SAT Prep Questions
1. Although Rolf is usually quite timorous, he was so angered by the salesman’s rude remarks that he insisted on complaining to the manager
A. tractable...reassured X
B. timorous...angered?
C. X plucky...offended?
D. X valiant...incensed?
E. diffident...satisfied X
2. The new administrator was (old fashioned); he considered new ideas worthy of consideration but ultimately (chose) the old ways.
A. an iconoclast...undermined by X
B. an opportunist...reminiscent of X
C. X a sentimentalist...preferable to?
D. a traditionalist...inferior to?
E. an idealist...instructive about X
3. The notoriously temperamental American actor Edwin Forrest was known for his (attitude) both on stage and off.
A. apologies X
B. musings X
C. inequities ?
D. histrionics ?
E. philosophies X
4. Confident that her own political platform would (survive) at election time, the mayor considered her opponent’s sudden popularity less a threat than (an inconvenience).
A. X falter...a boon ?
B. strengthen… a calamity X
C. ? prevail… a distraction ?
D. alter… an error X
E. X waiver… a diversion ?
5. The rumor was of the… variety, spreading slowly and almost imperceptibly until, finally everyone seemed to have heard the story.
A. manifest
B. dilatory
C. insidious
D. aggresive
E. expeditious
6. Harold, far from being a (prejudice), was not (objected to) to take a person holding opposing political view into his household
A. X convert...accustomed X
B. ? bigot...loath
C. X fanatic...susceptible X
D. X recluse...sympathetic X
E. ?persecutor...inclined X
6. Scientists have discovered that our sense of smell is surprisingly (adaptable), capable of distinguishing thousands of chemical odors
A. rigid X
B. inert X
C. erratic X
D. keen ?
E. innate ?
7. The (destruction) of trees in East Africa has caused the number of native antelopes to
(decline) sharply because they can live only where the forest is most dense.
A. X planting...decline ?
B. ?
A. tractable...reassured X
B. timorous...angered?
C. X plucky...offended?
D. X valiant...incensed?
E. diffident...satisfied X
2. The new administrator was (old fashioned); he considered new ideas worthy of consideration but ultimately (chose) the old ways.
A. an iconoclast...undermined by X
B. an opportunist...reminiscent of X
C. X a sentimentalist...preferable to?
D. a traditionalist...inferior to?
E. an idealist...instructive about X
3. The notoriously temperamental American actor Edwin Forrest was known for his (attitude) both on stage and off.
A. apologies X
B. musings X
C. inequities ?
D. histrionics ?
E. philosophies X
4. Confident that her own political platform would (survive) at election time, the mayor considered her opponent’s sudden popularity less a threat than (an inconvenience).
A. X falter...a boon ?
B. strengthen… a calamity X
C. ? prevail… a distraction ?
D. alter… an error X
E. X waiver… a diversion ?
5. The rumor was of the… variety, spreading slowly and almost imperceptibly until, finally everyone seemed to have heard the story.
A. manifest
B. dilatory
C. insidious
D. aggresive
E. expeditious
6. Harold, far from being a (prejudice), was not (objected to) to take a person holding opposing political view into his household
A. X convert...accustomed X
B. ? bigot...loath
C. X fanatic...susceptible X
D. X recluse...sympathetic X
E. ?persecutor...inclined X
6. Scientists have discovered that our sense of smell is surprisingly (adaptable), capable of distinguishing thousands of chemical odors
A. rigid X
B. inert X
C. erratic X
D. keen ?
E. innate ?
7. The (destruction) of trees in East Africa has caused the number of native antelopes to
(decline) sharply because they can live only where the forest is most dense.
A. X planting...decline ?
B. ?