Here are examples
of Sentence Completions and some
Short Reading questions, two question
types that you will see on both the
PSAT and the new SAT. Try them for
practice.
1. The
artist's work is generally thought
of as -------, because it does not
display any true originality.
(A) unique
(B) derivative
(C) insightful
(D) elusive
(E) beautiful
2. Although the beginning of the campaign
was -------, later victories -------
the initial disappointments.
(A) propitious . . nullified
(B) unsuccessful . . complicated
(C) inauspicious . . belied
(D) foreboding . . confirmed
(E) unexpected . . overshadowed
3. Pizza,
not a common dish in America before
the 1950s, is now a -------- presence
in cities everywhere.
(A) ubiquitous
(B) rarified
(C) convalescent
(D) transient
(E) denigrated
| Answer
questions below on the basis
of what is stated or implied in
the passage. |
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NASA
hopes that its newly launched
Space Infrared Telescope Facility |
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(SIRTF)
will provide astronomers with
a more complete picture of
the |
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universe. While the Hubble
Space Telescope has already
given scientists |
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a
tremendous amount of new data
about the heavens, its observations
were |
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limited
primarily to the visible spectrum
of light. Now, with SIRTF, |
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astronomers will be able
to explore the cosmos in an
entirely different |
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way,
using infrared radiation. Scientists
hope that SIRTF will finally
allow |
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them
to view a host of extremely
distant, extremely cold objects—objects |
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that
may contain clues about the
birth of the universe. |
4. According
to the passage, it can be most reasonably
inferred that
(A) SIRTF will allow scientists
to study the birth of the universe
(B) the Hubble Space Telescope
is no longer useful to astronomers
(C) the Hubble Space Telescope
does not provide astronomers with
a complete view of the universe
(D) an extremely distant,
extremely cold object does not emit
visible light
(E) SIRTF is NASA's newest
and most technologically advanced
project
5. The
author most likely mentions the Hubble
Space Telescope in order to
(A) indicate that SIRTF will
soon replace the Hubble Space Telescope
(B) reveal astronomers' frustrations
with the limitations of the Hubble
Space Telescope
(C) contrast the observational
abilities of SIRTF with the observational
abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope
(D) show that SIRTF is a better
telescope than the Hubble Space Telescope
(E) imply that scientists
think SIRTF will provide them with
more clues about the universe than
the Hubble Space Telescope did
