501 Critical Reading Questions

b
, 
c
, and 
e
.
The yacht may be bigger and faster than the 
Alba
, and the 
Alba
may carry only crew, but these facts are never mentioned in the
texts so we can’t know for sure. That leaves only one possible
answer: choice 
d
. The yacht is most certainly more luxurious
than the 
Alba
, and this statement is backed by both nar-
rators’s descriptions of the their respective vessels.
455.
e.
The captain knew it was important that the crew understood
the boy was no more privileged than anyone else aboard the
Alba.
Evidence for this choice is found in the narrator’s state-
ment in lines 10–11: 
because I was his nephew, I would probably
have to work twice as hard as the others to prove my worth.
All the
other choices do not make sense or are not backed by specific
examples from the text.
456.
a.
As used inPassage 1, line 26, the verb 
repair
most closely means
take themselves, or more simply, go
.
Today, repair is most com-
monly used as a verb that means to fix something (choice 
b
).
However, in the context of the sentence, this makes no sense.
The easiest way to answer this question is to replace 
repair
in
the sentence with each the answer choices, and see which one
fits best in context. By doing this you should narrow down your
choice to just one: choice