Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is adapted from William Wordsworth's 1798 poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey."
Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, which on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
As used in the text, what does the word "behold” nearly mean?
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Possess
Regard
Omit
Escape
Although oil shocks-such as the 10% rise in oil prices in November 1970-can strongly affect individual consumers, Gbadebo Oladosu and colleagues have shown that at the level of national economies, their effects are often quite______. The effect of recent oil shocks on the gross domestic product of Germany, for example, was only slightly greater than zero.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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variable
persistent
subdued
beneficia
Writer Lydia Davis observed that while ______ literary forms, such as the poem, are recognizable as such even as they evolve, there are pathbreaking “intergeneric” forms that might, for example, use elements of both fables and realist narratives to create something unclassifiable. Davisʼs own very short literary pieces arguably fit in this category, since they straddle the line between prose and poetry.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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innovative
elusive
established
ambiguous
Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Vothʼs analysis of the debt repayments and expenditure of the government of Philip II (who ruled an empire including Spain and Milan from 1556 to 1598) found a seeming contradiction: although the government had several short-term cash shortages, it ran an even larger surplus than did the government of eighteenth-century Britain, a nation considered ______ of fiscal virtue.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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a sanction
a paradox
an exemplar
an omen
The following text is from Anthony Trollopeʼs 1855 novel The Warden. Charles James is the son of a high-ranking clergy member. Charles James was an exact and careful boy; he never committed himself; he well knew how much was expected from the eldest son of the Archdeacon of Barchester, and was therefore mindful not to mix too freely with other boys. He had not the great talents of his younger brothers, but he exceeded them in judgment and propriety of demeanour; his fault, if he had one, was an over-attention to words instead of things; there was a thought too much finesse about him, and, as even his father sometimes told him, he was too fond of a compromise.
Which choice best states the function of the phrase “if he had one” in the text as a whole?
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It acknowledges that the qualities in Charles James the narrato goes on to describe may not actually be undesirable characteristics
It concedes that Charles Jamesʼs attempts to be held in respec are sometimes fruitless.
It signals a shift in focus from describing Charles Jamesʼs good qualities to criticizing his tendency to place too much value on artfulness.
It anticipates readersʼ objections to the narratorʼs criticism of Charles Jamesʼs faults.
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