TEPT PRACTICE TEST

I. Each question below consists of a related pair of words or phrases, followed by five lettered pairs of words or
phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
1. QUARRY: MARBLE
A. metal:silver B. ore: gold C. mine:coal D. prey:rabbit E. necklace:diamonds
2. CHAIRMAN: GAVEL
A. conductor: baton B. violinist:bow C. orator:dais D. teacher:blackboard E. pianist:keys
3. CONSTITUTION: PREAMBLE
A. prelude:overture B. legislation:introduction C. opera:intermezzo D. book:preface E. play:epilogue
4. JOY:ECSTASY
A. rain: drought B. breeze:hurricane C. river:creek D. deluge: flood E. jazz:opera
5. DEPTH: FISSURE
A. breadth:scope B. height : peak C. velocity : road D. weight : diet E. length : duration
6. BLATANT: OBTRUSIVENESS
A. cynical : anger B. weary : hopelessness C. erudite : ignorance D. lavish: extravagance E. arrogant : humility
7. EMACIATED: GAUNT
A. liberated : gigantic B. dwarfed : tall C. overweight : haggard D. eaten : distinguished E. obese : corpulent
8. BLIND: SIGHT
A. diabetic : sugar B. indigent : tact C. amnesiac : memory D. benevolent : charity E. misanthropic :hate
9. STRIDENT : VOICE
A. muted : music B. smooth :texture C. acrid : taste D. fragrant : odor E. tuned : instrument
10. GAMBIT : CHESS
A. pass : poker B. jump : checkers C. fumble : football D. queen : pawn E. finesse : bridge

II. The following sentences contain problems in grammar, usage, diction (choice of words) and idiom. Some
sentences are correct. No sentence contains more than one error.

1. In order to conserve valuable gasoline, motorists had ought to check their speedometers while driving along the
A B C
highways since it is very easy to exceed 55 miles per hour while driving on open roads. No error.
D E
2. The book must be old, for its cover is torn bad. No Error.
A B C D E
3. Not one of the children has ever sang in public before. No Error.
A B C D E
4. Neither you nor I can realize the affect his behavior will have on his chances for promotion. No Error.
A B C D E
5. The apparently obvious solution to the problem was overlooked by many of the contestants. No Error.
A B C D E
6. After he had drank the warm milk, he began to feel sleepy and finally decided to go to bed. No Error.
A B C D E
7. Without hardly a moments delay, the computer began to print out the answer to the problem. No Error.
A B C D E
8. After conferring with John Brown and Mary Smith, I have decided that she is better qualified than him to edit the
A B C D
school newspaper. No Error.
E
9. Of the two candidates for this newly formed government position, Ms. Rivera is the most qualified because of her
A B C D
experience in the field. No Error.
E
10. Diligence and honesty, as well as being intelligent, are qualities which I look for when I interview applicants.
A B C D
No Error.
E
III. In each of the following sentences, some part or all of the sentence is underlined, below each sentence you will
find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence, one
that is clear and exact.
1. The child is neither encouraged to be critical or to examine all the evidence before forming an opinion.
A. neither encouraged to be critical or to examine
B. neither encouraged to be critical nor to examine
C. either encouraged to be critical or to examine
D. encouraged either to be critical nor to examine
E. not encouraged either to be critical or to examine
2. The process by which the community influence the actions of its members is known as social control
A. influence the actions of its members
B. influences the actions of its members
C. had influenced the actions of its members
D. influences the actions of their members
E. will influence the actions of its members
3. Play being recognized as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing
human misery and poverty.
A. Play being recognized as
B. By recognizing play as
C. Their recognizing play as
D. Recognition of it being
E. Play is recognized as
4. To be sure, there would be scarcely any time left over for other things if school children would have been
expected to have considered all sides of every matter on which they hold opinions.
A. would have been expected to have considered
B. should have been expected to have considered
C. were expected to consider
D. will be expected to have been considered
E. were expected to be considered
5. Using it wisely, leisure promotes health, efficiency and happiness.
A. using it wisely
B. If it is used wisely
C. Having used it wisely
D. Because of its wise use
E. Because of usefulness
6. In giving expression to the play instincts of the human race, new vigor and effectiveness are afforded by
recreation to the body and to the mind.
A. new vigor and effectiveness are afforded by recreation to the body and to the mind.
B. recreation affords new vigor and effectiveness to the body and to the mind
C. there are afforded new vigor and effectiveness to the body and to the mind
D. by recreation the body and mind are afforded new vigor and effectiveness
E. the body and the mind afford new vigor and effectiveness to themselves by recreation.
7. Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising.
A. Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising
B. argument is seldom used by advertisers, who depend instead on skillful suggestions
C. Skillful suggestion is depended on by advertisers instead of argument.
D. Suggestion, which is more skillful, is used in place of argument by advertisers.
E. Instead of suggestion, depending on argument is used by skillful advertisers.
8. When this war is over, no nation will either be isolated in war or peace.
A. either be isolated in war or peace
B. be either isolated in war or peace.
C. be isolated in neither war nor peace
D. be isolated either in war or in peace
E. be isolated neither in war or peace
9. Thanks to the prevailing westerly winds, dust blowing east from the drought-stricken plains travels halfway
across the continent to fall on the cities of the East Coast.
A. blowing east from the drought-stricken plains
B. that, blowing east from the drought-stricken plains
C. from the drought-stricken plains blowing east
D. that is from the drought-stricken plains and blows east
E. blowing east that is from the plains that are drought-stricken.
10. Americans are learning that their concept of a research worker toiling alone in a laboratory and who discovers
miraculous cures has been highly idealized and glamorized.
A. toiling in a laboratory and who discovers miraculous cures
B. toiling in a laboratory and discovers miraculous cures
C. toiling alone in a laboratory to discover miraculous cures
D. who toil in the laboratory and discover miraculous cures
E. who has toiled alone hoping to discover miraculous cures








