Sporting Futures USA | SAT Prep | Critical Reading 1.0

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Questão 1

Questão
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.
Responda
  • taken…..stabilized
  • challenged…..waned
  • captured…..shifted
  • conceded……vacillated
  • relinquished…..changed

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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  • superseded by…..inquisitiveness

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

Questão
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 ______________.
Responda
  • satisfied.....annulled
  • stymied.....extended
  • displeased.....upheld
  • disgruntled.....suspended
  • concerned.....provided

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

Questão
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.
Responda
  • soothing.....heighten
  • therapeutic.....alleviate
  • sweet.....underscore
  • exhausting.....relieve
  • interesting.....activate

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

Questão
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.
Responda
  • traditional.....a chronological
  • provocative.....an insensitive
  • forceful.....a concise
  • focused.....an expansive
  • circuitous.....a discursive

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

Questão
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.
Responda
  • efficacious
  • abstruse
  • conservative
  • protracted
  • misconstrued

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

Questão
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.
Responda
  • famous
  • feasible
  • fantastic
  • controversial
  • captivating

Questão 25

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

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