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Reading and Writing
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includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage and question
carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s). All questions in this
section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a single best answer.
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hile most animals are incapable of passing somatic
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mutations—genetic alterations that arise in an quantum physics—the study of extremely small
organism’s nonreproductive cells—onto their offspring,
elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) presents an
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bewildering array of paradoxes. For example, from a
intriguing ______: in a 2022 study, researchers found quantum ________ light can act as both a particle and a
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that elkhorn coral produced offspring that inherited wave, while a cat inside a box can be both alive and
somatic mutations from a parent. dead. Of course, when posed against everyday
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experiences of reality, these situations can seem
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and precise word or phrase? such possibilities ever occur to most people?
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C) affinity and precise word or phrase?
D) anomaly A) prospective
B) prospectus
C) spectacle
D) perspective
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o bring their exhibitions and scholarly publications to
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life, museums rely on the seasoned professionals immune response to a particular particle in the air,
known as curators. A curator, more or less, is to a called an allergen. When an allergy sufferer ________
museum showcase what a director is to a movie. an allergen, the nose and airways overreact: delicate
Curators are responsible for the _______ decisions respiratory tissues become inflamed, and the nose
involving theme, focus, and presentation, but must may feel stuffed or drippy. Itchy and watery eyes are
necessarily rely on others for the fine details. also common allergy symptoms that are not usually
seen with the cold or flu.
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A) momentary and precise word or phrase?
B) momentous A) imbibes
C) exaggerated B) inhales
D) extreme C) ingests
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It’s important to select your medication carefully BI Director James Comey _________ the situation in a
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according to your condition. Specialized prescription speech to the Senate Committee on Homeland
treatments are available for flu and allergy sufferers, Security and Governmental Affairs on November 14,
but over-the-counter medications can be effective for 2013. He said that FBI experts “anticipate that in the
mild cases. Dr. Haunguel also suggests selecting future, resources devoted to cyber-based-threats will
medicines with only the active ingredients ________ to equal or even eclipse the resources devoted to
your condition. One popular medication contains a non-cyber-based terrorist threats.”
pain reliever, a fever reducer, an antihistamine, and a
decongestant. Such a product would overmedicate an hich choice completes the text with the most logical
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allergy attack that typically requires only an and precise word or phrase?
antihistamine for relief. A) encapsulated
B) enveloped
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hanks to technological advances, we can better
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understand aspects of the world that cannot Theodore W.Pietsch and Tracey T.Sutton argued that
effectively be inspected by thenakedeye: atoms, the newly-found anglerfish is “not especially similar to
molecules, microbes, and - believe it or not - certain any of the five previously described members of the
species of birds. Consider the peregrine falcon, which genus” Lasiognathus, which encompasses the
is regarded by many as the world’s fastest flier. An earlier-known anglerfish. It is perhaps too early to say
adult peregrine falcon can reach speeds of up to 220 what effect the revelation of the new Ceratioid
miles per hour: ornithologists are well aware of this Anglerfish will have on existing classifications - if any.
stunning figure, but how, exactly, does it feel to move But even though the new species is an anomaly
at more than five times the speed limit on many among anglerfish, it exhibits traits that are familiar
roadways? This is one of the questions that was from land-based organisms. One such trait is a
addressed by researchers Suzanne Amador Kane and pronounced disparity on size and development based
Marjon Zamani, who used portable video cameras to on sex, or a “sexual dimorphism,” that favors females.
capture a falcon’s-eye view of the world. While animals as different as birds of prey and praying
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mantises exhibit such a gender-determined biological
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likely mean? found among the new anglerfish and some related
A) Blatant species is particularly extreme: in this case, females
B) Unembellished
C) Unaided
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lures, while males have so far only been found as
D) Vulnerable parasites attached to the females’ bodies. (At first,
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Inuit lore holds that the Greenland shark can destroy
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human flesh with its skin and can live for centuries, A) Provide a humorous interlude about the
and it turns out this piece of folklore holds an appearance of anglerfish in a predominantly
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astounding level of scientific accuracy. Although the serious passage.
