Choose the letter of the statement which is TRUE, based on the information provided in the sentence in italics. She can hardly see it.

Below, the two sentences have an implied logical relationship. Read the pair of sentences and the question that follows.  Choose the letter of the answer that identifies the relationship. Maria’s article was not accepted by any of the publishers she sent it to. Only letters of rejection arrived in the mail. What does the second sentence do?

Read the passage and answer the question that follows. Choose the letter of the answer. Passage #3: With all those vast mesas and miles of open land in the Southwest, you might think that finding a private resort, where you can relax in the calm stillness of the desert landscape, would be a simple matter. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are many mirages out there; during a recent trip, I saw scores of so-called desert resorts where cars outnumbered the cacti and neon outshone the stars. If you are looking for a calm vacation spot, far away from fast food restaurants, traffic, and the bustle of ordinary life, you might need to look elsewhere.  Question:  The author condemns “so-called desert resorts” because they _____.

Read the passage and answer the question that follows. Choose the letter of the answer. Passage #3: With all those vast mesas and miles of open land in the Southwest, you might think that finding a private resort, where you can relax in the calm stillness of the desert landscape, would be a simple matter. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are many mirages out there; during a recent trip, I saw scores of so-called desert resorts where cars outnumbered the cacti and neon outshone the stars. If you are looking for a calm vacation spot, far away from fast food restaurants, traffic, and the bustle of ordinary life, you might need to look elsewhere.  Question:  The author condemns “so-called desert resorts” because they _____.

Choose the letter of the statement which is TRUE, based on the information provided in the sentence in italics. I’d rather be a millionaire.

Summarize the reading (below) on American schools and reading.  Your summary should be approximately five grammatically complete sentences. Check the grammar carefully. ************************************************************            Why do American schools fail to create lifetime readers?  There are two basic related “facts of life” that parents and educators seem to ignore.  The first fact is that human beings are pleasure-centered.  We will voluntarily do over and over and over that which brings us pleasure.  For example, we go to the restaurants we like, order the foods we like, listen to the radio stations that play the music we like, and visit the relatives we like.  Conversely, we avoid restaurants, foods, music, and relatives we dislike.             What does this pleasure principle have to do with reading?  Children love stories, so every time we read to a child at home or at school, we send a “pleasure” message to the child’s brain.  You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.  However, all too often, parents don’t read to their children; and, to make matters worse, schools send “unpleasure” messages about reading.  Endless hours of worksheets, intensive phonics instruction, and seemingly unconnected test questions can be—to a child—tedious or boring, threatening, and meaningless.  If a child seldom experiences the “pleasures” of reading at home and meets only the “unpleasures” at school, then the natural reaction will be avoidance.             The second basic fact is that reading is an accrued skill.  In other words, reading is like riding a bicycle, driving a car, or sewing; in order to get better at it, you must do it.  And the more you do it, the better you get at it.  The last twenty-five years of reading research confirms this simple formula.  Regardless of sex, race, nationality, or socioeconomic background, the students who read the most are the ones who read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest.  In contrast, those who don’t read much cannot get better at it.  And most Americans (children and adults) don’t read much, and therefore aren’t very good at it.             Why don’t Americans read much?  The reason is that a lack of “pleasure” messages in the home, coupled with the large number of “unpleasure” messages about reading they received throughout their school years, nullifies any attraction a book might offer.  They avoid books and print the same way a cat avoids a rocking chair.

Choose the letter of the best word or phrase to substitute for the (blank). Because the evidence is now overwhelming, there can ____________ be any doubt that Moseby is guilty.

Below, the two sentences have an implied logical relationship. Read each pair of sentences and the question that follows.  Choose the letter of the answer that identifies the relationship. At the ancient site of worship, a few massive stones still proudly stand as they were placed nearly four thousand years ago. Others lie scattered and broken, victims of harsh weather and vandals. In relation to the first sentence, what does the second sentence do?

Choose the letter of the statement which is TRUE, based on the information provided in the sentence in italics. She can hardly see it.

Read the passage and answer the question that follows. Passage #1:  Those who specialize in the study of language claim that no two people speak a language in precisely the same way. An individual’s version of a language is called an idiolect. Groups of speakers–separated from other groups by geographical, social, or economic barriers–also develop language habits peculiar to their own group. Such group differences are called dialects. Each person in a small town in Maine might speak his or her own idiolect, but the people of the town as a group will speak a dialect quite different from that spoken in a small town in Kentucky. Question:  The main purpose of the passage is to _____.