Conciseness
Located on the northern coast of South America, Suriname PERPETUATES the most untouched rainforest on the continent.
a) NO CHANGE
B) Stores
C) Preserves
D) Stashes
Preserves
The author wants to use irony in order to communicate disapproval of the bad weather. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
According to the weather station, we should expect rain, hail, and an assortment of small pets to descend from the sky later this afternoon. Well, isn’t that just a LOVELY forecast.
a) No Change
B) Rocky
C) Fragile
D) Unpromising
A) No Change
The rescue team members wondered if they should call for backup or try to attempt the rescue themselves?
a) No change
B) Themselves.
C) Themselves,
D) Themselves!
B) Themselves.
Writing have been invented in Sumer around 3200 BCE, marking the beginning of recorded history.
a) No Change
B) was
C) were being
D) are
B) Was
All Molly wanted to do was NAVIGATE a direct route to the beach, but her GPS kept losing its signal.
a) No Change
B) Convey
C) Voyage
D) Maneuver
A) No Change, navigate stays the same.
Which choice best maintains the intent and pattern of the sentence?
You must be brave without foolhardiness, strong without violence, decisive with arrogance.
a) No Change
B) Decision without arrogance
C) Arrogant with decisiveness
D) Arrogant without decisiveness
B) Decision without arrogance
Watch out? That bird is headed straight for your head!
a) No Change
B) Watch Out!
C) Out that
D) Out! That
D) Out! That
The warrior hoisted his ruby-hilted sword, will twirl it in the air, and slew the ugly dragon.
A) No Change
B) twirl
C) Twirled
D) to twirl
C) Twirled
In her historic 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan identified "The Problem That Has No Name"—the psychological SCUFFLE for women who wanted to pursue professions but (due to the cultural restrictions of that era) were destined to be homemakers.
a) No Change
B) Melee
C) Struggle
D) Bout
C) Struggle
For the sake of rhetorical flourish, the author wants to use the same word as two different parts of speech. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
She did not hate many things, although she disliked the very act of hating things.
a) No Change
b) Although she hated the emotion
C) except for that emotion
D) except for hate itself
D) Except for hate itself
Does anyone know the difference between regular, and fancy ketchup?
A) No Change
B) regular and fancy ketchup?
C) regular and fancy ketchup.
D) regular, and fancy ketchup.
B) regular and fancy ketchup?
Awarded a Newbery Medal, Doll Bones are the story of three children's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site.
a) No Change
B) is
C) were
D) have been
B) is
Before the Black Plague hit Europe in the 14th century, medieval people did not bathe by SUBMERGING themselves in a tub of water, which they considered an act of debauchery. Instead they quickly cleaned themselves with water and a cloth.
a) No change
B) Drowning
C) Engulfing
D) Sheathing
A) NO change, stays the same
For the sake of rhetorical effect, the writer wants to maintain the pattern of repeating words derived from the same root. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Attain the unattainable, conquer the unconquerable, clasp the unreachable.
a) No Change
b) grasp is what is out of reach
c) reach what can't be grasped
d) reach the unreachable
D) reach the unreachable
Chinese cuisine is like both science and art, it requires experimentation, trial-and-error, and years of experience.
a) NO CHANGE
B) art: it requires
C) art; it requires
D) art it requires
C) art; it requires
The rise of meal delivery service HomeBites and the app Foodie (that allows users to rate restaurants) are just two instance of how technology has dominated our eating culture.
a) No Change
B) Illustrations
C) example
D) case
B) Illustrations
When she moved to a new town, Cecilia joined a book club to HARVEST friendships with people who shared her interests.
a) No Change
B) Cultivate
C) Tend
D) Burgeon
B) Cultivate
Which choice most effectively maintains the stylistic pattern established earlier in the paragraph?
We shall wander the cobbled streets of Paris under the glittery moon. We shall swim the length of the Nile with the hippos and crocodiles. At sunrise, we shall scale Mount Fuji and pretend we are alone in the world.
a) No changeB) Scaling Mount Fuji at sunrise, we shall pretend we are not alone in the world.
C) We shall scale Mount Fuji at sunrise and we can pretend we are alone in the world
D) To pretend we are alone in the world, we shall scale Mount Fuji at sunset.
C) We shall scale Mount Fuji at sunrise and we can pretend we are alone in the world
Even though its crocodilian jaws are fragile and incapable of eating a large animal, the Gharial still evokes a powerful emotion, terror.
a) No Change
B) emotion terror
C) emotion-- terror
D) emotion; terror
emotion-- terror
After discovering that children who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer from asthma and allergies, researchers is trying to isolate the compounds in farm dust that lead to this protection
a) No Change
B) tries
C) has tried
D) are trying
D) Are trying