TEPT PRACTICE TEST
IN SCIENCE

Read each sentence/question and choose the best answer.
1. 1. A student hits a hockey puck which slides across a frozen lake. The force required to keep the
puck sliding at a constant velocity across the ice is:
a. zero Newtons.
b. equal to the weight of the puck.
c. the weight of the puck divided by the mass of the puck.
d. the mass of the puck multiplied by the weight of the puck.
2. 2.Each figure below shows a force measured in Newtons pushing on a block. If there are no other
forces pushing on the block, in which case is the acceleration of the block greatest?
a. b.
c. d.

3. A person produces two sound waves with a flute, one immediately after the other. Both sound
waves have the same pitch, but the second one is louder. Which of the following properties is
greater for the second sound wave?
a. Frequency
b. Amplitude
c. Wavelength
d. Speed in air
4. Air in the atmosphere continuously moves by convection. At the equator, air rises; at the poles it
sinks. This occurs because
a. the Earths ozone layer is thinner at the equator than at the poles.
b. the Earths magnetic field is stronger at the poles than at the equator.
c. warm air can hold less water vapor than can cold air.
d. warm air is less dense than cold air.
5. Which of the following determines most characteristics and future events of a stars existence?
a. size (diameter)
b. temperature
c. color
d.mass
6. Which of the following best describes the expansion of the universe?
a. Expansion involves the spreading of matter into infinite and empty space.
b. As space expands, matter spreads out to fill up the empty space.
c. As space expands, the empty space between matter increases.
d. As space expands, matter continually is created to fill that space.
7. Which of the following is the best description of the Big Bang Theory?
a. The Big Bang Theory is the scientific explanation of how the Sun, Earth and the rest of the
solar system were created at the beginning of time.
b. The Big Bang Theory states that pre-existing matter was compacted into a hot and dense for
and suddenly exploded into infinite, empty space.
c. The Big Bang Theory is just one of the ideas about the universes origin, many of which are
equally respected by the scientific community.
d. The Big Bang Theory is the prevailing model about the universes origin and is supported by
observations of the universes expansion.



