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Question 1
Guide question RW-04.01
A children’s theater production celebrates resourcefulness by showing characters repairing discarded objects. ______ its costumes are assembled from donated fabric scraps.
Which transition most precisely signals the appropriate match between theme and design?
Why this answer
A: No earlier time is being contrasted with the production.
B — correct: The reuse of scraps aptly reflects the theme of repairing and reusing.
C: The costumes support the theme rather than defying an expectation it creates.
D: Costume construction is a related design choice, not a paraphrase of the plot.
In each of the past four seasons, a larger proportion of visitors has requested a quiet tour of the sculpture garden. Visitors are ______ choosing that option.
Which expression captures the trend?
Why this answer
A: No contrary expectation is presented.
B: Previously locates an earlier event but does not express a growing share.
C: No chain of consequences is described.
D — correct: Increasingly states that the choice is becoming more common across seasons.
At first the editor treated the missing pages as an accident. A later inventory suggested deliberate removal, but further records undermined that theory too. ______ the editor concluded that the cause could not be determined.
Which transition best introduces the eventual judgment?
Why this answer
A — correct: The sentence gives the final realization after competing explanations were considered.
B: The final judgment is not an example of the preceding rejected theory.
C: Meanwhile would signal concurrent events, not the endpoint of this investigation.
D: The conclusion is not a step taken toward a previously stated goal.
Extending the rehearsal period allowed the actors to learn the scene changes. Their quicker scene changes, ______ reduced the length of the performance.
Which transition marks the next link in this consequence chain?
Why this answer
A: The reduction follows from quicker changes; it does not occur despite them.
B: The sentence describes an effect of the actors’ improvement, not an independent parallel case.
C — correct: Extra rehearsal led to quicker changes, which led to a shorter performance.
D: A shorter performance is an additional consequence, not a rewording of learning the changes.