Air traffic controllers protect airline passengers by

Air traffic controllers protect airline passengers
by maintaining a traveling distance of 5 vertical
nautical miles and 1,000 vertical feet between
aircraft.
Should the author make this addition here?
A) Yes, because it elucidates information previously
presented in the paragraph about air safety.
B) Yes, because it provides necessary details about
the importance of an air traffic controller’s job.
C) No, because it adds loosely related information
that does not effectively conclude the passage.
D) No, because it contradicts information previously
presented in the paragraph about aircraft
specifications.
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11
A) NO CHANGE
B) would learn
C) to learn
D) learning
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Questions 1-11 are based on the following passage.
El Sistema: Venezuela’s Revolutionary Music Education
1 Music education programs vary greatly from
country to country: the school bell rings, signaling the end
of the school day, and all the children race to the nearest
music center, or núcleo. They play violins, clarinets, drums
and other instruments for hours, learning techniques from
teachers and from their peers—and this publicly-funded
music instruction is open to all children. What you're
picturing might sound like a fantasy, but in the South
American nation of Venezuela, El Sistema (“The System”),
a comprehensive music education program that serves over
300,000 children, is a reality.
[1] El Sistema, the nickname for the Fundación
Musical Simón Bolívar, was founded in 1975 by Dr. José
Antonio Abreu. [2] He envisioned this government-funded
program not only as a vehicle for music instruction, but
also for social change. [3] Disappointed that Venezuela did
not have its own 2 orchestra—Abreu wanted to educate
children about classical music on the national level. [4]
By providing safe spaces for children from crime-ridden
neighborhoods to practice music, the government would
be both protecting children and showing them that there
were other avenues to success than criminal activity. [5]
Abreu also believed that the opportunity to play music is a
basic human right, and he wanted to 3 reinsure that all
children had access to it. 4
A) NO CHANGE
B) orchestra, Abreu
C) orchestra; Abreu
D) orchestra: Abreu
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2
Which choice best introduces the paragraph?
A) NO CHANGE
B) Imagine the following scenario:
C) Some people think the following situation would
be great:
D) Music education programs offer many benefits:
To make paragraph 2 most logical, sentence 2 should
be placed
A) where it is now.
B) after sentence 3.
C) after sentence 4.
D) after sentence 5.
3
4
A) NO CHANGE
B) ensure
C) assure
D) reassure

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A) NO CHANGE
B) away
C) away;
D) away, it was
5 The Venezuelan government began implementing
Abreu’s ideas right 5 away, by the end of 1975, it had
opened the first núcleo. More soon opened, and students
congregated 6 together at these centers after school to
play music. Children could attend classes from an early age:
two-year-olds started learning the basics of rhythm even
before they reached the regular classroom. The number