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SAT Practice Questions: Sentence Completions

Get the answers to these SAT practice questions.

Directions: Select the lettered word or set of words that best completes the sentence.
1. In the years following World War II, almost all Canadian Inuits ______ their previously nomadic lifestyle; they now live in fixed settlements.

A. abandoned
B. continued
C. fashioned
D. preserved
E. rebuilt

4. Because of the lead actor's _______ performance, the play received poor reviews from influential theater critics, and was canceled only one week after it opened.

A. erudite
B. corporeal
C. overwrought
D. fractious
E. resplendent

2. A newborn infant's _______ skills are not fully _______, for it cannot discern images more than 10 inches away.

A. perceptual..stimulated
B. visual..developed
C. descriptive..ripened
D. olfactory..shared
E. average..familiar

5. Sociologists have found that, paradoxically, many children of unorthodox, creative parents grow up to be rather tame _______.

A. idealists
B. conformists
C. individualists
D. alarmists
E. elitists

3. Some geysers erupt regularly, while others do so _______.

A. consistently
B. copiously
C. perennially
D. sporadically
E. violently

 

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