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16.) Which correctly revises this sentence without changing the meaning?

I wanted to stop and get more gas because we had to travel another seventy miles to reach our destination.
A) To reach our destination, of seventy miles, we must stop, get more gas and then travel.
B) Because I wanted to stop for gas, we had to travel another seventy miles to reach our destination.
C) Stop: I want to get more gas, because we have to travel another seventy miles to reach our destination.
D) Because we had to travel another seventy miles to reach our destination, I wanted to stop and get more gas.

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Every college in America is looking for leaders. Students who can claim that they have been through leadership academies or leadership training are given special attention for those lines upon their resumes. But what is leadership? How does one learn about it? Indeed, can leadership truly be “learned” at all, or is it something you are born with? The overemphasis upon every student being a leader needs to be critically examined. After all, if everyone is trained to be a leader, then who, I ask you, is doing the following? How is it even possible for everyone to lead?
Which sentence would be the BEST introductory sentence for this paragraph?
A) Colleges are harder to get into in America today than they ever have been in the past.
B) I have a real problem with some of the things that students do to get attention these days.
C) One of the most common buzzwords you hear today in college applications is the word “leadership.”
D) One of the most stressful parts of a student's high school experience is going through the college application process.

26.) During her lifetime, she published only seven of her poems, and she published those anonymously.
Look at the portion of the passage number (7). In an effort to make the passage more concise, which would be the BEST revision of the sentence?

During her lifetime, she published only seven of her poems, and she published those anonymously.
A) She published only seven anonymous poems during her lifetime.
B) During her anonymous lifetime, she published only seven of her poems.
C) During her lifetime, she anonymously published only seven of her poems.
D) During her lifetime, she published only seven of her poems anonymously.

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