SAT Full Length Test

Directions: For this section, solve each problem and decide which is the best of the choices given. Fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.

In the system of the equations above, what is the value of ?

If and are consecutive integers and , which of the following must be true ?

If , then

For which values of m is the following inequality true: ?

In the figure above, triangle is isosceles with base If , then

A unit square is circumscribed about a circle. If the circumference of circle is , what is the value of ?

What is the area of the triangle above?

If the ratio of the two numbers is 6 and their sum is 21, what is the value of the larger number ?

How many ounces of water must be added to a 30-ounce mixture that is 40 percent alcohol to dilute the solution to 25 percent alcohol?

What is the value of term of a sequence if the first term of the sequence is and each successive term is more the term immediately preceding it?

A particular bikemaker sells four models of bikes, and each model comes with 5 options. How many different types of bikes does the bikemaker sell?

The population of a town was 12,000 in 1980 and 16,000 in 1990. What was the percent increase in the population of the town during this period ?

On a true-false quiz having just four questions, what is probability of guessing and getting all four questions correct?

A culture of 207 bacteria triples every 12 minutes. What will the bacterial count 2 hours after the original culture of 207 was established?

The first four numbers in a patterned sequence of positive integers are 1, 2, 4, 8, . . . . What is the tenth integer in this sequence?

Melody deposits $100 into a new savings account that pays her 3% interest compounded annually. What is the accumulated value of this deposit 6 years after the day of the initial deposit?

A marble is to be selected at random from a jar that contains marbles of five different colors. If the probability that a red marble will be selected is 72 , which of the following could NOT be the number of marbles in the jar?

The average (arithmetic mean) of a set of six two-digit even integers is 17. What is the largest possible even integer in this set?

Jack rides his bicycle a distance of 40 miles in 5 hours and then returns the same distance in only 4 hours. What is his average rate, in miles/hour, for the entire trip?

Sam has $500 in a savings account that pays 4% simple interest per year. If he does not deposit or withdraw from this savings account, how much money will be in Sam’s savings account after 3 years?

The Cabinet member’s resignation was not a total ……. ; rumors of his imminent departure had been making the rounds in London for a week.

The cart train leaders chose to —-—their route when they realized that the heavy rains had made fording the river too --——a task.

Anthropologists customarily altercate that the male-female division of labor in hunter-gatherer societies arose because it …… the nuclear family’s joint interests and thereby represented a sound, —-- strategy.

The trainee was —- by the sergeant’s scathing rebuke; nobody had ever ——him like that before.

The report was relentlessly …… to the researcher, interpreting one complex event after another to his ………….

John …….. recognition and fame, yet he felt a deep suspicion and …..... for the world in which recognition and fame are granted, the world of money and opinion and power.

My friend, who never spent a dime and rarely talked, was considered both _ and _.

Now better known for its race course, Saratoga Springs first gained notice for the ——- qualities of its well-known healing waters.

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But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held—so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place—who knows?

The primary purpose of the passage is to

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But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held—so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place—who knows

What statement best describes the author’s meaning of the phrase “a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail?”

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But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held—so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place—who knows?

“Great Stuffer of Bags” is an example of what literary device?

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But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held—so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place—who knows?

The entire passage qualifies as which of the following devices?

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

The purpose of this passage is

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

During the course of the passage, the author

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

In line (2), to what does the author wish to “rescue from oblivion?”

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

The term “nest egg” in line (5), is a metaphor for

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

The author suggests that the main reason to journal is

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To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a distinct profession to rescue from oblivion and to fix the sentiments and thoughts which visit all men more or less generally, that the contemplation of the unfinished picture may suggest its harmonious comple- tion. Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves. My thoughts are my company. They have a certain individuality and separate existence, aye, personality. Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought.

Line (10), “Thought begat thought” means

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

Which of the following accurately identifies the literary device used in the following phrase, “like human bones before the cave of some giant” line (3)?

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

Which term best describes the word “sally” as used in line (6)?

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window,there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

Which term best describes the word “expatiating” as used in line (9)?

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

All of the following are revealed by the author in the phrase, “nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else that Beelzebub with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects whom his enemy had slain and devoured” lines (12–14) EXCEPT:

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

The phrase, “he was very near at his wit’s end; hestormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst” best exemplifies which of the following literary devices?

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The following is from a moral treatment about a spider and a bee by Jonathan Swift.

Things were at this crisis, when a material accident fell out. For, upon the highest corner of a large window, there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite number of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues of his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the center, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defense. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose cu- riosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he went; where expatiating a while, he at last hap- pened to alight upon one of the outward walls of the spider’s citadel; which, yielding to the unequal weight , sunk down to the very foundation. Thrice he endeavored to force his passage, and thrice the center shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution; or else Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the spiderweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when beholding the chasms and ruins, and dilapidations of his fortress, he was very near at his wit’s end; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst.

What moral lesson might be inferred from the evidence presented in the story about the characterizations of the spider and the bee, respectively?

Last week, Professor Martin honored many seniors, especially while achieving high grades on their final exams.

Although it was recently revamped, the new theater in Weston can accommodate fewer people than Stamford.

In the French Sculpture Galleries in the city museum, there is two bronzes by Edgar Degas, each of which depicts a young ballet dancer.

While the Tokyo String Quartet has been performing together for almost 40 years, their latest incarnation is renowned for a warm richness of tone, an elegant phrasing, and their playing avant-garde pieces.

