The word across is a directional preposition that best completes the sentence. It is the only direction among the choices listed that would require checking for traffic in order to complete safely.
The word prolific is the best answer for this question because it means present in large quantities or plentiful. The word prolific shows the kind of artist that Davis would have to be in order to record those many records. While he may also have been famous, versatile, and best-selling, none of these qualities has direct correlation to the sheer volume of his creative output.
The answer choice comedian is the best response because it is work that involves making people laugh. Journalists and professors may use humor in their work, but it is not their primary goal. Philanthropy is not a comedic field.
While intelligence, wariness, and flippancy may all be characteristics of people who don’t take advice from others, stubborn is the best answer because Gary has shown that his independent streak is a pattern of behavior.
While the “new venue” is not specific, the information provided clearly does not indicate an outdoor performance, a total cancellation, or a performance at the flooded theater.
The word beautiful completes the sentence in the correct form. The word beautifulest is not a correct word in English. The choices beautifully, and very beautiful are improper in the context of this sentence.
The word later completes the sentence, indicating a time that people would have had to have arrived if they showed up after the party had already begun.
The verb was is of the same tense as graduated that occurs later in the sentence. It completes the thought logically. The word wasn’t isn’t a good choice because Dwayne seems to be a great candidate. The words is and isn’t are in the wrong tense, and isn’t also has the same negative connotation as wasn’t.
The phrase was given is the correct response because it corresponds with the tense of the whole sentence and continues logically from the other information given. The choices gave, was gave, and was giving are all improper.
The word with is the most logical fit for this sentence. The general would not have these meetings without his advisors or about them. Though he may have had the meetings around them, this would be an awkward fit and leave the thought incomplete.
The phrase going to be indicates expected results at a future time. All the rest of the options either do not complete this thought or are written improperly.
The phrase is going properly expresses this future action. The other choices don’t match the future tense established earlier in the sentence.
The word through when combined with the to that comes after the blank completes the thought. The other choices do not fit, especially when combined with to.
The word above is the correct answer because gutters and roofs are above windows. The choices around and along are ambiguous. The word below is clearly incorrect because the other information implies an upward locatio
The idiom look up is the correct answer for this question. The phrases look in, looking for, and looks up are all incorrect for reasons of tense and logic within the sentence.
The idiom go out is the correct response. The other choices are improper because they are in the wrong form.
The term oldest is correct because it completes the thought in a logical way. Older uses the wrong ending, er. Most old has the correct meaning, but is an awkward fit and is not commonly used. The term most oldest is improper because the est ending indicates a superlative and there can only be one oldest person.
The word funniest combines here to form funniest-looking, which completes the thought properly. All the other responses are either in the wrong form or are grammatically incorrect.
The choice Don’s older brother is the correct response. This is made clear in the first sentence. None of the other responses match the information in the prompt.
This is the correct response because the sentence says that the speaker has owned them for the longest time, implying that they are the oldest.
The correct answer is fairly likely because my mother said that I could “almost certainly” find one if I tried. These words express the same information.
Michael is dependable because his friends can always rely on him. The word depend means nearly the same as the word rely. Michael may be any of the other options, but you couldn’t know this from the information in the sentence.
Jerry is most likely careless, among the options given, because he makes mistakes that could be avoided with careful thought and planning.
John Lennon was a musician because he wrote songs and sang for the Beatles. He may have been a producer, engineer, or publisher as well, but we wouldn’t know these things from reading the given sentence.
We know Ernest Hemingway was a writer because the sentence tells us about his prose and his novels. There is no mention of his having performed the work involved in the other answer choices.
The phrase drive away from the party is the correct answer because hit the road means she left and implies that she did so by car. She may have done any of the other things listed but the sentence does not tell us this.
Job security is a big part of what tenure is. He will not be fired, he will not retire, and he will not, necessarily, be promoted.
This is the time that has elapsed when one celebrates a first anniversary.
The correct answer is many years. While a veteran is a person who has done something for an unspecified amount of time, we at least know that they have been at it for quite a while, not the span of time indicated by any of the other answer choices.
This is the best answer because it is the only one that can be verified by the information gained from the sentence.
The correct response is nurturing because Ruth provides care to animals and children. She does not necessarily have any of the traits mentioned in the other answer choices, although it is not hard to imagine that she possesses them. The sentence only contains the information that suggests she is nurturing.
The sentence tells us that Monk composed and improvised jazz, which is a musical style. The other professions don’t fit the information given in the sentence.
The answer is hockey. You could determine this even if you didn’t know hockey because “ice skating” and icefishing have neither pucks nor sticks. Rugby has none of the characteristics mentioned.
This is what happens when there is a repeat showing. The other answers don’t fit the information given in the sentence.
The sentence tells us that he needed to “calm his nerves,” an idiom meaning “feel less nervous or scared.” There is a clue in the description of the “long, dark walk home”, as well. The other responses cannot be assumed based on the information given.
This is not to say that he will be fired; he is just ineligable to be president anymore due to limitations of the law. He will not start a third term or remain in office by any other means.
The words pay for his food and drink tell what it means to pay a tab. None of the other responses match this information, although Will may have done any of these other things before leaving. We simply aren’t told that in the sentence.
Larry was a loner, which implies that he was not popular. The other answers don’t reflect the meaning of that word and are therefore not correct.
The sentence tells us that she worked hard and became good at calculus just before college, the time period during which students are finishing high school. The other responses do not indicate this.
A landslide victory refers to a candidate winning by lots and lots of votes. The other options don’t reflect the meaning of this word and are, therefore, incorrect.
The meaning of the term killer, when used in this way, is extremely good. This is a common idiom and the other options don’t indicate this meaning.
The incorrect options may be true of certain late bloomers, but they do not account for the eventual success that is necessary for someone to be a late bloomer. They are, therefore, incorrect.
To pass “by the skin of your teeth” means to pass by a very small margin. The other answers don’t match the meaning of this idiom and are, therefore, wrong.
The word messily is the correct answer because Kara made a mess of her food when she ate it. It is an adverb describing the verb eat. The word slovenly doesn’t make sense and thoughtfully doesn’t imply messy eating. The word giddily may be true, but is not indicated by the sentence.
he answer 1985 is the only year among those listed that could be considered the “late 20th century”. The others are either mid-century or not within the 20th century at all.
The term thrifty is the correct answer because George saves money by buying used things. His personality may encompass any of the other characteristics listed, but these are not described in the sentence and are, therefore, incorrect. In fact, the word extravagant is very nearly the opposite of thrifty.
When you are comparing more than two things, you use the superlative with the –est ending. If there were only two sisters, Jane would be the older because comparisons between two things get the comparative form that ends in –er. [Hint: look at the number of letters in the suffix. If there are two, it’s a comparison between two things (“He is older than she.”); if there are three letters, it’s a comparison among three or more things (“He is the oldest of the five brothers.”).]
Because the subject is plural (she and her friends), the verb must also be plural. The only correct plural verb option that fits in this sentence is are; the state of being is already implied and does not need to be outright stated.
The only verb tense that is grammatically correct in this sentence is the past tense worked. The clues in the sentence would are the other past tense verb, disagreed, and the date of the 1880s, which has long since passed.
