Words, words, words.
Many ancient statues are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most _____ part of the person's head. It's delicate and sticks out, making it especially likely to break.
A) Recognizable, B) Fragile, C) Common, D) Sophisticated
B) Fragile
In 1929, Edwin Herbert Land invented a polarizing filter that was featured in a number of products, from sunglasses to 3D movies. A decade later, Land _______ his technology to invent the world’s first instant camera, the Polaroid Land camera.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) Used; B) To have used; C) to Use; D) Using
A) Used
Graphic novels are increasingly popular in bookstores and libraries, but they shouldn’t be classified as literature. By definition, literature tells a story or conveys meaning through language only; graphic novels tell stories through illustrations and use language only sparingly, in captions and dialogue. Graphic novels are experienced as series of images and not as language, making them more similar to film than to literature.
What is the main idea of this passage?
Graphic novels should not be compared to literature as they are a primarily visual form of art.
“She was tired and hungry and cold.”
A) Anaphora ; B) Polysyndeton ; C) Parallelism ; D) Metaphor
B) Polysyndeton
Atticus's profession.
Lawyer
Many psychological studies are flawed because of biased sample sizes: university students. To _____ this issue, you must actively recruit participants from all walls of life.
A) Sanction, B) Ameliorate, C) Rationalize, D) Postulate
B) Ameliorate
Lê Lươ ng Minh became the thirteenth secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January 2013, making _______ the first time the organization would appoint a Vietnamese leader.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) These; B) Those; C) This; D) Some
C) This
Graphic novels present their stories through both language and images. Without captions and dialogue, readers would be unable to understand what is depicted in the illustrations: the story results from the interaction of text and image. Moreover, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and many other graphic novels feature text that is as beautifully written as the prose found in many standard novels. Therefore, graphic novels qualify as literary texts.
What is the main idea of this text?
Because graphic novels rely on text as well as images, they should be considered literature.
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
A) Polysyndeton ; B) Antithesis ; C) Parallelism ; D) Imagery
C) Parallelism
Scout's real name.
Jean Louise Finch.
To prove they could test the durability of metal pipes without unearthing them, engineer Aroba Saleem ____ the ability of some metals' internal magnetic fields to alter under stress: these alterations can be measured distantly.
A) Hypothesized, B) Discounted, C) Exploited, D) Redefined
C) Exploited
A turtle shell appears external to the animal, protecting its body like armor. _______ the shell is often incorrectly assumed to be an exoskeleton, a rigid outer casing like that of a crustacean or an insect, when in fact it is an endoskeleton, a part of the turtle’s internal bone structure.
A) That being said, ; B) However, ; C) For instance, ; D) Hence,
D) Hence,
Some ethicists hold that the moral goodness of an individual’s actions depends solely on whether the actions themselves are good, irrespective of the context in which they are carried out. Philosopher L. Sebastian Purcell has shown that surviving works of Aztec (Nahua) philosophy express a very different view. Purcell reveals that these works posit an ethical system in which an individual’s actions are judged in light of how well they accord with the individual’s role in society and how well they contribute to the community.
Based on this text, what would Aztecs think of the idea that morality can be judged with no context?
They would refute the idea that morality can be judged free of context.
“Simple arithmetic was his Achilles’ heel.”
A) Antithesis ; B) Allusion ; C) Definition ; D) Anaphora
B) Allusion
The defendent in the upcoming trial.
Tom Robinson
The fossils at a site in Georgia are so well preserved that the team has been able to _______ detailed information about the life forms that left them behind, such as color patterns and how they interacted with other species.
A) Occupy ; B) Hoard ; C) Reserve ; D) Obtain
D) Obtain
Long attributed to Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical painter of his day, the 1801 painting Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d’Ognes gained fresh attention in the 1990s when art historians discovered that the painting—which depicts a solitary young woman sketching—was actually the work of little-known French portrait _______ Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821).
A) artist-- ; B) artist ; C)Artist: ; D) Artist,
B) Artist
Use the following notes to synthesize one sentence that uses the most relevant information to identify the author of the novel Adam Bede.
-In 1859, the novel Adam Bede was published in England.
-According to the novel’s title page, the author’s name was George Eliot.
-George Eliot was widely assumed to be apseudonym.
-A pseudonym is a fake name used to conceal an author’s identity.
-A woman named Mary Ann Evans later revealed herself as the novel’s real author.
The novel Adam Bede was written by Mary Ann Evans, who published it under the pseudonym George Eliot in 1859. (or similar)
“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.”
A) Polysyndeton ; B) Hyperbole ; C) Imagery ; D)Anaphora
C) Imagery
The reason Jem refused to come out of the tree (in the book).
Atticus had just told him about pole-sitting.
The War of 1812 has _______ place in historical memory in Britain, partly because it is overshadowed by the much larger concurrent conflict against Napoleonic France and partly because it essentially maintained the geopolitical status quo for Britain.
A) a tenuous ; B) an enduring ; C) a contentius ; D) a conspicuous
A) a tenuous
According to Duverger’s law, countries with single-ballot majoritarian elections for single-member districts tend to polarize into two-party systems, wherein dueling political parties consistently dominate the political system. _______ countries with proportional-representation electoral systems tend to support multi-partyism, under which power gets distributed among many political parties.
A) Subsequently, ; B) Conversely ; C) For instance ; D) In other words,
B) Conversely
"The glow from the sunset was making the street radiant. The street is nice in this light, [Lutie] thought. It was swarming with children who were playing ball and darting back and forth across the sidewalk in complicated games of tag. Girls were skipping double dutch rope, going tirelessly through the exact center of a pair of ropes, jumping first on one foot and then the other."
Describe the emotional state of the narrator and what she is describing in this passage.
The narrator is observing the appearance of the street at a particular time of day and the events occurring on it.
“Love is a rose.”
A) Simile ; B) Allusion ; C) Imagery ; D) Metaphor
D) Metaphor
Charles Baker Harris