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  • Question 1
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    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the poem and answer the question that follows:
    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    [/passage-header]Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    57300Her matchless songs does meditate;

    Ye country comets, that 57381portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no 15171higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;

    Ye glowworms, whose 59681officious flame
    To wandering mowers show the way,
    That in the night have 48636lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;

    Your courteous light in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.
    [passage-footer]
    [/passage-footer]

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    Complete the sentence using I, II or III:

    The speaker of the poem describes glowworms as providing assistance to__________.

    I. nightingales

    II. princes

    III. mowers

    Solution
    This poem is a monologue of a mower to the glowworms. The first two lines of the first stanza express that the glowworms provide light for nightingales to sit so late. 
    Then, the first two lines of the third stanza say the glowworms's flame shows the way to mowers. Hence, D is the correct answer.
    There is no reference to glowworms helping princes anywhere in the poem. So, we can reject the other answers.
  • Question 2
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    [passage-header]This passage is adapted from Ed Yong : Turtles Use the Earth's Magnetic Field as Global GPS." 2011 by Kalmbach Publishing Co.[/passage-header]
    64308In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way.15272 Wallace J. Nichols97138 tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer route two oceans to find her destination?

    Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth's magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction.

    Putman works in the lab of Ken Lohmann, who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over 20 years. In his lab at the University of North Carolina, Lohmann places hatchlings in a large water tank surrounded by a large grid of electromagnetic coils. In 1991, he found that the babies started in the opposite direction if he used the coils to reverse the direction of the magnetic field around them. They could use the field as a compass to get their bearing.

    Later, Lohmann showed that they can also use the magnetic field to work out their position. For them, this is literally a matter of life or death. Hatchlings born off the seacoast of Florida spend their early lives in the North Atlantic gyre, a warm current that circles between North America and Africa. If they're swept towards the cold waters outside the gyre, they die. Their magnetic sense keeps them safe.

    87584Using his coil-surrounded tank, Lohmann could mimic the magnetic field at different parts of the Earth's surface.62829 If he simulated the field at the northern edge of the gyre, the hatchlings swam southwards. If he simulated the field at the gyre's southern edge, the turtles swam west-northwest. These experiments showed that the turtles can use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude--their position on a north-south axis. Now, Putman has shown that they can also determine their longitude--their position on an east-west axis.

    He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic. If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico, the turtles swam northeast. If the field matched that on the eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, the turtles swam southwest. In the wild, both headings would keep them within the safe, warm embrace of the North Atlantic Gyre.

    Before now, we knew that several animal migrants, from91333 loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude, but no one knew how. By keeping the turtles in the same conditions, with only the magnetic fields around them changing, Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way. 33513In the wild, they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea, sun and stars.75442

    Putman thinks that the turtles work out their position using two features of the Earth's magnetic field that change over its surface. They can sense the field's inclination or the angle at which it dips towards the surface. At the poles, this angle is roughly 90 degrees and at the equator, it's roughly zero degrees. They can also sense its intensity, which is strongest near the poles and weakest near the Equator. Different parts of the world have unique combinations of these two variables. 67255Neither corresponds directly to either latitude or longitude, but together, they provide a "magnetic signature" that tells the turtle where it is.52988

    The orientation of hatchling loggerheads tested in a magnetic field that simulates a position at the west side of the Atlantic near Puerto Rico (left) and a position at the east side of the Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands (right). The arrow in each circle indicates the mean direction that the group of hatchlings swam. Data are plotted relative to geographic north (N=0o)(N=0o).

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    The passage most strongly suggests that Adelita used which of the following to navigate her 9,000-mile journey?

