List of practice Questions

HUSBAND:

DEACTIVATE:

The author's statement regarding how artists use the language of art (lines 48-52) implies that

The passage asserts which of the following about commercial art?

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the adherents of "certain theories of nonrepresentational art" (lines 9-10) ?

It can be inferred from the passage that someone who wanted to analyze the “grammar and semantics” (line52) of the language of art would most appropriately comment on which of the following?

According to the passage, which of the following does the Endangered Species Act define as a “critical habitat"?

NITPICK : CRITICIZE::

The author of the passage explicitly disagrees with which of the following statements?

The author suggests which of the following about art historians?

Which of the following best states the author's attitude toward comics, as expressed in the passage?

SPOKE : HUB::

ILLUSTRATE : PICTURES::

PANTRY : FOOD::

MIRTH : LAUGHTER::

ABRADED : FRICTION::

PARSIMONY : MISER::

The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract ------is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, ------and as if by chance.

A century ago the physician’s word was ------ to doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious.

So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the autobiography fictionalized, that the ------sometimes seem largely------.

Robin’s words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful ------ imminent extremes.

OIL : LUBRICATE::

CONSTRUCT : REMODEL::

There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people’s social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be ------from one or another point of view, or even ------as simplistic or vapid.

Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ------ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.