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Classic Learning Test CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 4 Questions Answers on Modern/Influential Thinkers. In this test, you will have one passage with four choices and 10 questions. There is no time restriction. If no change is necessary, select the option “NO CHANGE.
CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 4
Modern/Influential Thinkers
This passage is adapted from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech, first given on December 8, 1953, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York.
On July 16, 1945, the United States set off the [71] world first atomic explosion.
Since that date in 1945, the United States of America has conducted [72] forty two-test explosions. Atomic bombs today are more than twenty-five times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of TNT equivalent
[73] Weapons of such a devastating nature naturally raise questions of ethics in war. In the first place, the secret is possessed by our [74] friends and allies, Great Britain and Canada, whose scientific genius made a tremendous contribution to our original discoveries and the designs of atomic bombs. The secret is also known by the Soviet Union. If, at one time, the United States possessed what might have been called a monopoly of atomic power, that monopoly [75] seized to exist several years ago.Therefore, although our earlier start has permitted us to accumulate what is today a great quantitative advantage, the atomic realities of today comprehend two facts of even greater significance.
[76] One, the knowledge now possessed by several nations will eventually be shared by others—possibly all others. Second, even a vast superiority in numbers of weapons, and a consequent capability of devastating retaliation, is no preventive of itself against the fearful material damage and toll of human lives that would be inflicted by surprise aggression. [77] The free world, at least dimly aware of these facts, has naturally embarked on a large program. That program will be accelerated and expanded.But let no one think that the expenditure of vast sums for weapons and systems of defense [78] had guaranteed absolute safety for the cities and citizens of any nation. The awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb does not permit of any such easy solution. Even against the most powerful defense, an aggressor in possession of the effective minimum number of atomic bombs for a surprise attack could probably place a sufficient number of his bombs on the chosen targets to cause hideous damage.
So my country’s purpose is to help us move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which [79] the minds of men, men’s hopes, the souls of men everywhere can move forward toward peace and happiness and well-being.
[80] It’s super obvious to me that we must not lack patience in this quest. I know that many steps will have to be taken over many months before the world can look at itself one day and truly realize that a new climate of mutually peaceful confidence is abroad in the world. But I know, above all else, that we must start to take these steps nowThis passage has been excerpted and adapted from the original, including minor punctuation changes, spelling changes, and other modifications that have not substantially changed content or intent.
71. world
A) NO CHANGE
B) worlds
C) world’s
D) worlds’
72. forty-two-test explosions.
A) NO CHANGE
B) forty-two test explosions.
C) forty two-test explosions.
D) forty two test explosions.
73. Weapons of such a devastating nature naturally raise questions of ethics in war.
A) NO CHANGE
B) Fortunately, the United States is the only country yet to have harnessed this power.
C) It took many years of arduous research and development to produce such weapons.
D) But the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might are not ours alone.
74. friends and allies, Great Britain and Canada, whose scientific
A) NO CHANGE
B) friends and allies, Great Britain, and Canada, whose scientific
C) friends and allies, Great Britain and Canada whose scientific
D) friends and allies, Great Britain and Canada whose, scientific
75. seized
A) NO CHANGE
B) ceased
C) ceded
D) seeded
76. One
A) NO CHANGE
B) However
C) First
D) Thus
77. Which of the following choices represents the clearest and most concise way to convey all of the information in the sentence?
The free world, at least dimly aware of these facts, has naturally embarked on a large program.
A) NO CHANGE
B) The free world has naturally embarked on a large program at least dimly aware of these facts.
C) The free world, at least dimly aware of these facts, has naturally embarked on a large program of warning and defense systems.
D) The free world, of warning and defense systems, has naturally embarked on a large program at least dimly aware of these facts.
78. had guaranteed
A) NO CHANGE
B) can guarantee
C) will have guaranteed
D) was guaranteeing
79. the minds of men, men’s hopes, the souls of men
A) NO CHANGE
B) men’s minds, men’s hopes, the souls of men
C) men’s minds, the hopes of men, the souls of men
D) the minds of men, the hopes of men, the souls of men
80. Which of the following choices best matches the tone of the passage?
It’s super obvious to me that we must not lack patience in this quest.
A) NO CHANGE
B) We have to be patient in this quest, okay?
C) I totally know that we can’t lack patience in this quest.
D) In this quest, I know that we must not lack patience
See also:
Section I: Verbal Reasoning- CLT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 1 – Literature
- CLT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 2 – Science
- CLT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 3 – Philosophy/Religion
- CLT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 4 – Historical/Founding Documents
- CLT Grammar Writing Practice Test 1 – Philosophy/Religion
- CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 2 Historical Profile
- CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 3 – Science
- CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 4 – Modern/Influential Thinkers