Practice Test 2 Barron's

Question 1

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One of the most effective vegetable protein substitutes is the soybean……....used to manufacture imitation meat products.

Answer

which can be
it can be
who can be
can be

Question 2

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………..1000 species of finch have been identified.

Answer

As many as
As many
As much as
Much as

Question 3

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The first electric lamp had two carbon rods from which vapor serves to conduct the current across the gap.

Answer

The first
which
serves
to conduct

Question 4

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A thunderhead, dense clouds that rise high into the sky in huge columns, produce hail, rain or snow.

Answer

A
rise
high
produce

Question 5

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According to the economic laws, the greater the demand, …….. the price.

Answer

higher
high
the higher
the high

Question 6

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Although no country has exactly the same folk music like that of any other, it is significant that similar songs exist among widely separated people.

Answer

no country
like
that
widely

Question 7

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Despite of the Taft-Hartley Act which forbids unfair union practices, some unions such as the air traffic controllers have voted to strike even though this action might endanger the national security.

Answer

Despite of
forbids
such as
to strike

Question 8

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The Continental United States is………. that there are four time zones.

Answer

much big
too big
so big
very big

Question 9

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Benjamin West contributed a great deal to American art:........

Answer

painting, teaching, and lecturing
painting, as a teacher and lecturer
painting, teaching, and as a lecturer
painting, a teacher, and a lecturer

Question 10

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Operant conditioning involves rewarding or punishing certain behave to reinforce or extinguish its occurrence.

Answer

behave
to reinforce
or extinguish
its occurrence

Question 11

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There is an unresolved controversy as to whom is the real author of the Elizabethan plays commonly credited to William Shakespeare.

Answer

There is
whom
is
commonly

Question 12

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A catalytic agent such platinum may be used so that the chemical reaction advances more rapidly.

Answer

such
so
advances
rapidly

Question 13

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Upon hatching ………

Answer

young ducks know how to swim
swimming is known by young ducks
the knowledge of swimming is in young ducks
how to swim is known in young ducks

Question 14

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The observation deck at the World Trade Center………… in New York.

Answer

was highest than any other one
was higher than any other one
was highest that any other one
was higher that any other one

Question 15

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When a patient’s blood pressure is much higher than it should be, a doctor usually insists that he will not smoke.

Answer

much
than it
should be
will not

Question 16

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It was the invent of the hand-held electronic calculator that provided the original technology for the present generation of small but powerful computers.

Answer

It
was
the invent
the present

Question 17

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……….. is necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth.

Answer

It is calcium
That calcium
Calcium
Although calcium

Question 18

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Located in the cranial cavity in the skull the brain is the larger mass of nerve tissue in the human body.

Answer

in
the brain
larger
human body

Question 19

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Alike other forms of energy, natural gas may be used to heat homes, cook food, and even run automobiles.

Answer

Alike
may be used
to heat
run

Question 20

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An organ is a group of tissues capable to perform some special function, as, for example, the heart, the liver, or the lungs.

Answer

is
of tissues
to perform
for example

Question 21

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……….. withstands testing, we may not conclude that it is true, but we may retain it.

Answer

If a hypothesis
That a hypothesis
A hypothesis
Hypothesis

Question 22

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Insulin, it is used to treat diabetes and is secured chiefly from the pancreas of cattle and hogs.

Answer

Insulin, it is
to treat
is
chiefly

Question 23

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Not until a monkey is several years old……. to exhibit signs of independence from its mother.

Answer

it begins
does it begin
and begin
beginning

Question 24

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Since Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s father never approved of ……. Robert Browning, the couple eloped to Italy, where they lived and wrote.

Answer

her to marry
her marrying
she marrying
she to marry

Question 25

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In autumn, brilliant yellow, orange and red leaves are commonly to both the Sweet Gum tree and the Maple.

Answer

In autumn
commonly
to
and

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