num question answer choices
I n the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the ) widespread
A
first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in B) careful
the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken C) unintended
Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus D) infrequent
quickly achieved _______ use: by 1830, over
90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.
hen Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria
W ) acknowledged
A
Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper on B) ensured
sculptures found at the ancient Indigenous city of Teotihuacan C) denied
in present-day Mexico, other researchers readily _______ her D) underestimated
work as ground- breaking; this recognition stemmed from her
convincing demonstration that the sculptures were much older
than had previously been thought.
I t did seem that the picture failed to fit in with the rest of the ) To reveal the shop owner’s conflicted
A
shop. A persuasive young fellow who claimed he was closing feelings about the new picture
out his stock let the old man have it for what he called a song. B) To convey the shop owner’s
It was only a little out-of-the-way store which subsisted resentment of the person he got the new
chiefly on the framing of pictures. The old man looked around picture from
at his views of the city, his pictures of cats and dogs, his C) To describe the items that the shop
flaming bits of landscape. “Don’t belong in here,” he fumed. owner most highly prizes
And yet the old man was secretly proud of his acquisition. D) To explain differences between the
There was a hidden dignity in his scowling as he shuffled new picture and other pictures in the
about pondering the least ridiculous place for the picture. shop
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
he following text is adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
T ) Mary hides in the garden to avoid
A
1911 novel The Secret Garden. Mary, a young girl, recently doing her chores.
found an overgrown hidden garden: B) Mary is getting bored with pulling up
Mary was an odd, determined little person, so many weeds in the garden.
and now she had something interesting to be determined C) Mary is clearing out the garden to
about, she was very much absorbed, indeed. She worked and create a space to play.
dug and pulled up weeds steadily, only becoming more D) Mary feels very satisfied when she’s
pleased with her work every hour instead of tiring of it. It taking care of the garden.
seemed to her like a fascinating sort of play.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
1 I n 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after ) Henry resumed his reign,
A
falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, B) the reign of Henry resumed,
Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English C) Henry’s reign resumed,
throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon recovering two years D) it was Henry who resumed his reign,
later, _______ forcing an angered Richard from the royal court
and precipitating a series of battles later known as the Wars of
the Roses.
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W
conventions of Standard English?
2 espite being cheap, versatile, and easy to produce, _______ A
D ) there are two problems associated
they are made from nonrenewable petroleum, and most do not with commercial plastics:
biodegrade in landfills. B) two problems are associated with
commercial plastics:
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the C) commercial plastics’ two associated
conventions of Standard English? problems are that
D) commercial plastics have two
associated problems:
3 I n assessing the films of Japanese director ) many critics have focused on
A
Akira Kurosawa, ______ have missed his equally deep Kurosawa’s use of Western literary
engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh sources but
theater. B) Kurosawa’s use of Western literary
sources has been the focus of many
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W critics, who
conventions of Standard English? C) there are many critics who have
focused on Kurosawa’s use of Western
literary sources, but they
D) the focus of many critics has been on
Kurosawa’s use of Western literary
sources; they
4 ased on genetic evidence, archaeologists have generally
B ) researcher Robert Losey has argued
A
agreed that reindeer domestication began in the eleventh that domestication
century CE. However, since uncovering fragments of a B) researcher Robert Losey’s argument
2,000-year-old reindeer training harness in northern Siberia, is that domestication
______ may have begun much earlier. C) domestication, researcher Robert
Losey has argued,
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W D) the argument researcher Robert Losey
conventions of Standard English? has made is that domestication
5 frican American Percy Julian was a scientist and
A ) Julian synthesized the alkaloid
A
entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to physostigmine in 1935; it
see. Named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a B) in 1935 Julian synthesized the
US chemist in the past hundred years, _______ led to the first alkaloid physostigmine, which
mass-produced treatment for glaucoma. C) Julian’s 1935 synthesis of the alkaloid
physostigmine
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W ) the alkaloid physostigmine was
D
conventions of Standard English? synthesized by Julian in 1935 and
6 I n 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of ) the mitigation of both street flooding
A
164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and and the resulting pollution of nearby
divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By waterways has been achieved by
reducing the runoff flowing into city sewers, _______ bioswales.
B) the bioswales have mitigated both
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W street flooding and the resulting
conventions of Standard English? pollution of nearby waterways.
C) the bioswales’ mitigation of both
street flooding and the resulting
pollution of nearby waterways has been
achieved.
D) both street flooding and the resulting
pollution of nearby waterways have been
mitigated by bioswales.
7 ne of the few African American global explorers during the
O ) Matthew Henson made several treks
A
turn of the 20th century, _______ across Greenland between 1891 and
1909.
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W B) 1891 and 1909 were the years
conventions of Standard English? between which Matthew Henson made
several treks across Greenland.
C) Greenland was where Matthew
Henson made several treks between
1891 and 1909.
D) several treks across Greenland were
made by Matthew Henson between 1891
and 1909.
8 oven from recycled yarn and hand tufted using a carpet
W ) the topological tapestries of
A
weaving technique passed down by the artist’s Turkish Argentine textile artist Alexandra
grandmother, _______ so lush and tactilely inviting that you Kehayoglou are
are tempted to reach out and touch them. B) the Argentine textile artist Alexandra
Kehayoglou creates topological
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W tapestries that are
conventions of Standard English? C) when she creates her topological
tapestries, Argentine textile artist
Alexandra Kehayoglou makes them
D) Alexandra Kehayoglou is an
Argentine textile artist whose topological
tapestries are
9 ompared to that of alumina glass, _______ silica glass atoms A
C ) silica glass is at a significant
are so far apart that they are unable to re-form bonds after disadvantage due to its more dispersed
being separated. atomic arrangement:
B) silica glass has a more dispersed
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the atomic
conventions of Standard English? arrangement, resulting in a significant
disadvantage:
C) a significant disadvantage of silica
glass is that its atomic arrangement is
more dispersed:
D) silica glass atomic arrangement is
more dispersed, resulting in a significant
disadvantage:
10 ased on genetic evidence, archaeologists have generally
B ) researcher Robert Losey has argued
A
agreed that reindeer domestication began in the eleventh that domestication
century CE. However, since uncovering fragments of a B) researcher Robert Losey’s argument
2,000-year-old reindeer training harness in northern Siberia, is that domestication
_______ may have begun much earlier. C) domestication, researcher Robert
Losey has argued,
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W D) the argument researcher Robert Losey
conventions of Standard English? has mad is that domestication
11 frican American Percy Julian was a scientist and
A ) Julian synthesized the alkaloid
A
entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to physostigmine in 1935; it
see. Named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a B) in 1935 Julian synthesized the
US chemist in the past hundred alkaloid physostigmine, which
years, _______ led to the first mass-produced treatment for C) Julian's 1935 synthesis of the alkaloid
glaucoma. Plysosugnine
D) the alkaloid physostigmine was
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
W synthesized by Julian in 1935 and
conventions of Standard English?
