Chapter 14 Practice Test 4 With Answers - Mcgraw-Hill'S Psat/nmsqt Page 16
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GRAW-HILL’S PSAT/NMSQT
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For the blind, --- -- is of heightened impor-
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Each passage below is followed by one or two
tance since their sense of smell provides
questions based on its content. Answer each
them with distinct impressions of their
question based on what is stated or implied
surrounding environment.
in the preceding passage.
(A) olfaction
Æ
(B) abstinence
z
(C) pungency
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(D) gustation
Questions 33–34 are based on the
(E) mastication
following passage.
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A physical law is a
statement of the way in
which matter behaves. These are laws over
B
The hospital’s chief of staff, who invented
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which we have no control; they have existed
and perfected the surgical procedure he was
and will exist forever. The purpose of all basic
using, accidentally left a clamp in his
5
research in the physical sciences is to
discover
patient, proving that even the most --- --
these laws. Understanding science is equivalent
surgeon is - --- -.
to knowing the laws of nature and their
(A) inept . . preeminent
consequences.
(B) adept . . fallible
Incorrect or incomplete observations can
(C) recalcitrant . . malleable
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lead to statements
that are believed to be
(D) deft . . unerring
physical laws; but these incorrect statements
(E) tactile . . apprehensive
are not laws of nature at all. For example,
Aristotle believed that he had discovered a law
of nature when he stated that heavier bodies
B
Whether it is --- -- or mere luck, Manolis
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accelerate toward the
earth faster than lighter
always seems to have an umbrella with him
bodies. In fact, he had not discovered a law of
when it rains, even if there is no sign of pre-
physics. There is no such physical law. The
cipitation in the forecast.
actual law of nature which applies to this
situation was discovered many centuries later
(A) pugnacity
20
by
Galileo.
(B) humility
(C) prescience
(D) magnanimity
B
Assuming that all of the following statements
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(E) avarice
are true, which of the following is NOT an
example of a physical law, according to the
passage?
B
Thomas Paine was -- --- for the American
32
Revolution; his pamphlet Common Sense,
(A) Water molecules vaporize when they
which -- --- American freedom from English
acquire sufficient kinetic energy.
control, served as an inspiration for the
(B) Accurate observations are essential to
colonists.
establishing correct scientific theories.
(C) Any two massive bodies exert gravita-
(A) an impetus . . disparaged
tional force upon each other.
(B) a nihilist . . vindicated
(D) Electrons can only occupy discrete
(C) an abomination . . debunked
energy levels within an atom.
(D) a harbinger . . denigrated
(E) No massive particle can move faster
(E) a catalyst . . championed
than the speed of light.
First paragraph: Principles of Physics, F. Bueche, McGraw-Hill
#1982, p. 53
Second paragraph: Gender Voices, David Graddol and Joan
Swann, #1989, Basil Blackwell, p. 4
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