Directions: Read the passage and then select the best answer to the question that follows.
I am applying for this job because I am very interested in engineering. I have studied
engineering for the past four years, and I will earn my diploma in early May. I have done
extensive research into the uses of robots in the home. I have also developed a prototype of
a vacuum cleaner that is powered by dust.
What feedback would be most helpful to someone who asked you to examine the sentence variety of this passage?
Try incorporating some shorter sentences and being more direct. These sentences are very long and make it easy
for the reader to lose track of the main point.
This is great! All the sentences here are long and contain lots of information, which means that you're giving
readers a lot to think about.
Try varying the structure of your sentences. They all start with the word I, and the repetition might make readers
lose interest.
O

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. well, i must say, algernon, that i think it is high time that mr. bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. this shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. . i should be much obliged if you would ask mr. bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on saturday, for i rely on you to arrange my music for me. it is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much. what aspect of lady bracknell’s behavior does wilde use to poke fun at the importance placed on frivolous events in formal society? her concern with a party instead of mr. bunbury’s health her interest in playing classical music at her reception her jealousy over algernon’s friendship with the sickly mr. bunbury her concern about the health of algernon’s friend

Brutus: but as he was ambitious, i slew him. . who is here so base that would be a bondman? if any, speak, for him have i offended. who is here so rude that would not be a roman? if any, speak, for him have i offended. who is here so vile that will not love his country? if any, speak, for him have i offended. i pause for a reply. which rhetorical device does brutus use in this excerpt?

Which of the following best explains what market forces are? a. the properties of a free-market system that determine what the outcomes will be. b. the decisions of the government that decide what will be produced. c. the ways that producers coerce consumers into buying at the highest price possible. d. the laws that govern whether a producer will be able to buy low and sell high.