ENGLISH TEST FOR DUMB MFS PART 2

The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.

 

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.

The fresco is a dynamic work because, by capturing the energy, humanity, and collective achievement of the Detroit workers, celebrates all working men and women.

We talked just as easily as we had in the past, when we would sit in the field behind Joan’s house atop the rabbit hutch and discuss our friends and our hopes for the future.

In some agricultural parts of Japan, for instance, these three stars are commonly referred to as Karasuki and represent a three-pronged plow.

 

Given that all the choices are true, which one provides a detail that has the most direct connection to the information that follows in this sentence?

Unbricking a kiln after a firing is like a person uncovering buried treasure.

[1] Our son has started playing organized T-ball, a beginner’s version of baseball. [2] “Organized” is what parents call it, anyway. [3] Joe is seven, living in those two or three years when children can manage to throw a baseball a few feet but when what they’re really interested in are things closer at hand: bugs, butterflies, dirt (if they’re in the infield), grass (if they’re in the outfield). [4] Children of that age still think nothing of doing little dances in the outfield, often with their backs to home plate and, consequently, the batter. 

 

Which sentence does not belong in this paragraph? 

Banneker lived and worked on the family farm. After his father died in 1759, Banneker took over the responsibility of the farm and the care of his mother and younger sisters. In addition, he pursued scientific studies and taught himself to play the flute and violin.

 

If the writer were to delete the last part of the preceding sentence (ending the sentence with a period after the word studies), the paragraph would primarily lose:

The two principal types of kayaks are: the easily maneuverable white-water kayak and the largest sea kayak.

Radioactive pools of toxic waste are okay for others to live in; even acid cannot kill them.