Explanation

The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer breeze stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open window the sweet murmur of the fountain, or the more subtle music of the bees as they moved from flower to flower. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-colored blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence around the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a_____organ 

The word that would most accurately fit the blank at the end of the passage is:

(A) Peeling

(B) Jarring

(C) intimate

(D) distant

What is the dominant sensory experience in the passage?

(A) Visual

(B) Auditory

(C) Olfactory

(D) Tactile

What is the effect of the "momentary Japanese effect" created by the shadows of birds in flight?

(A) It adds to the sense of stillness and calm

(B) It creates a sense of movement and energy

(C) It emphasizes the beauty of nature

(D) It highlights the artificiality of the scene

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

(A) the city's beauty and music

(B) the city's noise and chaos

(C) a sense of distance and removal

(D) the city's power and dominance

85. The underlined word, as used in this passage, most nearly means:

(A) Trembling

(B) torpid

(C) wavering

(D) infirm