Choose A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
These were the people who advocated using force to stop school violence.
A.openly criticized
B.strongly condemned
C.publicly said
D.publicly supported

It’s obviously high time countries all over the world discuss the problem of population explosion.
A.all over the world
B.high time
C.discuss
D.population explosion

Teachers prefer well-behaved children. It seems easier for them to work with children with self-controlled
A.easier for
B.well-behaved
C.self-controlled
D.work with

What is the author's main purpose?
A.To describe the art scene in New York in the late eighteenth century
B.To discuss the life and work of an American painter.
C.To compare the art of Ralph Earl and Thomas Gainsborough
D.To trace Ralph Earl's artistic influences

According to the passage, Benjamin West was Ralph Earl ________.
A.teacher
B.rival
C.subject
D.student

The word itinerant is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A.successful
B.talented
C.traveling
D.innovative

The author uses the phrase sprung from the same roots to indicate that Ralph Earl and his subjects ________.
A.were about the same age
B.were equally successful
C.had the same back ground
D.lived in the same town

Why does the author refer to Reclining Hunter as “something of anomaly”?
A.It is so severe
B.It was commissioned
C.It is quite humorous
D.It shows Earl's talent

The author’s attitude towards Ralph Earl is ________.
A.admiring
B.antagonistic
C.neutral
D.unflattering

The instructions from air traffic control were not fully implicit, and __________.
A.as a result, the pilot made an error and crashed
B.so that the pilot made an error and crashed
C.resulting from the pilot crashing the plane
D.therefore the pilot made it crashed