Neither the weather reports or the almanac predict a thunderstorm large enough to close school.

Botanists have learned that the strange qualities that help the chili pepper survive are identical to those that attract potentially harmful or even fatal bacteria.

Some people are hesitant to purchase a new computer because the technology of them is changing so quickly.

Identifying Sentence Errors (Sentence Correction)

Each of the following sentences has four underlined words or phrases. Read each sentence and determine which underlined portion, if any, has an error in grammar, usage, word choice, or idiom (standard expression). If there is no error, select choice (e). No sentence has more than one error.

Pie safes, used during the 19th century to store kitchen sundries, are cherished by collectors for its value as reminders of American life before the advent of the refrigerator.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Agriculturist experimenting with hybrid vegetables have been unable to grow many of these plants in the desert because there is not sufficient enough rainfall in the area.

Identifying Sentence Errors

American aviation leader Amelia Earhart, the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean to prove to skeptics that a woman was just as capable to fly airplanes as men.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Many students found that if they would have taken out loans for their college studies, they would have been in a better financial situation when they finished their education.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Professor Ralph, along with many of his colleagues, have recently attended the conference on coelacanths sponsored by the marine biology department of the University of South Florida.

Identifying Sentence Errors

In her job as an executive for the fire department hot line, Riya discovered it was difficult to get people to speak calm and slowly in an emergency.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

The Motor Vehicle Department has compiled statistics that show the average age that teenagers apply for a driver’s license rose dramatically since 1980.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Just when the institute’s administrators thought the transition to the new building had gone smooth, they discovered that all the plumbing in the bathrooms was faulty.

Identifying Sentence Errors

Identifying Sentence Errors

Maria and Amy were shocked that they had won the scene contest; indeed, they considered their competitor’s performance superior to theirs.

Identifying Sentence Errors

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Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge

What is the best way to deal with the sentence 1 (reproduced below) ? Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury

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Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge.

Which of the following is the best revision of sentence 4 to better link it to sentence 3 ?

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Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge.

In context, what does the word myriad mean in the sentence 4 (reproduced below) ?

The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing.

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Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge

What is the best way to deal with sentence 8(reproduced below) ?

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Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge.

If waterfall is part of the pool, where is the pool in relationship to the restaurant?

Question are based on the following passage

Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Getaway Lodge offers its guests hospitality, comfort and living in luxury. (2) Guests are greeted at the door and ushered to their rooms where they are welcomed with a large gift basket filled with scrumptious snacks and bath oils. (3) Every room has magnificient, breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. (4) The mountains offer a myriad of activities for travellers including hiking and rock-climbing. (5) If outdoor recreation is not appealing, guests can lounge by the free- form pool or soak in the hot-tub. (6) After a full day’s activities , dinner is served in a romantic dining room adjacent to a waterfall. (7) By the glow of candle light diners will enjoy savory entrees and decadent desserts. (8) After dinner, guests may enjoy a stroll through the garden or sitting by the fireplace. (9) With so many pleasurable activities, guests can easily pass a memorable week at the getaway lodge

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• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What is the general tone of the letter in Passage (1)?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What information suggests that the statement in Passage (1), line (1), “Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty” might make the author to consider this to be an appropriate position?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What is inferred in the sentences, “An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust” Passage (1), lines (6–9)?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What does the author in Passage (1) caution his son relative to this practice of flattery?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What writing style is employed by the author in Passage (2)?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

What advice does the author give to our youth about lying in Passage (2)?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

By suggesting that perfection in lying is the only path to eminence, as the author does in Passage (2), what can we infer about leadership in government?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

By suggesting that perfection in lying is the only path to eminence, as the author does in Passage (2), what can we infer about leadership in government?

• Passage 1

The following is an excerpt by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son written in 1747.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them to follow. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest woman in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.

Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody’s vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a com- plaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

Passage 2

The following is an excerpt by Samuel Clemens in a lecture given in 1882 on advice to youth.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie, the result of careless- ness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make attention to detail – these are the require- ments; these, in time, will make the student perfect; upon these, and upon these only, may he rely as the sure foun- dation for future eminence.

Regarding both Passage (1) and Passage (2), what is the relational ironic element considering each of these very differently presented passages independently

Question are based on the following passages

The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Which of the following best describes the word “means” line (1), as used in this passage?

Question are based on the following passages

The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Which of the following best describes the word “artifice” line (1), as used in this passage

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

According to the passage, what two natural purposes are supported by individual mechanisms?

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

What selection best paraphrases the meaning of the sentence, “Yet we never endeavour [sic] to account for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion” lines (6–8)?

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Why does the author utilize an analogy of a watch in his presentation of the animal body?

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Which of the following best interprets the sentence; “Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watchmaker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do” lines (11–13)?

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

By inference, the author most directly compares God to

Question are based on the following passages

The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Which of the following best interprets the sentence, “Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle” lines (16–18)?

Question are based on the following passages

The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

This passage serves mainly to

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The following passage is taken from an article relating two of Aristotle’s four causes: the efficient cause and the final cause.

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are in- tended to produce; and I the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for ad-vancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organiza-tions. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purpose of animal life. Yet we never endeavour [sic] to ac-count for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch- maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle.

Which phrase might best reflect the meaning of this passage in a commercial environment?