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Ethnic Architecture

(A)
(1) Here is a question that is not as silly as it sound:Have you ever wondered why houses are shaped the way they are? (2) Bringing with them many different ideas about how to build a house, settlers from around the world have come to the United States for centuries.
(B)
(3) Many of us today take for granted certain features of a house and forget that someone had to invent them. (4) The veranda, a covered porch that wraps around the front of many southern houses is probably an adaptation of overhanging roofs found all over the world. (5) In addition to the veranda, the South is known for its cooking and its hospitality.(6) Long ago, home builders responded to hot, humid climates by making the cooling shade of a porch a common feature of houses in such places as West Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean areA.
(C)
(7) For instance, French settlers in New Orleans tried to put the frames of their homes directly on the ground as they had done in France; however, the heat, humidity, and abundant rainfall caused the homes to rot within a few years.(8) The settlers learned a lesson by observing the West Indian Creoles, which built raised houses with many doors and windows to keep cool.
(D)
(9) Some settlers, like those from Germany, held on to their old building methods even though such methods were no longer necessary.(10) Because of a shortage of wood in some parts of Germany, builders had constructed half-timber houses; they used clay or brick to save wood.(11) When German immigrants settled in Wisconsin where wood was abundant, they still built their familiar half-timber homes.(12) European peasants and their animals once shared a shelter called a "house-barn, " which allowed immediate care for the animals during harsh whether.(13)Today’s covered breezeways serve a related purpose of protecting people who need to go to their"car barns, "or garages.
(E)
(14) No matter which country settlers started from, they brought home-building traditions.(15) Some they changed to adapt to their new land, some they abandoned, and some their descendants still use today.
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Sentence 9:Some settlers, like those from Germany, held on to their old building methods even though such methods were no longer necessary.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option

held
holds
holding
hold
holded

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 161

Sentence 9:A sturdy pare of hiking boots and a compass will take you to many places away from urban streets where you can enjoy the feeling of being outdoors.

Which correction should be made to sentence 9?

replace pare with pair
replace boots and with boots, and
change will take to took
change you can to one can
change being to having been

Answer(s): A

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Sentence 8:The next step is to prepare the walls, any nail holes should be filled with spackle.

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

walls, any nail
walls, but any nail
walls.Any nail
walls any nail
walls yet any nail

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 163

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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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Sentence 9:Strips on the family range from stay-at-home parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there. The most effective revision of sentence 9 would include which group of words?

to taking the kids
Joys and trials
The kids went to
trials.To when
go wrong their

Answer(s): A

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