658 McGRAW-HILL’S SAT
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- The ------- with which the advisor managed the
funds forced his clients to seek more reliable
advice regarding investment.
(A) skill
(B) caution
(C) ineptitude
(D) recognition
(E) bitterness
2. As an Armenian born in Iran and educated in
Lebanon, Vartan Gregorian brought ------- fla-
vor to the presidency of Brown University that
was unprecedented in the Ivy League.
(A) a perpetual
(B) an authoritative
(C) a structured
(D) an artificial
(E) a cosmopolitan
3. The lawyers did not have time to consider the
contract in great detail; rather, they were able
to give it only a ------- reading before they had
to make their presentation on its merits.
(A) verbatim
(B) meandering
(C) tormented
(D) cursory
(E) substantial
4. The ------- in many parts of the city has made
the ------- of infectious diseases more rapid,
because pathogens spread quickly in close
quarters.
(A) overcrowding.. propagation
(B) squalor.. circulation
(C) poverty.. deterioration
(D) congestion.. elimination
(E) proximity.. resilience
SECTION 5
Time—25 minutes
24 questionsTurn to Section 5 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
Directions:For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and
fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.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, bestfits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.EXAMPLE:Rather than accepting the theory unquestion-
ingly, Deborah regarded it with-----.
(A) mirth
(B) sadness
(C) responsibility
(D) ignorance
(E) skepticismAB C D B