On the other hand, summer days never seem to end, winter days never seem to begin.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) Because
(C) While
(D) When
The engineers called in local firefighters in the hope that spraying the leg with water to cool it would make it contract.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) reduce. (C) decrease. (D) compress.
Correct Answer: A
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 (C) as if (D) OMIT the UBderlined portion.
Correct Answer: D
The Anaheim pepper often graces doorways tied into ropes called ristras.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Tied into ropes called ristras, the doorways are often graced with the Anaheim pepper. (C) The Anaheim pepper tied into ropes, often graces doorways, called ristras. (D) Tied into ropes called ristras, the Anaheim pepper often graces doorways.
Correct Answer: D
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