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Question 1

The passage most strongly suggests that Helga changes to 'another, warmer tone' (sentence 27) because she wants to

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Question 2

The description of the sunrise in the sixth paragraph (sentences 18-21) mainly serves to

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Question 3

The author of Passage 2 refers to 'biomedical scientists' in order to

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Question 4

Displaying a heightened sense of ____, many of author Maria Cristina Mena's characters exemplify a 'dignified and polite society.'

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Question 5

Which sentence should be deleted from the passage because it contains irrelevant information?

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Question 6

Which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 4: 'In a study conducted in 2015, subjects were kept in darkness for 14 hours each night, this being an attempt to create conditions similar to natural wintertime conditions'?

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Question 7

Which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 11: 'By the end of the 1700s, street lighting in cities became more common, people stayed up later, and writers mentioning first and second sleep less and less'?

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Question 8

Which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 10: 'Rather than view waking in the middle of the night as a nuisance, people appear to have welcomed it as natural, useful, and even enjoyable'?

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Question 9

Which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 11: 'However, not everyone believes that George Crum was the inventor of the potato chip'?

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Question 10

Which is the best way to revise and combine the underlined portions of sentences 9 and 10: 'The chips remained a local delicacy until the Prohibition era. This is when an entrepreneur named Herman Lay popularized the product throughout the Southeastern United States'?

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Question 11

In context, adjusting capitalization as needed, which word or phrase is best to insert at the beginning of sentence 3: 'A customer in the restaurant where Crum worked complained that his French-fried potatoes were too thick and soft and sent them back to the kitchen'?

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Question 12

What is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence 4: 'To teach the customer a lesson, Crum allegedly sliced a new batch of potatoes as thinly as he possibly could, fried the slices until they were hard and crunchy, and then dousing them with salt'?

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Question 13

Which sentence should be deleted from the passage because it contains irrelevant information?

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Question 14

In the passage, Margaret indicates that she's concerned when she first sees Helga because she worries that Helga

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Question 15

According to the passage, Margaret and others at Naxos generally regard Helga as

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Question 16

The author of Passage 2 suggests that environmental scientists compromise their credibility when they

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Question 17

The author of Passage 2 would most likely argue that, for an environmental scientist, 'making value judgments' (Passage 1) is

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Question 18

Which best describes the relationship between the two passages?

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Question 19

Which of the following statements does the passage most directly counter?

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Question 20

The city's twenty-year plan for growth and development was ____ in that it not only thoroughly addressed business and economic needs but also proposed extensive measures for improving public health, increasing public transportation options, and expanding affordable housing.

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Helga changes to 'another, warmer tone' to avoid being rude to Margaret.

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