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5. While it is not uncommon for Europeans to be in several languages, most Americans

can speak only one.

(1) generous
(2) vague
(3) fluent
(4) devoted

6. Whereas ancient Greek education focused on the study of philosophy, Roman education

the study of war, politics, and civil administration.

(1) enrolled
(2) emphasized
(3) excluded
(4) estimated

7. The work of writer C.S. Lewis children's books to a much-admired treatise on 16th-

century literature.

(1) delights in
(2) ranges from
(3) gossips with
(4) provides for

8. Sable Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, is home to a of wild ponies.

(1) yarn
(2) herd
(3) maze
(4) stem

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. Scientists are at a loss to explain why the prevalence of asthma in many Western countries has

increased so dramatically in recent years.

(1) Scientists disagree about why the most serious cases of asthma in recent years have
occurred in Western countries.

(2) Scientists in Western countries have shown little interest in investigating why the number
of asthma cases has increased dramatically in recent years.

(3) Scientists have shown recently that the prevalence of asthma in Western countries is not
as great as previously reported.

(4) Scientists have not been able to explain the recent sharp rise in the number of people with
asthma in many Western countries.

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