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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. During medieval times, the ability of midwives to help pregnant women was greater

than that of doctors.

(1) During medieval times, doctors learned much from midwives, who had more
experience helping pregnant women.

(2) During medieval times, doctors – and not midwives – were responsible for helping
pregnant women.

(3) During medieval times, doctors were less able to help pregnant women than were
midwives.

(4) During medieval times, both doctors and midwives found it difficult to help
pregnant women.

10. Havana was a popular destination for tourists in the first half of the 1900s, but tourism

there declined after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959.

(1) Tourism to Havana, which had declined in the first half of the 1900s, declined even
further after 1959, when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba.

(2) Fidel Castro, who seized power in Cuba in 1959, encouraged people to vacation in
Havana, but they did so less frequently than they had in the early 1900s.

(3) After Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, fewer people vacationed in
Havana than had done so in the first half of the 1900s, when many tourists visited
the city.

(4) Even before Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, there had been a drop in
the number of tourists visiting Havana – a popular destination for tourists in the
early 1900s.

11. The leaders of the American colonies were slow to recognize that their differences with

the British Parliament were irreconcilable.

(1) The leaders of the American colonies gradually realized that they needed a form of
government that was different from the British Parliament.

(2) The American colonies' leaders did not at first understand that their conflict with the
British Parliament would be impossible to resolve.

(3) The leaders of the British Parliament were slow to recognize the American colonies
as an independent nation.

(4) The leaders of the British Parliament slowly began to recognize that their
differences with the American colonies were irreconcilable.

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