Practice Questions
The following sentences test accuracy and effectiveness of
expression. In selecting answers, follow the rules of standard
written English. Consider grammar, choice of words, sentence
construction, and punctuation. In each of the following
sentences, a portion or all of the sentence is underlined. Under
each sentence, you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined
portion. Choice (A) repeats the original underlined portion; the
other four choices provide alternative phrasings.
Select the choice that best expresses the meaning of the
original sentence. If the original sentence is better than any of
the alternative phrasing, choose (a); otherwise select one of the
alternatives.
1. Mary Cassatt, an American painter
strongly influenced by French impressionism, she also
responded to Japanese paintings exhibited in Paris in the
1890s.
(A) impressionism, she also responded
(B) impressionism, also responded
(C) impressionism, also responding
(D) impressionism, nevertheless, she responded
(E) impressionism before responding
2. The choreographer Katherine Dunham
having trained as an anthropologist, she studied dance in
Jamaica, Haiti, and Senegal and developed a distinctive dance
method.
(A) having trained as an anthropologist, she studied
(B) was also a trained anthropologist, having studied
(C) was also a trained anthropologist and a student of
(D) was also a trained anthropologist who studied
(E) training as an anthropologist, she studied
3. Theorists of extraterrestrial
intelligence depend on astronomical observations, chemical
research, and they draw inferences about nonhuman
biology.
(A) and they draw inferences about nonhuman biology
(B) while they infer biologically about nonhuman life
(C) and biologically infer about nonhuman life
(D) as well as drawing inferences biologically about nonhuman
life
(E) and biological inferences about nonhuman life
