32 - ] Model SAT Tests - Test Thirty Two

32 - ] Model SAT Tests 

Test Thirty Two

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

1 . He felt that the uninspiring routine of office work was too …. for someone of his talent and creativity .

(A) diverse (B)  insatiable (C) exacting (D) enthralling (E) prosaic

2 . The museum arranged the fossils in …. order , placing the older fossils dating from the Late Ice Age on the first floor and the more recent fossils on the second floor .

(A) alphabetical (B) chronological C) random (D) arbitrary (E) retrospective

3 . With the evolution of wings , insects were able to …. to the far ecological corners , across deserts and bodies of water , to reach new food sources and inhabit a wider variety of promising environmental niches .

(A) relate (B) disperse (C) transgress (D) revert (E) ascend

4 . Having recently missed out on the Matisse retrospective , which has taken Paris and New York by storm , and on the tour of great paintings from Philadelphia’s Barnes collection , London is becoming …. in the competition to show …. international art exhibitions .

(A) a trend-setter …. major

(B) an also-ran …. blockbuster

(C) a world-beater …. itinerant

(D) a mecca …. distinguished

(E) a connoisseur …. esoteric

5 . What most …. the magazine’s critics is the manner in which its editorial opinions are expressed …. too often as if only an idiot could see things any other way .

(A) belies (B) impedes (C) riles(D) placates (E) identifies

6 . Despite her compassionate nature , the new nominee to the Supreme Court was single-minded and …. in her strict …. the letter of the law .

(A) merciful …. interpretation of

(B) uncompromising …. adherence to

C) dilatory …. affirmation of

(D) vindictive …. deviation from

(E) lenient …. dismissal of

7 . Although he generally observed the adage “Look before you leap .” in this instance he was …. acting in an unconsidered fashion .

(A) chary of (B) impervious to (C) precipitate in (D) hesitate about (E) conventional in

8 . Surrounded by a retinue of sycophants who invariably …. her singing , Callas wearied of the constant adulation and longed for honest criticism .

(A) orchestrated (B) thwarted (C) assailed (D) extolled (E) reciprocated

9 . There is nothing …. or provisional about Moore’s early critical pronouncements : she deals …. with what were then radical new developments in poetry .

(A) tentative …. confidently

(B) positive …. expertly

(C) dogmatic …. arbitrarily

D) shallow …. superficially

(E) imprecise …. inconclusively

10 . Crabeater seal , the common name of lobodon carcinophagus , is a …. , since the animal’s staple diet is not crabs , but krill .

(A) pseudonym (B) misnomer (C) delusion (D) digression (E) compromise

11. His critical reviews were enjoyed by many of his audience , but the subjects of his analysis dreaded his comments ; he was vitriolic , devastating , irritating and never …. .

(A) analytic (B) personal (C) constructive (D) uncharitable (E) controversial

12 . Despite the team members’ resentment of the new coach’s training rules , they …. them as long as he did not …. them too strictly .

(A) embraced …. follow

(B) condemned …. formulate

(C) questioned …. interpret

(D) challenged …. implement

(E) tolerated …. apply

13 . Given the …. state of the published evidence , we do not argue here that exposure to low-level microwave energy is either hazardous or safe .

(A) inconclusive (B) satisfactory (C) definitive (D) (immaculate E) exemplary

14 . Tacitus’ descriptions of Germanic tribal customs were …. by the …. state of communications in his day , but they match the accounts of other contemporary writers .

(A) defined …. inconsequential

(B) limited …. primitive

C) enriched …. antiquated

(D) contradicted …. thriving

(E) muddled …. suspended

15 . No matter how …. the revelations of the coming years may be , they will be hard put to match those of the past decade , which have …. transformed our view of the emergence of Mayan civilization .

(A) minor …. dramatically

(B) profound …. negligibly

(C) striking …. radically

(D) bizarre …. nominally

(E) questionable …. possibly