Identifying Sentence Errors
1. Looking up
2. While Looking Up
3. By looking up
4. Viewed
1 admits.
2 tolerates.
3 grants.
4 enables.
The second paragraph states that “TESS allows scientists to order up Internet-based surveys.” In the context of the service that the TESS program provides to scientists, “allows” most nearly means enables.
Choices 1, 2, and 3 are incorrect because in the context of the passage’s discussion of TESS, “allows” most nearly means enables, not admits (choice 1), tolerates (choice 2), or grants (choice 3).
1. general discussion of the narrator’s love of reading to a portrayal of an influential incident.
2. depiction of the narrator’s father to an examination of an author with whom the narrator becomes enchanted.
3. symbolic representation of a skill the narrator possesses to an example of its application.
4. tale about the hardships of the narrator’s childhood to an analysis of the effects of those hardships.
The first paragraph explains the narrator’s love of reading: “Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. . . . Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people.” The fourth paragraph reiterates this love in its description of the bookshop as a “sanctuary” and “refuge.” The shift in focus occurs in the last six paragraphs, which recount the gift of a book that transforms the narrator’s love of reading into a desire to write: “I did not think there could be a better [book] in the whole world and I was beginning to suspect that Mr. Dickens had written it just for me. Soon I was convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do what Mr. Dickens had done.” Thus the passage’s overall focus shifts from the narrator’s love of reading to a specific incident that influences his decision to become a writer.
1. About 100 years
2. About 500 years
3. About 1,000 years
4. About 10,000 years
(To put this in perspective -- If the Normans had used plastic bags when they invaded England in 1066, Archeologists would still be unearthing their plastic bags today.)
2. Barbara cannot help but to think she will win a college scholarship.
3. Barbara cannot help not to think that she will win a college scholarship.
4. Barbara cannot but help thinking that she will win a college scholarship.
1) attribution.
2) exertion.
3) toughness.
4) significance.
1) He lacked affection for the narrator.
2) He disliked any unnecessary use of money.
3) He would not have approved of Sempere’s gift.
4) He objected to the writings of Charles Dickens
The tenth paragraph shows that upon returning home, the narrator hides the gift (the “new friend”) that Sempere had given him: “That afternoon I took my new friend home, hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldn’t see it.” It can be inferred from this sentence that the narrator’s concern arises from an awareness that his father would disapprove of the gift.
1. Eminem
2. Elvis Presley
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. Pitbull
1. appearances, tempting her to sing too often and straining
2. appearances not only tempt her to sing too often plus they strain
3. appearances tempts her not only into singing too often but then she strains
4. appearances tempt her to sing too often and strain
1) the results of related studies will be misleading.
2) researchers may overlook promising areas of study.
3) mistakes in the collection of null results may be overlooked.
4) the bias against null results will be disregarded.
Choices 2, 3, and 4 are incorrect because the passage does not indicate that failing to document null results can cause promising areas of research to be overlooked (choice 2), cause errors in data collection practices that lead to null results being overlooked (choice 3), or lessen bias against null results (choice 4).
1) reading the book convinced him that he wanted to be a writer.
2) he’d only ever been given sweets and snacks as gifts in the past.
3) the gift meant that Sempere held him in high regard.
4) Sempere was a friend of the book’s author.
The last paragraph makes clear the narrator’s enthusiasm for Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and it can be inferred from the last sentence of this paragraph that this enthusiasm motivated the narrator to aspire to a career as a writer: “Soon I was convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do what Mr. Dickens had done.”
1. FLV-57
2. Sputnik
3. Apollo 13
4. It did not have a name.
1. either fiction or drama
2. in either fiction or drama
3. either fiction or in drama
4. either in fiction or drama
1) Studies with mixed results were just as likely to be published as they were to be left either unpublished or unwritten.
2) Studies with mixed results occurred more frequently than did studies with strong and null results combined.
3) Studies with mixed results were more likely to be published in top journals than they were to be published in non-top journals.
4) Studies with mixed results were the most common type of social science studies.
The middle bar of the graph pertains to social science studies that produced mixed results. The top 50 percent of this bar represents studies that were published. The bottom 50 percent of this bar represents studies that were either unpublished or went unwritten. Since each of the two categories accounts for 50 percent of the total, it can be said that studies with mixed results were just as likely to be published as they were to be left either unpublished or unwritten.
1) bulk.
2) burden.
3) force.
4) clout.
In the fourth paragraph, the narrator describes his reluctance to leave Sempere’s bookshop: “When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on my soul.” In this context, “weight” most nearly means burden.
1. Johnson
2. Tyler
3. Nixon
4. Washington
Andrew Johnson served in the House from 1843 to 1853, in the Senate from 1857 to 1862 (and again briefly in 1875), as Vice-President for just over a month in 1865, after which acceded to the Presidency after Lincoln’s assassination.
Lyndon Johnson served in the House from 1937 to 1949, in the Senate from 1949 to 1961, as Vice-President from 1961 to 1963, and as President from 1963 to 1969.
2. He never has and he never will keep his word.
3. He has never yet and never will keep his word.
4.He has not ever and he will not keep his word.
1) unwritten over 50 percent of the time.
2) unpublished but written 50 percent of the time.
3) published in a top journal approximately 20 percent of the time.
4) published in a non-top journal almost 80 percent of the time.
1) underline the importance of the narrator’s connection to Sempere.
2) stress how friendships helped the narrator deal with his difficult home situation.
3) emphasize the emotional connection Sempere feels to reading.
4) imply that the narrator’s sentiments caused him to make an irrational decision.
When, in the eighth paragraph, the narrator asks Sempere if the author Charles Dickens is a friend of his, Sempere replies, in the ninth paragraph, that Dickens is a “lifelong friend. And from now on, he’s your friend too.” Sempere designated Dickens a “friend” of both himself and the narrator, who had never heard of the author before. This signals that the use of “friend” in these lines is figurative and emphasizes Sempere’s emotional connection to Dickens and, more generally, to reading. It also signals Sempere’s hope that the narrator will come to have a similar connection to Dickens.
1. Caleb's drink
2. Brad's drink
3. CB's drink
4. Calbra's drink