Sporting Futures USA | SAT Prep | Critical Reading 1.0

Descripción

You have 25 Questions to complete in 25 Minutes.
SportingFutures USA
Test por SportingFutures USA, actualizado hace más de 1 año
SportingFutures USA
Creado por SportingFutures USA hace alrededor de 10 años
291
0

Resumen del Recurso

Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Just when the senator's opponent had__________ the lead in popularity polls, public opinion ____________; as a result, the incumbent senator regained her front-­runner position.
Respuesta
  • taken…..stabilized
  • challenged…..waned
  • captured…..shifted
  • conceded……vacillated
  • relinquished…..changed

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
Any biographer of this playwright, who assumed an elaborate public facade in order to conceal private concerns, must examine the impulse behind such _____________.
Respuesta
  • artiface
  • joviality
  • conceit
  • disbelief
  • erudition

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
It is said that as a legal team Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall complemented each other thoroughly: Houston’s sedate manner was _____________ Marshall’s ______________.
Respuesta
  • analogous…..trepidation
  • commensurate with…..formality
  • tempered by…..jocularity
  • adverse to…..gregariousness
  • superseded by…..inquisitiveness

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Architects define a physical structure as a set of materials arranged in such a way that these materials can ___________ the downward pull of gravity.
Respuesta
  • mimic
  • resist
  • amplify
  • dislodge
  • demonstrate

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Conflicting standards for allowable radiation levels in foods made _____________ appraisals of the damage to crops following the reactor meltdown extremely difficult.
Respuesta
  • reliable
  • private
  • intrusive
  • conscious
  • inflated

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
The student’s feelings about presenting the commencement address were _____________; although visibly happy to have been chosen, he was nonetheless ____________ about speaking in public.
Respuesta
  • positive.....insecure
  • euphoric.....hopeful
  • unknown.....modest
  • ambivalent.....anxious
  • restrained.....confident

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
In a society that abhors _____________, the nonconformist is persistently ____________.
Respuesta
  • creativity.....glorified
  • rebelliousness.....suppressed
  • insurgency.....heeded
  • smugness.....persecuted
  • stagnation.....denigrated

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Both by ___________ and by gender, American painter Mary Cassatt was an _____________, because her artistic peers were Frenchmen.
Respuesta
  • background.....amateur
  • citizenship.....intellectual
  • nationality.....anomaly
  • style.....advocate
  • skill.....expert

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Only if business continues to expand can it_____________enough new jobs to make up for those that will be _____________ by automation.
Respuesta
  • produce.....required
  • invent.....introduced
  • create.....eliminated
  • repeal.....reduced
  • formulate.....engendered

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
The board members, accustomed to the luxury of being chauffeured to corporate meetings in company limousines, were predictably ___________ when they learned that this service had been ______________.
Respuesta
  • satisfied.....annulled
  • stymied.....extended
  • displeased.....upheld
  • disgruntled.....suspended
  • concerned.....provided

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
Trinkets intended to have only ____________ appeal can exist virtually forever in landfills because of the ___________ of some plastics.
Respuesta
  • arbitrary.....scarcity
  • theoretical.....resilience
  • ephemeral.....durability
  • obsessive.....fragility
  • impetuous.....cheapness

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
Despite its apparent ____________, much of early Greek philosophical thought was actually marked by a kind of unconscious dogmatism that led to _____________ assertions.
Respuesta
  • liberality.....doctrinaire
  • independence.....autonomous
  • intransigence.....authoritative
  • fundamentalism.....arrogant
  • legitimacy.....ambiguous

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
The editor expected her reporters to be _____________, but the number of_____________ in the articles submitted clearly showed that her expectations were often not met.
Respuesta
  • impartial.....cliches
  • frank.....predictions
  • decisive.....facts
  • creative.....errors
  • accurate.....misquotations

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
Many people find Stanley Jordan’s music not only entertaining but also _____________; listening to it helps them to relax and to _____________ the tensions they feel at the end of a trying day.
Respuesta
  • soothing.....heighten
  • therapeutic.....alleviate
  • sweet.....underscore
  • exhausting.....relieve
  • interesting.....activate

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
Instead of presenting a balanced view of both sides of the issue, the speaker became increasingly ______________, insisting on the correctness of his position.
Respuesta
  • inarticulate
  • dogmatic
  • elliptical
  • tactful
  • ambiguous

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
The theory of the______________ of cultures argues that all societies with highly developed technologies will evolve similar social institutions.
Respuesta
  • isolation
  • aesthetics
  • convergence
  • fragmentation
  • longevity

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar, far from being a tight, _____________ narrative, is instead_____________ novel that roams freely and imaginatively over a half-­‐million years.
Respuesta
  • traditional.....a chronological
  • provocative.....an insensitive
  • forceful.....a concise
  • focused.....an expansive
  • circuitous.....a discursive

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
The spacecraft has two ______________ sets of electronic components; if one fails, its duplicate will still function.
Respuesta
  • divergent
  • identical
  • simulated
  • mutual
  • prohibitive

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
Frank was confident that he had presented the most ____________ plan possible, but in reality his proposals were just the opposite, neither practical nor useful enough to produce any worthwhile results.
Respuesta
  • efficacious
  • abstruse
  • conservative
  • protracted
  • misconstrued

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
Despite years of poverty and ________________, the poet Ruth Pitter produced work that is now________________ by a range of literary critics.
Respuesta
  • security.....hailed
  • depression.....criticized
  • celebrity.....publicized
  • inactivity.....undermined
  • adversity.....acclaimed

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
The two travelers may have chosen ______________ routes across the continent, but the starting point was the same for each.
Respuesta
  • coinciding
  • direct
  • charted
  • divergent
  • intersecting

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
The former cult-­‐film director ________________ his original audience by making films that appealed instead to the general public.
Respuesta
  • enchanted
  • moved
  • fantastic
  • disappointed
  • influenced

Pregunta 23

Pregunta
In many cases, the formerly _____________ origins of diseases have now been identified through modern scientific techniques.
Respuesta
  • insightful
  • mysterious
  • cruel
  • notable
  • useful

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle makes a career of expanding the limits of deep-­‐sea mobility, making hitherto impossible tasks _______________ through the new technology designed by her company.
Respuesta
  • famous
  • feasible
  • fantastic
  • controversial
  • captivating

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
He _____________ the practices of aggressive autograph seekers, arguing that anyone distinguished enough to merit such ______________ also deserved to be treated courteously.
Respuesta
  • decried.....adulation
  • defended.....adoration
  • endorsed.....brusqueness
  • ignored.....effrontery
  • vilified.....disdain
Mostrar resumen completo Ocultar resumen completo

Similar

Teorema de Pitágoras
josefa.h.122
PMBOK
Maye Tapia
Enseñar con Fichas de Memoria
Diego Santos
Derivadas
erendira.aviles
Admisión del Personal
1991mayra
ESTUDIANTE
Omar valeta
lipidos laboratorio biologia
Miguel Angel Espinosa
LA DIVERSIDAD CULTURAL
ramiroosoriorubi
DALÍ...
JL Cadenas
Roles en la educación inclusiva
Alejandro Villamizar
Historia Psicología Precientífica
María Angélica Mesa Ramirez