Fitness Trial Sixteen

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NOTE: Before beginning this exam, size your window to where you can see each of the sentences. If you resize your window during the test, it will reset the test with new questions. For each sentence, answer the question by choosing the appropriate choice from the list. Be sure to read the question closely. Select the appropriate answer, then click on submit when you are done with the quiz. Once the quiz is submitted, you will have the opportunity to retake the fitness trial or return to the grammar gym for more instruction. Please be sure to use the "SUBMIT" and the "RETAKE QUIZ" buttons instead of your browser buttons; using the "back" button can cause invalid quiz scores. The score for this practice trial will NOT be reported; however, a good goal would be to achieve a 90% or better, as that is the score that will be asked of you to achieve on Fitness Test 4.

1. Writing can really draw you in, if it is done properly. In fact, even the
   most irrational plot can be made relevant to the reader. If, that is, the
   story is presented in such a way that it draws the reader's mind through his
   eyeballs. I would like to read such a story.

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2. This memo introduces to you our new personnel manager, Evelyn Cameron. An
   experienced executive who has efficiently reorganized the workload of
   personnel departments in a number of companies and who is now bringing her
   expertise to GetTech Systems, Inc. We encourage you to communicate fully with
   Ms. Cameron and to assist her in the task of making the personnel operation
   more effective and more manageable for all of our personnel employees.

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3. Colton is the perfect modern bad guy. Being the victim of severe abuse as
   a child. He has no feeling at all for other people's pain, and readers can hate
   him and yet feel sorry for him.

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4. Although Mickey Mouse's personality and charisma were already formed in the
   thirties and forties through Floyd Gottfredson's daily comic strips, it is the
   opinion of most people that Paul Murry was the primary person to continue this
   legacy in the comic book form. The comic book industry is often overlooked in
   the dynastic legacy of the Disney Empire. Although, it has drawn some attention
   recently.

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5. The film's use of background and setting brings forth many unusual
   instruments of torture. Yet all this is conventional. Except for the
   projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. The rest has been
   seen before.

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6. Quite considerable efforts had been made over several years to clone mice.
   That is, in order to understand how gene activity changes during embryonic
   development. Work has been carried out across several decades in twelve
   countries on three continents.

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7. I believe that girls have the potential to break out of that "proper"
   young lady act that we are all force-fed, that compulsory imitation of the
   non-existent ideal we women are supposed to emulate. That should be a goal
   for all of us: to teach our girls this.

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8. I am good at being a friend. Dedication, devotion, emotion, trust: these
   are the characteristics I try to put forth into my friendships. It pays off.
   Don't you think?

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9. Don't you see how funny that is? We were just sitting there. Then, he
   said that phrase, and we all fell over laughing. "And now for something
   completely different." That's too funny.

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10. She recounted the story in her own words. "Well?" she began "Do you want
    to hear the short or long version? I suppose the long version is more
    interesting. Yes, right, the long version."

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