Greenland shark’s skin isn’t destructive to the touch, B) Suggest a potential explanation for the
the legend that Greenland sharks outlive humans four disparity between male and female anglerfish
or five-fold is entirely true. Proving that scientifically, discoveries.
however, has turned out to be adauntingtask for C) Highlight the intensity of the effects of sexual
scientists. Choose the option that best answers the dimorphism among the new anglerfish.
question. D) Give helpful advice to aspiring deep sea
scientists on finding and identifying male
s used in the text, what does the word “daunting”
A anglerfish.
most nearly mean?
A) Frightening
B) Difficult
C) Depressing
D) Demoralizing
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his text is adapted from Edward Ditkoff, MD, “Setting
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Your Biological Clock by Oocyte Cryopreservation.” occurred in recent times. For example, two major
©2014 by Edward Ditkoff and CNY Fertility. volcanic eruptions in 1982 and in 1991, pumped sulfur
Today, couples are marrying much later than they dioxide gas high into the atmosphere, creating tiny
did in previous generations and are starting particles that lingered for more than a year. These
families later still. With careers, homes, and lives reflected sunlight and shaded Earth’s surface, and
comfortably in place, however, these couples are temperatures across the globe dipped for about three
facing a new problem of modern family planning. years. However, although volcanoes are active around
Forty may be the new thirty, but not when it comes the world, the amount of carbon dioxide they release
to having babies! is extremely small compared to that released by
human activities. On average, volcanoes emit between
hich choice best states the main purpose of the
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A) To propose a solution to a problem billion tons of carbon dioxide every year. In other
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B) To describe a sociological phenomenon words, human influence on the climate is 100-200
C) Identify a common misconception times the effect of all the world’s volcanoes.
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D) Advance a new medical theory
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A) Current climatic computer models are
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change for much longer than humans have.
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or decades, scientists presumed that the Greenland
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shark was long-lived, due its large size and slow by María Cristina Mena. In the story, the narrator
metabolism. To quote American marine biologist presents John as being a hard worker who is fully
Peter Bushnell, "I suppose if I had to pin my thoughts dedicated to his job as water carrier, or aguador:
on the single species of shark that would live the ______
longest, intuitively, the Greenland shark would be right
up there at the top.” But earnest attempts to verify the
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ages of individual specimens did not occur until 2016,
most effectively illustrates the claim?
when Bushnell, with a group of Danish biologists, A) “Very happy, he would jog home, the heavy
embarked on a mission to the Arctic to procure silver pieces in his leather pockets making a
Greenland sharks and determine their true longevity. discreet and dulcet ‘trink-trak’ between his
jugs and his body.”
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A) Various features of the shark cause it to live blow his whistle to halt the traffic while he
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for a long time. gravely crosses the street, but must wait for
B) The Greenland shark had fascinated scientists the passing of many vehicles, some with
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for quite some time. horses and some outlandishly without.”
C) Researchers were unable to study the shark C) “From early morning to the fall of the
until 2016.
D) Scientists long supposed that the Greenland
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fountain and from portal to portal, his lean
shark lived a long time, but had no proof. body so accustomed to bending that he never
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thought of straightening it, his head bowed as
if in prayer.”
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perforated in time—he had buried them to
their necks in the corner where he slept, and
they were now his treasury.”
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number of recent developments have facilitated the growth of the African economy. The expansion of
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technology _______________ has made business development possible. At the same time, as Africa becomes
increasingly urbanized, the concentration of population in urban centers makes it easier for businesses to
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thrive. Demographics also play a role: Africa’s youthful and growing population may one day serve as the
foundation of a strong workforce, and encourage investment in the region, particularly as population growth
slows in regions such as Asia and Latin America. St
Which choice most effectively uses the data from the graph to complete the text?
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A) (in 2011, the continent boasted 600 million mobile phone subscribers)
B) (before 2013, few Africans were interested in buying electronic devices)
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C) (even though foreign companies are now unwilling to set up stores in African communities)
D) (by 2017, the number of mobile phone subscribers in Africa is expected to reach more than 1.1 billion)
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student is examining a long, challenging poem
A hoctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson turns
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that was initially published in a quarterly journal punching bags used by boxers into art by decorating
without explanatory notes, then later republished in them with beadwork and elements of Native
a stand-alone volume containing only that poem dressmaking. These elements include leather fringe
and accompanying explanatory notes written by the and jingles, the metal cones that cover the dresses
poet. The student asserts that the explanatory worn in the jingle dance, a women’s dance of the
notes were included in the republication primarily Ojibwe people. Thus, Gibson combines an object
as a marketing device to help sell the stand-alone commonly associated with masculinity (a punching
volume. bag) with art forms traditionally practiced by women
in most Native communities (beadwork and
hich statement, if true, would most directly support
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the student’s claim? male and female gender roles.
