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Stargazing
0 e clear January night when I was eight years old,
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nt stargazing with my father. We tramped through 17. A.
B.
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gone
in the backyard, then turned our faces upward. C. went
D. had did some
air was crisp and clear, the stars brilliant against 18. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined ·
18 portion would NOT be acceptable?
the bla k sky. Our breath appeared white above us. F. clear; the stars looked
G. clear. The stars were
[1 "And there's his sword also, see?" [2] He H. clear, and the stars were
J. clear; the stars that were looking
pointe out Orion to me, the first constellation I
·would now, the first commencement of a beginning 19. A. NO CHANGE
111 B. the
of a lif long enchantment with the stars. [3] "Megan, C. the initial
D. DELETE the underlined portion.
there's Orion's belt," Dad said, he kneeled so I could 20. F. NO CHANGE
20 G. kneeling
unmistakable row of three stars, perfectly H. started to kneel
J. and having kneeled
, at the end, of his pointing index finger. 21. A. NO CHANGE
21 B. aligned, at the end
king at the sword he showed me, I nodded C. · aligned at the end,
D. aligned; at the end
ark as the winter sky reoriented itself
in my mind meanwhile this celestial 22. F. NO CHANGE
2l G. therefore
H. during
J. around
, Orion. E) 23. For the sake of the logic and coherence of this para-
graph, Sentence 1 should be placed:
A. where it is now.
B. after Sentence 2.
C. after Sentence 3.
was eager to learn as much as I could from D. after Sentence 4.
her. The Big Dipper was next, with its grand 24. F. NO CHANGE
24 G. whether it's a
of handle and bowl. Then came the Pleiades, H. being its
J. it had a
a tig cluster of stars that created a bold smudge of 25. A. NO CHANGE
25 B. will create
C. creates
D. created
notic able light above overhead. I absorbed the 26. F. NO CHANGE
u; .G. light
infor ation he shared: the order of the planets in H. visible light that was there
J. light that looked something like a bright smear
our s lar system, the shapes of galaxies, theories
abou how the u.niverse began.
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1 For example, a~. that space and distance fascinated 27. A. NO CHANGE
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27 B. In contrast, all
me. It takes light more than eight minutes to travel from C. If so, all
D. All
the Sun to Earth, I le;u-ned. I tried to imagine the distance
involved in a light-year, and failed. I was amazed to
find out that some of the stars I gazed at were really
. visual ghosts of stars: their light took so long to travel
to my eyes that the st.us had long ago burned out.
I couldn't take in ide<:s so incomprehensibly big, but the 28. F. NO CHANGE
28 G. incomprehensible big,
effort was invigorating, like sledding down a steep hill H. incomprehensibly bigger,
J. incomprehensible bigger,
or racing my sister across a snowy field.
I live on my own now, but last week I was
at my parents' house, and I again went outside
one more time again to) gaze at the night sky. I 29. A. NO CHANGE
29 B. for the purpose of being able to look at and
looked up into the dark at the thin slice of moon C. and left the house to go out
D. DELETE the underlined portion.
near the horizon, the steady glow of the planets, the
twinkle of the stars in their familiar formations. 0 30. Which of the following true sentences, if added here,
would most effectively conclude the paragraph and the
essay by returning directly to several of the essay's
earlier images?
F. That night, the endless expanse of sky made me
feel lonesome, and I thought about my childhood
best friend.
G. The night sky looked just as it had always looked,
never appearing any different as time passes.
H. As I looked at the stars, the thin coating of ice on
the trees made the branches glimmer.
J. Orion appeared over my left shoulder, and I
remembered my father pointing in the dark on a
cold, clear night.
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