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Source question 2. G, on level of art, His photographs of Weimaraners have gained him international acclaim and made his

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Source question 4. pets the best-known dogs Rin Tin Tin,

If the writer were to delete the quesiions "Moist nose? Snout??? from this paragraph, the essay would primar- ily lose: a serious £￿d analytical tone. an emphasis on the surprising twist in the essay. an assertion of the essay's main purpose. nothing at all, since they create a meaningless digression, Wegman came to the attention of the art world in 1970 with his portraits of his dog Man Ray, the first of Wegman's Weimaraners to pose for photos. The ACT.68G GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. photographer was fascinated by the neutral gray of the dog's coat and his willingness to pose while wearing different costumes. Wegman's photos of Man Ray grew in popularity. In 1982 the dog was named '°Man of the Year" by the New York newspaper Th£ Village Voice.

If the writer were to delete the phrase "narned 'Man of the Year, in the preceding sentence and replace it wxth ".honored with an award,, the paragraph would primarily lose: an element of suspense leading to the next paragraph. a specific dctail that adds humor, a fact that foreshadows later events. a distinction between the two figures discussed in this paragraph. Later, other Weimaraners became part of the Wegman

Given that all the choices are true, which one best con- veys the idea that the individuality of the dogs iTrspires Wegman as a photographer? course, Wegman's favoriie and was irreplaceable in many ways.

Source question 9. B, looking was looking wigs, which makes her a natural choice to portray female characters. [D] Ivhile Wegman's reputation was made with art photography, in recent years his children's books have generated a new but equally devoted following. His whimsical style appeals to children, having chosen to io

r. NO CHANGE sometimes decidi]]g reenact familiar fairy tales with canine characters. li

Thc dogs have each posed for so many different photographs that Wegman needs to give very little direction during a shoot. ,1. As a breed, Weimaraners have such a distinctive look that most people have a hard time tellintr one Wegman dog from another. carefully before déciding what sorts of pictures to take. [A] Chundo is eager ro work, but he doesn't sit still very [B] Batty, who often falls asleep while posing, has a sweet and dreaTny quality. [c] And Fay looked great in

Source question 13. more mostly Question 14 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

Suppose Lhe wrkter's goal had been to write a brief essay descTibing the renewed popularEty some classic children's stories are gaining with a new generation of readers. Would this essay accomplish that goal? r. Yes, because it details.unique changes Wegman and his dogs have recenily made to popular chil- dren's fairy tales. larity of such children's classics as Cinderella, phoiographer and his unique dogs, not on chil- dren's sLories. Wegman's dogs have been involved in since 1970. PASSAGE 11 Coming to America Though il was fLfteen years ago, I still remember my journey from China to the United States when I was seven years old. On the tarmac outside the crowded airport in Shan<Fhai, I mustered the last of my feigned courage to wave goodbye to ￿Y grandparents and boarded the pLane, The plane taxied a long way, then quickly sped up, gave a sudden jolt, and lifted off. S¢¢ino dark storm clouds ahead, drops of rain Is began 10 Strealc my wxndow. Feeliug so wuch force against m¢, I shut my eyes in search of familiar memories I would recognize. I called up visions of Grandma singing 16 lullabies to me, of delicious meals at the Spring and

Source question 16. Il. to remember. tence with a pcriod. ACT.68G GO ON TO THE NE T PAGE. Autumn festivals, and of tny schoolmates walking with me to school. I was traveling from my home in Shanghai to New

The best placement for the underlined portion would where it is now. after the word parents (and before the comma). after the word gone. people whom I could barely remember. Suddenly I felt 19 empty, acutely aware that I was leaving the only home

Which choice most logically supports the first part of this sentenc¢? A, NO CHANGE whom I missed so dearly, who were living in the United States. who were rny parents. I'd ever known.

Source question 21. altitude. The altitude, the clouds have given way to a deep blue sky. Images of home 22 quickly filled that blue void. I saw myself blowing'out

Which choice most effectively expresses their great enjoyment of the food? were fine with Acf.£8G GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. I can still picture the two beaming faces across the table4ralldpa with his knowing grin and Grandma with her plump cheeks dimpling as she smiled both IS congratulating Ene on my good fortune of going to live

Source question 25. smiled. Both in the United States. 26

Source question 27. Twenty-four hours after leaving Shanghai, I finally got off the plalle in New York, A woman iecognized me 37 from pictures as my mother rushed toward me, wrapped me in her arrns, and gently spun around with me. I woman, recognizing me woman, I recognized, woman I recognized irnmediatcly felt safe and at home in heT arms, 28

Which of the.following allernatives Éo the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable? safely at honiE in at home in the safety of safely hotne in

Source question 30. were being was are AGT.fj8G GO ON TO THE NEXT P the authors. 31 e name8 app¢ar7ng on the book's

Source question 32. instead, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte had published their first work using pen names-names assumed by authors to conceal their identities. [2] The list of writers who have chosen to use a pen naEne is lengthy. Il includes Stephen King, who published novels under the name Richard Bachman, and Samuel Clemens, who adopted the riverboat term Mark Twain. Do you know what the ierm mark twain means? There 33 are perhaps as u]any re&sons for choosing to write under

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Source question 36. writing written ACT-68G GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. [3]. Sometimes, if the need for a pen name is 37 IllOTe personal. In order to hide the fact that he was in prison, William Porter used the pell name O. Henry while publishing several stories prioi" to his release. In the ninete¢nth century, a pen name often was used to disguise its gellder.

