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- 1. Multiple Choice
We had become very hungry; we felt that it was necessary for us to eat in order to maintain both our morale and our endurance. Our cabman took us to a restaurant. When we entered it was rather crowded, but we managed to find a table and sit down. There followed that hiatus of which every Negro in the United States knows the meaning. At length, a man in charge came over and told us without any pretense of
palliation that we could not be served." (James Weldon Johnson, "Outcasts in Salt Lake
City")
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- 2. Multiple Choice
The effects of a respondent's socio-economic background on his or her attitudes toward minority groups were analyzed with the help of a multivariate linear regression model. Multivariate regression models explain variations of the dependent variables by a linear combination of independent variables. In this case, the models were calculated to explain the sum indices for each dimension, country by country." (SORA, "Attitudes towards Minority Groups in the European Union")
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- 3. Multiple Choice
The tree has entered my hands, /The sap has ascended my arms. /The tree
has grown in my breast— /-Down-ward, / The branches grow out of me, like arms."
(Ezra Pound, "A Girl" )
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- 4. Multiple Choice
The most common mistake when planting a tree is digging a hole, which is
either too deep or too narrow. Too deep and the roots don't have access to sufficient
oxygen to ensure proper growth. Too narrow and the root structure can't expand
sufficiently to nourish and properly anchor the tree." ("Planting a Tree" @ treeplanting.com)
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- 5. Multiple Choice
"If you see the signup form, fill out your name, email address or phone number, password, birthday and gender. If you don't see the form, click Sign Up, then fill out the form. Click Sign Up." (www.facebook.com)
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- 6. Multiple Choice
"The Internet is a fountain of information. / It's available to everyone, in every nation. / Pages for children to read and enjoy / along with the spam, which can really annoy. / Poetry and forums for everyone's pleasure /just about anything, even selling your treasure." (Bernard Howe, The Internet")
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- 7. Multiple Choice
"This paper presents the conceptual linkages between food security and
nutrition and reviews data on the associations between experience-based measures of
food insecurity and nutritional status outcomes in countries at different stages of the
nutrition transition." (Voices of the Hungry, "Food Security and Nutrition in the context of the Global Nutrition Transition")
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- 8. Multiple Choice
I come among the people like a shadow. / I sit down by each man's side. /
None sees me, but they look at one another, / And know that I am there. / My silence is like the silence of the tide / That buries the playground of children; (Robert Laurence
Binyon, "Hunger")
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- 9. Multiple Choice
“I’m not gonna fight back what I’ve become / I got bruises where I came from / But I wouldn’t change if I could restart / I ain’t gonna hide these beautiful scars.”
(Maximilian, “Beautiful Scars”)
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- 10. Multiple Choice
10. Many of the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs include a Save or Publish as Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) feature that also enables you to control what to save or publish, just as you do when you print. (Word Help, Publish as PDF or XPS)
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