Practice Set 2
1. The rhetoric employed in this book is overly flamboyant, ------- the
scientific proof intended to corroborate it.
(A) forging
(B) simplifying
(C) inflating
(D) shrouding
(E) galvanizing
2. Many politicians are characterized by an inconsistency of platform
during crises, to the extent that they are rarely------- encouraging and
facilitating similar behavior in their colleagues.
(A) averse to
(B) conscious about
(C) confident about
(D) susceptible to
( E) radical about
3. People should not take good constitution for granted, for human
genetic code is (i) ------- the development of (ii) -------.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) indicative of (D) wholesomeness
(B) insalubrious for (E) discomfort
(C) predisposed to (F) disease
4. To (i) ------- people accurately, census workers must be (ii) -------
because there are often residents of a household with the same name,
or people whose names have unusual spellings, workers who are
anything less than (iii) ------- in following correct procedures and
reviewing cases may result in the same resident getting counted
multiple times, or even not at all.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
(A rectify (D) fastidious (G)
perfunctory
(B) tally (E) derivative (H)
ambivalent
(C) impute (F) industrious (I)
meticulous
Select TWO answer choices.
5. Not only did the exhibit clearly show the health benefits of a
vegetarian diet, it showed how those benefits often translate into a
greater sense of -------.
(A) vitality
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(B) mendacity
(C) remorse
(D) vigor
(E) contrition
(F) persecution
Contrary to the charges made by some of its opponents, the provisions of
the new deficit-reduction law for indiscriminate cuts in the federal
budget are justified. Opponents should remember that the New Deal
pulled this country out of great economic troubles even though some of
its programs were later found to be unconstitutional.
6. The author’s method of attacking the charges of certain
opponents of the new deficit-reduction law is to
(A) attack the character of the opponents rather than their claim
(B) imply an analogy between the law and some New Deal programs
(C) point out that the opponents’ claims imply a dilemma
(D) show that the opponents’ reasoning leads to an absurd conclusion
(E) show that the New Deal also called for indiscriminate cuts in the
federal budget
Maps made by non-Native Americans to depict Native American land
tenure, resources and population distributions appeared almost as early
as Europeans’ first encounters with Native Americans and took many
form: missionaries’ field sketches, explorers’ drawings, and surveyors’
maps, as well as maps rendered in connection with treaties involving
land transfers. Most existing maps of Native American lands are
reconstructions that are based largely on archaeology, oral reports, and
evidence gathered from observers’ accounts in letter, diaries, and official
reports; accordingly, the accuracy of these maps is especially dependent
on the mapmakers’ own interpretive abilities.
Many existing maps also reflect the 150-year role of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs (BIA) in administering tribal lands. Though these maps
incorporate some information gleaned directly from Native Americans,
rarely has Native American cartography contributed to this official
record, which has been compiled, surveyed, and authenticated by non-
Native American. Thus our current cartographic recordrelating to Native
American tribes and their migrations and cultural features, as well as
territoriality and contemporary trust lands, reflects the origins of the
data, the mixed purposes for which the maps have been prepared, and
changes both in United States government policy and in non-Native
Americans’ attitudes toward an understanding of Native Americans.
7. Which of the following best describes the content of the
passage?
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(A) A chronology of the development of different methods for
mapping Native Americans
(B) A discussion of how the mapmaking techniques of Native
Americans differed from those of Europeans
(C) An argument concerning the present-day uses to which
historical maps of Native American lands are put
(D) An argument concerning the nature of information
contained in maps of Native American lands
(E) A proposal for improving the accuracy of maps of Native
American lands
8. The passage mentions each of the following as a factor
affecting current maps of Native American lands EXCEPT
(A) United States government policy
(B) non-Native Americans’ perspective on Native Americans
(C) origins of the information utilized to produce the maps
(D) changes in ways that tribal lands are used
(E) the reason for producing the maps
9. The passage suggests which of the following about most
existing maps of Native American lands?
(A) They do not record the migrations of Native American
tribes.
(B) They have been preserved primarily because of their
connection with treaties involving land transfers.
(C) They tend to reflect archaeological evidence that has
become outdated.
(D) They tend to be less accurate when they are based on oral
reports than when they are based on written documents.
(E) They are not based primarily on the mapmakers’ firsthand
observations of Native American lands.
10. All of the following are examples of the type of evidence
used in creating “Most existing maps” (line 4) EXCEPT
(A) a nineteenth-century government report on population
distribution of a particular tribe
(B) taped conversations with people who lived on Native
American tribal lands in the early twentieth century
(C) aerial photographs of geological features of lands
inhabited by Native Americans
(D) findings from a recently excavated site once inhabited by a
certain Native American people
(E) a journal kept by a non-Native American explorer who
traveled in Native American territory in the early
nineteenth century
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Answer key:
1. C 2. A 3. C/F 4. B/D/I 5. A/D 6. B 7. D 8. D 9. E 10. C