    Solution
    Option C is the correct answer. The answer comes most directly in the second last paragraph, which presents Putman’s belief that loggerhead turtles “work out their position using two features of the Earth’s magnetic field that change over its surface”: its inclination and its intensity. It is reasonable, therefore, to infer from the passage that this was the method that Adelita used. 
    Option A is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that Adelita used the current of the North Atlantic gyre to navigate her 9,000-mile journey. The passage does discuss the North Atlantic gyre but only as the place where loggerhead turtle hatchlings “born off the sea coast of Florida spend their early lives”.
    Option B is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that Adelita navigated her 9,000-mile journey with the aid of cues from electromagnetic coils designed by Putman and Lohmann for their research. These were primarily used inside the laboratories. 
    Option D is incorrect because the passage describes how Lohmann and Putman manipulate magnetic fields as part of their research on loggerhead turtle hatchlings, but there is no indication that the two scientists used (or even could use) the kind of equipment necessary for this project outside of laboratory tanks or with Adelita in the wild.

  • Question 3
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    [passage-header]This passage is adapted from Richard Florida, The Great Reset. 2010 by Richard Florida.[/passage-header]
    In today's idea-driven economy, the cost of time is what really matters. With the constant pressure to innovate, it makes little sense to waste countless collective hours commuting. So, the most efficient and productive regions are those in which people are thinking and working-not sitting in traffic.
    The auto-dependent transportation system has reached its limit in most major cities and mega-regions. Commuting by car is among the least efficient of all our activities-not to mention among the least enjoyable, according to detailed research by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues. Though one might think that the economic crisis beginning in 2007 would have reduced traffic (high unemployment means fewer workers travelling to and from work), the opposite has been true. Average commutes have lengthened, and congestion has gotten worse if anything. The average commute rose in 2008 to 25.5 minutes, "erasing years of decreases to stand at the level of 2000, as people had to leave home earlier in the morning to pick up friends for their ride to work or to catch a bus or subway train," according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which collects the figures. And those are average figures. Commutes are far longer in the big West Coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the East Coast cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In many of these cities, gridlock has become the norm, not just at rush hour but all day, every day.

    The costs are astounding. In Los Angeles, congestion eats up more than 485 million working hours a year; that's seventy hours, or nearly two weeks, of full-time work per commuter. In D.C., the time cost of congestion is sixty-two hours per worker per year. In New York, it is forty-four hours. Average it out, and the time cost across America's thirteen biggest city-regions is fifty-one hours per worker per year. Across the country, commuting wastes 4.2 billion hours of work time annually-nearly a full workweek for every commuter. The overall cost to the U.S. economy is nearly $90 billion when lost productivity and wasted fuel are taken into account. At the Martin Prosperity Institute, we calculate that every minute shaved off America's commuting time is worth $19.5 billion in value added to the economy. The numbers add up fast: five minutes is worth $97.7 billion; ten minutes, $195 billion; fifteen minutes, $292 billion.

    It's ironic that so many people still believe the main remedy for traffic congestion is to build more roads and highways, which of course only makes the problem worse. New roads generate higher levels of "induced traffic," that is new roads just invite drivers to drive more and lure people who take mass transit back to their cars. Eventually, we end up with more clogged roads rather than a long-term improvement in traffic flow.

    The coming decades will likely see more 84613intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their infrastructure, while others struggle, their promise stymied by inadequate human or other resources.

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    The passage most strongly suggests that researches at the Martin Prosperity Institute share which assumption?

    Solution
    Option B is the correct answer because details in the second paragraph strongly suggest that researchers (“we”) at the Martin Prosperity Institute assume that shorter commutes will lead to more productive time for workers. Those at the institute “calculate that every minute shaved off America’s commuting time is worth $19.5 billion in value added to the economy”, it can reasonably be concluded that some of that added value is from heightened worker productivity.
    Option A is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that researchers at the Martin Prosperity Institute assume that employees who work from home are more valuable to their employers than employees who commute. Although the passage does criticize long commutes, it does not propose working from home as a solution. 
    Option C is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that researchers at the Martin Prosperity Institute assume that employees can conduct business activities, such as composing memos or joining conference calls, while commuting. 
    Option D is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that researchers at the Martin Prosperity Institute assume that employees who have lengthy commutes tend to make more money than employees who have shorter commutes. The passage does not draw any clear links between the amount of money employees make and the commutes they have.

