QUESTION: 52

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Sentence
We have had a huge demand for that particular species this year and are no longer having any in stock.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option A.

are no longer having
no longer have
no longer have had
have no longer
had no longer

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 53

Sentence 15
With the fireplace sealed, the temperature rises quick.

Which correction should be made to sentence 15?

insert is after fireplace
remove the comma after sealed
change rises to rose
change rises to is rising
change quick to quickly

Answer(s): E

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QUESTION: 54

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Making a Budget

(A)
(1) Making a budget is very easy if you no the basic procedure and a few principles. (2) First, writing down all your income for one month. (3) Income, including your paycheck or other checks from Social Security and the government, means all the money you receive. (4) Next, figure out all your regular monthly expenses. (5) Rent and utilities are important regular expenses; you should also include expenses for food and medicine you take regularly.(6) You must not forget because they add up, the smaller monthly bills such as payments for credit cards, interest on loans, and insurance.
(B)
(7) You also should keep track of minor daily expenses because you probably spend more on them than you realize.(8) These includes purchases of such things as sodas, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and candy.(9) Add them up for a week and then multiply the weekly total by the number of weeks in the month to determine the total monthly cost.(10) Transportation costs, such as bus and subway fairs along with gasoline and tolls, should also be calculated as monthly expenses.
(C)
(11) Finally, it’s important to plan as much as possible for special expenses, such as visits to doctors and dentists and repairs to your home or car.(12) Gifts for such events as Christmas and birthdays are other kinds of expenses you can plan for certain months.(13) Other activities, such as celebrating a holiday or taking a vacation, often demand extra spending, too.(14) Some months may also require you according to the season to buy new clothes.(15) By preparing abudget in all these areas, you can figure out how much money you need for each month, this will help you watch your spending and may help you to save for the future.

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Sentence 8:
These includes purchases of such things as sodas, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and candy.

Which correction should be made to sentence 8?

replace These includes with Including
change includes to include
change includes to including
insert a comma after includes
insert a comma after things

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 55

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Comics:A Window on Life

(A)
(1) When I was a child. (2) A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day. (3) This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young. (4) I thought adults considered comics juvenile. (5) "But no, "he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn’t miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8) A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13) Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16) Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture.

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and When I was a child.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option

I was a child.A clergyman
I was a child, a clergyman
I am a child, a clergyman
I was a child, and a clergyman
I was a child, when a clergyman

Answer(s): B

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