guide and practice material
The lens was thinner at the center. It was - correct answer ✔✔ concave
Field glasses and opera glasses are both examples of - correct answer ✔✔ binoculars
The apt was in good condition to be lived. it was - correct answer ✔✔ habitable
When he spoke of his past, he spoke with animation. Animation means... - correct answer ✔✔
livelines
Sonia doubted his explanation. She was - correct answer ✔✔ skeptical
Researchers have found that harmful effects of smoking increase progressively over the years.
The effects are... - correct answer ✔✔ cumulative
Her position seemed dangerously uncertain. It seemed - correct answer ✔✔ Precarious
Some medications alleviate pain. Alleviate means ... - correct answer ✔✔ lessen
Happy couple wandered aimlessly across the meadow. The couple was... - correct answer ✔✔
Meandering
It is essential for a nurse to understand the jargon of her profession. Jargon is- - correct answer
✔✔ technical vocabulary
,The rules of behavior that people are expected to follow in a particular social setting are called -
- correct answer ✔✔ etiquette
The class learned how to type a letter with a postscript. A post script is- - correct answer ✔✔ an
added note
The teacher reported Helen's bizarre behavior to her counselor. Bizarre means- - correct answer
✔✔ very strange
A horse that can be easily managed is considered - - correct answer ✔✔ Docile
When they approached the courthouse, they experienced a sense of foreboding. Foreboding
means- - correct answer ✔✔ dread
The manual typewriter has become almost obsolete. - correct answer ✔✔ outmoded
"Fat ppl don't lie", (17-22) According to this article, the statement, "Fat people must lie,"
represents - correct answer ✔✔ an incorrect assumption
-The comments about the eating behavior of family groups imply that - - correct answer ✔✔
Families tend to trade the food items on their plates
6th paragraph -we may infer that the number of persons observed by the researchers was -
correct answer ✔✔ probably 150 or more
Which of these statements is true about the subjects' reporting of their eating habits? - correct
answer ✔✔ overweight people tend to report as accurately as people of normal weight.
, The structure and results of the first study involving 42 families might lead Klesges to conduct
further obesity experiments concerning the - - correct answer ✔✔ importance of heredity and
physical activity
If the results of klesges' study are substantiated, advice that doctors could give to most obese
people would be - - correct answer ✔✔ exercise more vigorously
"In defense of the dessert"(23-28) Which of these titles is most appropriate for this passage? -
correct answer ✔✔ "Plea for the dessert"
, the dessert should be valued for its - - correct answer ✔✔ intrinsic majesty
one may infer that better management of the dessert as a natural resource would result in - -
correct answer ✔✔ a gradual return to the former condition of the dessert
it can be inferred that a prospector from 1800s would find today's Devil's Garden in the
California dessert - - correct answer ✔✔ destroyed
According to the passage, one of the factors that helped to increased the tourist use of the
dessert was- - correct answer ✔✔ the availability of air conditioning
The author of this passage would probably support regulations regulations to forbid which of
these activities in the California desert? - correct answer ✔✔ digging up plants
Tom Waters,"Discovery" (29-34) Main purpose of this article is to,,, - correct answer ✔✔
describe the hypothesis of a biologist
3rd paragraph, states that a characteristic of green light is that it is - - correct answer ✔✔ the
easiest to target