SAT Section 1 Critical Reading

SAT Section 1 Critical Reading practice questions, page 6 of 11, with answer review and explanations.

Question 26

Children today are being taught to be ______ of any abnormality including strangers, standing packages, or simply anything out of the order; not for merely their own good, but for the good of the communitysuch are the times we now live in.

  1. skittish
  2. wary
  3. shy
  4. impudent
  5. challenging

Question 27

In general, new breakthroughs in scientific and biological research allow us to identify origins of many viruses of formerly ______ origins.

  1. escapable
  2. mysterious
  3. abstract
  4. useful
  5. memorable

Question 28

Hitherto impossible research has been made ______ by the new technology recently engineered by her company with greatly enhanced scope and depth of mapping the core of the earth.

  1. commonplace
  2. controversial
  3. problematic
  4. feasible
  5. resolute

Question 29

The dissimilarities are absolutely striking; even though she is ______, she has few friends, and even though she is a ______ stylist, few customers ask for her when booking.

  1. cute. . .fair
  2. amiable. . .consummate
  3. professional. . .haphazard
  4. nice. . .radical
  5. magnificent. . .futuristic

Question 30

Sales literature that provide excessively complex and irrelevant numbers tend to ______ the real facts and generate sales by causing buyers to accept ______ data in lieu of the real and truthful information so hidden.

  1. obscure. . .spurious
  2. hide. . .rational
  3. confuse. . .representational
  4. elucidate. . .faulty
  5. define. . .questionable