Directions: In the passage that follows, certain words and phrases are underlined and numbered. In the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for each underlined part. You are to choose the one that best expresses the idea, makes the statement appropriate for standard written English, or is worded most consistently with the style and tone of the passage as a whole. If you think the original version is best, choose "NO CHANGE." You will also find questions about a section of the passage, or about the passage as a whole. For each question in the test, choose the alternative you consider best and blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet. Read each passage through once before you begin to answer the questions that accompany it. You cannot determine some answers without reading several sentences beyond the phrase in question. Be sure that you have read far enough ahead each time you choose an alternative.

The following paragraphs may or may not be in the most logical order. Each paragraph is numbered in parentheses, and item 11 will ask you to choose the sequence of paragraph numbers that is in the most logical order.
[1]

In the end, everyone gives up
jogging. Some find that their
strenuous efforts to earn a living
drains away the energy necessary for 1

1. A. NO CHANGE
B. drain
C. has drained
D. is draining

running. Others suffering from

2

2. A. NO CHANGE
B. suffered
C. suffer
D. suffering with

defeat by the hazards of the course, which can range from hard pavement to

muddy tracks and from smog to sleet and snow. Person's can also simply

3. A. NO CHANGE
B. Still others
C. One may also
D. It's also possible to

collapse in their sneakers. My
experience having been different, 4

4 A. NO CHANGE
B. being different
C. was a difference,
D. was different,

however; I had a revelation.

[2]

It happened two summers ago up at
Lake Tom, where I was vacationing
with friends. I had been accustomed
to running fairly regularly, but that
whole week I decided to be lazy. I
sailed, basked in the sun, and ate wonderful; lobster, steak, 5

5 A. NO CHANGE
B. ate wonderfully:
C. eating wonderful:
D. eat wonderful

corn on the cob, baked potatoes, and
ice cream. By the fourth day of this
routine I had to face the truth which 6

6 A. NO CHANGE
B. truth about
C. truth:
D. truth, which

my body was slowly changing to dough.

[3]

So, filled with worthy ambition,
I tied on my favorite pair of running
shoes and loped out to the main road
in search of a five-mile route. Out of curiosity, I turned onto Lookout
Hill Road and soon discovered how the 7

7 A. NO CHANGE
B. Out of curiosity, Lookout Hill
Road was turned onto
C. Having become curious, Lookout
D. Lookout Hill Road, having become
Curious, was the route I turned onto--

road had come by its name. I was
chugging, at a painfully slow rate,
up one of the longest, steepest 8

8 A. NO CHANGE
B. longest, steepest,
C. steepest longest,
D. longest and steepest,

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