A) The text of the poem as published in the
quarterly journal is not identical to the text of hich choice best describes Gibson’s approach to art,
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the poem published in the stand-alone as presented in the text?
volume. ) He draws from traditional Native art forms to
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B) Many critics believe that the poet’s create his original works.
explanatory notes remove certain ambiguities B) He finds inspiration from boxing in designing
result.
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C) He rejects expectations about color and
C) The publishers of the stand-alone volume pattern when incorporating beadwork.
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requested the explanatory notes from the poet D) He has been influenced by Native and
in order to make the book attractive to readers non-Native artists equally.
who already had a copy of the poem in a
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publisher reveals that the poet’s explanatory
notes went through several drafts.
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In a recent study, researchers grew rice in chambers hen Isaac Newton published the Principia in 1687,
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with varying levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) to simulate his laws of motion solved numerous problems in
different atmospheric conditions. They found that as physics; however, they also introduced a new
CO2 levels increased, the nutritional content of the conundrum, which was not fully grasped until
rice changed. Specifically, the rice contained less centuries after Newton and which still poses a
protein, iron, and zinc, but contained more problem for cosmologists today.
carbohydrates. One potential explanation for these Essentially, Newton's laws work about twice as well as
findings is that, since CO2 is an important input to they are intended: they describe the everyday world
photosynthesis, the elevated carbon dioxide levels that people move through, but they also account
could be spurring the plants to photosynthesize more perfectly well for a world in which people walk
rapidly. This in turn could lead to increased backwards, clocks tick from evening to morning, and
carbohydrate production at the expense of other _________
nutrients like protein, iron, and zinc.
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A) Rice plants consumed carbon dioxide at B) planets that are in motion remain in motion.
nearly identical rates, regardless of variations C) apples rise from the ground to the branches of
in atmospheric CO2 levels.
B) Protein production suffered more in high-CO2
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D) particles of different weights move at varying
conditions than zinc production did. speeds.
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C) Rice plants grew more quickly overall in
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plateaued as atmospheric CO2 levels
increased.
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ff-off-Broadway theaters emerged in the late 1950s
O ven though 8:40 am is probably still too early for high
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as a rebellion against mainstream Broadway theaters school students to function at their best, data indicate
in New York, freeing artists to create productions that that the results of the change were promising. After
were more experimental than typical Broadway shows. becoming aware that teens might benefit from later
One such artist was playwright María Irene Fornés. school start times, the Minneapolis school district
Working with off-off Broadway theaters enabled performed an ___________ the temporary adoption of a
Fornés not only to direct her own plays but also to later start time for its schools: 8:40 am instead of the
direct them exactly as she intended them to be traditional 7:15 am. In a study of 50,000 Minneapolis
staged, regardless of how strange the results might students, student achievement and satisfaction rose
have seemed to audiences accustomed to Broadway with the later start time, and most parents reported
shows. In this way, Fornés ______ that their teens were “easier to live with.” It is thus not
surprising that approximately 90% of the Minneapolis
Which choice most logically completes the text? parents surveyed were in favor of the later start time.
A) illustrates the artistic opportunity offered by
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B) recognized that staging an off-off-Broadway to the conventions of Standard English?
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play was more complicated than staging a A) experiment involving
Broadway play. B) experiment; involving
C) wrote plays that would have been too
expensive to produce if someone else had
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D) would have been more famous if she had
created plays that were mainstream instead
of experimental. hirty years after the death of Shakespeare, the
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performance of plays was ______ by order of British
head of state Oliver Cromwell. This ban was not lifted
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until the return of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, when a
new, very different brand of theater was instituted. The
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recently-returned king, the “Merry Monarch” Charles II,
had enjoyed years of revelry in the more frivolous
France and was ready to give encouragement to all the
delights of the new theaters. Many of the new plays
presented were comedies, and comedies moreover
that derived their humor from mocking the manners
and foibles of their fashionable audiences.
