British scientists James Watson and the text so that it conforms to the

Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in conventions of Standard English?

part for their 1953 paper announcing A. musicians introduced audiences
the double helix structure of DNA, but B. musicians’ introduced
it is misleading to say that Watson and audiences’
Crick discovered the double helix. C. musician’s introduced
______ findings were based on a audience’s
famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, D. musicians’ introduced
“Photo 51,” developed by X-ray audiences
crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and
her graduate student Raymond Smaller than poppy seeds,
Gosling. Which choice completes the tardigrades are tiny, but they are
text so that it conforms to the tough. These minuscule animals
conventions of Standard English? can survive for thirty years without
food or water, and ______ can
A. They’re
withstand extreme temperatures
B. It’s
as low as minus 328 degrees and
C. Their
as high as 304 degrees
D. Its
Fahrenheit. Which choice
When they were first discovered in
completes the text so that it
Australia in 1798, duck-billed,
conforms to the conventions of
beaver-tailed platypuses so defied
Standard English?
categorization that one scientist
A. that
assigned them the name
B. it
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus:
C. they
“paradoxical bird-snout.” The
D. he
animal, which lays eggs but also
nurses ______ young with milk, Cheng Dang and her colleagues at
has since been classified as the University of Washington recently
belonging to the monotremes ran simulations to determine the
group. Which choice completes extent to which individual snow
the text so that it conforms to the ______ affect the amount of light
conventions of Standard English? reflecting off a snowy surface. Which
choice completes the text so that it
A. they’re conforms to the conventions of
B. their Standard English?
C. its
A. grain’s physical properties’
D. it’s
In the early twentieth century, B. grains’ physical properties
Joseph Kekuku and other
Hawaiian ______ in the mainland C. grains’ physical property’s
United States to the bright and D. grains physical properties
lilting sound of the kīkā kila, or
Hawaiian steel guitar. The
instrument soon became a fixture
in American blues and country
music. Which choice completes
In his groundbreaking book Bengali conforms to the conventions of
Harlem and the Lost Histories of Standard English?
South Asian America, Vivek Bald uses
A. playas sediment mark the rock’s
newspaper articles, census records,
ships’ logs, and memoirs to tell the B. playa’s sediment mark the rocks
______ who made New York City
their home in the early twentieth C. playa’s sediment mark the rocks’
century. Which choice completes the D. playas’ sediment mark the rocks’
text so that it conforms to the The human brain is primed to
conventions of Standard English? recognize faces—so much so that,
A. story’s of the South Asian due to a perceptual tendency called
immigrants pareidolia, ______ will even find faces
in clouds, wooden doors, pieces of
B. story’s of the South Asian fruit, and other faceless inanimate
immigrants’ objects. Researcher Susan
Magsamen has focused her work on
C. stories of the South Asian
better understanding this everyday
immigrants
phenomenon. Which choice
D. stories’ of the South Asian completes the text so that it conforms
immigrant’s to the conventions of Standard
English?
Earth is not a perfect sphere. Due to
the ______ gravitational pull, Earth A. she
bulges out on the sides closest to and
B. they
farthest from the Moon. This distorting
pull is known as a tidal force, and it is C. it
responsible for the changes in water
levels that are called high and low D. those
tides. Which choice completes the text Official measurements of the
so that it conforms to the conventions Mississippi River’s length vary:
of Standard English? according to the US Geologic Survey,
A. Moon’s the river is 2,300 miles long, whereas
the Environmental Protection Agency
B. Moons records its length as 2,320 miles. This
disparity can be explained in part by
C. Moons’
the fact that rivers such as the
D. Moon Mississippi expand and contract as
______ sediment.
In Death Valley National Park’s
Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, A. they accumulate
are 162 rocks—some weighing less
B. one accumulates
than a pound but others almost 700
pounds—that move periodically from C. it accumulates
place to place, seemingly of their own
volition. Racetrack-like trails in the D. we accumulate
______ mysterious migration. Which
choice completes the text so that it
Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut to the conventions of Standard
novel The Poet X, winner of the 2018 English?
National Book Award for Young
A. it
People’s Literature, is composed of
______ protagonist, fifteen-year-old B. themselves
Xiomara Batista. Which choice
completes the text so that it conforms C. them
to the conventions of Standard D. itself
English?
In 1930, Japanese American artist
A. poems putatively written by the Chiura Obata depicted the natural
novel’s beauty of Yosemite National Park in
B. poem’s putatively written by the two memorable woodcuts: Evening at
novel’s Carl Inn and Lake Basin in the High
Sierra. In 2019, ______ exhibited
C. poem’s putatively written by the alongside 150 of Obata’s other works
novels’ in a single-artist show at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
D. poems putatively written by the
Which choice completes the text so
novels’
that it conforms to the conventions of
American poet Emily Dickinson wrote Standard English?
many of her poems on scraps of
A. it was
paper, but she also took steps to
collect these works. From 1858 to B. they were
around 1864, for example, she copied
more than 800 of ______ into forty C. this was
homemade booklets (known as D. some were
fascicles). Which choice completes
the text so that it conforms to the Inventor John Friedman created a
conventions of Standard English? prototype of the first flexible straw by
inserting a screw into a paper straw
A. them and, using dental floss, binding the
B. this straw tightly around the ______ When
the floss and screw were removed,
C. that the resulting corrugations in the paper
allowed the straw to bend easily over
D. it
the edge of a glass.
Scientists believe that, unlike most
A. screw’s thread’s.
other species of barnacle, turtle
barnacles (Chelonibia testudinari) can B. screws’ threads.
dissolve the cement-like secretions
they use to attach ______ to a sea C. screw’s threads.
turtle shell, enabling the barnacles to D. screws threads’.
move short distances across the
shell’s surface. Which choice
completes the text so that it conforms
Photographer Ansel Adams’s completes the text so that it conforms
landscape portraits are iconic pieces to the conventions of Standard
of American art. However, many of English?
the ______ of landscapes were
A. this
intended not as art but as marketing;
a concessions company at Yosemite B. that
National Park had hired Adams to
take pictures of the park for restaurant C. these
menus and brochures. Which choice D. it
completes the text so that it conforms
to the conventions of Standard The violins handmade in the
English? seventeeth century by Italian
craftsman Antonio Stradivari have
A. photographer’s early photo’s been celebrated as some of the finest
B. photographers early photo’s in the world. In close collaboration
with musicians, Stradivari introduced
C. photographer’s early photos changes to the shape of a traditional
violin, flattening some of the
D. photographers early photos
instrument’s curves and making
Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long ______ lighter overall. Which choice
Soldier’s star quilt poems offer an completes the text so that it conforms
unusually open-ended reading to the conventions of Standard
experience. With ______ eight panels English?
of text stitched together in the shape
A. those
of a traditional eight-pointed Lakota
star quilt, the poems present viewers B. one
with a seemingly infinite number of
ways to read them. Which choice C. them
completes the text so that it conforms D. it
to the conventions of Standard
English? With its towering, six-spired exterior of
granitelike quartz monzonite, the Salt
A. their Lake Temple is one of the most
B. it’s instantly recognizable structures in the
state of Utah. However, many people
C. they’re do not know that ______ built over the
course of forty years, with
D. its
construction beginning in 1853 and
If you try on one of artist Nick Cave’s ending in 1893.
signature Soundsuits, you can expect
A. it was
to swish, rustle, or clang every time
you move. Cave makes his suits out B. one was
of found objects, everything from
ceramic birds to broken record C. they were
players. He carefully considers the D. both were
sound an object makes before using
______ in a suit. Which choice