Question 1 of 15
Where should the following sentence be placed in the paragraph below?
Many people have proposed explanations for this drop.
1] Surveys of criminal activity in the United States have shown that the 1990s marked a significant drop in crimes such as vehicle theft, rape, and murder. 2] Economist Rick Nevin argues that one contributing factor is the ban on lead gasoline in the 70s because lead poisoning in children has been linked with criminal behavior later in life. 3] Other theories include the controversial claim that legalizing abortion has led to fewer unwanted children and, as a result, fewer potential criminals. 4] Some politicians, including Rudy Giuliani, even take personal responsibility, identifying their policies as effective deterrents to crime.
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Question 2 of 15
Where should the following sentence be placed in the paragraph below?
Insects that carry the disease can develop resistance to the chemicals, or insecticides, that are used to kill the mosquitoes.
1] Malaria, a disease spread by insects and parasites, has long proven to be difficult to treat.
2] Part of the explanation has to do with adaptation, or the ability of one generation to pass its strengths on to another. 3] Some insects are simply not affected by these insecticides.
4] Unfortunately, these are the insects that survive and go on to reproduce, creating another generation of insects that are immune to the current insecticides. 5] Many researchers have abandoned hope for insecticides as a cure for malaria, turning their attention instead to other forms of defense, such as protein-blockers that protect humans from the effects of the disease instead of from the carriers.
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Question 3 of 15
Which sentence does not belong in the following paragraph?
1] Though Thomas Jefferson's taste for expensive home furnishings and wine contributed to the substantial debts he faced toward the end of his life, many other factors also contributed.
2] For instance, when Jefferson's father-in-law died, all of his debts were transferred to Jefferson. 3] Additionally, though his holdings in land and slaves were considerable, they were never especially profitable. 4] Jefferson is believed to have fathered children with one of his slaves.
5] Finally, less than a decade before his death, Jefferson unwisely agreed to endorse a $20,000 loan for a friend, and when the friend unexpectedly died a year later, Jefferson inherited yet another large debt. 6] Jefferson's personal experience with debt may have been part of his motivation in criticizing policies that would increase the national debt.
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Question 4 of 15
Which sentence does not belong in the following paragraph?
1] Renowned scientist Richard Feynman once said that the atomic theory is the most profound discoveries scientists have made. 2] Feynman was also an accomplished percussionist who could play nine beats with one hand while playing ten with the other! 3] "All things are made of atoms," explained Feynman, "little particles that...move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another." 4] He then made the claim that this idea is one of the most illuminating ideas in the history of science: "In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."
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Question 5 of 15
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
(1) Kids and people need to spend more time outside on a daily basis. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed from nature to their detriment. (2) A 1991 study found that the radius children are allowed to roam outside their homes has shrunk to 1/9 of what it was 20 years before.
(3) Very bad for their physical fitness and mental health. (4) One in 5 American children is obese-compared with one in 20 in the late 1960s-and nearly 8 million kids suffer from mental illnesses, including depression and attention deficit disorder. (5) He says playing in nature helps reduce stress, increase concentration and promote problem-solving, this can help kids with attention deficit disorder and many other problems. Nature play can increase a child's self confidence and independence.
(6) Parents are scared to let kids play in the woods. (7) Parents are increasingly afraid of child abduction. (8) This is a terrible thing but actually very rare and fear of them should be balanced against the effect of fear on our daily lives.
(9) Kids play too many video games, watch too much television and are in the car for long stretches of time. (10) It is important to have the experience of wet feet and dirty hands and not just read about a frog, for example but to hold it in your hands.
(11) Parents and emphasize organized sports over imaginative play. (12) It's great that kids play so much organized sports now, but activity and physical play used to be what kids did with their free time, not twice a week for soccer practice.
Which version of the following portion of sentence 2 provides the most clarity? "...is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed..."
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Question 6 of 15
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
(1) Kids and people need to spend more time outside on a daily basis. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed from nature to their detriment. (2) A 1991 study found that the radius children are allowed to roam outside their homes has shrunk to 1/9 of what it was 20 years before.
(3) Very bad for their physical fitness and mental health. (4) One in 5 American children is obese-compared with one in 20 in the late 1960s-and nearly 8 million kids suffer from mental illnesses, including depression and attention deficit disorder. (5) He says playing in nature helps reduce stress, increase concentration and promote problem-solving, this can help kids with attention deficit disorder and many other problems. Nature play can increase a child's self confidence and independence.
(6) Parents are scared to let kids play in the woods. (7) Parents are increasingly afraid of child abduction. (8) This is a terrible thing but actually very rare and fear of them should be balanced against the effect of fear on our daily lives.
(9) Kids play too many video games, watch too much television and are in the car for long stretches of time. (10) It is important to have the experience of wet feet and dirty hands and not just read about a frog, for example but to hold it in your hands.
(11) Parents and emphasize organized sports over imaginative play. (12) It's great that kids play so much organized sports now, but activity and physical play used to be what kids did with their free time, not twice a week for soccer practice.
Which of the following is the most succinct and clear way to re-write sentences 6 and 7?
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Question 7 of 15
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
(1) Kids and people need to spend more time outside on a daily basis. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed from nature to their detriment. (2) A 1991 study found that the radius children are allowed to roam outside their homes has shrunk to 1/9 of what it was 20 years before.
