For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given.

Section 1.

For this section, solve each problem.

1. If (10 + x is 5) more than 10, what is the value of 2x ? Explain your answer.

2. The result when a number is divided by 2 is equal to the result when that same number is divided by 4. What is that number?

2. A total of 120,000 votes were cast for 2 opposing candidates, Garcia and Perez. If Garcia won by a ratio

of 5 to 3, what was the number of votes cast for Perez?

3. In a certain store, the regular price of a refrigerator is $600. How much money is saved by buying this refrigerator at 20 percent off the regular price rather than buying it on sale at 10 percent off the regular price with an additional discount of 10 percent off the sale price?

4. What is the greatest possible area of a triangle with one side of length 7 and another side of length 10?

Section 2.

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive.

People think that to hide one’s thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts

or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.

Adapted from J. David Velleman, “The Genesis of Shame”

Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. 220-250 words.

Section 3.

For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given.

1. Many private universities depend heavily on -------, the wealthy individuals who support them with gifts and bequests.

(A) instructors

(B) administrators

(C) monitors

(D) accountants

(E) benefactors

2. One of the characters in Milton Murayama’s novel is considered ------- because he deliberately defies an oppressive hierarchical society.

(A) rebellious

(B) impulsive

(C) artistic

(D) industrious

(E) tyrannical

3. Nightjars possess a camouflage perhaps unparalleled in the bird world: by day they roost hidden in shady woods, so ------- with their surroundings that they are nearly impossible to -------.

(A) vexed . . dislodge

(B) blended . . discern

(C) harmonized . . interrupt

(D) impatient . . distinguish

(E) integrated . . classify

4. Many economists believe that since resources are scarce and since human desires cannot all be -------, a method of ------- is needed.

(A) indulged . . apportionment

(B) verified . . distribution

(C) usurped . . expropriation

(D) expressed . . reparation

(E) anticipated . . advertising

5. The range of colors that homeowners could use on the exterior of their houses was ------- by the community’s stringent rules regarding upkeep of property.

(A) circumscribed

(B) bolstered

(C) embellished

(D) insinuated

(E) cultivated

Section 4.

For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given.

The following passage is adapted from a novel set in the early twentieth century. Mr. Beebe, a clergyman, is speaking with Cecil Vyse about a mutual acquaintance, Lucy Honeychurch. Miss Honeychurch has recently returned from a journey with her older cousin and chaperone, Miss Bartlett.

1. Cecil’s remark in line 1 (“Lucy . . . faults”) is made in a tone of

(A) great conviction

(B) studied neutrality

(C) playful irony

(D) genuine surprise

(E) weary cynicism

2. Mr. Beebe asks the question in lines 6-7 (“Does . . .quietly”) primarily in order to

(A) raise an urgent concern

(B) anticipate a possible objection

(C) challenge a widely accepted theory

(D) note an apparent inconsistency

(E) criticize a popular pastime

3. Mr. Beebe’s statement, “The water-tight . . . bad” (lines 9-11), suggests that Lucy will

(A) ultimately become a famous and respected musician

(B) eventually play music in a less disciplined fashion

(C) one day begin to live with great passion

(D) soon regret an impetuous decision

(E) someday marry a man who will be the cause of her undoing

4. In line 24, “sense” most nearly means

(A) definition

(B) intelligence

(C) plausibility

(D) consensus

(E) impression

5. For Mr. Beebe, “Picture number two” (line 27) represents

(A) a misleading occurrence

(B) a dangerous gamble

(C) an unlikely development

(D) an anticipated outcome

(E) an avoidable difficulty

6. Ultimately, Cecil views his remark in line 34 (“It . . . now”) as

(A) singularly poetic

(B) particularly memorable

(C) embarrassingly inapt

(D) excessively critical

(E) regrettably underhanded

7. The question in lines 39-40 (“had . . . him ”) suggests that Cecil fears that Mr. Beebe will

(A) detect the lack of originality in his thinking

(B) consider him to be vain

(C) tell Lucy of his inappropriate remark

(D) distrust him as a confidant

(E) attempt to block his engagement to Lucy

Section 5.

Would like to study in Harvard? Why? Why not? Write a short composition (50-60 words).

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