Source question 37. since when

Source question 38. one's it's Mary Alln Evans was a popular English 39 novelist during the Victorian era. She was 39

Source question 40. coming after imitating [4] A pen name can corne to overshadow a writers 4J given name. Few readers would recognize the name

Source question 41. a writer's an authors an authors, Theodor Geisel, though many know his pen name: 42

Source question 44. remember, the classics. remember, the classics remember the classics, of the Brontes, while Cllrrer, Ellis, and Acton Bell are mere literary footnotes. Question 45 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

While reviewing note8 for this essay, the writer comes across some information and incorporates it into the following sentence: Likewise, when the scholar and literary critic Carolyn Heilbrun WTites tnysteries, she uses the pen name Amanda Cross. If the writer wexe £0 include this sentence in the es8ay, the Jnost logical place to add it would be after the last sentence in Paragraph.. PASSAGE IV Blue Jeans: Li verythillg Old Is New Again In the Late 1800s, cLothing store owner, Levi Strauss 46 patented the practice of putting rkvets, tiny metal studs, on the stress points of men's "waist overalls., Waist overalls, which eventually would be known as jeans, were made out

Source question 46. owner Levi Strauss, owner, Levi Strauss, owner Levi Strauss of dentm, a durable cotton cloth used especially for work 47 clothes. Strauss's denim pant8 Wlth rivets were the first pauts to be called jeans. Over time, various styles and designers, ol jeans have garnered a share of public 48 devotioll. Independent of brand names, though, jeans

Source question 48. those with designs have historic significance regardless of bralld name 49 and, foi many of us, emotional significance.

Source question 49. no matter what the brand aLong with emotional value ACT48G GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. O Through the 1920s, waist overalls or jeans 50

Source question 51. were primarily

Source question 52. adventure and individualism. notions or ideals of acting independently and dan- gcrous undertakings involving risks.

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable? materialized showcased emphasized [1] Boot-cut, low-rise, extra-baggy carpentcr-style jeans-an assortrnent of playful styles-gained popularity in the 19908. [2] High-fashion clothino designers commonly featured jcans as a part of 55 their clothing lines in the 1980s, and designer jeans quickly became part of mainstream fashion. 10 GO ON TO THE NEXT P ACT.68G [3] Styles continue to ¢vo.Ive, of course. [4] Every year it seems there'8 a new favorite look or fit. [] 56

For the sake of the logic and coherence of this para- graph. Sentence 2 sho.uld be placed: where it is now. after Sentence 4. As jeans-lovers have entered the corporate world, they have popularized a casual work look, wearing jeans as the basic wardrobe to seem laid-back .but actually

Source question 57. of a seemingly in seeming as they seem ambitious rjew pi'ofessionalism. Jeans, at once gritty and earthy, urban and rural, fashionable and simple, are ca8ual 5$ but also convey an underlying a8seriiveness that no other

Source question 58. which are fashionable and they're simple, as something simple can be in fashion, staple of our wardrobes can match. Question 59 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

The best placement for the underlined portion would where it is now. after the word mysteries (and before the period). ACT-68G GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. When she began studies in the 19208, scientists had only recenily began to consider genetics a field 61 of study and accept the research of Gregor Mendel

The writer is considering deleting the parenthetical information (and the parentheses) from the preceding sentence. If the writer were to make this deletion, the paragraph would primarily lose: information needed to understand why Mcclintock was motivated to continue researching Mendel's theories, infonnation that helps put Mendel's life and work into historical context. In school. a time fiame during which Mendel.'s discoveiies were considered valid. (1822-1884). 62 is theory stated that plants resembled their "parents" in a predictsble manner based 63

Source question 63. marmer. Based manner" based manner that based on laws of inheritance. However, Mcclintock's research 64 pushed the field ol genetics beyond Mendel's principles.

Given that all the choices are true, which one most effectively leads thc reader from this paragraph iuto the remainder of the essay . r. NO CHANGE monastery and conducting his experiments in ihe garden there. studies about genetics. gious National Academy of Sciences in 1944.

Source question 65. Mcclintock believed tuaize (corn) was idealistically a 65 an ideal an ideally an idealistic plant to study because each ear had hundreds of kernels for 66 each with a different set of chromosomes. The first to

Source question 67. maize way genes were arranged on these chrotnosomes. By 1951, she had studied many generalions of maize, noting the locations of groups of genes as the plants reproduced. ACT-68G 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Mcclintock found that some of the maize kernels were striped or spotted rather, then the uniform color

Source question 68. H, spotted rather than spotted rather, than found in the parent plants. For example, these fkndillgs fj9 were in marked contrast to Mendel's work, which liad

Source question 69. B, Next. these C, Nonetheless, these concluded that the kernel color of offspring could be predicted from the combination of genes inherited from the parent plants. In the multicolored kernels, Mcclintock discovered that specialized genes, later called transposons, were changing positions on and betwcen the chromosomes. These changes caused a deviation f'rom the kernel color of 70 the maize that would have been anticipated by scientists. 7Q Mcclintock named this genetic phenomenon transposifion. Mcclintock's work was far ahead of the other genetic research of her time. It took the scientific community over

Source question 70. scientifxc anticipation of the expected kernel color. coIoT that people in science had thought would be in the keTllels. expected color of the kernels. thirty years to understand and publicly iecognize her 71 discoveries. In othei scientific fields, the concept of

Source question 71. understand, understand. understand them transposition may had wide-rangino applications, 72

Source question 73. Refer to the source image.

Source question 74. won appreciation given that it was worthwhile, was considered important enough to be appreciated,

Given that all the choices are true, which onc most effectively concludes the sentence by giving a 8pecific example of the acknowledgment Mcclintock finally received for her achie¥ements? was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 75 in 1983. 75 could attribute her success to her early research experiences at C017]ell Univexsity. continued to work at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab- oratory in a position she, d held since 1941, reach her goals. END OF TEST 1 STOP! DO NOT TU 13 NTHEP GE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. ACT.SeG