PF CR 251
Critical Reading 251!
Decoding Advanced! Sentence Completions! Prerequisite: Cri,cal reading score of 600+ on most recent prac,ce exam
Course Description
In this micro-course, students will tackle the more challenging sentence completion questions, including those two-blank sentences in which blanks can’t be isolated. We will also examine those sentence completions with more difficult vocabulary in the answer choices.!
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Sentence Completion Strategy
The Strategy – Take CARE! ! Cover:! Cover the answer choices with your hand.! ! Anticipate:! Anticipate a word that could fill in the blank. Don’t be too picky! And don’t be afraid to use the words from the sentence.! ! Reveal:! Once you have a word in mind, uncover the answer choices.! ! Eliminate:! Eliminate answers that do not work with the word you anticipated. If there are two blanks, do them one at a time, beginning with the one you find easier.!
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Review Questions In many myths an infant destined to become a hero or heroine must be kept safe by means of a -------: the child is either disguised or kept hidden until adulthood. (A) ruse (B) threat (C) dispute (D) disclosure (E) temptation
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Review Questions When his reputation was ----------, the politician was quick to ----------- the rumors and publish counterattacks. (A) repealed … renounce (B) impugned … repudiate (C) vitiated … buttress (D) contorted … evade (E) reinstated … recommence
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Review Questions The gallery’s collection is a ----------- of Picasso’s artwork, featuring rare examples of the artist’s early sketches. (A) concurrence (B) fallacy (C) trove (D) summary (E) modicum
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Review Questions The new employee voiced his concern that while the more seasoned employees understood the ------- policies of their workplace, he required explicit training in company protocol. (A) tacit (B) exhaustive (C) provocative (D) humane (E) exorbitant
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Review Questions While it is assumed that technological improvements in communication have had a ------- impact on the lives of people, some suggest that increased technology has served to ------- some of the traditional benefits of interpersonal communication. (A) dramatic . . improve (B) salutary . . advocate (C) positive . . mitigate (D) benign . . revise (E) revolutionary . . reinforce
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Review Questions They continued to ------- the clumsy worker who had broken the machine, even though their anger had ------- somewhat. (A) assail . . blazed (B) appease . . diminished (C) condone . . subsided (D) berate . . abated (E) torment . . intensified
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Review Questions The instructor of the course scheduled weekly quizzes, ------- to encourage the students to pay attention, but the class believed the real ------- was to torment them. (A) ostensibly . . intent (B) supposedly . . penchant (C) questionably . . reason (D) seemingly . . renunciation (E) indistinctly . . incentive
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Review Questions In contrast with the ------- essays written by her peers, Kelly composed a mature, thoughtful analysis of Wordsworth’s romantic poetry. (A) assiduous (B) shrewd (C) sophomoric (D) disingenuous (E) cloying
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Review Questions Books about recent catastrophes may seem like morally ------attempts to profit from the misfortune of others, yet they may also inform and educate, thus ------- them in some readers’ eyes. (A) grounded . . deifying (B) bankrupt . . legitimizing (C) justifiable . . trivializing (D) ambiguous . . tarnishing (E) vacuous . . scandalizing
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Review Questions Because tribal art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain -------. (A) arbitrary (B) estimable (C) orthodox (D) equivocal (E) unspoken
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Review Questions As Arnold argued, the new code of conduct is inadequate; its principles are either -------, offering no new insight, or so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action -------. (A) vague . . successful (B) homogeneous . . impartial (C) irresolute . . unlikely (D) corroborative . . redundant (E) obvious . . objectionable
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Review Questions Sometimes a façade of unlimited self-sacrifice and unremitting compliance can win undeserved praise, for this seemingly gallant attitude can be wholly motivated by a ------- wish to avoid conflict of any sort. (A) commendable (D) genuine
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(B) plaintive (E) poignant
(C) craven
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Review Questions A long-term view of economic markets tends to ------- the idea that stocks are a worthwhile investment; it can be difficult to maintain such confidence in the short term, however, when the stock market’s behavior is so -------. (A) contradict . . egregious (B) bolster . . impregnable (C) validate . . erratic (D) confute . . reprehensible (E) reinforce . . interminable
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Review Questions Many people believe that strong individual initiative characterized the Industrial Revolution and see inventors as the ------- of that age. (A) aberration (B) legend (C) personification (D) misrepresentation (E) liberators
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Review Questions Although history is supposed to instruct, some archaeologists believe that their research is ------- evidence that mankind has sometimes repeated the same mistakes by those living in earlier eras. (A) devoid of (B) biased toward (C) buried in (D) contrapuntal to (E) rife with
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Review Questions Danny had come to ------- his coworkers so much that he viewed anyone who took an interest in his job as a -------. (A) adore . . superior (B) resent . . threat (C) believe . . hypocrite (D) despise . . colleague (E) respect . . sycophant
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Review Questions After his family first visited the museum down the road from his hotel, Anthony discovered that, instead of being -------, it could be ------- place to spend an afternoon. (A) intimidating . . an unsuccessful (B) inviting . . a remarkable (C) uninspiring . . a captivating (D) dull . . an awful (E) welcoming . . an educational
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Review Questions While the voters hoped for quick and effective solutions to their community’s problems, the politicians’ responses were merely meant to ------- their constituencies. (A) reproach (B) deprecate (C) appease (D) litigate (E) compound
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Review Questions The new hire’s recommendations were quite -------; management decided they so contradicted the company’s image that they ------- the strategies they had already been using. (A) off-putting . . directed (B) intriguing . . neglected (C) unobtrusive . . derided (D) demanding . . abandoned (E) outlandish . . persisted with
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Decoding Advanced! Sentence Completions! Prerequisite: Cri,cal reading score of 600+ on most recent prac,ce exam
Course Description
In this micro-course, students will tackle the more challenging sentence completion questions, including those two-blank sentences in which blanks can’t be isolated. We will also examine those sentence completions with more difficult vocabulary in the answer choices.!
