In this section of the test, you will have 42 questions found in seven different texts. Within each text are blanks with possible ways to complete a sentence. Choose the word or words in each box that correctly completes each sentence.
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This Friday night at seven o'clock, the drama club is pleased (1)_____ of Shakespeare's As You Like It. The student cast has worked hard (2)_____ for the play for the past two months and would appreciate a big crowd at the performance. Tickets cost $5 and may be purchased from the school's front office or at the door prior to the beginning of the play. The lead actor is Ryan McClellan while Katie Burgess has the lead female role. The play (3)_____ by Edward Holliman, the school's art teacher. Please be sure to (4)_____ on Friday night to support the cast. The play will be held in the school's auditorium.
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This spring semester, the school is going to (5)_____ classes for two weeks. From Monday, April 6, to Friday, April 17, there will be no classes. Instead, students will spend those two weeks interning at local businesses. A number of area businesses (6)_____ have agreed to take on student interns. These include some local hospitals, colleges, libraries, and government offices. By doing these internships, students will be able to get hands-on experience at jobs (7)_____ in the future. Students may also feel free to arrange their own internships. Contact Mr. Farguson or Mr. Whittaker for more information. We hope it will be (8)_____ than last year's attempt at the same program.
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Dear Diary,
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's field trip to Mercy Hospital. (9)_____ Ms. Lewis gave the class, we are going to spend time (10)_____. Among them are the cancer ward, the emergency room, and the physical therapy section. For the past couple of years, I have considered becoming a doctor in the future. Actually seeing some doctors at work should help me (11)_____ my decision. I might decide that being a doctor is not the profession for me. Or I might see all of the doctors at work and feel that I simply must become one. Who knows (12)_____ I guess I need to wait until tomorrow to find out.
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Dear Helgar,
I would like to welcome you to our school. I know that being an (13)_____ student can be difficult, especially when you are so far away from your home. As you may have heard, the Thanksgiving holiday is (14)_____ I am aware that it isn't celebrated in Germany, but it's a very important holiday in the United States. It is an occasion (15)_____ to spend time with one another and enjoy a variety of food. If you have nothing planned for that day, I would like to (16)_____ you to visit my home for Thanksgiving. My entire family is planning to be there, so you will (17)_____. My mother is considered (18)_____ cooks in the city, so you will get a great (19)_____ to traditional American home cooking. I hope you can come as I am positive that you (20)____ a wonderful time. Let me know if you are interested.
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Greg Foster
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These days, there are many students who do not attend physical schools but instead stay home, (21)_____ While these students (22)_____ study at their homes, they sometimes visit their local schools. One reason for this concerns athletics in many American states, homeschooled students are permitted to play on their local school's athletic teams. This is good news for the schools because a lot of homeschoolers are (23)_____ athletes. The students who attend actual schools are mostly accepting of the homeschoolers. They usually have no problems with them and are often simply (24)_____ about what it is like not to go to school. So they tend to bombard the homeschoolers with numerous questions. The homeschoolers also (25)_____ by mingling with the students at school. Some of them rarely spend time (26)_____. So it helps them develop their social skills if they can hang out and play sports with other kids.
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Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, our knowledge of the universe has increased tremendously. The telescope was put into (27)_____ by one of the space shuttles in 1990. Since then, it (28)_____ high-quality pictures to Earth. The Hubble is superior to Earth-based telescopes for a couple of reasons. The first concerns (29)_____ of the mirror (30)_____. The second is that, as the Hubble is located in outer space, there is no interference from Earth's atmosphere. This interference causes distortion in the images of ground-based telescopes, which can cause them (31)_____. Unfortunately, the Hubble is aging, and a replacement is needed. I strongly believe that the government should spend the necessary (32)_____ to manufacture a telescope that can be launched into space (33)_____. By doing that, (34)_____ more about the solar system, galaxy, and universe itself.
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The origins of the majority of sports are (35)_____ because no one is quite sure when and how they were invented. However, the same cannot be said about basketball. Its origins are both well known and (36)_____. (37)_____ was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891. Naismith was a physical education instructor at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. Since winters in that region of Massachusetts tended (38)_____ Naismith wanted to create a sport that men could play indoors in a gymnasium. He came up with the idea of basketball and made (39)_____. Several of these rules are ones (40)_____ . The men used a soccer ball and peach baskets for hoops. The baskets had bottomed, so play was (41)_____ each time a person made a basket. From those (42)_____ origins came the game of basketball, which is one of the most popular games in the world today.
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