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(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1
make    sense   of  the phrase  by  the same    token.  This    question    appears in  Sentence    6,  so  this
sentence should go after Sentence 6, as (D) suggests.

8. D Choices    (A),    (B),    (C),    and (D) all say essentially the same    thing,  but (D) does    so  in  the
most concise way possible. Therefore, (D) is correct.

9. B The    subject of  this    verb    is  politics    and the law,    which   is  plural, thus    eliminating (A) and
(C). Choice (B) is the correct answer because it is more concise than (D).

10. A The   idea    before  the conjunction (We may believe that    we  never   come    into    contact with    the
law) is complete, and the idea after the conjunction (it is written into everything...
ourselves) is also complete. When a conjunctive adverb connects two complete ideas in
one sentence, it is preceded by a semicolon and followed by a comma. Therefore, (A) is
correct.

11. C This  essay   focuses on  Amanda’s    personal    discoveries about   the law;    it  does    not the justice
system. Eliminate (A) and (B). Choice (D) is incorrect because the passage doesn’t discuss
her entire career, just the summer before she applied to law schools. Choice (C) is correct.

Alexander’s Empire of Culture

12. B The    correct     idiom   is disappear   from.    The     sentence    as  written     implies     two     things  have
disappeared when it should be just the study of the classics. Eliminate (A). Choices (C)
and (D) are not the correct form of the idiom. Choice (B) is the correct answer.

13. A This  sentence    is  correct as  written.    Although    the phrase  for all that    might   sound   foreign,    it
is being used correctly here. Choice (B) does not make sense. Choices (C) and (D) are
basically the same as (A), and remember: If there is no grammatical reason to change the
original, don’t. Therefore, (A) is correct.

14. B The   correct idiom   uses    the words   in  and right,  so  (A),    (C),    and (D) can be  eliminated.
Choice (B) is correct.

15. B The    correct     answer  will    feature     words   or  phrases     that    are     as  precise     as  possible.   The
sentence as written does not make clear to whom the pronoun is referring: Alexander or
Aristotle. Choice (B) clears up this pronoun ambiguity. Choice (C) can be eliminated
because Alexander was born in Pella, and his arrival as a newborn would not have
announced an enlightened era, nor is it likely they arrived together.

16. D Notice    the question!   It  asks    for a   concluding  statement   that    emphasizes  the change  brought
about by Alexander’s rule. Choices (A), (B), and (C) do not address the change from
militaristic Philip to enlightened Alexander. Only (D) has the correct emphasis.

17. C Notice    the question!   It  asks    for an  introductory    phrase  that    emphasizes  continuity  from    the
previous rule. The only choice that refers to the previous rule and explains how the second
sentence connects to the first in the paragraph is (C).
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