Not only, which appears in the non-underlined portion of the sentence, must be paired with but also. Visitors can peruse the pages of her colorful diary, read her letters to her mother, Matilde Calderón y González, and browse through photos of Kahlo and her husband, the artist Diego Rivera. The exhibition “Faces of Frida” includes not only paintings by Frida Kahlo and also her letters, personal photographs, and unpublished writings. Note that you do not need to know the definition of this word to answer the question: as long as you can recognize that consistently, compellingly, and exclusively do not fit the required definition, you can use process of elimination to come up with (D). To work meticulously is to work “in a careful and detailed way,” so (D) is the correct answer. Which choice most strongly emphasizes that Zhao Kangmin worked in a careful and detailed way? He consistently pieced the fragments together, spurring an excavation that would reveal thousands more clay soldiers packed into underground corridors. When fragments of China’s famed terracotta warriors were discovered by farmers in 1974, Zhao Kangmin was one of the first archaeologists on the scene. Their 1,200 native plant species = the 1,200 native plant species of the Hawaiian islands. Their is both plural and possessive, so (D) is correct.

Although there refers to a place, the correct version of the pronoun must be possessive because a noun phrase follows ( 1,200 native plant species) - and a noun can only possess another noun. (A) can be eliminated because its’ does not exist, and (B) can also be crossed out because its is singular. Start by determining the noun to which the underlined pronoun refers - that is, of whose 1,200 native plant species? Logically, it must be the Hawaiian islands, plural. Of its’ 1,200 native plant species, 90 percent exist nowhere else on earth. Twenty-five hundred miles from the nearest continental landmass and adrift in oceanic isolation, the Hawaiian islands are the most habitat-diverse place on the planet. It does make sense to say Though they inevitably fall short of perfection, so (B) is correct. The only answer to contain this construction is (B), which places inevitably next to the verb fall. Because modifiers must be placed next to the words/phrases they modify, it is reasonable to assume that inevitably will be placed next to a verb. The fact that inevitably ends in – ly indicates that this word is an adverb, meaning that it can modify a verb (likely) or an adjective (less likely). What is the best placement for the underlined word? Though inevitably they fall short of perfection, it’s still possible to visit some of them. Around the world, a handful of towns and cities have been designed with this ideal society in mind. Since then, people have tried to replicate this society, not just in stories but also in real life. In the sixteenth century, Thomas More coined the term utopia to describe a perfect yet fictitious island society’s ways of life.

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