(3) Very bad for their physical fitness and mental health. (4) One in 5 American children is obese-compared with one in 20 in the late 1960s-and nearly 8 million kids suffer from mental illnesses, including depression and attention deficit disorder. (5) He says playing in nature helps reduce stress, increase concentration and promote problem-solving, this can help kids with attention deficit disorder and many other problems. Nature play can increase a child's self confidence and independence.
(6) Parents are scared to let kids play in the woods. (7) Parents are increasingly afraid of child abduction. (8) This is a terrible thing but actually very rare and fear of them should be balanced against the effect of fear on our daily lives.
(9) Kids play too many video games, watch too much television and are in the car for long stretches of time. (10) It is important to have the experience of wet feet and dirty hands and not just read about a frog, for example but to hold it in your hands.
(11) Parents and emphasize organized sports over imaginative play. (12) It's great that kids play so much organized sports now, but activity and physical play used to be what kids did with their free time, not twice a week for soccer practice.
Which of the following represents the best version of sentence 3?
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Question 8 of 15
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
(1) Kids and people need to spend more time outside on a daily basis. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed from nature to their detriment. (2) A 1991 study found that the radius children are allowed to roam outside their homes has shrunk to 1/9 of what it was 20 years before.
(3) Very bad for their physical fitness and mental health. (4) One in 5 American children is obese-compared with one in 20 in the late 1960s-and nearly 8 million kids suffer from mental illnesses, including depression and attention deficit disorder. (5) He says playing in nature helps reduce stress, increase concentration and promote problem-solving, this can help kids with attention deficit disorder and many other problems. Nature play can increase a child's self confidence and independence.
(6) Parents are scared to let kids play in the woods. (7) Parents are increasingly afraid of child abduction. (8) This is a terrible thing but actually very rare and fear of them should be balanced against the effect of fear on our daily lives.
(9) Kids play too many video games, watch too much television and are in the car for long stretches of time. (10) It is important to have the experience of wet feet and dirty hands and not just read about a frog, for example but to hold it in your hands.
(11) Parents and emphasize organized sports over imaginative play. (12) It's great that kids play so much organized sports now, but activity and physical play used to be what kids did with their free time, not twice a week for soccer practice.
Sentence 8 is poorly written. What can we infer the initial "This" of the sentence refers to?
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Question 9 of 15
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
(1) Kids and people need to spend more time outside on a daily basis. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder is by Richard Louv and who says that in the last 30 years kids have become increasingly removed from nature to their detriment. (2) A 1991 study found that the radius children are allowed to roam outside their homes has shrunk to 1/9 of what it was 20 years before.
(3) Very bad for their physical fitness and mental health. (4) One in 5 American children is obese-compared with one in 20 in the late 1960s-and nearly 8 million kids suffer from mental illnesses, including depression and attention deficit disorder. (5) He says playing in nature helps reduce stress, increase concentration and promote problem-solving, this can help kids with attention deficit disorder and many other problems. Nature play can increase a child's self confidence and independence.
(6) Parents are scared to let kids play in the woods. (7) Parents are increasingly afraid of child abduction. (8) This is a terrible thing but actually very rare and fear of them should be balanced against the effect of fear on our daily lives.
(9) Kids play too many video games, watch too much television and are in the car for long stretches of time. (10) It is important to have the experience of wet feet and dirty hands and not just read about a frog, for example but to hold it in your hands.
(11) Parents and emphasize organized sports over imaginative play. (12) It's great that kids play so much organized sports now, but activity and physical play used to be what kids did with their free time, not twice a week for soccer practice.
The paragraph that includes sentences 9 and 10 does not contain a clear point. Which of the following best describes what the author is likely trying to communicate in this paragraph?
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Question 10 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
(4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting.
(10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
Which is the best version of the underlined part of sentence 2 (reproduced below)?
He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832.
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Question 11 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses. (4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting. (10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
Which is the best version of the underlined part of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?
His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
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Question 12 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
(4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting.
(10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
In context, which is the best revision of sentence 5 (reproduced below)?
This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it.
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Question 13 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
(4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting.
(10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
In context, which is the best way to revise sentence 6 (reproduced below)?
This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time.
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Question 14 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
(4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting.
(10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
Which sentence is best inserted after sentence 7?
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Question 15 of 15
"Use the passage below to answer the following question(s)."
(1)One of the pioneer sculptors of the nineteenth century was Honore Daumier (1810-1879). (2)He is well-known particularly for caricature heads that were created between 1830 and 1832. (3)His later works anticipate the work of Rodin, what with their highly cut-out surfaces offset by studied, flowing poses.
(4)Although Daumier was one of the first modern sculptors, his work did not serve as an influence to later artists. (5)This is because nearly all of the other artists of the time hardly ever got to see any of it. (6)This is also true of the sculpture of Degas, who was known as a painter rather than a sculptor, and whose sculpture also was not widely exhibited at the time. (7)And yet, Degas was clearly the greatest sculptor of the era. (8)His bronze casts of dancers and horses retain the layered feeling of the wax models that were their first versions. (9)His more complex scenes seem like crosses between sculpture and painting.
(10)When looked at more closely, they display a feeling of mass that the painted canvas cannot by itself convey. (11)It is the interplay between the separate masses in these scenes that involves the viewer and gives them their sense of intrigue.
Which is best added to the beginning of sentence 10?
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