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Ethnic Architecture
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• A. Here is a question that is not as silly as it sound:Have you ever wondered why houses are shaped the way they are? B.Bringing with them many different ideas about how to build a house, settlers from around the world have come to the United States for centuries.
  (B)
• B. Settlers to America built homes.
• C. New conditions in America forced some settlers to change their approach to home building.
• D. There is no place like home.
• E. Many of us today take for granted certain features of a house and forget that someone had to invent them.D.The veranda, a covered porch that wraps around the front of many southern houses is probably an adaptation of overhanging roofs found all over the world.E.In addition to the veranda, the South is known for its cooking and its hospitality.(6) Long ago, home builders responded to hot, humid climates by making the cooling shade of a porch a common feature of houses in such places as West Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean area.
  (C)
  (7)
  For instance, French settlers in New Orleans tried to put the frames of their homes directly on the ground as they had done in France; however, the heat, humidity, and abundant rainfall caused the homes to rot within a few years.(8) The settlers learned a lesson by observing the West Indian Creoles, which built raised houses with many doors and windows to keep cool.
  (D)
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  Some settlers, like those from Germany, held on to their old building methods even though such methods were no longer necessary.(10) Because of a shortage of wood in some parts of Germany, builders had constructed half-timber houses; they used clay or brick to save wood.(11) When German immigrants settled in Wisconsin where wood was abundant, they still built their familiar half-timber homes.(12) European peasants and their animals once shared a shelter called a "house-barn," which allowed immediate care for the animals during harsh whether.(13) Today's covered breezeways serve a related purpose of protecting people who need to go to their"car barns,"or garages.
  (E)
  (14)
  No matter which country settlers started from, they brought home-building traditions.(15) Some they changed to adapt to their new land, some they abandoned,and some their descendants still use today. -- Exhibit -Which sentence below would be most effective if inserted at the beginning of paragraph C?
• F. When building homes, settlers found that conditions were not important.
• G. Conditions would obviously play an important role.

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Sentences 2 and I will graduate this May from Central Community College.I will graduate with an Associate of Arts degree in Business Management.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of these sentences? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

• A. College, I will graduate with
• B. College with
• C. College, but with
• D. College.I will graduate with
• E. College and with

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Sentence 1For those who are looking to learn about engine repair, diagnostics, or other auto repair problems sign up for a class!
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

• A. repair problems signing
• B. repair problem sign
• C. repair problems sign
• D. repair problems, sign
• E. repairing problems sign

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The Internet
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• A. insert a comma after marketing
• B. change businesses to business's
• C. replace and with or
• D. replace Its with It's
• E. move valuable to follow tool
• F. We use the Internet or hear about it almost daily.B.However, there was a time when the Internet was known to just a network of scientists who used it as a means to communicate research information.C.They lived all over the world, the idea of calling on the phone was a major problem and a major expense.D.Faxing was a problem also if they wanted to keep their ideas secret.E.This group of international scientists needed a means to share their information with each other.
  (B)
  (6)
  In 1989, computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee created a system that enabled an elite group of scientists to communicate with one another.(7) The original goal of the scientists is to share information that was number- and text-based.(8) This format was an easy procedure for the early computers and computer programs to use.
  (C)
  (9)
  Many other people were interested in this"new"exchange of information for a few reasons.(10) It was much cheaper than a long distance phone call or fax, and it provided
  some privacy.(11) Soon, others were experimenting with this new communication device.(12) Eventually, a group of people at the Massachusetts Institute of technology developed the World Wide Web.
  (D)
  (13)
  Changes that are made in computers and the way they communicate with each other
  provide the opportunity for the Web to evolve.(14) This evolution continue to change the
  way we all communicatewith each other, too.(15) To do more than just communicate today,
  the Web is used.(16) Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.(17) How
  interesting to think of the many new ways that this technology shaping our future.
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  Sentence 16:Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.
  Which correction should be made to sentence 16?