pretext:
Sentence : To add insult to injury, a boy was leading a handsome sheep on a string behind him.
Hint : To add insult to injury means to make a bad situation worse, and in this sentence the boy leading the sheep makes the situation worse.

options: To make things worse, a boy was leading a handsome sheep on a string behind him.

options: In order to make things a lot better, a boy was leading a handsome sheep on a string behind him.

correct answer: To make things worse, a boy was leading a handsome sheep on a string behind him.


pretext:
Sentence : Oh, you know how it is, mother, when you spend the night having sex with an old flame in public, you just glow a little bit more than usual.
Hint : An old flame is a former lover, so spending the night with a former lover would make sense and cause one to glow.

options: Oh, you know how it is, mother, when you spend the night having sex with a former lover in public, you just glow a little bit more than usual.

options: Oh, you know how it is, mother, when you spend the night having sex with an absolute stranger in public, you just glow a little bit more than usual.

correct answer: Oh, you know how it is, mother, when you spend the night having sex with a former lover in public, you just glow a little bit more than usual.


pretext:
Sentence : Definitely a good person, but one could tell she believes in the flower power, power of the people and all that jazz from kilometers away.
Hint : And all that jazz means and everything else, so in this sentence it is saying that she believes in flower power and power of the people among other things.

options: Definitely a good person, but one could tell she believes in the flower power, power of the people and a lot of other things as well from kilometers away.

options: Definitely a good person, but one could tell she believes in the flower power, power of the people and nothing else.

correct answer: Definitely a good person, but one could tell she believes in the flower power, power of the people and a lot of other things as well from kilometers away.


pretext:
Sentence : To ask what's it like to be a warden in d.c., Hunting down the bad guys and bringing them to justice and all that jazz.
Hint : And all that jazz means and everything else, so in this sentence it is referring to everything else that is related to being a warden in D.C.

options: To ask what's it like to be a warden in d.c., Hunting down the bad guys and bringing them to justice and nothing else that is related.

options: To ask what's it like to be a warden in d.c., Hunting down the bad guys and bringing them to justice as well as everything else that is related.

correct answer: To ask what's it like to be a warden in d.c., Hunting down the bad guys and bringing them to justice as well as everything else that is related.


pretext:
Sentence : He would smash into it at full tilt.
Hint : To be at full tilt means to be going as fast as possible, so he would smash into it as fast as he could.

options: He would smash into it as fast as he could.

options: He would smash into it as slowly as he could.

correct answer: He would smash into it as fast as he could.