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to the conventions of Standard English?
A) forbid
B) forbidding
C) forbidden
D) being forbid
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he fields of home decoration and architectural
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design ________ inspiration from forms found in the habitat, one that is scarcer globally than tropical
natural world. But what happens when designers rainforest. According to ecologists, a “rainforest” is
directly incorporate the natural world, instead of defined as land that receives more than 55 inches of
simply imitating or approximating the shapes of trees, precipitation each year, with rain spread across
fungi, and other organic material? In some respects, summer and winter months. Temperate rainforest is
this question has been answered by Phil Ross, the cool but not ______ temperatures average 60 degrees
founder of MycoWorks and a pioneer in or lower.
mushroom-based home decoration.
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
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hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
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to the conventions of Standard English? A) cold in July
A) has often taken B) cold. In July,
B) have often taken C) cold, in July
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lbert Einstein, in his work The Meaning of Relativity,
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explains that what we individually experience is she was sent to France. Surrounded by the indulgence
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arranged in a series of events. In this series, the single and intrigue of the French court, the naive yet artistic
moments that we remember are arranged as teenage girl found her new life exotic and thrilling. At
happening either “earlier” or “later,” two time just sixteen, she was joined in marriage to a young
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signatures which we cannot break down _________ man named Francis, who became King of France the
words do not have concrete, universal definitions. following year.
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to the conventions of Standard English? to the conventions of Standard English?
A) further, these A) Mary’s father James V of Scotland died when
B) further, and because these Mary became a queen six days later.
C) further, but because these B) it was six days later when Mary’s father,
D) further because these James V of Scotland, died and Mary became
a queen
C) James V of Scotland, Mary’s father, died six
days later when Mary became a queen.
D) Mary became a queen six days later when her
father, James V of Scotland, died.
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yber security serves a growing need, and the field is
C hile researching a topic, a student has taken the
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so new and dynamic that it provides many following notes:
opportunities for entrepreneurs. Governments, ● Gumbo is a heavily seasoned vegetable stew
corporations, and individuals must protect their that sometimes includes meat and shellfish.
computers, networks, programs, and data so that they ● Its name comes from a West African word for
cannot be accessed, stolen, or destroyed by okra, even though that vegetable is not always
unauthorized users. The idea is simple, but the reality used.
is not. Without physical doors and locks to protect, ● Shrimp and crawfish were introduced by
armed guards cannot be used to monitor access in members of the Choctaw tribe.
any conventional way. How can anyone guard the ● Gumbo was most likely invented in the 1700s;
Cloud? This new kind of security requires a great deal the first written references to it appeared in
of technical expertise and diligence. It also requires the 19th century.
the ability to be ________________ ● Spanish, Caribbean and German dishes have
also influenced gumbo.
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to the conventions of Standard English? gumbo. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
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A) as clever, if not more so, than a criminal. information from the notes to achieve this goal?
B) as clever, if not more, than a criminal does. A) Named after a West African word for okra,
C) as clever as a criminal, if not more so.
D) as clever, if not more clever than a criminal.
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Caribbean, German, and Native American
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D) Some versions of gumbo contain meat and
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vegetables.
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Reading and Writing
27 QUESTIONS
DIRECTIONS
he questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each question
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includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage andquestion
carefully,andthenchoosethebestanswertothequestionbasedonthepassage(s).Allquestionsinthis
section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a single best answer
In the early 20th century, Constantin Brancusi's oss and his team have also unveiled a group of
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these creations were “inspired by the fashion designer
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about the definition of art. Tax authorities argued in
court that the abstract sculpture, which featured a Alexander McQueen” and _______ textured, gold-tinted
long, sleek form without any identifiable features, mycelium with elegant touches (such as smooth chair
should not be classified as art. Brancusi ultimately
won the case, but the legal battle highlighted the
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envied.
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object". hich choice completes the text with the most logical
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and precise word or phrase?
