QUESTION: 100

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Sentence How many times were you caught in slow-moving traffic and been frustrated because vehicles in the lanes beside you are moving faster than you are?

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

were you caught
are you caught
having been caught
have you been caught
will you be caught

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 101

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Cowgirls

(A)
(1) Who was the first rodeo cowgirls? (2) While some of the earliest cowgirls were products of the American West, where they learned their skills on a ranch or farm, others came from different backgrounds. (3) One had emigrated from Norway, another was a hairdresser from New York, and still another learned to ride horses on a Georgia plantation. (4) Attracted by the excitement, glory, and possible financial rewards, this first group of daredevil riders and ropers rose to prominence in the first half of the 1900s.
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(5) Lucille Mulhall and Bertha Kalpernik were two of the first rodeo cowgirls.(6) As a teenager, Mulhall rode and put on a roping exhibition in a public celebration where Teddy
Roosevelt was a guest.(7) During a visit to the Mulhall family’s ranch Roosevelt witnessed
Lucille’s breathtaking ride on an outlaw horse.(8) Impressed by her skill and daring, Roosevelt later inviting Mulhall to lead the inaugural procession when he took office as president of the United States.(9) Kalpernik is believed to be the first cowgirl to ride a bucking horse in serious competition.(10) Around 1900, she rode 100 miles from Colorado to Wyoming to enter the previously all-male rodeo.(11) She won on a horse named Tombstone.(12) She rode him all the way back to Colorado! (13) Roy Rogers named his horse "Trigger" and Gene Autry, another famous singing cowboy, had a horse named "Champ." (14) A year later, Kalpernik becomes the star performer in a Wild Westshow and continued competing in top rodeos held throughout the country.(15) As true pioneers those women and many others are part of the history and heritage of the West.
Material adapted from Milt Riske.Those Magnificent Cowgirls:A History of the Rodeo Cowgirl.Cheyenne:Wyoming Publishing, 1983.

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

was
were
have been
being
is

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 102

Sentence If you haven’t already discovered North America’s great outdoors, you shouldn’t waste any more time, the pleasures to be had are innumerable.

The most effective revision of sentence 1 would include which of the following groups of words?

If they haven’t already discovered
already discovering North America’s Great Outdoors
great outdoors.North America
because the innumerable pleasures
any more time.The pleasures

Answer(s): E

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QUESTION: 103

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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.
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(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.
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(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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Which correction should be made to sentence 6?

replace would with wood
replace agree with agreed
change will be to was
replace right with write
no correction is necessary

Answer(s): C

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