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

Having found that I was not at home, ___________.
A.colonel arrested the thief
B.my house was broken into by the thief
C.the thief broke into my house
D.I didn’t know that the thief broke into my house.

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While the language barrier was once an obstacle to trade, __________.
A.the technical case is now no more
B.which is no longer the case
C.the case doesn’t longer exist
D.the technical hurdle is now the case

choose A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction

A dolphin can communicate with other by making distinctive sounds.
A.making
B.making
C.communicate
D.other