Tài liệu SAT test 2 pdf

SAT Practice Test 2
VERBAL
Select the lettered word or set of words that best completes the sentence.
1 – She found her work so ---- that she lost herself in it and was completely ---- the noise
surrounding her.
(A)inspiring..annoyed by
(B) complex..involved in
(C) absorbing..oblivious to
(D)exhausting..taken with
(E) repetitive..afraid of
2 – In contrast to their widespread image as ---- carnivores, many species of piranha are
vegetarian.
(A)nomadic
(B) lugubrious
(C) voracious
(D)covetous
(E) exotic
3 – The graceful curves of the old colonial-era buildings that dominated the old part of
the city contrasted sharply with the modern, ---- subway stations and made the latter
appear almost anachronistic.
(A)rectilinear
(B) grimy
(C) festive
(D)gigantic
(E) efficient
4 – Although both plants control soil erosion, kudzu disrupts the local ecology by
displacing native flora, while vetiver has no ---- effects.
(A)foreseeable
(B) adverse
(C) domestic
(D)permanent

(E) advantageous
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5 – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. believes that Frederick Douglass ---- patterned his 1845
autobiography after the ---- of former slave Olaudah Equiano, whose life story was
published in 1789.
(A)patronizingly..reminder
(B) belatedly..antiquity
(C) anxiously..capture
(D)expectantly..epitaph
(E) consciously..narrative
6 – The poet A. E. Houseman lived a lonely life, and to the end of his days maintained a -
--- which only a few chosen friends could ----.
(A)silence..spurn
(B) career..appreciate
(C) seclusion..observe
(D)reserve..penetrate
(E) gregariousness..enjoy
7 – The world of Heinrich Boll’s early novels is one of impersonal malice, thinly
camouflaged with patriotic and other ---- clichés, in which relief is provided only by
occasional ---- of genuine human emotion.
(A)pragmatic..absences
(B) ideological..manifestations
(C) conceptual..lapses
(D)ephemeral..loss
(E) scholarly..vestiges
8 – The plan has few elements in it that will ---- the party with the electorate; in fact, it
has caused widespread resentment.
(A)involve
(B) consolidate
(C) ingratiate

(D)deprecate
(E) impeach
9 – Negritude, a literary movement emphasizing the importance and value of African
culture and history, was founded in Paris in the 1930s by a group of ---- students from
Martinique, Senegal, and other French-speaking colonies.
(A)animated
(B) laconic
(C) expatriate
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(D) radical
(E) sophisticated
Choose the lettered pair of words that is related in the same way as the pair in capital
letters.
10 – HAND:WRIST::
(A) eye:socket
(B) shoulder:elbow
(C) foot:ankle
(D) head:scalp
(E) mouth:lip
11 – ADMIRE:REVERE::
(A) hasten:advance
(B) delay:cancel
(C) think:ponder
(D) collect:sample
(E) examine:scrutinize
12 – HEDONIST:PLEASURE::
(A) philosopher:knowledge
(B) stenographer:shorthand
(C) physicist:energy
(D) progressive:liberty

(E) company:entertainment
13 – UNEARTH:EXCAVATION::
(A) construct:addition
(B) interpret:language
(C) deflate:pressure
(D) demand:imposition
(E) imprison:incarceration
14 – ABSTRUSE:UNDERSTAND::
(A) unusable:change
(B) faulty:fix
(C) obscured:see
(D) irrelevant:prove
(E) tepid:heat
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15 – SILO:GRAIN::
(A) bathroom:shower
(B) pantry:food
(C) dairy:refrigeration
(D) theater:play
(E) well:water
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The following passages, both written by published authors, present two views on the problems of
being a creative writer.
Passage 1
Writing is among the most mysterious of human
activities. Every writer can testify that the Muses*
once invoked by the poets are a reality. Unless he is
writing mechanically, the writer does not experience
his writing as an act of creation; he experiences it as Line (5)
an act of discovery: it comes or happens or is given

to him, and when it does, he recognizes it at once for
his own. It is not within the power of his will to
summon it forth if it refuses to come; nor is he
capable of resisting it for long when it starts to (10)
demand release.
The key to unlocking the floodgates, I believe, is a
key in that it is musical: it is finding the tone of
voice, the only tone of voice, in which the particular
piece of writing will permit itself to be written. (15)
Once this key is found, the author will enter a state
of bliss such as exists nowhere else on earth. He will
sit at his typewriter and watch, in delight and
amazement, as sentences mysteriously shape
themselves into rhythms he knows to be right, and (20)
paragraphs begin to shape themselves into an
organically coherent pattern that miraculously
corresponds only better, much better to the dim
vision which had driven him to his desk in the first
place. (25)
Finished, he will be exhausted and exhilarated, all
anxieties gone; he will feel that everything in the
world makes sense after all, that there is an order to
things, and that he himself is part of that order. At
root, it is the writer’s search for order that gives (30)
successful writing the quality of organic imagination,
and which exists not only in poems and stories, but
in any form of writing, however humble or trivial.
Writing always involves a someone sitting with an
implement and an inchoate idea before a blank sheet (35)
of paper and in terror at the answering blankness of

his or her own mind. Consequently, if one is
speaking of the experience of being a writer, the only
meaningful distinction is between writers who are
willing to accept the risks of suffering entailed by the (40)
effort to tap their own inner potentialities of organic
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