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Choose the sentence that uses clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | After Joe's deception was uncovered, his application was quickly rejected. |
| | B) | After Joe's deception was uncovered, his application was dead as a doornail. |
| | C) | After Joe's deception was uncovered, the committee told him to peace out. |
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Choose the sentence that uses
language appropriate for a general audience. |
| | A) | B. F. Skinner
pioneered the use of operant conditioning, in which a subject's behaviour is shaped by altering the presence and absence of reinforcers. |
| | B) | B. F. Skinner explored the use of consequences to alter human behaviour. |
| | C) | B. F. Skinner explored the concept of punishment by contingent withdrawal of desirable
stimuli. |
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Choose the sentence that uses
clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | After the death of Darius the
Great, the fortunes of the Persians took a turn for the worse. |
| | B) | After the
death of Darius the Great, the fortunes of the Persians soon began to decline. |
| | C) | After the death of Darius the Great, the fortunes of the Persians quickly hit rock bottom. |
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Choose the sentence that uses clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | I was awestruck by the opening scene in Star Wars. |
| | B) | The opening scene in Star Wars really blew me away. |
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Choose the sentence that uses clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | Some of the one-liners in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors cracked me up. |
| | B) | Some of the dialogue in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors made me laugh. |
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Choose the sentence that uses clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | Patrick thought Wyoming's Grand Teton was astonishingly beautiful. |
| | B) | Patrick thought Wyoming's Grand Teton was totally radical. |
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Choose the sentence that uses clear, appropriate
language. |
| | A) | The ending of Dickens's A Tale of Two
Cities really got to me. |
| | B) | The ending of Dickens's A Tale of
Two Cities was moving. |
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Choose the sentence that uses
clear, appropriate language. |
| | A) | There was not a dry eye in the
house by the end of Schindler's List. |
| | B) | Many moviegoers wept
at the end of Schindler's List. |
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