PRACTICE TEST 5

PRACTICE TEST 5

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ANSWER SHEET

Last Name: ______________________________________ First Name: ____________________________________

Date: ___________________________________________ Testing Location:________________________________

Administering the Test

? Remove this answer sheet from the book and use it to record your answers to this test. ? This test will require 2 hours and 10 minutes to complete. Take this test in one sitting. ? Use a stopwatch to time yourself on each section. The time limit for each section is written clearly at the

beginning of each section. The first four sections are 25 minutes long, and the last section is 30 minutes long. ? Each response must completely fill the oval. Erase all stray marks completely, or they may be inter-

preted as responses. ? You must stop ALL work on a section when time is called. ? If you finish a section before the time has elapsed, check your work on that section. You may NOT move on

to the next section until time is called. ? Do not waste time on questions that seem too difficult for you. ? Use the test book for scratchwork, but you will only receive credit for answers that are marked on the

answer sheets.

Scoring the Test

? Your scaled score, which will be determined from a conversion table, is based on your raw score for each section.

? You will receive one point toward your raw score for every correct answer. ? You will receive no points toward your raw score for an omitted question. ? For each wrong answer on a multiple-choice question, your raw score will be reduced by 1/4 point. For

each wrong answer on a numerical "grid-in" question (Section 4, questions 29 ?38), your raw score will receive no deduction.

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CHAPTER 14 / PRACTICE PSAT 5

Section 1

Time--25 minutes 24 Questions (1 ?24)

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1

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Example:

Medieval kingdoms did not become constitutional republics overnight; on the contrary, the change was --- ---.

(A) unpopular (B) unexpected (C) advantageous (D) sufficient (E) gradual

Correct response: (E)

B1

Sanzianna's ---- -- that something awful had happened to her mother proved to be -- --- -; her mother did not answer the phone for three days because the battery in her phone had run out.

(A) disbelief : : incorrect (B) intuition : : accurate (C) obsession : : authentic (D) denial : : interesting (E) premonition : : false

B2

Grace was not surprised to find out that Lydia waited until the last possible moment to turn in her term paper; Lydia had always been one to - --- --.

(A) procrastinate (B) pontificate (C) meddle (D) articulate (E) testify

B3

Originally designed as a medicine to assist in the - --- -- of elevated blood pressure, Minoxidil was found to have the --- --- effect of increasing hair growth and revolutionized the science of hair replacement.

(A) eradication : : anticipated (B) magnification : : adjunct (C) mitigation : : unforeseen (D) modernization : : extraneous (E) enhancement : : supercilious

B4

Behavioral psychologists suggest that the whining, kicking, screaming, and hitting that accompany a temper tantrum are - --- -displays that are a normal part of a child's development.

(A) meticulous (B) callous (C) somber (D) histrionic (E) wistful

B5

In the wild, the dominance hierarchy among members of a chimpanzee group can be --- --- determined through the tracking of agonistic behaviors such as -- --- -, an action by which a higher-ranked individual takes the spot of another, often at a preferred feeding source.

(A) definitively : : transmutation (B) empirically : : supplanting (C) ambiguously : : exhortation (D) nefariously : : benediction (E) incontrovertibly : : jurisdiction

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