For Each Pair of Sentences Below, Select the Letter of the Option

question 25

Multiple Choice

For each pair of sentences below, select the letter of the option that provides the best sentence variety. Which answer choice provides the best sentence variety?

• A) The year was 1959. Berry Gordy was a songwriter in Detroit. He purchased a little house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard.
• B) The year was 1959. Berry Gordy, a Detroit songwriter, purchased a little house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard.

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Definitions:

WAIS

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, a commonly used test designed to measure human intelligence through various cognitive tasks.

David Wechsler

A psychologist known for developing influential intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS).

Mental Age

A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age. Thus, a child who does as well as an average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.

Binet and Simon

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, psychologists who developed the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale, to assess cognitive abilities in children.