Tham khảo tài liệu 'the sat in exam 8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | --------------------------- THE SAT CRITICAL Critical Reading Pretest There are 32 questions in this section. Set a timer for 30 minutes. Stop working at the end of 30 minutes and check your answers. Sentence Completions In each of the following sentences one or two words have been omitted indicated by a blank . Choose the word s from the answer choices provided that makes the most sense in the context of the sentence. 1. Although skinny as a rail the young girl had a n ------appetite. a. eager b. demanding c. ravenous d. breathless e. primal 2. Because the rajah was sagacious he ruled his subjects with-----. a. rapacity b. ignorance c. compassion d. fortitude e. willfulness 3. Percival s---approach to life caused him to miss the kind of-----experience his more friv- olous peers enjoyed. a. careless . cerebral b. unhealthy . choleric c. busy . understated d. amiable . intense e. utilitarian . ecstatic READING SECTION ------------------------------------- 4. Scientific knowledge is usually----- often resulting from years of hard work by numerous investigators. a. ponderous b. implacable c. precarious d. cumulative e. egregious 5. Even though-------meals cause her digestive trouble my grandmother insists on eating her food as-------as possible. a. piquant . spicy b. foreign . often c. astringent . slowly d. cold . quickly e. purgative . daintily 6. Although conditions in Antarctica are quite --------- scientists and others who go there to work have managed to create a comfortable environment for themselves. a. audacious b. inimical c. felicitous d. incalculable e. oblivious 7. Because the king was heedful of----- he ensured that his------would survive him. a. posterity . legacy b. venerability . heir c. tradition . sociopath d. empathy . advisors e. artifice . architect 27 THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION 8. The famous daredevil was actually quite--- by temperament as illustrated by the fact that he did not------until he was two years old. a. daring . tussle b. .
