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Instead, they kept the cart by the front door, ready for when they needed to haul laundry down the long basement orridor to the washing machines even to carry flour, chocolate, and walnuts to my grandmother's Popham avenue apartment, where my sister preferred to bake.

(A)NO CHANGE

(B) or

(D) OMIT the UBderlined portion.

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38. The writer is considering deleting the preceding sentence from this paragraph. If the writer made this deletion, the paragraph would primarily lose:

(F) scientific proof that snakes are too dangerous to coexist with humans.(G) an example of the various locations where most fatalities take place.(H) a specific statistic to support a previous claim.(J) excessive detail that distracts the reader from the broader message of the passage.

Correct Answer: H

On December 2, 1964, Savio spoke insistently to a large crowd of protesters: "There is a time when the operation of the machine . . . makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part. . . and you've got to make it stop."

（A）NO CHANGE （B） emphatically （C） compellingly （D） excitably

Correct Answer: C

Sending machines unaccompanied by humans to Mars does drain some of the romance out of age-old visions of space travel. In other words, we need to keep in mind that the right equipment can accomplish as much as any crew of scientists, if not more—at a fraction of the cost.

（A）NO CHANGE （B） For that reason alone, （C） In that time frame, （D） Even so,

Correct Answer: D

Instead, they kept the cart by the front door, ready for when they needed to haul laundry down the long basement orridor to the washing machines even to carry flour, chocolate, and walnuts to my grandmother's Popham avenue apartment, where my sister preferred to bake.

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