Questions 12-16 Directions: Each of the following sentences or groups of sentences contains one, two, or three blanks. These blanks signify that a word or set of words has been left out. Below each sentence are columns of words or sets of words. For each blank, pick the oneword or set of words from the corresponding column that best completes the text. By ______ strict rules of hygiene in mater nity wards, Ignaz Semmelweis saved many women from dying of childbed fever, a fate that many expectant mothers feared.A. challengingB. institutingC. intimatingD. invalidatingE. sanitizing
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Task 2: Argument Analysis Directions: In 30 minutes, prepare a critical analysis of an argument expressed in a short paragraph. You may not offer an analysis of any other argument. Write your essay on the lined page that follows. As you critique the argument, think about the author’s underlying assumptions. Ask yourself whether any of them are questionable. Also evaluate any evidence the author brings up. Ask yourself whether it actually supports the author’s conclusion. In your analysis, you may suggest additional kinds of evidence to reinforce the author’s argument. You may also suggest methods to refute the argument, or additional data that might be useful to you as you assess the soundness of the argument. You may not, however, present your personal views on the topic. Your job is to analyze the elements of an argument, not to support or contradict that argument. Faculty members from various institutions will judge your essay, assessing it on the basis of your skill in the following areas: · Identification and assessment of the argument’s main elements · Organization and articulation of your thoughts ·Use of relevant examples and arguments to support your case · Handling of the mechanics of standard written English Topic The following appeared in an editorial in the Bayside Sentinel. "Bayside citizens need to consider raising local taxes if they want to see improvements in the Bayside School District. Test scores, graduation and college admission rates, and a number of other indicators have long made it clear that the Bayside School District is doing a poor job educating our youth. Our schools look run down. Windows are broken, bathrooms unusable, and classroom equipment hopelessly out of date. Yet just across the Bay, in New Harbor, school facilities are up-to-date and in good condition. The difference is money; New Harbor spends twenty-seven percent more per student than Bayside does, and test scores and other indicators of student performance are stronger in New Harbor as well."
Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent) Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the two answers of the six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence, both logically complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are equivalent to one another in meaning. A born trickster, he was as inclined to ______ as an embezzler is inclined to fraud.
A. bravado
B. chicanery
C. cowardice
D. candor
E. ingenuousness
F. artifice
Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent) Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the two answers of the six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence, both logically complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are equivalent to one another in meaning. Although no two siblings could have disagreed more in nature—where she was gregar ious, he was introverted; where she was outspoken, he was ______—the twins nev. ertheless got on amazingly well.
A. reserved
B. discreet
C. garrulous
D. insensitive
E. imprudent
F. fluent
Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent) Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the two answers of the six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence, both logically complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are equivalent to one another in meaning. Far from condemning Warhol for his apparent superficiality and commercialism, critics today ______ him for these very qualities, contending that in these superficial, commercial artworks he had captured the essence of American culture in the 1970s.
A. belittle
B. chastise
C. tolerate
D. extol
E. flaunt
F. hail