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Which sentence would be most effective if inserted at the beginning of paragraph D?

Libraries have books, and many libraries belong to law offices.
When addressing problems in a library, you may or may not have problems with filing.
In a reference library, which contains informational books, some of them may be about law.
Libraries are interesting places to visit.
In addition to our filing problems, we should also address difficulties associated with our reference library.

Answer(s): E

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Comics:A Window on Life

(A)
(1) When I was a child. (2) A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day. (3) This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young. (4) I thought adults considered comics juvenile. (5) "But no, "he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn’t miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8) A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13) Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16) Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture.

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Sentence 1 Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.

Which correction should be made to sentence 14?

change they are to they were
remove the comma after characters
replace it is with they are
replace whole with hole
no correction is necessary

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 12

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Sentence 1
Our regular delivery is quite effective and takes less than four hours.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option A.

quite effective
quiet effective
quite affective
quite, affective
quite, affective,

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 13

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Sentence Our work stations are stocked with all the tools and equipment that you needed to do work on your car.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option A.

that you needed
that, you needed
that needs
that needed
that you will need

Answer(s): E

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QUESTION: 14

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Comics:A Window on Life

(A)
(1) When I was a child. (2) A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day. (3) This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young. (4) I thought adults considered comics juvenile. (5) "But no, "he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn’t miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8) A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13) Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16) Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also abarometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture.

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Sentence 17:
A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day. If you rewrote sentence 17 beginning with They bring the next words should be:

a little
lives by
each day
them into
brief day

Answer(s): A

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