A) collaborate
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A) rigid C) confuse
B) unanimous D) combine
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C) tenuous
D) straightforward
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“ Early to bed, early to rise” has been a mantra for hen, in the 1800s, geologists first realized that much
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many generations. However, it may not be accurate for of Earth had once been covered by great sheets of ice,
high school students. Humans have circadian some theorized that the phenomenon was cyclical,
rhythms, more commonly known as biological clocks, occurring at regular intervals. Each Ice Age is so
which dictate when we would naturally be awake and destructive, though, that it largely erases the
asleep, as well as when we are most alert. When those geological evidence of its predecessor. ______
rhythms are __________ students feel more tired, do not geologists were unable to confirm the theory of
learn as effectively, and suffer from increased cyclical Ice Ages until the 1960s.
susceptibility to emotional problems, particularly
depression. hich choice completes the text with the most logical
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transition?
hich choice completes the text with the most logical
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and precise word or phrase? B) Moreover,
A) disputed C) Nevertheless,
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Initially, lead researcher John Steffensen had hoped he following text is from Frances E.W. Harper’s 1888
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that he could easily date Greenland sharks using a novelTrial and Triumph.
method that often worked with other long-lived, large In her white apron, faultless neck handkerchief
vertebrates: counting the rings in a cross-section of and nicely fitting, but plain dress, Mrs. Harcourt
bone. Steffensen was stymied, though, when he cut looked the impersonation of contented happiness.
through a section of backbone from a recently killed Sorrow had left deep furrows upon her kindly face,
Greenland shark. As it turned out, the shark’s but for a while the shadows seemed to have been
cartilaginous skeleton was simply not bone-like lifted from her life and she was the pleasant
enough to havedistinct, countable rings that are found hostess, forgetting her own sorrows in
in the remnants of true bones. Disappointed but contributing to the enjoyment of others.
determined, Steffensen and his team got their first
toehold in accurately measuring the age of their Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
subjects from an unlikely source indeed: island and A) Mrs. Harcourt has permanently forgotten her
sea nuclear bomb tests from some 60 years prior, earlier problems.
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during the global nuclear arms race of the 1950s. B
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past events.
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As used in the text, what does the word “distinct” most C) Mrs. Harcourt is an appealing hostess despite
nearly mean? her sad life.
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cientists interested in extreme organisms have had
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banner years between 2014 and 2015, years that American continents, but the free and independent
featured both giant squid sightings (which are conditions which they have assumed and maintained,
previously rare occurrences) and the discovery of are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for
several new and unusual underwater species. Among future colonization by any European powers.
the absolute most unusual of these is a new species
of the Ceratioid Anglerfish, which researchers from ext 2
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Florida’s Nova Southeastern University discovered We would interfere with them only in the last resort,
during a deep-sea excursion in the Gulf of Mexico. The and then only if it became evident that their inability or
researchers caught three of these fish, all female, in a unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had
region of the ocean known as the “Midnight Zone”: no violated the rights of the United States or had invited
natural sunlight can penetrate to this region, which foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body
begins at just over 3000 feet under the ocean, making of American nations. It is a mere truism to say that
the water pitch black and plant growth nonexistent. every nation, whether in America or anywhere else,
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Carnivorous anglerfish thrive in these reaches of the which desires to maintain its freedom, its
ocean, using the “angling” appendages that sprout independence, must ultimately realize that the right of
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from their backs to lure their prey. such independence can not be separated from the
responsibility of making good use of it.
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sea to a description of a highly researched A) The United States must remain neutral in
region where squid and fish have been found. disagreements between European powers and
B) A reiteration of the author’s main argument their colonies.
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about deep sea creatures to a list of B) The political systems of all European
supporting points that will be explained later countries must remain essentially different
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in the passage. from those in the American continents.
C) An outline of the recent progress made by C) The European colonies on the American
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scientists in the deep sea to a more detailed continents must be allowed to resolve
characterization of a particular discovery. conflicts on their own.
D) A scientific depiction of an abrasive and D) European nations must not attempt to control
barren habitat to a more subjective musing any part of the American continents.
about the organisms that survive in this
setting.
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originally published in 1749. In this story, Mrs. 1926 poem “Thoughts in a Zoo.”
