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T-4-Q1 TS-7-41

Scientists have dated sharp-edged flakes of stone found in the fine-grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago, pushing back by more than 150,000 years the earliest date when it is known that humans made stone tools.

A.when it is known that humans made

B.at which it is known that humans had made

C.at which humans are known to have made

D.that humans are known to be making

E.of humans who were known to make

T-4-Q2

Twenty years ago, Balzania put in place regulations requiring operators of surface mines to pay for the reclamation of mined-out land. Since then, reclamation technology has not improved. Yet, the average reclamation cost for a surface coal mine being reclaimed today is only four dollars per ton of coal that the mine produced, less than half what it cost to reclaim surface mines in the years immediately after the regulations took effect.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the drop in reclamation costs described?

A.Even after Balzania began requiring surface mine operators to pay reclamation costs, coal

mines in Balzania continued to be less expensive to operate than coal mines in almost any

other country.

B.In the twenty years since the regulations took effect, the use of coal as a fuel has declined

from the level it was at in the previous twenty years.

C.Mine operators have generally ceased surface mining in the mountainous areas of Balzania

because reclamation costs per ton of coal produced are particularly high for mines in such

areas.

D.Even after Balzania began requiring surface mine operators to pay reclamation costs, surface

mines continued to produce coal at a lower total cost than underground mines.

E.As compared to twenty years ago, a greater percentage of the coal mined in Balzania today

comes from surface mines.

T-4-Q3

Currently 26 billion barrels a year, world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of 2 percent annually.

A.world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of

B.the world is consuming oil at an increasing rate of

C.the world’s oil is being consumed at the increasing rate of

D.the rise in the rate of the world’s oil consumption is

E.oil is consumed by the world at an increasing rate of

T-4-Q4

Turning away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 Selma Lagerlof was the novelist who became the first woman and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A.Turning away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and

landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 Selma Lagerlof was the novelist who became the first woman and was also the first Swedish writer to win

B.She turned away from literary realism and wrote romantic stories about the peasant life and

landscape of northern Sweden, and novelist Selma Lagerlof in 1909 became the first woman as well as the first Swedish writer that won

C.Selma Lagerlof was a novelist who turned away from literary realism to write romantic

stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, and in 1909 she became the first woman in addition to the first Swedish writer winning

D.A novelist who turned away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant

life and landscape of northern Sweden, Selma Lagerlof became in 1909 the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win

E.As novelist, Selma Lagerlof turned away from literary realism and wrote romantic stories

about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 becoming the first woman and also the first Swedish write that won