Structure
The answer format for each RW question
What is multiple choice?
True or false: you should always read each Rules question
What is False?
Fans of comic book superheroes might think that bats reside only in caves, but a more common ______ for bats in forests. In fact, without bats to prey on the insects that feast on tree seedlings, the forests would rapidly diminish.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. passage
B. habitat
C. diet
D. legend
What is B. habitat?
The three question sections within each RW module
What is Reading, Rules and Rhetoric?
The first thing you read for every Reading question
What is the question?
Music history scholars believe it not mere _____ that the "Golden Age" of tango music was comparable to that of the big band genre. Both musical styles were popular at the same time, and they featured markedly similar orchestrations.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. coincidence
B. fortune
C. destiny
D. harmony
What is A. coincidence?
The number of questions in each RW module
What is 27?
The second thing you read for every Reading question
What is the text/passage?
"I am inclined to believe that he is innocent," I replied. "He showed no embarrassment when I addressed him, and no uneasiness when the guard came round. His conversation was open to a fault. I might almost say that he talked too freely of the business which he had in hand."
"That again is strange, for I know no one more reticent on such subjects. He actually told you that he had the seventy-five thousand pounds in his pocket?"
As used in the text, what does the word "reticent" most nearly mean?
A. withdrawn
B. confident
C. suspicious
D. culpable
What is A. withdrawn?
The time limit for each RW module
What is 32 minutes?
What is POE?
Already established as one of the most eminent painters of the twentieth century, British artist David Hockney _____ discovered a new form of photo collage during a project in the 1980s. When he had taken a series of Polaroid pictures to prepare for an interior painting, he was so pleased with the Cubist effect of the photos that he made them the focus of the artwork itself, discarding the painting that he originally intended to make.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. despondently
B. deliberately
C. inadvertently
D. paradoxically
What is C. inadvertently?
What is Literature, Social Science, and Natural Science?
Four of the six common types of trap answers
What is recycled language; beyond the text; extreme language; half-right; right answer, wrong Q; opposite
While swimmers and surfers have long been aware of the danger that sharks pose in the ocean, researchers in Florida and Australia have discovered a _____ threat to beachgoers in these regions. The epaulette shark can leave the water and walk -- using its lower fins -- on land for up to two hours. Fortunately, the shark's walk is limited to a distance of about 35 yards, but the researchers still advise caution.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. blatant
B. innocuous
C. latent
D. confounding
What is C. latent?