Model SAT Tests - Test One

Model SAT Tests

Test 1

1 - Select the best answer to each of the following questions ; then blacken the appropriate space on your answer sheet .

1 . Critics of the welfare system argue that , rather than aiding people’s efforts to govern their own lives , it ---------------their independence .

( A)  supports (B) saps ( C) hastens (D) renews  ( E) abets

2 . The audience failed to warm to the candidate , whose speech contained nothing but empty promises , ------------ , and clichés .

( A) candor   (B) platitudes  ( C) nuances  (D) ingenuity  ( E) threats

3 . By dint of much practice in the laboratory , the anatomy student became ------------and was able to manipulate her dissecting tools with either hand .

( A) practical  (B) tricky  ( C) ambiguous  (D) ambidextrous  ( E) ambivalent

4 . Like many other pioneers , Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell , founder of the New York Infirmary , the first American hospital staffed entirely by women , faced ridicule from her contemporaries but has received great honor -------------------- .

( A) posthumously   (B) anonymously  ( C) privately  (D) prematurely  ( E) previously

5 . While a great deal of change and modernization has taken place in India since 1947 , the basic economic arrangements , values , and family roles have been generally -----------

( A) overturned   (B) stable  ( C) modified  (D) complicated  ( E) appropriate

6 . The hypocrite ------------- feelings that he does not possess but that he feels he should display .

( A) conceals   (B) decries  ( C) betrays  (D) simulates  ( E) condones

7. He has his detractors ,but his critics have had amazingly -------------success at shaking his self-confidence or --------------his reputation .

( A) great -- repairing   (B) widespread -- bolstering ( C) little -- denting  (D) small -- enhancing  ( E) poor -- restoring

8 . The linguistic -----------of refugee children is ------------ their readiness to adopt the language of their new homeland .

( A) conservatism -- indicated by   (B) inadequacy -- demonstrated by  ( C) adaptability --- reflected in  (D) philosophy -- contradicted by  ( E) structure -- equivalent to

9. She kept her late parents’ furniture , not for any ------- value it had , but for purely -------reasons .

 A) potential -- monetary  (B) ornamental -- aesthetic ( C) financial -- pecuniary  

(D) intrinsic --  sentimental ( E) personal -- accidental

10 . The latest biography of Malcolm X is a nuanced and sensitive picture of a very complex man , -----------------analysis of his personality .

( A) an ineffectual  (B) a telling  ( C) a ponderous  (D) a simplistic ( E) an overblown