DIRECTIONS: In the passages that follow, certain words and phrases are underlined and numbered. In the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for the underlined part. You are to choose the best answer to each question. If you think the original version is best, choose “No Change.”
You will also find questions about a section of the passage, or about the passage as a whole. These questions do not refer to an underlined portion of the passage, but rather are identified by a number or numbers in a box.
For each question, choose the alternative you consider best and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. Read each passage through once before you begin to answer the questions that accompany it. For many of the questions, you must read several sentences beyond the question to determine the answer. Be sure
that you have read far enough ahead each time you choose an alternative.
DIRECTIONS: In the passages that follow, certain words and phrases are underlined and numbered. In the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for the underlined part. You are to choose the best answer to each question. If you think the original version is best, choose “No Change.”
You will also find questions about a section of the passage, or about the passage as a whole. These questions do not refer to an underlined portion of the passage, but rather are identified by a number or numbers in a box.
For each question, choose the alternative you consider best and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. Read each passage through once before you begin to answer the questions that accompany it. For many of the questions, you must read several sentences beyond the question to determine the answer. Be sure
that you have read far enough ahead each time you choose an alternative.

















Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
The writer wants to emphasize the positive experience diners have had at Atala’s restaurant. Which choice best accomplishes that goal?
Given that all the choices are accurate, which one provides the best transition from the preceding paragraph to this paragraph?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice most effectively maintains the essay’s tone?
Which choice is least redundant in context?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice is clearest and most precise in context?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice most effectively maintains the essay’s tone?
Which transition word or phrase is most logical in context?
Which choice best helps indicate that each historical epic covered different subject matter?







Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice is least redundant in context?
If the writer were to delete the underlined portion (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the paragraph would primarily lose:
Which choice is least redundant in context?
Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most effectively leads into the rest of the essay?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which transition word or phrase is most logical in context?
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following accurate sentence:
I hear there is another musical road in the US, somewhere in California.
Should the writer make this addition?
The writer wants to add the following sentence to the essay:
It is marvelously quiet.
The sentence would most logically be placed at:




If the writer were to delete the underlined portion, the essay would primarily lose a:
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which transition word is most logical in context?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically
acceptable?
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following
parenthetical phrase:
whether because of light sensitivity or the request of a donor
Given that the information is accurate, should the writer make this addition here?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically
acceptable?
Which choice is clearest and most precise in context?
The writer wants to add the following sentence to the essay:
This potentially compromises stewardship.
For the sake of logic and cohesion, the sentence should be placed at:
If the writer were to delete the phrase “which can measure up to thirteen feet wide and seven feet thick” from the preceding sentence (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the sentence would primarily lose:
The writer wants to emphasize the unusual appearance of the weavers’ nests by using playful language to evoke a specific image. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice is least redundant in context?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice best maintains the stylistic pattern of descriptions established earlier in the sentence?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
The best placement for the underlined portion would be:
Which choice most clearly builds on the information provided earlier in the sentence about a common theme in paj ntaub patterns and images?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
The writer is considering revising the underlined portion to the following:
mass-produced
Should the writer make this revision?
Which transition word or phrase, if any, is most logical in context?
Which of the following true statements, if added here, would best build on the ideas presented in this paragraph and connect to the final sentence of the essay?