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Each passage below is accompanied by a number of questions. For some questions, you will consider how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas. For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation. A passage or a question may be accompanied by one or more graphics (such as a table or graph) that you will consider as you make revising and editing decisions.
Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage. Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
After reading each passage, choose the answer to each question that most effectively improves the quality of writing in the passage or that makes the passage conform to the conventions of standard written English. Many questions include a“NO CHANGE”option. Choose that option if you think the best choice is to leave the relevant portion of the passage as it is.
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following information.
—e-books, audio and video materials, and online journals—
Should the writer make this addition here?
Which choice most effectively combines the underlined sentences?
Which choice most effectively sets up the examples given at the end of the sentence?
Which choice most clearly ends the passage with a restatement of the writer’s primary claim?
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.<\p>
Some scholars argue that the excesses of King Louis XV’s reign contributed significantly to the conditions that resulted in the French Revolution.
Which choice gives a second supporting example that is most similar to the example already in the sentence?
Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?
Which choice most closely matches the stylistic pattern established earlier in the sentence?
Think about the previous passage as a whole as you answer question 22.
To make the passage most logical, paragraph 2 should be placed
Which choice offers an accurate interpretation of the data in the chart?
since the start of the Industrial Revolution, resulting in a rise in global temperatures
Where is the most logical place in this paragraph to add the following sentence?
What Wilmers and Estes discovered in their study, therefore, surprised them.
Which choice provides information that best supports the claim made by this sentence?
To make this paragraph most logical, sentence 5 should be placed
At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.
As the number of corporate and service-based jobs has increased, the need for people who work with their hands has diminished.