8. Earths seasons are the result of
a. the greenhouse effect, where the atmosphere is thicker in the summer and thinner in the
winter.
b. solar flares, which occur more frequently in the summer than in the winter.
c. its elliptical orbit, causing Earth to be closer to the Sun in the summer and farther in the winter.
d. earths tilt, causing the number of daylight hours to decrease from summer to winter.
9. Which of the following is (are) important concepts(s) in Darwins theory of natural
selection?
I. Species do not change over time.
II. There is variability of characteristics within a population of organisms.
III. A single organism can acquire traits over their lifetimes that are then passed to its offspring.
a. I only
b. II only
c. I and II only
d. II and III only
10. Which of the following characteristics of rocks can be caused by the slow cooling of magma?
A large crystals
B colorful grains
C smooth cover
D symmetrical shape
11. A law is an explanation of scientific phenomenon that is
A. largely accepted by scientists.
B. based on observations.
C. supported by most scientific data.
D. proven and is without exception.
12. After data is gathered from an experiment, doing which of these will most help make results more
reliable?
A. asking the teacher to check data
B. changing the variables for another
experiment
C. repeating the experiment for additional
data
D. reporting the information on a table
13. Light is best refracted by
A. mirrors
B. wood
C. glass
D. metal
14. Chemical reaction rates can most effectively be increased by
A. decreasing reactant particle size
B. increasing volume of the container
C. decreasing temperature
D. increasing the number of reactant
15. Which of these items can be best used as in inclined plane?
A. wheelbarrow
B. tennis racquet
C. door knob
D. staircase
16. Bone is to chicken as cartilage is to
A. shark
B. wolf
C. clam
D. Worm
17. Emily and Sarah observed that the goldfish in their classroom breathed more frequently when the
room was warm. What equipment would the girls need to conduct an experiment that would
verify their observations?
A. balance, beakers, thermometers
B. thermometers, stopwatch, notebook
C. stopwatch, thermometer, balance
D. balance, stopwatch, notebook
18. One characteristic of all living things is that they
A. have eyes.
B. have legs.
C. inhale and exhale.
D. eliminate waste products.
19. Earth has seasons because of
A. Earths tilt on its axis.
B. Earths distance from the sun.
C. the moons gravitational pull.
D. the suns temperature changes.
20. The producer in the food web shown above is the
A. grass.
B. mouse.
C. mountain lion.
D. owl.
21. The long necks of a giraffe may best be explained by
A. giraffes constantly stretching their necks over time.
B. short-necked giraffes were less able to compete for food.
C. the theory of the use and disuse of organs.
D. the extinction of other long-necked animals due to climate change.
22. Which BEST explains why a lake is frozen on the surface but not below the surface?
A. Ice floats.
B. Water freezes at 0 C.
C. Ice lets light through the water.
D. Water is clear.



23. How does the heat inside Earths core affect what happens on Earths surface?
A. The heat warms Earths crust in the worlds desert and tropical regions.
B. The heat causes convection currents in Earths mantle which move the tectonic plates.
C. The heat from the core sets up wind patterns in Earths lower atmosphere.
D. The heat is slowly melting the glaciers found around the North and South Poles of Earth.
24. Why does the moon only have 1/6 of Earths gravity?
A. It is very far away from Earth
B. It has no atmosphere.
C. It has less mass than Earth.
D. It is made of basalt.
25. A year on Jupiter is 4,344 days long. This tells you how long it takes
A. Jupiter to orbit the sun.
B. Jupiter to rotate one time on its axis.
C. the sun to orbit Jupiter.
D. Earth to orbit Jupiter.
26. All stars, including our sun, give off heat and light. Which is the best explanation for why we do not
feel the heat from other stars?
A. The other stars are smaller than the sun.
B. The other stars are much farther away than the sun.
C. The other stars are not as bright as the sun.
D. The other stars are not as hot as the sun.
27. When you use the brakes on your bike to stop, the energy of the bikes motion is converted into
A. heat energy.
B. electromagnetic energy.
C. potential energy.
D. kinetic energy.
28. Green plants can reduce greenhouse gases by
A. producing oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
B. removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis.
C. absorbing sunlight in the plants chlorophyll molecules.
D. providing shade and moisture to cool the air in the lower part of the atmosphere
29. A biotic factor that might be studied in an ecosystem is the
A. size of soil particles.
B. percent of soil moisture.
C. rate of algae growth.
D. pH of lake water.
30. Which are three examples physical changes?
A. water freezing, gasoline, evaporating, a nail rusting.
B. B. water boiling, a balloon bursting, a candle melting.
C. wood burning, a marshmallow melting, a paper tearing.
D. gasoline burning, an egg rotting, fireworks exploding.