Chapter 14 Practice Test 4 With Answers - Mcgraw-Hill'S Psat/nmsqt Page 30
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GRAW-HILL’S PSAT/NMSQT
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B
Cockroaches, who
are also known as
water
Directions for “Improving Paragraphs”
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A
B
Questions
bugs, are among
the most
difficult household
D
C
Below is an early draft of an essay. It requires
pests to control. No error
E
revision in many areas.
The questions that follow ask you to make
B
When
Maria returned home from the
amuse-
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improvements in sentence structure, diction,
A
B
organization, and development. Answering
ment park, she wrote
down in her diary
the questions may require you to understand
C
everything that she did
that afternoon.
the context of the passage as well as the
Æ
D
rules of standard written English.
No error
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E
B
Along with Upton Sinclair
the novels of
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Questions 35–39 refer to the following
B
A
passage.
George Orwell were
politically charged
C
(1) The 2000 Presidential election was one of
pieces that challenged
government policy.
the closest in United States History. (2) In this
D
election, Democrat Vice-President Al Gore ran
No error
against Republican George W. Bush. (3) Heading
E
into Election Day, the race a virtual tie. (4) The
country was as divided by its political views as it
B
With just
seconds remaining to go
on the
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had ever been in its 224 year history.
A
B
(5) The national media called the state a win
clock, the quarterback threw a long pass,
for Al Gore at around 9 P.M. on election night,
hoping to
connect for a touchdown
well before all the polls had even closed. (6) In
C
actuality, Florida was too close to call. (7) The
that would win
the game. No error
election was not without its share of controversy.
D
E
(8) The state of Florida, whose governor was
Bush’s brother, was the center of this
B
The teacher’s instructions were
ambivalent
,
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controversy.
A
B
(9) Because the Florida vote was so close,
and so we left
the class with
C
required was that a formal recount be held
no real understanding
of the assignment.
because of government mandate. (10) Gore’s
D
campaign asked that the votes in three Florida
No error
counties be re-counted by hand; an effort that did
E
not show any mistakes having been made. (11)
The democrats wanted the formal recount to be
B
Long respected
as one of the most
influential
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done by hand for the entire state, whereas the
B
A
Republicans wanted the recount stopped since
athletes of his generation, Ted Williams suc-
the original recount by hand showed no errors.
ceeded in
every aspect of his career and
(12) This issue was taken to the U.S. Supreme
C
Court, which voted 5-4 in favor of stopping the
serving
as a role model for a generation of
recount.
D
(13) Bush ended up having won the state of
children. No error
E
Florida by a mere 537 votes. (14) After this
decision, the voting results in the state of Florida
were officially certified and Bush received the
state’s 25 electoral votes, and with that, the
Presidency of the United States.
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