  • Question 4
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    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the poem and answer the question that follows:
    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    [/passage-header]Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    57300Her matchless songs does meditate;

    Ye country comets, that 57381portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no 15171higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;

    Ye glowworms, whose 59681officious flame
    To wandering mowers show the way,
    That in the night have 48636lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;

    Your courteous light in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.
    [passage-footer]
    [/passage-footer]

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    Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
    The speaker implies that, without the glowworms, mowers who have "lost their aim" (line 48636) would be likely to _____________.
    Solution
    Option D is the correct answer. The glowworms give them direction and helps them find their way, but in their absence, every source of light appears the same to them, causing them to wander and get lost, get distracted. They all want to reach home, true, but it is the glowworms that lead them there. They're lost without them. Option E, suggesting them never being able to find their homes is the result to them being led astray by distractions in the absence of the glowworms, is thus, wrong. The statements of options A,B and C do not convey the tone of the poem, and are incorrect. 
  • Question 5
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    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the poem and answer the question that follows:
    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    [/passage-header]Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    57300Her matchless songs does meditate;

    Ye country comets, that 57381portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no 15171higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;

    Ye glowworms, whose 59681officious flame
    To wandering mowers show the way,
    That in the night have 48636lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;

    Your courteous light in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.
    [passage-footer]
    [/passage-footer]

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    Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
    "The Mower to the Glowworms" could most reasonably be considered __________________.
    Solution
    Option B is the correct answer. The poet compares the luminescence of the glowworms and their objective of leading men true to his beloved's love leading him home. The warmth of the glowworms is reflected in his love for Juliana. The statements of options A,C,D and E are not supported by the text, and thus, are incorrect in this context.
  • Question 6
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    [passage-header]This passage is adapted from Ed Yong : Turtles Use the Earth's Magnetic Field as Global GPS." 2011 by Kalmbach Publishing Co.[/passage-header]
    64308In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way.15272 Wallace J. Nichols97138 tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer route two oceans to find her destination?

    Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth's magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction.

    Putman works in the lab of Ken Lohmann, who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over 20 years. In his lab at the University of North Carolina, Lohmann places hatchlings in a large water tank surrounded by a large grid of electromagnetic coils. In 1991, he found that the babies started in the opposite direction if he used the coils to reverse the direction of the magnetic field around them. They could use the field as a compass to get their bearing.

    Later, Lohmann showed that they can also use the magnetic field to work out their position. For them, this is literally a matter of life or death. Hatchlings born off the seacoast of Florida spend their early lives in the North Atlantic gyre, a warm current that circles between North America and Africa. If they're swept towards the cold waters outside the gyre, they die. Their magnetic sense keeps them safe.

    87584Using his coil-surrounded tank, Lohmann could mimic the magnetic field at different parts of the Earth's surface.62829 If he simulated the field at the northern edge of the gyre, the hatchlings swam southwards. If he simulated the field at the gyre's southern edge, the turtles swam west-northwest. These experiments showed that the turtles can use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude--their position on a north-south axis. Now, Putman has shown that they can also determine their longitude--their position on an east-west axis.

    He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic. If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico, the turtles swam northeast. If the field matched that on the eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, the turtles swam southwest. In the wild, both headings would keep them within the safe, warm embrace of the North Atlantic Gyre.

    Before now, we knew that several animal migrants, from91333 loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude, but no one knew how. By keeping the turtles in the same conditions, with only the magnetic fields around them changing, Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way. 33513In the wild, they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea, sun and stars.75442

    Putman thinks that the turtles work out their position using two features of the Earth's magnetic field that change over its surface. They can sense the field's inclination or the angle at which it dips towards the surface. At the poles, this angle is roughly 90 degrees and at the equator, it's roughly zero degrees. They can also sense its intensity, which is strongest near the poles and weakest near the Equator. Different parts of the world have unique combinations of these two variables. 67255Neither corresponds directly to either latitude or longitude, but together, they provide a "magnetic signature" that tells the turtle where it is.52988

    The orientation of hatchling loggerheads tested in a magnetic field that simulates a position at the west side of the Atlantic near Puerto Rico (left) and a position at the east side of the Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands (right). The arrow in each circle indicates the mean direction that the group of hatchlings swam. Data are plotted relative to geographic north (N=0o)(N=0o).

