In the sentence “pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph”, what does pastoral most nearly mean?
related to the countryside
related to city life
related to war
related to religion
In the sentence “Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification”, what does deferred gratification mean?
forgetting what you want
getting pleasure or reward immediately
avoiding pleasure completely
delaying pleasure or reward until later
In the sentence “we read the condensed version”, what does condensed most nearly mean?
shortened
A. expanded in detail
illustrated
translated
In the sentence “Not only do we want it now; we don’t even want to be kept waiting for it,” why does the writer use do we want instead of we want?
because it is a question
because not only at the beginning causes inversion
because the subject is plural
because the sentence is in the past tense
In the sentence “The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences,” what is the grammatical function of it in it took us?
it refers to the vacation
it is a dummy subject
it refers to the two days
it refers to the writer