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Test of Essential Academic Skills - Reading Comprehension

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  • Exam Code
    :TEAS-SECTION-1
  • Exam Name
    :Test of Essential Academic Skills - Reading Comprehension
  • Certification
    :Test of Essential Academic Skills
  • Vendor
    :TEAS
  • Total Questions
    :149 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :May 10, 2024

TEAS Test of Essential Academic Skills TEAS-SECTION-1 Questions & Answers

  • Question 31:

    My suggestions were not as casual as it appeared; I __________ mentioned the election because I know that she wanted to discuss it.

    A. ineptly

    B. incessantly

    C. inadvertently

    D. intentionally

    E. inconsiderately

  • Question 32:

    Bureaucratic squabbles can tie up the government for years and __________ domestic and international problems to the point of __________.

    A. magnify; manageability

    B. reduce; indignation

    C. intensity; crisis

    D. weaken; nonexistence

    E. simplify; triviality

  • Question 33:

    The study crowds and groups is more than __________ in an ___________ age characterized by interdependence and action.

    A. academic; collective

    B. difficult; intellectual

    C. vigorous; assertive

    D. Erudite; formal

    E. general; specific

  • Question 34:

    Narrowing the eyes when startled by a sudden noise or a noxious stimulus is __________ response, serving to reduce the exposure of sense organs to injury.

    A. an imaginative

    B. a protective

    C. a corrective

    D. a therapeutic

    E. a therapeutic

  • Question 35:

    As a people, the Aztecs were full of contradictions; __________ and yet prizing humility, __________ and yet obliging and kind.

    A. arrogant; benevolent

    B. pious; gallant

    C. provincial; sullen

    D. tolerant; competitive

    E. proud; implacable

  • Question 36:

    His brilliant prose style is sometimes __________ by his lapses into __________ respecting and pretentious languages.

    A. achieved; facile

    B. extended; whimsical

    C. disrupted; understated

    D. anticipated; personal

    E. marred; banal

  • Question 37:

    He makes his attack with a massive display of scholarship but no great __________; all to often the __________ rather than the rapier is his chosen weapon.

    A. pedantry; bomb

    B. elaboration; axe

    C. emphasis; pen

    D. discrimination; dart

    E. subtlety; bludgeon

  • Question 38:

    Her sense of time was oddly __________; ten minutes sometimes seemed like an hour.

    A. credible

    B. distorted

    C. idealized

    D. consistent

    E. formidable

  • Question 39:

    Although the Civil War __________ much of South's railroad network, it __________ the growth of railroads in the North and West.

    A. eliminated; decreased

    B. accounted for; encouraged

    C. displaced; dismantled

    D. destroyed; stimulated

    E. depended on; established

  • Question 40:

    Diversity is essential in spite of the fact that it __________ universal acceptance of a single doctrine.

    A. underlies

    B. reserves

    C. presupposes

    D. entails

    E. precludes

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