501 Critical Reading Questions

The passage as a whole suggests that a. The White Sox probably fixed the 1917 World Series, too. b.Charles Comiskey may have be ...

of the old starting-sill, with the feeling that thirty centuries looked down upon them, it would not be practical. A successful ...

In line 1, the word unwontedmost nearly means a. not welcome. b.out of the ordinary. c. unexpected. d.ancient. e.nocturnal. Her ...

Who was in charge of solving the problem of seating the crowds expected at Athens? a. the International Athletic Committee b.th ...

Questions 450–460 are based on the following passages. The following passages detail two very different perspectives of life abo ...

fumes of the turtle-soup! At sea we do meet with rough weather at times; but, for roughing it out, give me a yacht. PASSAGE 2 My ...

With a smile that was graveyard of yellow sincerity, Nigel pushed the dish back to me and said, “I’d get used to the grub, mate. ...

What do the yacht in Passage 1 and the Albain Passage 2 have in common? a. They were both built in England. b.They both have on ...

In Passage 2, line 36, the narrator describes Nigel’s smile as a graveyard of yellow sincerity.What figure of speech is the nar ...

Playing horse shoes(choice d) only requires good hand-eye coordination. b.Bellicosemost closely means warlike.There are two maj ...

e.The author’s primary purpose in writing this passage is to dis- cuss his belief that commercialism’s strong presence in today ...

shore the lower portion of the wave strikes land first and is stopped.If the sea bottom is rising, the water will therefore be n ...

a. The word bucolicis most often used to describe something typi- cal of or relating to rural life. If you did not know what bu ...

players in the U.S. Nationals (choice c). Nor did she propose that the USLTA make the tournament open to anybody (choice d). d. ...

c. It is stated throughout the passage Comiskey was a frugal man, yet in lines 76–77 it says that he paid for the players’ defe ...

a. Lines 35–37 state that if Olympia were to be considered a viable site for the modern Olympics, it woulddemand the organizati ...

b.In lines 10–12 of Passage 1 the narrator states that the yacht is a particular type of ship known as a cutter. In lines 14–15 ...

another to suggest a similarity between the two, this figure of speech is called a metaphor(choice e). If the boy had instead sa ...

Questions 461–464 are based on the following passage. The following passage examines the possibility that early humans used toot ...

It seems that our early human ancestors may have used grass, which was easily found and ready to use, to floss between their tee ...