Question: in acts of kindness and affection
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) kindly and affectionately acting
C) in kindness and affection in regard to actions
D) in kind acts and in affectionate acts
Answer: A) NO CHANGE
Question: circumstances
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) phenomena
C) resources
D) cases
Answer: B) phenomena
Question: Which choice represents the clearest and most concise way to convey all of the information in the sentence?
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) He took it upon himself to make use of the shadowed grove, as well as the stream, lake, and waterfall, as a kind of place in which he could conduct studying and reading.
C) A shadowed grove, along with a stream, a lake, and a waterfall, were the things by which his study and reading-room were constituted and made up.
D) He made his study and reading-room of the shadowed grove, the stream, the lake, and the waterfall.
Answer: D) He made his study and reading-room of the shadowed grove, the stream, the lake, and the waterfall.
Question: In short
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) In vain
C) In early life
D) Instead
Answer: A) NO CHANGE
Question: recesses
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) recesses’
C) recesses’s
D) recess’
Answer: A) NO CHANGE
Question: were never better than when I last saw
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) was never better than when I last seen
C) were never better than when I last see
D) was never better than when I last saw
Answer: D) was never better than when I last saw
Question: watched
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) accompanied
C) chaperoned
D) guided
Answer: A) NO CHANGE
Question: Which choice best matches the tone of the passage?
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) The vessel departed under favorable conditions and passed out of visual range, so I stationed myself near the surf line to wait his return but he did not return.
C) And lo, his vessel was carried forth and swallowed by the horizon, borne upon a merciful wind, and I abided at the water’s edge, keeping vigil.
D) His boat disappeared over the horizon on a good wind, and I just stood there by the waves waiting for him to come back, not knowing the sea was about to swallow him whole.
Answer: A) NO CHANGE
Question: will apprehend
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) will have apprehended
C) apprehended
D) apprehending
Answer: C) apprehended
Question: by
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) for
C) with
D) of
Answer: D) of
Question: ceiling, right over the mouth of the bottle suspend
Answer Choices:
A) NO CHANGE
B) ceiling—right over the mouth of the bottle, suspend
C) ceiling, right over the mouth of the bottle, suspend
D) ceiling—right over the mouth of the bottle suspended
Answer: C) ceiling, right over the mouth of the bottle, suspend
Question: The writer is considering inserting the sentence: “A number of fascinating experiments from your own scientists have revealed other interesting properties of electricity.” Should the writer make this insertion?
Answer Choices:
A) Yes, because the sentence places the experiment in context.
B) Yes, because the sentence adds a more conversational tone to the paragraph.
C) No, because the sentence takes away from the focus of the paragraph.
D) No, because the discussion of electricity belongs in the next paragraph.
Answer: C) No, because the sentence takes away from the focus of the paragraph.