<li><p>Farming had been profitable on the Great Plains for many decades, but by 1938…Agricultural practices and years of inadequate precipiation had…the land.
A conscientious despoiled
B incompetent sustained
C shrewd debilitated
D innovative fertilized
E imprudent denuded</p></li>
<li><p>Cathedrals usually take decades, even centuries, to complete, thus, no one expected the National Cathedral to be built with …
A dispatch
B presumption
C durability
D deliberation
E reverence
page 810</p></li>
<li><p>which best summarizeds the fear (line 32) of the author of passage ?
A young songwriters will become less devoted to mastering their craft than were songwriters of the past
B Adolescent songwirters will become less polular than they have been in the past
C the increasing demand for music will cause the royalties paid for individual songs to decline
D young songwriters will no longer be able to earn their living by writing songs
E Technological innovations will one day render music as we now know it obsolete
I chose A</p></li>
<li><p>The use of the phrase “pretty decent” in passage 2 (line 50) conveys
A solemn detachment
B cheerful celebration
C ironic understatement
D lingering doubt
E reluctant approval
I chose C</p></li>
<li><p>The tone of th author of passage 2 in line 59-60 (stealing…Napsterians) is best described as
A ebullient
B somber
C quizzical
D irate
E satirical
I chose A</p></li>
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<p>Please help me out, give some explanation, Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Thank you thank you, really want to know, and need to get ready for next week the test.</p>
<p>Learn as much vocabulary as you can. For the sentence completion, I always look at the 2nd word choice first. You know something bad happened in the sentence because the ‘but’ means farming is no longer profitable. You can eliminate B & D for being positive. Now look at the first words of A,C,E. You can eliminate A. fairly easily. Being let with C & E, you have to know the meanings of shrewd and imprudent. If not, pick one.</p>
<p>Number 5 is difficult because it uses a less common meaning of the correct word, but you can eliminate 3 choices, C,D,& E right away, because you would expect a church to be built with all of those. Once again down to 2 words. If you didn’t know either word you can guess. It is A by the way. With dispatch means with speed. It’s an old fashioned saying.</p>
<p>12 is D. Lines 36-37 talk about Napster taking away future incentive to write songs. before that the author wonders how many less songs he would have written if he had to have another job to make a living.</p>
<p>15 - C-Pretty decent art when considering Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Botticelli is definitely understatement. None of the others even seem plausible.</p>
<p>16 - E- with “stealing” and “property” in quotes means he doesn’t believe file sharing is stealing and that music is not property. Right away, you know that somber and irate are not the tone. Left with ebullient, quizzical, and satirical, comes down to choosing if you don’t know the vocabulary. Ebullient means, bubbly, quizzical is puzzled, satirical is hold up for ridicule sarcasm.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>