Process of Elimination
What is the capital of Armenia
A - Moscow
B - Yerevan
C - Washington D.C.
D - Ottawa
B - Yerevan
What does the underlined word mean?
“The dog walked in an arbitrary manner. Its movements could not be easily predicted.”
A. Random
B. Strange
C. Quick
D. Frightened
A. Random
The color of animals is by no means a matter of chance; it depends on many considerations, but in the majority of cases tends to protect the animal from danger by rendering it less conspicuous (1). Perhaps it may be said that if coloring is mainly protective, there ought to be but few brightly colored animals (2). There are, however, not a few cases in which vivid colors are themselves protective (3). The kingfisher itself, though so brightly colored, is by no means easy to see (4) . The blue harmonizes with the water, and the bird as it darts along the stream looks almost like a flash of sunlight (5). - "The Colors of Animals" by Sir John Lubbock
A student claims the passage above supports the belief that animal colors are suited to the environment which they inhabit. What text, if any, best supports this belief?
A. No text supports this belief
B. Sentence 2
C. Sentence 4
D. Sentence 5
D. Sentence 5
Furthermore, it seems to me that family is the basic source of happiness (1). Certainly, I can’t always be a good guy and sometimes I make them upset but I can’t stand seeing them upset (2). Therefore, I try to do whatever necessary to make them happy (3). Consequently, when I see happy family faces, I feel deeply happy (4).
Thirdly, to have friends is one of the most meaningful aspects of life (5). I believe that one should have three very warm friends at least(6). For example, I can’t bear loneliness and if I couldn’t share all my heart with these warm friends, I believe that I could never be happy (7). As a consequence, if you feel like me, it will be worth improving your close relationships in order to be happy (8).
To recap, humankind has a short life but he is given a lot of desires to be happy (9). Moreover, if one wants to discover the meaning of his short life, he should look for it in desires (10). Whether he finds it or not, he will taste happiness just by looking for it (11).
The writer wants to add the following sentence:
“One could almost say that happiness is the overarching goal for mankind”
Where would be the best location to add this?
A. After sentence 1
B. After Sentence 4
C. Before sentence 8
D. After sentence 9
D. After sentence 9
Determine the meaning of the passage.
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
A. Life is entirely uncontrollable.
B. Life is meant to be lived on the ocean.
C. Wind can be controlled and changed.
D. You cannot control fate but you can control your outlook.
D. You cannot control fate, but you can control your outlook.
What is the 15th most popular spoken language in the world?
A - Persian
B - Wallonian
C - English
D - French
A - Persian
What does the underlined word most nearly mean?
"She thought her music taste was avant-garde, but he believed it was boring and unoriginal."
A. Bleak
B. Drowsy
C. Sneaky
D. Different
D. Different
After reading an ad in the back of one of his comic books, Jacob decided that he wanted a Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector, so that he could find buried pirate treasure (1). So he mowed lawns all summer and didn’t spend his money on ice-cream like his younger brother, Alex (2). He saved it all in a shoe box in his closet (3). Then he shoveled driveways all winter, and he didn’t spend his money on candy and chips like his classmates (4). By the time spring came he had saved $200, and he purchased the Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector (5). He beeped it around the park for a while, but he soon found out that no pirates had ever set sail in his neighborhood, and if they had they didn’t leave any treasure (6). Even though he found a key ring, forty-seven cents, and all the bottle caps he could throw, he buried the metal detector in his closest (7).
Which of the following sentences best encaptures the shift in the passage?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 7
C. 6
Abigail Adams: Persuading Her Husband
(1)I long to hear that you have declared an independency. (2)And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. (3)Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
Where should the following sentence be placed: "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could."
A. After sentence 1
B. After sentence 2
C. After sentence 3
D. Before sentence 1
C. After sentence 3
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
3. What is the intended meaning of the text above?
To warn against lying to the public
To demand justice for past wrongs
To encourage others to grow in their faith
To stimulate the economy
1. To warn against lying to the public
What is the smallest country in the world?
A. Netherlands
B. El Salvador
C. Eritrea
D. Holy See
D. Holy See
The italicized word most nearly means
"The cow moved across the pasture with a bovine stride. It almost seemed bogged down by a mysterious weight."
A. Lackluster
B. Agile
C. Slow
D. Curious
C. Slow
Besides being a poet, philosopher, and novelist, Santayana was a hugely influential cultural critic. In a trenchant 1911 address before the Philosophical Union in California he coined the term “genteel tradition” and memorably provided the characterization of America as an “old wine in new bottles.” He wrote many similarly speculatively rich essays diagnosing the cultural character of the America of his time, some of which included penetrating philosophical criticisms of his contemporaries and former teachers, James and Royce. These diagnoses were early collected in the volume Character and Opinion in the United States (1920).
A student reading this passage claims that Santayana believed in American cultural superiority. Which of the following quotes disproves this claim?
A. “Santayana was a hugely influential cultural critic”
B. “Provided… America as an ‘old wine in new bottles’.”
C. “Penetrating philosophical criticisms of his contemporaries”
D. “This diagnoses were [compiled in] Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)”
B. “Provided… America as an ‘old wine in new bottles’.”
1💎On the same ground it may be said that the most effective writer is not he who announces a particular discovery, who convinces men of a particular conclusion, who demonstrates that this measure is right and that measure wrong; but he who rouses in others the activities that must issue in discovery, who awakes men from their indifference to the right and the wrong, who nerves their energies to seek for the truth and live up to it at whatever cost. 2💎He does not teach men how to use sword and musket, but he inspires their souls with courage and sends a strong will into their muscles. 3💎He does not, perhaps, enrich your stock of data, but he clears away the film from your eyes that you may search for data to some purpose. He does not, perhaps, convince you, but he strikes you, undeceives you, animates you. 4💎
Which part of the sentence would the sentence 💎“The influence of such a writer is dynamic” best fit on the paragraph?
