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Classic Learning Test CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 2 Questions Answers on Historical Profile. In this test, you will have one passage with four choices and 10 questions. There is no time restriction. If no change is necessary, select the option “NO CHANGE.
CLT Grammar/Writing Practice Test 2 Historical Profile
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This passage is adapted from George Eliot’s “Letter About Rome Artists,” in George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, first published in 1855.
We visited only four artists’ studios in Rome: Gibson’s, the sculptor; Frey’s, the landscape painter; Riedel’s, the genre painter; and Overbeck’s.
Gibson’s [51] is entirely disappointing to me, so far as his own sculptures are [52] concerned except the Cacciatore, which he sent to the Great Exhibition, I could see nothing but feeble imitations of the antique—no [53] spontaneity and no vigor.
Frey is a very [54] monotonous landscape painter—finished in execution and poetic in feeling. His Egyptian scenes—the Simoon, the Pair in the Light of Sunset, and the Island of Philæ—are memorable pictures; [55] but not the View of Athens, with its blue, island-studded sea.
Riedel interested [56] greatly us with his account of the coincidence between the views of light and colors at which he had arrived through his artistic experience, and Goethe’s theory of colors, with which he became acquainted only after he had thought of putting his own ideas into shape for publication. He says the majority of painters continue [57] they’re work when the sun shines from the north—they paint with blue light.
But it was our visit to Overbeck that we were most pleased not to have missed. [58] The man himself is more interesting than his pictures: a benevolent calm and quiet conviction breathes from his person and manners. He has a thin, rather high-nosed face, with long gray hair, set off by a maroon velvet cap, and a gray scarf over his shoulders. [59] I really liked some of his cartoons: one large one of our Savior passing from the midst of the throng who were going to cast him from the brow of the hill at Capernaum—one foot resting on a cloud borne up by cherubs—and [60] his promise representing the Parable of the Ten Virgins and applying it to the function of the artist
How much more I have to write about Rome! But here I am only to give a hasty sketch of what we saw and did at each place at which we paused in our three months’ life in Italy.
This passage has been excerpted and adapted from the original, including minor punctuation changes, spelling changes, and other modifications that have not substantially changed content or intent.
51. is
A) NO CHANGE
B) was
C) will be
D) being
52. concerned except the
A) NO CHANGE
B) concerned; and except the
C) concerned except, the
D) concerned; except the
53. spontaneity and no vigor.
A) NO CHANGE
B) spontaneity and vigor.
C) spontaneity and none vigor.
D) spontaneity and not vigor.
54. monotonous
A) NO CHANGE
B) miscellaneous
C) meritorious
D) mischievous
55. but not
A) NO CHANGE
B) so is
C) given that
D) for example
56. greatly us
A) NO CHANGE
B) us greatly
C) great us
D) us great
57. they’re
A) NO CHANGE
B) their
C) there
D) them
58. Which of the following choices represents the clearest and most concise way to convey all of the information in the sentence?
The man himself is more interesting than his pictures: a benevolent calm and quiet conviction breathes from his person and manners.
A) NO CHANGE
B) The man himself is more interesting than his pictures in his person and manners: a benevolent calm and quiet conviction breathes.
C) A benevolent calm and quiet conviction breathes: the man himself is more interesting than his pictures in his person and manners.
D) A benevolent calm breathes in his person and manners, the man himself more interesting than his pictures.
59. Which of the following choices best matches the tone of the passage?
I really liked some of his cartoons
A) NO CHANGE
B) The perception of his cartoons by my ocular senses delighted me
C) The viewing of his cartoons just really delighted me
D) Some of his cartoons pleased me
60. his promise
A) NO CHANGE
B) a sketch of mine
C) some smaller round cartoons
D) our Savior