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    The author refers to reed warblers and sparrows (line 91333) primarily to

    Solution
    Option B is the best answer because the author indicates that reed warblers and sparrows, like loggerhead turtles, had previously been known to have “some way of working out longitude” as is mentioned in the seventh paragraph.
    Option A is incorrect because although the author notes that loggerhead turtles, reed warblers, and sparrows are all “animal migrants, he offers no specifics about the migration patterns of reed warblers and sparrows, and the only connection he draws among the three animals is their recognized ability of somehow “working out longitude”.
    Option C is incorrect because the author only mentions three “animal migrants” by name (loggerhead turtles, reed warblers, and sparrows) and indicates that “several” such migrants had previously been known to have “some way of working out longitude”. He makes no claim in the passage that most animal species have some long-distance navigation ability. 
    Option D is incorrect because although the author indicates that reed warblers and sparrows, like loggerhead turtles, are “animal migrants”, he offers no specifics about how the ability to navigate long distances might help reed warblers and sparrows (nor, for that matter, much information about how this ability might help loggerhead turtles).

  • Question 7
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    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]This passage is adapted from Ed Yong : Turtles Use the Earth's Magnetic Field as Global GPS." 2011 by Kalmbach Publishing Co.[/passage-header]
    64308In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way.15272 Wallace J. Nichols97138 tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer route two oceans to find her destination?

    Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth's magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction.

    Putman works in the lab of Ken Lohmann, who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over 20 years. In his lab at the University of North Carolina, Lohmann places hatchlings in a large water tank surrounded by a large grid of electromagnetic coils. In 1991, he found that the babies started in the opposite direction if he used the coils to reverse the direction of the magnetic field around them. They could use the field as a compass to get their bearing.

    Later, Lohmann showed that they can also use the magnetic field to work out their position. For them, this is literally a matter of life or death. Hatchlings born off the seacoast of Florida spend their early lives in the North Atlantic gyre, a warm current that circles between North America and Africa. If they're swept towards the cold waters outside the gyre, they die. Their magnetic sense keeps them safe.

    87584Using his coil-surrounded tank, Lohmann could mimic the magnetic field at different parts of the Earth's surface.62829 If he simulated the field at the northern edge of the gyre, the hatchlings swam southwards. If he simulated the field at the gyre's southern edge, the turtles swam west-northwest. These experiments showed that the turtles can use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude--their position on a north-south axis. Now, Putman has shown that they can also determine their longitude--their position on an east-west axis.

    He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic. If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico, the turtles swam northeast. If the field matched that on the eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, the turtles swam southwest. In the wild, both headings would keep them within the safe, warm embrace of the North Atlantic Gyre.

    Before now, we knew that several animal migrants, from91333 loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude, but no one knew how. By keeping the turtles in the same conditions, with only the magnetic fields around them changing, Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way. 33513In the wild, they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea, sun and stars.75442

    Putman thinks that the turtles work out their position using two features of the Earth's magnetic field that change over its surface. They can sense the field's inclination or the angle at which it dips towards the surface. At the poles, this angle is roughly 90 degrees and at the equator, it's roughly zero degrees. They can also sense its intensity, which is strongest near the poles and weakest near the Equator. Different parts of the world have unique combinations of these two variables. 67255Neither corresponds directly to either latitude or longitude, but together, they provide a "magnetic signature" that tells the turtle where it is.52988

    The orientation of hatchling loggerheads tested in a magnetic field that simulates a position at the west side of the Atlantic near Puerto Rico (left) and a position at the east side of the Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands (right). The arrow in each circle indicates the mean direction that the group of hatchlings swam. Data are plotted relative to geographic north (N=0o)(N=0o).

