Practice Test

Question 4 • Virginia and US History

Which is the most engaging text with the most varied sentence structures?

Answer

The new immigrants had a different experience. The free land was gone by 1890. The new immigrants found jobs in factories in the cities. They lived in crowded neighborhoods. They spoke their own languages. They practiced their own traditions.

By 1890, immigrants had a different experience. By then, the free land was gone, and immigrants found jobs in factories in the cities. In the cities, they lived in crowded neighborhoods. In the neighborhoods, they spoke their own languages and practiced their own traditions.

The new immigrants had a different experience. They couldn’t find free land by 1890, so they found jobs in factories in the cities. They lived in crowded neighborhoods. They spoke the same languages, and they practiced the same traditions.

The experience of the new immigrants was different. By 1890, no more free land was available, so newcomers found jobs in city factories. They lived in crowded neighborhoods, where everyone shared a common language and culture.

Explanation

D is the most engaging because it varies sentence structure: it begins with a straightforward statement, follows with a sentence using a time phrase and a cause-and-effect clause, then combines ideas in a sentence with a “where” clause. The other choices use more repetitive sentence patterns. D is also concise and avoids repeating the same ideas in separate short sentences.

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