In terms of adverse drug reactions, define a suspect medicine.                                 

Choose if the boldfaced word is used correctly or incorrectly. Our bodies are perfectly symmetrical – one side is always bigger than the other.

Identify the sentence that expresses the central point or thesis statement in each selection.           1When president John Adams and his wife moved into the White House in 1800, the building was still being completed. 2There was not even a toilet, and Mrs. Adams had to hang the family laundry to dry in the East Room. 3Trying to stay warm in the enormous building, the family had to keep thirteen fireplaces going and soon ran out of firewood.          4During the Abraham Lincoln presidency, the building functioned as military headquarters, with troops often staying in spare rooms. 5When Lincoln’s mentally unstable wife, Mary, redecorated the White House, spending far more than the $20,000 allotted by Congress, the President was furious. 6He asked how she could spend taxpayers’ money on “Flub dubs for this damned old house, when the soldiers cannot have blankets?”         7Teddy Roosevelt and his wife bought six very lively children to live in the White House. 8Aged 3 to 17, the youngsters turned the house into a huge playground, galloping ponies across the lawns and scaring visitors with pet snakes.           9John F. Kennedy’s First Lady, Jacqueline, left a lasting mark on the White House by privately raising more than $100,000 to furnish it with a beautiful collection of American antiques. 10Her famous TV tour of the White House was immensely popular and watched by millions of Americans.            11As these examples show, life in the White House has varied according to the times and the interests and activities of the president and his family. The central point/thesis statement is in sentence _______.

Read the passage below and answer each question that follows with the answer most logically supported by the information given. 1What is it about humor that makes us laugh? 2The clue can be found in the fact that almost all jokes contain a contradiction between two realities, usually a conventional and an unconventional one. 3These two realities represent conflicting definitions of the same situation. 4To make people laugh, we first make them clearly aware of their taken-for-granted conventional definition of a situation and then surprise them by contradicting that definition with an unconventional one. 5Look, for example, at the following joke from a study by one researcher: 6My wife comes home and says, “Pack your bags. 7I just won $20 million in the California lottery.” 8“Where are we going? Hawaii? Europe?” I ask jubilantly. 9She says, “I don’t know where you’re going, Doug, as long as it’s out of here.” 10The first two sentences set up in our mind the conventional assumption that the married couple will share the joy of winning the lottery. 11The punch line strikes down that assumption with the unexpected, unconventional reality that a presumably loving wife wants to be free from her husband. The humor in the joke comes from the

Identify the sentence that best expresses the implied main idea of the paragraph.  All of us have at one time or another have been repelled by so-called agony commercials, which depict in graphic detail the internal and intestinal effects of heartburn, indigestion, clogged sinus cavities, hammer-induced headaches, and the like. Nevertheless, pharmaceutical companies often run such commercials with great success because they appeal to a certain segment of the population that suffers from ailments that are not visible and thus elicit little sympathy from family and friends. Their complaints are legitimized by commercials with which they immediately identify. With the sponsor’s credibility established (“They really understand the misery I’m going through”), the message itself tends to be highly persuasive in getting consumers to buy the advertised product.

The passage below from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard, is about writing a book. After reading the passage, using the definitions as needed, choose the inferences which are most logically supported by the details of the passage. hie you: hurry                        cache: a place where supplies are hidden  1To find a honey tree, first catch a bee. 2Catch a bee when its legs are heavy with pollen; then it is ready for home. 3It is simple enough to catch a bee on a flower: hold a cup or glass above the bee, and when it flies up, cap the cup with a piece of cardboard. 4Carry the bee to a nearby open spot—best an elevated one—release it, and watch where it goes. 5Keep your eyes on it as long as you can see it, and hie you° to that last known place. 6Wait there until you see another bee; catch it, release it, and watch. 7Bee after bee will lead toward the honey tree, until you see the final bee enter the tree. 8Thoreau describes this process in his journals. 9So a book leads its writer. 10You may wonder how you start, how you catch the first one. 11What do you use for bait? 12You have no choice. 13One bad winter in the Arctic, and not too long ago, an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. . . . 14The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died, and found at a lake a cache°. 15The cache contained one small fishhook. 16It was simple to rig a line but she had no bait, and no hope of bait. 17The baby cried. 18She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh. 19She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself. 20Of course she saved the fish gut for bait. 21She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until spring, when she walked out again and found people. With the anecdote about the Algonquin mother, Dillon implies that

   1For decades, relief workers had been frustrated in their ability to effectively help victims of famine throughout the world. 2In villages without electricity, it was useless to give people supplies of milk because there was no way to keep the milk from spoiling. 3Powdered milk or grain was equally useless because most villagers didn’t have clean water with which to mix it. 4Then a few years ago, a French nutritionist developed a paste made of peanut butter, vegetable oil, powdered milk, and powdered sugar, and enriched with vitamins and minerals. 5Since the paste didn’t need refrigeration, water, or cooking, mothers, simply squeezed it out of plastic packages to feed their children. 6The results have been miraculous, children who consume the peanut butter paste add pounds rapidly, often going from a near-death state to relative health in a month. 7Not surprisingly, some are calling the paste the greatest health breakthrough since the antibiotic penicillin. Which sentence states the problem in this paragraph? _______

1Projection is an unconscious process of seeing one’s own shortcomings in others. 2For example, a greedy shop owner may cheat many of his customers, yet consider himself a pillar of the community and a good Christian. 3How does he justify to himself his greed and dishonesty? 4He believes that everyone who enters his store is bent on cheating him any way he or she can. 5In reality, few, if any, of his customers share his motives, but he projects his own greed and dishonesty onto them. The main pattern of organization of the paragraph is _______________.

Identify the sentence that best expresses the implied main idea of the paragraph.  When an eyewitness is asked a question by a police officer or an attorney, the wording of the question can affect the way the witness recalls the information. In one experiment, the participants were shown a film of two cars crashing into each other. Some were then asked the question, “About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?” On average, these people estimated the speed to be 41 miles per hour. Another group was asked, “About how fast were the cars going when they bumped into each other?” This group estimated the speed at 37 miles per hour. For a third group, the word contacted was used instead of bumped into. The average estimated speed for this group was only 32 miles per hour. When the witness is a child, the likelihood of error is even greater because the children’s memories are highly vulnerable to the influence of others. In one experiment, 5- to 7-year-old girls who had just had a routine physical examination were shown an anatomically explicit doll. The girls were shown the doll’s genital area and asked, “Did the doctor touch you here?” Three of the girls who did not have a vaginal or anal exam said that the doctor had in fact touched them in the genital area, and one of those three made up the detail “The doctor did it with a stick.”

1Although it is impossible to put a monetary value on human life, the economic burden of heart disease on our society is staggering—more than $555 billion, according to a 2016 study. 2This figure includes the cost of physician and nursing services, hospital and nursing home facilities, medications, and lost productivity resulting from disability. 3The best line of defense against heart disease is to prevent it from developing in the first place. 4Regular checkups, healthy diet and regular exercise can all prevent arteries from becoming clogged. Which sentence presents the solution in this paragraph? _______