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(A) this caused the evacuation of several hun-
dred residents of the town
(B) so several hundred of the town’s resi-
dents were evacuated
(C) thus evacuating several hundred residents
of the town
(D) they evacuated several hundred residents
of the town
(E) which evacuated several hundred of the
town’s residents
39. The E.P.A. plans to build an incinerator that
will roast the contaminated dirt, which will
break down dioxin molecules into harmless
elements.
(A) dirt, which will break
(B) dirt that will break
(C) dirt; the heat will break
(D) dirt; the heat breaking
(E) dirt and will break
40.
If you concentrate on courses with practical
applications only, we risk losing the value of
a liberal arts education.
(A) If you concentrate on courses with prac-
tical applications only
(B) If you concentrate on courses with only
practical applications
(C) If we concentrate on courses with prac-
tical applications only
(D) If we concentrate on courses with only
practical applications
(E) In order to concentrate on courses with
only practical applications
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Lesson 2
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■ SAT II Subject Tests
Questions 41–45 are based on the following
passage:
(1) Georgia O’Keeffe, who died in 1986 at
the age of ninety-eight, is perhaps best known for
her paintings of the American Southwest. (2) Her
canvases are filled with desert scenes and images
of sun-bleached animal skulls.
(3) O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin and stud-
ied in Wisconsin, Chicago, and New York. (4)
Between 1916 and 1918, she taught art in Texas.
(5) She gave up teaching in order to devote her en-
ergies to painting and joined famed photographer
Alfred Stieglitz at his small gallery in New York
City. (6) (O’Keeffe and Stieglitz later got married.)
(7) O’Keeffe was one of many artists to visit the
region that is now called the State of New Mexico
during the first half of the twentieth century. (8)
Many of these artists had wearied of life in the city
and looked to the vast expanse of the American west
for new artistic inspiration. (9) Although life and
art seemed very separate in New York and Paris, in
Taos and Santa Fe they seemed closely related. (10)
Most visiting artists were touched by what the writer
D.H. Lawrence called the “spirit of the place.” (11)
Besides the scenic beauty bathed in clear golden
light, the traditions of the Indian and Hispanic people
who lived there were often chosen as subjects by
the artists who visited the region.
(12) Most of these visiting artists stayed only
a year or two, and their canvases have all but faded
from public view and are usually not mentioned
in books on American art history. (13) O’Keeffe,
however, stayed a lifetime, and her paintings have
made permanent impressions on countless eye-
balls.