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SAT Writing and Language Practice Tests Questions- Set 7

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
Ans:/Explanation

Ans:A

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

  1. motley
  2. callous
  3. languid
  4. mysterious
  5. humane
Ans:/Explanation

Ans:A

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
Ans:/Explanation

Ans:C

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
Ans:/Explanation

Ans:A

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
Ans:/Explanation

Ans:E

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