PART 1a — ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

QUESTIONS 1 – 37

Directions: Read each passage below and answer the questions following it. Base your answers on information contained only in the passage. You may reread a passage if you need to. Mark the best answer for each question.

1. Which of the following best tells what the passage is about?

2. The passage suggests that most successful desert plants must be able to

3.  In comparison lo the root systems of desert plants, the root systems of tropical rain forest plants will probably be

4. What is the function of stomates in desert plants?

5. Which of the following best describes what is suggested by the statement that the tiny surface openings of desert plants “serve both purposes” (line 23)?

6. Which of the following weather conditions would most benefit plants with wide, shallow root systems?

7. Which of the following best tells what the passage is about?

8. Why are the alchemists not favorably regarded today?

9. What did the alchemists believe about metals such as copper and lead?

10. What does the passage imply about the process of “purifying” metals?

11. Which of the following questions is not answered in the passage?

12. With which of the following statements about alchemy would the author most likely agree?

13. Which of the following best tells what the passage is about?

14. This passage suggests that most life is ultimately dependent on what?

15. Why is the ecosystem described in this passage called “unique” (line 16)?

16. Which of the following best describes why the Galapagos Rift is called “a surprisingly congenial environment for life” (lines 21-22)?

17. What does the term “primary producers” (lines 30-31) refer to?

18. Which of the following conclusions about photosynthclic and chemosynthetic organisms is supported by this passage?

19. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?

20. Martha Graham introduced new dance techniques in order to

21. What can be inferred from the passage about the “formalized classical motions” (line 15) of ballet dancers prior to the 1920s?

22. It can be inferred that classical ballet of the early twentieth century generally

23. Critics and the public did not understand the universality of Graham’s early work because they

24. The “fate common to all artistic revolutions” (lines 37-38) is best illustrated by which of the following?

25. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?

26. The passage suggests that there is usually a relationship between the size of a telescope and its

27. Which of the following was a problem of early refracting telescopes?

28. Some early telescope makers experimented with reflecting telescopes because

29. Opticians began using lenses made of several layers of glass in order to

30. Telescope makers most likely want to construct larger telescopes in order to

31. Which of the following best tells what the passage is about?

32. From the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Sherpas lived mainly in

33. Why were there no Sherpa mountaineers until the 1900s?

34. Which of the following is not listed as an occupation of the Sherpas?

35. The passage implies that reaching the top of Everest was possible only when

36. Which of the following best summarizes the effect of the Everest expedition of 1953?

37. According to the passage, how did Sherpas respond to the changes the expedition of 1953 brought about?

PART 1b — REVISING/EDITING IN A PASSAGE

QUESTIONS 38 – 51

Directions: Read each passage below and answer the questions following it. You will be asked to improve the writing quality of the passage and to correct errors so that the passage follows the conventions of standard written English. You may reread the passage if you need to. Mark the best answer for each question. 

Questions 38 – 44 refer to the following passage.

38. What is the best way to combine sentences 1 and 2 to clarify the relationship between ideas?

39. Which sentence would best follow and support sentence 3?

40. Sentence 6 would make the most sense if placed after

41. What is the best way to combine sentences 10, 11, and 12?

42. Which edit is needed to correct sentence 13?

43. Which sentence would best follow sentence 15 to support the argument presented in the passage?

44. Which sentence is irrelevant to the argument presented in the passage and should be deleted?

45.  What is the best way to combine sentence 1 and 2 to clarify the relationship between ideas?

46. Which edit is needed to correct sentence 4?

47. Which transition should be added to the beginning of sentence 7?

48. Which sentence is irrelevant to the argument presented in the passage and should be deleted?

49. Which transition should be added to the beginning of sentence 14?

50. In the third paragraph, the writer uses the strategy of

51. Which sentence is irrelevant to the argument presented in the passage and should be deleted?

PART 1c — REVISING/EDITING IN A PASSAGE

QUESTIONS 52 – 57

Directions: Read and answer each of the following questions. You will be asked to recognize and correct errors in sentences or short paragraphs. Mark the best answer for each question.

52. Read this paragraph

Which sentence should be revised to correct an idiom issues?

53. Read this paragraph

Which sentence should be revised to correct a run-on issue?

54. Read this paragraph

Which sentence should be revised to correct a parallelism issue?

55. Read this sentence.

Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?

56. Read this sentence.

Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?

57. Read this sentence

What is the best revision for “and he could continue?”

IF TIME REMAINS, YOU MAY EITHER REVIEW THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS QUESTIONS IN PART I, OR YOU MAY CONTINUE ON TO PART 2, THE MATHEMATICS SECTION.

PART 2 — MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS

QUESTIONS 58 – 114

DIRECTIONS: Solve each problem. Select the best answer from the choices given. You can do your figuring on scratch paper.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
1. Formulas and definitions of mathematical terms and symbols are not provided.
2. Diagrams other than graphs are not necessarily drawn to scale. Do not assume any relationship in a diagram unless it is specifically stated or can be figured out from the information given.
3. Assume that a diagram is in one plane unless the problem specifically states that it is not.
4. Graphs are drawn to scale. Unless stated otherwise, you can assume relationships according to appearance. For example, (on a graph) lines that appear to be parallel can be assumed to be parallel; likewise for concurrent lines, straight lines, collinear points, right angles, etc.
5. Reduce all fractions to lowest terms.

58. Which of the following fractions is closest to 1/8 ?

59. What is the value of c in the equation 2a + 3b + 5 = c if a = 3 abnd b = -3 ?

60. Leontyne sings for $1,000 an hour. Her rate increases by 50% after midnight. If she sings one night from 8:30 pm until 1:00 am, how much should she be paid?

