CHAPTER 2 / DIAGNOSTIC SAT 43
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SECTION 6
Time—25 minutes
24 questionsTurn to Section 6 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.- Rather than giving Sandra thoughtful and use-
ful advice, her father admonished her with
hollow clichés and ------- platitudes.
(A) irate
(B) inane
(C) homogeneous
(D) flamboyant
(E) altruistic
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) skepticism- Maintaining a courageous ------- even while in
prison, Nelson Mandela spent years trying to
convince others that his fight against apartheid
was not -------.
(A) optimism.. worthwhile
(B) will.. treacherous
(C) hope.. futile
(D) fortitude.. premeditated
(E) instability.. porous - The ------- of the construction near the building
rendered the school far less ------- to learning;
the teachers could hardly hear themselves talk.
(A) din.. conducive
(B) efficiency.. accustomed
(C) noise.. averse
(D) precision.. discernible
(E) racket.. irascible - Although no real problem in physics can be
solved -------, an approximate solution by a
simplified method is sufficient so long as the
complicating factors are -------.
(A) precisely.. large
(B) completely.. difficult
(C) exactly.. negligible
(D) plausibly.. minimal
(E) ethically.. nonexistent
AB C D E