CR 251
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Sentence Completion Strategy
The Strategy – Take CARE! ! Cover:! Cover the answer choices with your hand.! ! Anticipate:! Anticipate a word that could fill in the blank. Don’t be too picky! And don’t be afraid to use the words from the sentence.! ! Reveal:! Once you have a word in mind, uncover the answer choices.! ! Eliminate:! Eliminate answers that do not work with the word you anticipated. If there are two blanks, do them one at a time, beginning with the one you find easier.!
CR 251
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Review Questions In many myths an infant destined to become a hero or heroine must be kept safe by means of a -------: the child is either disguised or kept hidden until adulthood. (A) ruse (B) threat (C) dispute (D) disclosure (E) temptation
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Review Questions When his reputation was ----------, the politician was quick to ----------- the rumors and publish counterattacks. (A) repealed … renounce (B) impugned … repudiate (C) vitiated … buttress (D) contorted … evade (E) reinstated … recommence
CR 251
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Review Questions The gallery’s collection is a ----------- of Picasso’s artwork, featuring rare examples of the artist’s early sketches. (A) concurrence (B) fallacy (C) trove (D) summary (E) modicum
CR 251
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Review Questions The new employee voiced his concern that while the more seasoned employees understood the ------- policies of their workplace, he required explicit training in company protocol. (A) tacit (B) exhaustive (C) provocative (D) humane (E) exorbitant
CR 251
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Review Questions While it is assumed that technological improvements in communication have had a ------- impact on the lives of people, some suggest that increased technology has served to ------- some of the traditional benefits of interpersonal communication. (A) dramatic . . improve (B) salutary . . advocate (C) positive . . mitigate (D) benign . . revise (E) revolutionary . . reinforce
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Review Questions They continued to ------- the clumsy worker who had broken the machine, even though their anger had ------- somewhat. (A) assail . . blazed (B) appease . . diminished (C) condone . . subsided (D) berate . . abated (E) torment . . intensified
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Review Questions The instructor of the course scheduled weekly quizzes, ------- to encourage the students to pay attention, but the class believed the real ------- was to torment them. (A) ostensibly . . intent (B) supposedly . . penchant (C) questionably . . reason (D) seemingly . . renunciation (E) indistinctly . . incentive
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Review Questions In contrast with the ------- essays written by her peers, Kelly composed a mature, thoughtful analysis of Wordsworth’s romantic poetry. (A) assiduous (B) shrewd (C) sophomoric (D) disingenuous (E) cloying
CR 251
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Review Questions Books about recent catastrophes may seem like morally ------attempts to profit from the misfortune of others, yet they may also inform and educate, thus ------- them in some readers’ eyes. (A) grounded . . deifying (B) bankrupt . . legitimizing (C) justifiable . . trivializing (D) ambiguous . . tarnishing (E) vacuous . . scandalizing
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Review Questions Because tribal art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain -------. (A) arbitrary (B) estimable (C) orthodox (D) equivocal (E) unspoken
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Review Questions As Arnold argued, the new code of conduct is inadequate; its principles are either -------, offering no new insight, or so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action -------. (A) vague . . successful (B) homogeneous . . impartial (C) irresolute . . unlikely (D) corroborative . . redundant (E) obvious . . objectionable
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Review Questions Sometimes a façade of unlimited self-sacrifice and unremitting compliance can win undeserved praise, for this seemingly gallant attitude can be wholly motivated by a ------- wish to avoid conflict of any sort. (A) commendable (D) genuine
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(B) plaintive (E) poignant
(C) craven
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Review Questions A long-term view of economic markets tends to ------- the idea that stocks are a worthwhile investment; it can be difficult to maintain such confidence in the short term, however, when the stock market’s behavior is so -------. (A) contradict . . egregious (B) bolster . . impregnable (C) validate . . erratic (D) confute . . reprehensible (E) reinforce . . interminable
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Review Questions Many people believe that strong individual initiative characterized the Industrial Revolution and see inventors as the ------- of that age. (A) aberration (B) legend (C) personification (D) misrepresentation (E) liberators
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Review Questions Although history is supposed to instruct, some archaeologists believe that their research is ------- evidence that mankind has sometimes repeated the same mistakes by those living in earlier eras. (A) devoid of (B) biased toward (C) buried in (D) contrapuntal to (E) rife with
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Review Questions Danny had come to ------- his coworkers so much that he viewed anyone who took an interest in his job as a -------. (A) adore . . superior (B) resent . . threat (C) believe . . hypocrite (D) despise . . colleague (E) respect . . sycophant
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Review Questions After his family first visited the museum down the road from his hotel, Anthony discovered that, instead of being -------, it could be ------- place to spend an afternoon. (A) intimidating . . an unsuccessful (B) inviting . . a remarkable (C) uninspiring . . a captivating (D) dull . . an awful (E) welcoming . . an educational
CR 251
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Review Questions While the voters hoped for quick and effective solutions to their community’s problems, the politicians’ responses were merely meant to ------- their constituencies. (A) reproach (B) deprecate (C) appease (D) litigate (E) compound
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Review Questions The new hire’s recommendations were quite -------; management decided they so contradicted the company’s image that they ------- the strategies they had already been using. (A) off-putting . . directed (B) intriguing . . neglected (C) unobtrusive . . derided (D) demanding . . abandoned (E) outlandish . . persisted with
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