61. 6(4 — 6) + 3(1 — 2) =

62. Three apples cost as much as 4 pears. Three pears cost as much as 2 oranges. How many apples cost as much as 72 oranges?

63. 2[8 ÷ (-4)] + [(-12) ÷ (-3)] =

64. Fran has a drawer containing 4 black T-shirts, 3 orange T-shirts, and 5 blue T-shirts. If these are the only T-shirts in the drawer and she picks one at random, what are the chances it will not be orange?

65. What number is midway between 1/7 and 1/5 ?

66. What value does the digit 7 represent in the number 263,471,589 ?

67. After a 5-hour flight from Newark, Harry arrived in Denver at 2:30 pm. If the time in Newark is 2 hours later than the time in Denver, what was the time in Newark when Harry began the flight?

68. If q and r are integers, in which of the following equations must q be positive?

69.

In the division problem above, what is the remainder when D is divided by 8?

70.

According to the graph above, how much greater was the profit in the most profitable year than in the least profitable year?

71. A wall is 12 feet high. If its surface area is 132 sq ft, what is its perimeter?

72.

In the figure above, a + b =

73. What is the value of 400,000 + 1,000 + 300 + 20 ?

74. A full box of chocolates contains 24 pieces of chocolate. If Doris starts out with 200 pieces of chocolate, how many pieces will she have left over if she fills as many boxes as she can?

75. 

All the line segments in the figure above are equal. What is the measure of angle ABC ?

76. Which of the following is equal to 483 x 0.0793?

77. Which of the following fractions is closest to the product (39/186) x (31/10) ?

78. 

Using the chart above, which percent of the employees at company X are either clerical or technical?

79.

80. Here arc two ways to add numbers:

Abe’s method: Round the numbers to tbe nearest integer and add.

Ben’s method: Add the numbers, then round the result to the nearest integer.

What is the difference between Abe’s method and Ben’s method when adding 6.4 and 3.3?

81. If 65% of x is 130, what is the value of x?

82. What is the value of x if 4(6x – x) = -10 ?

83.

What is the area of the triangle above?

84.

Triange ABC above is an equilateral triangle. If its perimeter is 24, what is the length of AC?

85.

Circle O above has a diameter of 6, an area of b square units, and a circumference of c units. What is the value of b = c ?

86. If x = 1/8, what is the value of y when (2/x) = (y/4)

87.

In the figure above, square ABCD is made up of 4 smaller, equal squares. If the perimeter of ABCD is 16, what is the sum of the perimeters of squares I, II, III, and IV?

88. Assume that the notation ►( a, b, c) means “Subtract the sum of a, b, and c from the product of a, b, and c.” What is the value of ►(4, 5 ,6) + ►(3, 2, 1)?

89.

In the figure above, O is the center of the square with sides parallel to the coordinate axes. What is the perimeter of the square?

90. If x = -3, what is the value of (1/2)|2x – 2| ?

91. What is the length of a side of a square with a perimeter of 36?

92. A delivery service charges $25 per pound for making a delivery. If there is an additional 8% sales tax, what is the cost of delivering an item that weighs 4 /5 — of a pound?

93.  Jeremiah must type 70 pages. He wants to type 1/5 of the pages tomorrow morning, 1/7 of the remaining pages tomorrow afternoon, and the rest of the pages tomorrow evening. How many pages does Jeremiah intend to type tomorrow evening?

94. What is the value of 

if y = 3 ?

95. Which of the following is not a prime factor of 210?

96. If n is an integer, which of the following must be odd?

97. When a number x is multiplied by 5, the result is 8 less than the result of multiplying a number y by 3. Which of the following equations correctly expresses the relationship between x and y?

98. If Tony bought z stamps and Jason bought 3 more than 5 times the number of stamps Tony bought, what is the total number of stamps they both bought?

99. 2x = 3y

All the possible values of x in the equation above are those in the set {3, 6, 12}. Which of the following sets is the set of all possible values of y?

100. √64 + √36 =

101. A square with a side length of 4 inches is divided into squares with side lengths of 1 inch. Three of the small squares are labeled A, 5 are labeled B, 4 are labeled C, 2 are labeled D, and the remainder are labeled E. If one small square is then chosen at random, what is the chance its labeled E?

102.

What is the distance from the midpoint of PQ to the midpoint of RS in the graph above?

103. Four consecutive even numbers have a sum of 28. What is the largest of these numbers?

104. Vincent ate 1/5 of a candy bar. Austin ate 3 times as much of the same candy bar as Vincent ate. What is the ratio of the amount of the candy bar both of them ate to the amount of the candy bar remaining?

105. What is the value of (10(c + 3)) + (6(c – 5)) in terms of d if c = 2d ?

106.

107. An interger raised to the 3rd power is equal to itself minus 6. What is the integer?

108.

Five people are seated at a round table as shown above. If 52 cards are dealt to the five people beginning with Al and continuing clockwise (alphabetically), who gets the last card?

109. A cake recipe requires 3/5 of an ounce of vanilla extract. How many cakes can be made using a package containing 60 ounces of vanilla extract?

110. What number is halfway between -13 and 9?

111. What is the value of z in the equation (z/3) – 35 = -10?

112. 10^-2= ?

113. Jayden and Bailey collect comic books. Bailey has 2 more than 3 times the number of comic books that Jayden has. They have a total of 50 comic books. How many comic books does Jayden have?

114. If 3x + 9 = 15 and x is an integer, then what is the value of x?