Writing Practice Test Demo

Directions

Answer the question below by clicking on the correct response.

4. Which of the following sentences, used in place of the blank lines labeled Part 6, would “best” fit the writer’s pattern of development in the first paragraph?

		A.	France, of course, had not had as many men killed during the war as the other Allies.
		B.	There were two parts of France during World War II: the German occupied zone and the so-called Vichy France with a puppet government controlled by Germany.
		C.	Spain, just to the south of France, was not too badly damaged because it remained neutral during the war.
		D.	As a result of the devastation, many struggled to find enough food to feed their families.
		E.	What the Germans had not looted or destroyed was largely devastated by the final terrible battles after the Normandy landings.

Correct Answer: E

The passage’s pattern of development has been to give an example of a country and then to add a specific detail that relates to that country. Choice E continues this pattern. It is shown in red in the passage below.

(1) At the end of World War II, Western Europe was physically, emotionally and economically battered. (2) Great Britain was in serious decline. (3) The Empire which had sustained Britain had become an economic burden. (4) Much of the country from the terrible German bombing was still in ruins. (5) France was also in ruins, having been under German occupation for most of the war years. (6) What the Germans had not looted or destroyed was largely devastated by the final terrible battles after the Normandy landings. (7) Germany, too, was devastated. (8) The war efforts had overtaxed its industrial capacity, the Allied bombs had destroyed its cities and the people were starving. (9) The woes of these formerly powerful countries were mirrored throughout Western Europe.

(10) Between 1947 and 1951, the United States, the only ally without land damage and with a healthy economy, instituted a massive aid program. (11) The economic arm of the Truman Doctrine was the European Recovery Program, popularly called the Marshall Plan after Secretary of State George C. Marshall. (12) President Truman pledged that the U.S. was committed to helping free peoples “maintain their institutions and their national integrity.” (13) The Marshall Plan pumped 12 billion dollars into Western Europe. (14) Half went to Great Britain, France and Germany to rebuild their war torn lands. (15) It worked very well; by 1952 their overall production was twice that of 1938 immediately before the war.