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
The Land of Enchantment is a 1906 travel book by Lilian Whiting. In the book, which describes the experience of traveling through the southwestern United States by train, Whiting reflects on the escape from everyday life that such a journey provides: ______
Which quotation from The Land of Enchantment most effectively illustrates the claim?
Choice A
The social and the picturesque charm of the long journey is singularly enhanced by the leisurely stops made for refreshment.”
“One experiences a certain sense of detachment from ordinary day and daylight duties that is exhilarating.”
“The real journey begins, of course, at Chicago, and as these trains leave in the evening the traveller fares forth in the seclusion of his berth.”
(Choice D)
“The opportunities and advantages already offered and constantly increasing are greater than would at first be considered possible.”
B
“One experiences a certain sense of detachment from ordinary day and daylight duties that is exhilarating.”
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
American fashion designer Patrick Kelly was known for his love of colorful buttons. Many of his signature dresses feature bold assortments of buttons throughout the garment. In a paper, a fashion design student claims that Kelly’s use of buttons as decoration was inspired by his childhood observations of the styles and actions of the women in his family.
Which quotation from a work by a historian would be the most effective evidence for the student to include in support of this claim?
A- Kelly’s grandmother, who would repair clothing when he was a child, frequently added mismatched buttons to the clothes to draw attention away from any flaws in the garments.”
“Kelly was destined to be a designer from a young age: he learned how to sew clothing from his aunt Bertha, and his love of drawing was developed by his mother.”
C
“Although some of the assortments of buttons appear to be mismatched pieces scattered randomly throughout Kelly’s dresses, his most famous designs feature carefully crafted patterns of matching buttons.”
D
"Many of Kelly’s contemporaries were inspired by his designs to incorporate buttons, as well as zippers and snaps, as decorative items in their work."
A Kelly’s grandmother, who would repair clothing when he was a child, frequently added mismatched buttons to the clothes to draw attention away from any flaws in the garments.
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
“To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the
poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he
addresses directly, have not fully understood
themselves, writing, _______ Which quotation from “To You” most effectively
illustrates the claim?
“You have not known what you are, you have
slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your
eyelids have been the same as closed most of the
time.”
B) “These immense meadows, these interminable
rivers, you are immense / and interminable as
they.”
C) “I should have made my way straight to you long
ago, / I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I
should have chanted nothing / but you.”
D) “I will leave all and come and make the hymns of
you, / None has understood you, but I
understand you.”
A
“You have not known what you are, you have
slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your
eyelids have been the same as closed most of the
time.”
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
“Valia” is a 1907 short story by Leonid Andreyev. In the story, the author emphasizes that the setting where the character Valia is reading is nearly silent: ______
Which quotation from “Valia” most effectively illustrates the claim?
A Valia approached the window and examined the toys.”
B
“Valia was reading a huge, very huge book, almost half as large as himself.”
“Everything in the room was quiet, so quiet that the only thing to be heard was the rustling of the pages he turned.”
D
“The hand in which he carried his book was getting stiff with cold, but he would not ask his mother to take the book from him.”
C
“Everything in the room was quiet, so quiet that the only thing to be heard was the rustling of the pages he turned.”
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
A member of the Otomi, an Indigenous people in Central Mexico, Octavio Medellín immigrated to the United States as a child, and his sculpture bears the impress of traditions on both sides of the border: US based modernist sculpture, Mexican modernist painting, Otomi art, and the ancient sculpture of other Mexican Indigenous peoples, including the Maya. In his 1950 masterpiece History of Mexico, Medellín fuses these influences into a style so idiosyncratic that it resists efforts to view his work through the lens of nationality or cultural identity. Artists, he insisted, should strive for individual expression, even as they draw inspiration from their heritage and the communities where they live and work.
Choice A “While A History of Mexico features modernist motifs, it relies primarily on angular human forms in profile—a staple of Maya sculpture—and thus invites classification as Indigenous art.”
“Although a number of ancient Indigenous artistic traditions pictured human forms in profile, the forms populating the surface of A History of Mexico suggest a specifically Maya influence.”
“In A History of Mexico, the synthesis of ancient and modernist traditions functions as a stylistic parallel to the work’s subject matter: a survey of centuries of Mexican history.”
“Many critics focus on Indigenous influences in A History of Mexico and other key works by Medellín to the exclusion of influences from non-Indigenous art.”
Choice A “While A History of Mexico features modernist motifs, it relies primarily on angular human forms in profile—a staple of Maya sculpture—and thus invites classification as Indigenous art.”