SAT Writing and Language Practice Tests Questions- Set 6

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, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1.Like many other groups of people in the United States who have needed laws to _____ equal rights, Americans with disabilities have had to _____ legislation addressing their concerns.

1. guarantee .. lobby for
2. preclude .. enact
3. ascertain .. consolidate
4. compound .. contend with
5. suppress .. ratify

2. The cafe attracts a _____ clientele: a startlingly heterogeneous group of people collects there.

1. motley
2. callous
3. languid
4. mysterious
5. humane

3. The second edition of the textbook provides _____ footnotes; since the first edition, the editors have apparently _____ a great deal of background data.

1. meager .. accumulated
2. illegible .. clarified
3. copious .. amassed
4. voluminous .. excised
5. monotonous .. embellished

4. Professor Fernandez has been _____ about most of the purportedly humanitarian aspects of the colonial government and has insisted that its actions were, on the contrary, _____ .

1. dubious .. self-serving
2. enthusiastic .. contemptible
3. disparaging .. sporadic
4. excited .. gratuitous
5. disillusioned .. benevolent

5. Concrete is _____ of many materials, a composite of rocks, pebbles, sand, and cement.

1. a conflagration
2. a distillation
3. a concordance
4. an aberration
5. an amalgamation