A. Before 1💎
B. Before 2💎
C. Before 3💎
D. Before 4💎
2. Before 2💎
What is the meaning of the passage?
Churchill
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
A. Churchill believes Britain is ready for war.
B. Churchill believes Britain needs to prepare for war.
C. Churchill wants Britain to prepare for war.
D. Churchill believes Britain is not ready for war.
A. Churchill believes Britain is ready for war.
Which of the following cities is the oldest?
A. Rome
B. Moscow
C. London
D. Addis Ababa
D. Addis Ababa
Adapted from “The Celebration of Intellect” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1861)
At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a representative in their halls; a son, a brother, or one of our own kindred is there for his training. But even if we had no son or friend therein, yet the college is part of the community, and it is there for us, is training our teachers, civilizers, and inspirers. It is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than, the light-house, or the alarm-bell, or the sentinel who fires a signal-cannon, or the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.
What is expressed by the word “radiating” underlined in the passage's first paragraph?
The university's ability to question all things
A. The overall character of the university as an isolated institution
B. The nature of the university's influence on culture
C. The light of light-houses in their splendor
D. The lighting used in the speaking hall for Emerson's talk
B. The nature of the university's ability to question all things
Again, the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there; for it will always happen that such a one will be introduced by those who are discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear, as one has seen already (1) . The Romans were brought into Greece by the Aetolians; and in every other country where they obtained a footing they were brought in by the inhabitants (2). And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power (3). So that in respect to those subject states he has not to take any trouble to gain them over to himself, for the whole of them quickly rally to the state which he has acquired there (4). - Machiavelli
Machiavelli lived during a time of great unrest in Italy. Which of the following sentences indicates that he does not wish for foreign intervention into his homeland?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
A. 1
Ulysses S. Grant
(1)As he was a man of much dignity, with an impassible face, it was impossible to say whether he felt inwardly glad that the end had finally come, or felt sad over the result, and was too manly to show it. (2)Whatever his feelings, they were entirely concealed from my observation. (3)But my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed.
Where does the following sentence best fit?
What General Lee’s feelings were I do not know.
A. Before sentence 1
B. After sentence 1
C. After sentence 2
D. Aftern sentence 3
A. Before sentence 1
What is the meaning of the passage?
He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from a battle. Previously he had never felt obliged to wrestle too seriously with this question. In his life he had taken certain things for granted, never challenging his belief in ultimate success, and bothering little about means and roads. But here he was confronted with a thing of moment. It had suddenly appeared to him that perhaps in a battle he might run. He was forced to admit that as far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself.
A. The boy was well prepared to go into battle.
B. The boy holds a romantic view of war.
C. The boy was once eager for war, but now is second guessing his desire.
D. The has dreaded battle for his whole life.
C. The boys was once eager for war, but now is second guessing his desire.
If which of the following is true, then what is the correct answer?
A. It is not
B. The statement above is truth
C. Which of the following
D. The statement above is incorrect
C. Which of the following
What does the underlined word most nearly mean?
He often bragged about his indefatigable energy, but his wife begged to differ.
Powerful
Tranquil
Bottlomless
Royal
3. Bottomless
But it is not proper, on the other hand, that the legislative power should have a right to stop the executive (1) . For as the execution has its natural limits, it is useless to confine it; besides, the executive power is generally employed in momentary operations (2). * * * But if the legislative power in a free government ought to have no right to stop the executive, it has a right, and ought to have the means of examining in what manner its laws have been executed.… But whatever may be the issue of that examination, the legislative body ought not to have a power of judging the person, nor of course the conduct of him who is intrusted with the executive power (3). His person should be sacred, because as it is necessary for the good of the state to prevent the legislative body from rendering themselves arbitrary, the moment he is accused or tried, there is an end of liberty (4). - Montesquieu
A modern historian claims that Montesquieu was the originator of the concept of separation of powers. What text, if any, supports this claim?
A. There is no textual support
B. Sentences 1 and 2
C. 3
D. 4
C. 3
1💎Thus he sweeteneth the water with a wood,3 preserveth the creatures in the ark, which the blast of his mouth might have as easily created; for God is like a skillful geometrician, who, when more easily and with one stroke of his compass he might describe or divide a right line, had yet rather do this in a circle or longer way, according to the constituted and fore-laid principles of his art.
2💎I call the effects of nature the works of God, whose hand and in- strument she only is; and therefore to ascribe his actions unto her, is to devolve the honour of the principal agent upon the instrument; which if with reason we may do, then let our hammers rise up and boast they built our houses, and our pens receive the honour of our writings. 3💎I hold there is a general beauty in the works of God, and therefore no deformity in any kind or species of creature whatsoever.4💎
Q. Which part of the paragraph would the sentence 💎”Yet this rule of his he doth sometimes pervert, to acquaint the world with his prerogative, lest the arrogancy of our reason should question his power, and conclude he could not.” best fit on the paragraph?
1)Before 1💎
2)Before 2💎
3)Before 3💎
4)Before 4💎
2)Before 2💎
Clothes make the man. Naked men have little to no influence on society. - Mark Twain
What is the intended meaning of the text above?
To agree with the belief that appearance is importance
To argue against the dominance of clothed men in society
To encourage naked men to demand more influence
To diminish the importance of how men dress
1. The diminish the importance of how men dress