Question

Please help!!

1- Read the sentence below and answer the following question:

The council meeting ran out of time, and members were unable to discuss procedures for having shorter meetings.

This sentence is an example of which of the following?

a- Irony

b- Understatement

c- Sarcasm

d- Satire

Answer 1

2- Which of the following is appropriate for a formal audience?

a- After reviewing the details, I can say you are solid.

b- I have reviewed the documents' details, and you are protected.

c- Listen, I got your back, so don't worry about it.

d- You are totally good because this is not a big problem.

Answer 2

3- Read this sentence and answer the question below:

After witnessing the moral decay of New York, Nick decided to return to the Midwest and pursue a more straight-laced life.

What word, if substituted for straight-laced, would best clarify the intended meaning?

a- Boring

b- Moral

c- Normal

d- Quiet

Answer 3

4- Read these lines from the text:

And this great crisis was only the bursting into flame of many smaller fires that had long been smoldering. For generations the two sections had been drifting apart. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, Mason and Dixon's line had been a line of real division separating two inherently distinct portions of the country.

Which of the following best summarizes the main message of this text?

a- The two sides of the country were irreconcilably different.

b- The two sides of the country should never have been together.

c- The great crisis was caused by Mason and Dixon's division.

d- The great crisis was the result of long-building tensions.

Answer 4

5- Which question would help improve the development of ideas in an essay?

a- Are the sentences varied to maintain interest?

b- Can language be made more concise?

c- Is each point related to the main idea?

d- Is the organization clear and appropriate to the task?

Answer 5

6- The operation of the Pony Express was a supreme achievement of physical endurance on the part of man and his ever faithful companion, the horse. The history of this organization should be a lasting monument to the physical sacrifice of man and beast in an effort to accomplish something worthwhile. Its history should be an enduring tribute to American courage and American organizing genius.

Which phrase from the paragraph best expresses its main point?

a- A supreme achievement of physical endurance

b- Man and his ever faithful companion, the horse

c- The physical sacrifice of man and beast

d- Its history should be an enduring tribute

Answer 6

7- By 1860, then, war was inevitable. Naturally, the conflict would at once present intricate military problems, and among them the retention of the Pacific Coast was of the deepest concern to the Union. Situated at a distance of nearly two thousand miles from the Missouri River which was then the nation's western frontier, this intervening space comprised trackless plains, almost impenetrable ranges of snow-capped mountains, and parched alkali deserts. And besides these barriers of nature which lay between the West coast and the settled eastern half of the country, there were many fierce tribes of savages who were usually on the alert to oppose the movements of the white race through their dominions.

California, even then, was the jewel of the Pacific. Having a considerable population, great natural wealth, and unsurpassed climate and fertility, she was jealously desired by both the North and the South.

Based on this excerpt, what will the author most likely discuss next?

a- The geography of California

b- The North's plans to defeat the South in California

c- The reasons why California was important to the North and the South

d- The effects of war on the population of California

Answer 7

8- Read this line from the Pony Express excerpt:

These resolutions…really foreshadowed the Democratic platform of 1860 which led to the great split in that party, the victory of the Republicans under Lincoln, the subsequent secession of the more radical southern states, and finally the Civil War…

In this context, the phrase "subsequent secession" indicates which of the following?

a- A recent argument

b- A recent confrontation

c- A soon to come declaration

d- A soon to come separation

Answer 8

9- Thus the great house was built. Familiar as it stands in the writer's recollection,—for it has been an object of curiosity with him from boyhood, both as a specimen of the best and stateliest architecture of a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle,—familiar as it stands, in its rusty old age, it is therefore only the more difficult to imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine.

What does the author suggest is difficult to imagine about the house?

a- Its inhabitants from long ago

b- Its long gone occupants and visitors

c- The nature of how it has aged

d- The way it looked when it was new

Answer 9

10- Read the sentence and answer the following question:

I learned things during your talk yesterday that I will be using in my upcoming research project.

Which word should be replaced with something more precise?

a- Things

b- Upcoming

c- Research

d- Project

Answer 10

@Bubbles1204 ?? Can you help me out?? :)

Answer 11

@sydnoelle

Answer 12

The first one is an example of irony.

Answer 13

Thank you @lrizzi

Answer 14

@Destinymasha I think you are good at this stuff

Answer 15

Guys, if you could...I still need help @ctfxcfan1 @Destinymasha @lrizzi @Bubbles1204

Answer 16

For #2 my best guess is A...it sounds the most formal

Answer 17

2=a 3=d I'm not good at these but this is the best I can do for ya

Answer 18

1 a
2 B
3 B
4 is D
5 I think is D
6 I think it is either B or C
7 im not sure
8 is D
9 C or D
10 Im pretty sure is A because things isn't a very specific word .

Answer 19

@rezende914

Answer 20

Thank you so much!! :)

Answer 21

@Bubbles1204

Answer 22

Im not entirely sure if on some of those like 6 I couldn't decide which one it was >.< sorry. But yeah, the rest im pretty sure are right!