Read the paragraph and choose the best answer to the question that follows. 1 To have a successful budget, it is useful to include a category called “miscellaneous.” 2 It is hard to remember every single item you buy.  3 And supermarket impulse purchases, such as gum and magazines, can result in a busted budget.  4 Certain supermarket purchases—such a candy—are best omitted from a health standpoint as well.  5 Extra gas for an unscheduled trip that requires spending beyond the usual fuel allowance can also ruin your spending plan.  6 You can even get in the red by buying ice cream cones at the dairy stand it they’re not provided for under the food or entertainment categories.  7 Keeping track of these various expenses for several months will reveal an amount that is suitable to include under “miscellaneous.”    *************** Which sentence is not relevant to the author’s argument that a miscellaneous category can help you have a successful budget? 

For questions 11 and 12 Read the paragraph and choose the best answer to each question. In colonial America, anyone could become a physician merely by adopting the label.  There were no medical schools or medical societies to license or regulate what was a free-for-all trade.  Sometimes clergymen tried to provide medical care to their parishioners, and care of a sort was offered by all kinds of laypeople as well.  Documents of the time record a doctor who sold “tea, sugar, olives, grapes, anchovies, raisins, and prunes” along with medicinals.  Documents also tell of a woman who “Acts here in the Double Capacity of a Doctoress and Coffee Woman.” Training for medical practice, such as it was, was given by apprenticeship. *************** The passage suggests that in comparison to today, a medical practice in colonial America _____.

One transition that signals the pattern of organization is _____.

For questions 7 and 8 Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow. Female employment and small families make divorce more likely in modern societies.   A major result of the massive entry of women into the labor force has been to decrease the dependence of wives on their husbands for economic support.   This change has had beneficial effects.   For instance, women need no longer cling to a brutal or drunken husband merely because she has nowhere else to turn.   But it also encourages some women to give up on a relationship more quickly.   Also, husbands have greater economic freedom to divorce wives who work because working wives are seldom granted a great deal of alimony.   *************** The main pattern of organization of the selection is ______.

Read the item below.  It includes a word or words that are a synonym of the italicized word.  Write the synonym of the italicized word in the space provided. According to recent studies, a shortage of sleep due to long work or study hours will not cause any permanent damage to your health.  One good night of sleep, researchers say, can make up for a week of sleep deficit.

Use the general sense of the sentence to figure out the meaning of the italicized word. Today, many young couples are ambivalent about having children; they cannot decide which is more important–pursuing their careers or building a family.

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.