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31)
What is the BEST definition of the word ventured as it is used in the final sentence of paragraph 1?
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
A) desired
B) helped
C) justified
D) risked
32)
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Lincoln uses the last paragraph of his speech
A) to emphasize the atrocities of war.
B) to show his concern for all nations.
C) to ask for more support for the war.
D) to describe his visions for the nation's rebirth.
33)
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Which is the BEST definition for expiration as it is used in the selected sentence?
A) emission of breath
B) ceasing to be in effect
C) the act of breathing out
D) the emission of volatile matter from the earth's atmosphere
34)
The Almighty has his own purposes. ‘Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.’
What is the meaning of the word offenses as used in the first line of the fifth paragraph?
A) breaking the law
B) attack or assault
C) causing injury, causing harm or hurt
D) sin; wrongdoing against someone else

Answer: The correct answers are 31) D. Risked 32) D. To describe his visions for the nation's rebirth 33) B. Ceasing to be in effect 34) D. sin; wrongdoing against someone else

Explanation: For question 31. Risked is a synonim of ventured, jeopardized, endandered and it has that meaning in that final sentence.

32. Lincoln wants to see America healing from the terrible war between brothers and offers his vision for the rebirth of the nation.

33. The passage alludes to a document and states a ceasing to be in effect of four years.

34. Since the passage talks about God (the Almighty) the offenses against God are sins against God or against our neighbors.