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Please copy the test question, potential answers, hint, and

explanation into the “Things That Make Ya Go, ‘Hmmm’ ” section

of your notebook.

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• Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

• Numerous illnesses that were once difficult to - - - - - - - may now be diagnosed through - - - - - - -blood tests.

(A) detect . . perfunctory(B) facilitate . . tedious(C) administer . . pre-emptive(D) observe . . inconvenient

• Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

• Numerous illnesses that were once difficult to - - - - - - - may now be diagnosed through - - - - - - -blood tests.

(A) detect . . perfunctory(B) facilitate . . tedious(C) administer . . pre-emptive(D) observe . . inconvenient

Correct Answer = ACorrect Answer = A

• Hint: The words “once” and “now” suggest that certain illnesses are no longer “difficult” to diagnose.

• Explanation: It makes sense to say that certain diseases are no longer difficult to “detect” now that doctors can diagnose them through routine, or “perfunctory,” tests.

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explanation into the “Things That Make Ya Go, ‘Hmmm’ ” section

of your notebook.

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• The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.

• It weaves across a strip of tropical land where the isthmus of Panama

narrows in the shape of a long flattened letter S, the Panama

Canal

links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. No error.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

• The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.

• It weaves across a strip of tropical land where the isthmus of Panama

narrows in the shape of a long flattened letter S, the Panama

Canal

links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. No error.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

A B

C

D E

Correct Answer = ACorrect Answer = A

• Hint: Remember that two complete thoughts should never be joined by a comma.

• Explanation: The error in this sentence occurs at (A), where a comma splice is created. To fix the comma splice, “It weaves” should be changed to “Weaving.”

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explanation into the “Things That Make Ya Go, ‘Hmmm’ ” section

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• Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

• The idea that people ---------- their own reality or shape their experience based on previous subjective events is one of the fundamental ---------- of social psychology

(A) extricate . . privileges (B) avoid . . desires (C) construct . . axioms (D) fortify . . goals (E) instill . . archetypes

• Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

• The idea that people ---------- their own reality or shape their experience based on previous subjective events is one of the fundamental ---------- of social psychology

(A) extricate . . privileges (B) avoid . . desires (C) construct . . axioms (D) fortify . . goals (E) instill . . archetypes

Correct Answer = CCorrect Answer = C

Correct Answer = (C) construct . . axioms

Correct Answer = (C) construct . . axioms

• Hint: The second missing term should mean nearly the same thing as “idea.”

• Explanation: The idea that people “construct,” or shape, their experience is an “axiom,” or fundamental principle, of social psychology.

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