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Restatements (Questions 9-12)

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the
main idea of that sentence in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement
which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence.

9. No one knows who invented the camera.

(1) No one is sure what the first camera looked like.
(2) No one knows how the first camera operated.
(3) It is not clear who designed the first camera.
(4) It is not known when the first camera was produced.

10. Before the recent oil spills there, Alaska's Bristol Bay teemed with fish.

(1) Recent oil spills have severely depleted Alaska's fish populations, especially those
in Bristol Bay.

(2) Fish were abundant in Alaska's Bristol Bay until the oil spills that occurred there
recently.

(3) Oil spills are extremely harmful to fish, as was demonstrated recently in Alaska's
Bristol Bay.

(4) The fish population of Bristol Bay, Alaska, has yet to recover from the recent oil
spills there.

11. Of the two thousand species of plants that grow in Norway, only a few – primarily

mountain plants – are unique to the country.

(1) Nearly two thousand species of plants can be found in Norway, but only a few of
them grow in the mountainous parts of the country.

(2) Of the two thousand species of plants that are found in Norway, the most unusual
types grow in the mountains.

(3) Most of Norway's two thousand plant species are also found outside the country, but
a small number, mostly mountain plants, grow only in Norway.

(4) Only a few of Norway's two thousand plant species can also be found in other
mountainous countries.

12. The classical age of Chinese literature and philosophy emerged from intellectual

ferment in the ranks of the nobility.

(1) Intellectual unrest among the nobility brought about the classical age of Chinese
literature and philosophy.

(2) The most prominent Chinese intellectuals and philosophers came from the ranks of
the nobility.

(3) During China's classical period, only the nobility received an intellectually rigorous
education in literature and philosophy.

(4) China's classical age of literature and philosophy ended when the intellectuals
rebelled against the nobility.

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