  • who can be
  • can be

Question 2

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………..1000 species of finch have been identified.
Answer
  • As many as
  • As many
  • As much as
  • Much as

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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According to the economic laws, the greater the demand, …….. the price.
Answer
  • higher
  • high
  • the higher
  • the high

Question 6

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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.
Answer
  • no country
  • like
  • that
  • widely

Question 7

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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.
Answer
  • Despite of
  • forbids
  • such as
  • to strike

Question 8

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The Continental United States is………. that there are four time zones.
Answer
  • much big
  • too big
  • so big
  • very big

Question 9

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Benjamin West contributed a great deal to American art:........
Answer
  • painting, teaching, and lecturing
  • painting, as a teacher and lecturer
  • painting, teaching, and as a lecturer
  • painting, a teacher, and a lecturer

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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Upon hatching ………
Answer
  • 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

Question 14

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The observation deck at the World Trade Center………… in New York.
Answer
  • was highest than any other one
  • was higher than any other one
  • was highest that any other one
  • was higher that any other one

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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……….. is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.
Answer
  • It is calcium
  • That calcium
  • Calcium
  • Although calcium

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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……….. withstands testing, we may not conclude that it is true, but we may retain it.
Answer
  • If a hypothesis
  • That a hypothesis
  • A hypothesis
  • Hypothesis

Question 22

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

Question 23

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Not until a monkey is several years old……. to exhibit signs of independence from its mother.
Answer
  • it begins
  • does it begin
  • and begin
  • beginning

Question 24

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

Question 25

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