What is the purpose of the following sentence? Between 93 and 95 percent of all fertile married couples choose to have children.

Read the following three items of support (the evidence).  Choose the letter of the point that is adequately supported by that evidence. Support: Many sports teams are named for Native American tribes or deatures of Indian cultures. Dances with Wolves, a film sympathetic to Native Americans, was one of the hit movies of 1990. The Indian peoples’ reverence for nature has become a model for a new environmental ethic.

Below is the beginning of an essay titled “The Plot Against People” by New York Times columnist Russell Baker.  After reading the passage, check the five statements with are most logically supported by the information given. inanimate: lifeless classified: grouped idle: not busy cunning: slyness     Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories—those that break down, those that get lost, and those that don’t work.                 The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose.  As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at that moment when it is most needed will do so.  The automobile is typical of this category.                 With the cunning peculiar to its bread, the automobile never breaks down while entering a filling station which has a large staff of idle mechanics.  It waits until it reaches a downtown intersection in the middle of the rush hour, or until it is fully loaded with family and luggage on the Ohio Turnpike.  Thus, it creates maximum inconvenience, frustration, and irritability….                 Many inanimate objects, of course, find it extremely difficult to break down.  Pliers, for example, and gloves and keys are almost totally incapable of breaking down.  Therefore, they have had to evolve a different technique for resisting man.                 They get lost.  Science has still not solved the mystery of how they do it, and no man has ever caught one of them in the act.

Read the item below.  It includes a word or words that are an antonym of the italicized word.  Write the antonym of the italicized word in the space provided. The children wanted us to adopt an older German shepherd from the pound, but we were told he was rather wild, so instead we chose a collie that was more docile.

The following selection has a main idea that may appear at any place within the paragraph.  Identify the main idea of the paragraph by choosing the number of the sentence. The number of each sentence comes before it. 1 Scientists have learned that the way we view exercise strongly influences our performance.  2 Research on Russian weight lifters, for example, demonstrated that if they were told the weights were heavy, they perceived an exercise to be more difficult.  3 If they were told the weights were light, then they considered the exercise easier.  4 Another example is the weight lifter who kept failing to break a record.  5 He finally succeeded after his trainer told him the weights he was lifting were not as heavy as they in fact were.

Choose the transition that best completes the sentence. Other boys like to college normal things, like baseball cards, but my little brother Dwayne collects dead bugs.  He _____ collects loose chunks of sidewalk (which he insists on calling moon rocks).

Choose the letter of the answer that best describes the relationship indicated by the italicized transition. After the magician’s assistant shuts the closet door, the magician escapes from the closet through a door in the floor. The relationship of the first part of the sentence to the second part is one of _____.

Read the item below, which includes a word or words that are a synonym of the italicized word.  Write the synonym of the italicized word in the space provided. Love is not always considered a prerequisite for marriage. In some cultures, social status or economic potential is a more important requirement.

Choose the transition that best completes the sentence. Other boys like to college normal things, like baseball cards, but my little brother Dwayne collects dead bugs.  He _____ collects loose chunks of sidewalk (which he insists on calling moon rocks).

Use the general sense of the sentence to figure out the meaning of the italicized word. It is odd how often public figures who loudly espouse “traditional family values” are later caught in some scandal concerning their own private lives.