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    Based on the passage, which choice best describes the relationship between Putman's and Lohmann's research?

    Solution
    Option B is the correct answer. As is mentioned in the third paragraph, Putman “works in the lab of Ken Lohmann, who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over 20 years”. Lohmann had earlier demonstrated that loggerhead turtles “could use the [magnetic] field as a compass to get their bearing” and “use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude — their position on a north-south axis”. Putman has since built on Lohmann’s work by demonstrating that the turtles “can also determine their longitude — their position on an east-west axis” as can be understood from the entire passage.

    Option A is incorrect because as can be understood from the passage and the previous explanation, Putman's research never contradicted that of Lohman's, rather, was complementary to it. 
    Option C is incorrect because the research of Lohmann that the passage describes came before that of Putman.
    Option D is incorrect because the passage does not indicate that Lohmann’s research corrects Putman’s. In fact, Lohmann’s research that the passage describes came before that of Putman and thus could not possibly “correct” Putman’s later research.
  • Question 8
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    [passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]   The guest waked from a dream and remembering his 11733day's pleasure hurried to dress himself that it might sooner begin. He was sure from the way the shy little girl looked once or twice yesterday that she had at least seen the white heron, and now she must really be persuaded to tell. Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn old frock is 91241torn and tattered and smeared with pine pitch. The grandmother and sportsman stand in the door together and question her, and the 61168splendid moment has come to speak of the dead hemlock-tree by the green marsh.
       But Sylvia does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her, and the young man's kind appealing eyes are looking straight on her own. He can make them rich with money; he has promised it, and they are poor now. He is so well worth making happy, and he waits to hear the story she can tell.
       No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been 47900nine years growing, and now, when 43068the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird's sake? 94899The murmur of the pine's green branches in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through 97477the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its lie away.
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    It can be inferred that the guest's anticipated "day's pleasure" (line 11733) centered around _________. 
    Solution
    The white heron is central to the guest's "day's pleasure". That is what he had woken up for, and that is exactly what occupies his mind throughout the entire passage. Thus, option E is the correct answer. The statements of the options A,B,C and D are not of consequence to him as suggested by the text, and thus, are incorrect. 
  • Question 9
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    [passage-header]Read the conversation given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]ROSE: Times have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?

    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.

    TROY: 58881There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow...what's that fellow they had playing right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?

    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSE: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.

    TROY : I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I am talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play... then they ought to have let you play.

    (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)

    ROSE : You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono... am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?

    BONO: Naw, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I'm lying...that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.

    ROSE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY : Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.
    [passage-footer](1986)
    *Josh Gibson was a notable baseball player in the Negro Leagues.[/passage-footer]

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    Troy mentions his encounter with Josh Gibson's daughter to ________________. 
    Solution
    Option D is the correct answer. The reference to Josh Gibson's daughter is an indicator of the economic disparity when contrasted with that Selkirk's daughter. The statements of options A,B,C and D are not supported by the text and are, therefore, wrong in this context. 
  • Question 10
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    [passage-header]Read the conversation given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]ROSE: Times have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?

    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.

    TROY: 58881There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow...what's that fellow they had playing right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?

    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSE: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.

    TROY : I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I am talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play... then they ought to have let you play.

    (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)

    ROSE : You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono... am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?

    BONO: Naw, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I'm lying...that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.

    ROSE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY : Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.
    [passage-footer](1986)
    *Josh Gibson was a notable baseball player in the Negro Leagues.[/passage-footer]

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    It can be inferred that Troy played baseball _________.
    Solution
    Option D is the correct answer. It is stated in the text that Troy had to informed that the games had included people from different races. This suggests that he was not aware of this, leading us to believe that he indeed played baseball before the major leagues were racially integrated. The other options do not convey the same sentiment reflected in the option mentioned earlier. Therefore, options A,B,C and E are incorrect. 
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