16- ] Model SAT Tests - Test Sixteen

16 - ] Model SAT Tests

Test Sixteen

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

1 . Archaeologists are involved in -------- Mayan temples in Central America , uncovering the old ruins in order to learn more about the civilization they represent .

(A) demolishing (B) incapacitating (C) excavating (D) worshiping (E) adapting

2 . Afraid that the ----------- nature of the plays being presented would corrupt the morals of their audiences , the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642 .

(A) mediocre (B) fantastic (C) profound (D) lewd (E) witty

3 . The governor’s imposition of material law on the once-peaceful community was the last straw , so far as the lawmakers were concerned : the legislature refused to function until material law was -------- .

(A) reaffirmed (B) reiterated (C) inaugurated (D) rescinded (E) prolonged

4 . The sergeant suspected that the private was --------in order to avoid going on the ----------

march scheduled for that morning .

(A) malingering ----arduous

(B) proselytizing -----interminable

(C) invalidating ------ threatened

(D) exemplary -----leisurely

(E) disgruntled ------- strenuous

5 . The incidence of smoking among women , formerly --------, has grown to such a degree that lung cancer , once a minor problem , has become the chief -----------of cancer-related deaths among women .

(A) negligible -------cause

(B) minor ------antidote

(C) preeminent ------- cure

(D)relevant -------- modifier

(E) pervasive ------opponent

6 . The columnist was almost ----------- when he mentioned his friends , but he was unpleasant and even -------when he discussed people who irritated him .

(A) recalcitrant ------- laconic

(B) reverential ------ acrimonious

(C) sensitive -----remorseful

(D) insipid ------militant

(E) benevolent -------stoical

7 . An experienced politician who knew better than to launch a campaign in troubled political waters : she intended to wait for a more ---------occasion before she announced her plans .

(A) propitious (B) provocative (C) unseemly (D) questionable (E) theoretical

8 . Wemmick , the soul of kindness in private , is obliged in -------to be uncompassionate and even ---------on behalf of his employer , the harsh lawyer Jaggers .

(A) conclusion-------careless

(B) principle ---------contradictory

(C) theory ------esoteric

(D) court --------- judicious

(E) public ------ruthless

9 . The civil rights movement did not emerge from obscurity into national prominence overnight ; on the contrary , it captured the public’s imagination only ------------

(A) fruitlessly (B) unimpeachably (C) momentarily (D) expeditiously (E) gradually

10 . most of the settlements that grew up near the logging camps were ----------affairs , thrown together in a hurry because people needed to live on the job . 

(A) protracted (B) unobtrusive (C) nomadic (D) ramshackle (E) banal

11 . Quick-breeding and immune to most pesticides , cockroaches are so --------that even a professional exterminator may fail to --------- them .

(A) vulnerable ---- eradicate

(B) widespread ------- discern

(C) fragile -----destroy

(D) hardy -----eliminate

(E) numerous -------- detect

12 . The seventeenth-century writer Mary Astell was a rare phenomenon , a single woman

who maintained and even ---------- a respectable reputation while earning a living by her pen .

(A) eclipsed (B) impaired (C) decimated (D) avoided (E) enhanced

13 . An optimistic supporter of the women’s movement , Kubota contends that recent -------

by Japanese women in the business world are meaningful and indicative of -------opportunity to come .

(A) advances ------diminished

(B) strides --------greater

(C) innovations ------ marginal

(D) retreats-------theoretical

(E) failures -------hidden

14 . The patient bore the pain ------------, neither wincing nor whimpering when the incision was made .

(A) histrionically (B) stoically (C) sardonically (D) poorly (E) marginally

15 . The actor’s stories of backstage feuds and rivalry might be thought ---------------were there not so many corroborating anecdotes from other theoretical personalities .

(A) pantomime (B) ambiguity (C) approbation (D) hyperbole (E) vainglory

16 . The -----ambassador was but -----linguist ; yet he insisted on speaking to foreign dignitaries in their own tongues without resorting to a translator’s aid .

(A) eminent -------an indifferent

(B) visiting ------- a notable

(C)  revered --------- a talented

(D)  distinguished ------ a celebrated

(E) ranking ---------- a sensitive

17. Nowadays life models - men and women who pose in the nude for artists - seem curiously-------- , relics of a bygone age when art students labored amid skeletons and anatomical charts , learning to draw the human body as painstakingly as medical students learn to  --------- it .

A) anachronistic ------- sketch

(B) archaic ------- dissect

(C)  contemporary -------diagnose

(D) stereotyped -------examine

(E) daring ------- cure

18 . In one instance illustrating Metternich’s consuming ------, he employed several naval captains to purchase books abroad for him , eventually adding an entire Oriental library to his ------------ collection .

(A) foresight -------indifferent

(B) altruism ------- eclectic

(C) bibliomania -----burgeoning

(D)  avarice -------inadvertent

(E) egocentricity ---------magnanimous

19 . Although Roman original contributions to government , jurisprudence , and engineering are commonly acknowledged , the artistic legacy of the Roman world continues to be judged widely as ---------the magnificent Greek traditions that preceded it .

(A)  an improvement on (B) an echo of (C) a resolution of  (D) a precursor of

(E) a consummation of