Blue Book Writing Questions

<p>I am horrible at writing and it would be really helpful if someone can tell me explanations for the following questions~</p>

<li>Surely one of the most far-reaching changes in the nineteenth century will be the changes from working at home to working in the factory.</li>
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<p>A. Surely
B. will be
C. at home
D. to working in</p>

<p>Answer: D</p>

<li>Just how critical an improved balance of trade is to a healthy economy has never been more clearer than it is now.</li>
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<p>A. Just how
B. is to
C. has never been
D. more clearer</p>

<p>Answer: D</p>

<li>The new system, which uses remote cameras in the catching of speeding motorists, may undermine the police deparment’s authority.</li>
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<p>A. uses
B. in the catching of
C. speeding motorists
D. may undermine</p>

<p>Answer: B</p>

<li>For we students, concern about impending tuition hikes was even more acute than aprrehension about final exams.</li>
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<p>A. we
B. impending
C. more acute than
D. apprehensioin about</p>

<p>Answer: A</p>

<li>The dolls in the collection, all more than twon hundred years old, have been carefully carved for children long since gone.</li>
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<p>A. all
B. more than
C. carefully
D. long since</p>

<p>Answer: D</p>

<li>Given her strong sense of social justice, Burns vehemently protested over her party’s failure to support a tax decrease for senior citizens.</li>
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<p>A. Given her strong sense
B. vehemently
C. protested over
D. to support</p>

<p>Answer: C</p>

<p>I think I really have to purchase Collegeboard online course.</p>

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<li>change it to "working at" b/c it should be parallel</li>
<li>more clearer, i think that explains itself lol</li>
<li>to catch</li>
<li>"us" students. object of preposition "for"</li>
<li>... i raelly dont know why just sounds really messed up</li>
<li>protested against. idiomatic prep.</li>
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<li>i think it's supposed to be "long gone" because there is nothing for the since to be referring to</li>
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<p>wait a minute, in the first sentence it says: 19th century...will be??????
is it just me or is that completely wrong?</p>

<p>ugh.. these are disgusting questions
i think it says 'will be' because that sentence could be a quote or something from a person who lived before 19th century predicting whats going to happen in the future</p>