Question 33 - Reading and Writing Practice Test for the PSAT/NMSQT Exam

Which verb or verb phrase best completes the sentence in the passage provided?

Although images from the celebration at Promontory Point ____ the Transcontinental Railroad was built by mostly white workers, it was largely the Chinese labor that constructed this feat of transportation. E.B. Crocker, a wealthy merchant in Sacramento, hired Chinese workers because of their expertise in gunpowder technology that helped blast through some of the mountain passes in record time.

Hint

Be alert for words like better, best, more, most/mostly, main/mainly, major/majority, higher/highest, greater/greatest, biggest, largest, strongest, preferred, ideal/ideally, closest, special, especially critical, crucial, predominantly, definitely, largely, key, and primary/primarily in questions. They indicate that there might be other answers that could work, but the correct answer is the one that is the best of the choices given.

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