Entry Exam Category: College Admission Exams
Course: Accuplacer
Exam: Accuplacer Reading Full-Length Practice Test

Practice Question

Extract

The following sentence has a blank indicating that something has been left out. Beneath the sentence are four words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Because of the rooted Spanish aristocratic prejudice against commerce and manual labor, the work of painters in the colonies of New Spain was not highly valued in the 1600s.
Because these speeding particles' compositions were quite different from those of other low-energy cosmic rays, scientists dubbed them ___ cosmic rays.

Answer Choices

  • A: intermittent
  • B: transitory
  • C: resilient
  • D: anomalous

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The sentence states that these particles were 'quite different' from typical cosmic rays. The word that best captures the idea of being unusual or deviating from the norm is 'anomalous'.

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