Deborah Wilkins is Mr. Allworthy’s longtime servant. They in their cruel traps, and we in ours,
There were some strokes in this speech which Survey each other’s rage, and pass the hours
perhaps would have offended Mr. Allworthy, had Commiserating each the other’s woe,
he strictly attended to it; but he had now got one To mitigate his own pain’s fiery glow.
of his fingers into the infant’s hand, which, by its Man could but little proffer in exchange
gentle pressure, seeming to implore his Save that his cages have a larger range.
assistance, had certainly put-pleaded the That lion with his lordly, untamed heart
eloquence of Mrs. Deborah, had it been ten times Has in some man his human counterpart,
greater than it was. He now gave Mrs. Deborah Some lofty soul in dreams and visions wrapped,
positive orders to take the child to her own bed, But in the stifling flesh securely trapped.
and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and
other things, against it waked. Such was the ased on the text, what challenge do humans
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discernment of Mrs. Wilkins, and such the respect sometimes experience?
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most excellent place, that her scruples gave way animals because of a lack of compassion.
to his peremptory commands; and she took the B) They have aspirations that cannot be fulfilled
child under her arms, without any apparent St because of certain limitations.
disgust at the illegality of its birth; and declaring it C) They cannot focus on setting attainable goals
was a sweet little infant, walked off with it to her because of a lack of motivation.
D) They quickly become frustrated when faced
an
own chamber.
with difficult tasks because of a lack of
ccording to the text, which is true about Mrs.
A self-control.
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Deborah Wilkins’s general attitude toward Mr.
Allworthy?
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A) She regards herself as a pragmatic
counterbalance to his unreasonable vanity.
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B) She feels she can speak candidly with him yet “ Dover Beach” is an 1867 poem by Matthew Arnold. In
she respects his authority. the poem, the speaker compares himself and his lover
C) She feigns to tolerate him but in fact to refugees.
considers him wretched. Which quotation from the poem most effectively
D) She is openly scornful of his easy-going illustrates the claim?
temperament. A) “And we here as on a darkling plain/Swept
with confused alarms of struggle and
flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night”
B) “The sea is calm to-night,/The tide is full, the
moon lies fair/Upon the Straits;-on the French
coast, the light”
C) “Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay/
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!/
Only, from the long line of spray”
D) “To one another! for the world, which seems/
To lie before us like a land of dreams,/So
various, so beautiful, so new”
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Country Global Rank illion Metric
M
Tons Produced
Annually
China 1 44
Indonesia 2 5.8
India 3 4.9
Japan 4 4.73
lephants tend to splinter off into small foraging
E
United States 5 4.48
groups (10 or fewer) during the dry season, but will
normally congregate in large numbers __________ .
Shifa Goldenberg of Colorado State University notes merican demand for seafood has risen in recent
A
y
that “these large groupings when life is good facilitate years, partly due to growing awareness of the health
information exchange and mating”—just as large benefits of fish; the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines
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groupings do among humans. recommend that Americans eat eight ounces of fish
per week for the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids.
hich choice most effectively uses the data from the
W However, the majority of the farmed seafood that
graph to complete the text?
St Americans consume is produced in foreign countries
and imported to the U.S., which ___________
A) (300 or more) during the more comfortable
an
and stable wet season
B) (300 or more) in times when survival becomes W hich choice most effectively uses the data from the
especially difficult table to complete the text?
ic
C) (though never exceeding 100) during the more A) produces five times less seafood than it once
comfortable and stable wet season id.
d
er
D) (though never exceeding 100) in times when B) purchases most of its seafood from China.
survival becomes especially difficult C) produces five times less seafood than China.
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D) is only the fifth largest-producer in the world.
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The Top 10 Longest Living Animals, Worldwide
Species Average lifespan Animal type Body type Habitat
(years)
Ocean Quahog 507 mollusk invertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Artica islandica
Greenland Shark 400 fish vertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Somnious
microcephalus
Bowhead whale 211 mammal vertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Baleena mysticetus
Rougheye Rockfish 205 fish vertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Sebatus Aleutianias
Red Sea Urchin 200 echinoderm invertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Mesocentrotus
franciscanus
Galapagos Tortoise 177 reptile vertebrate tropical island
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Chelonoidis nirga
Shortraker Rockfish 157 fish vertebrate temperate/arctic sea
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Sebastes borealis
Lake Sturgeon 152 fish vertebrate Temperate freshwater
Acipenser fulvescens
Aldabra Giant
Tortoise
152
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reptile vertebrate tropical island
Aldabrachelys
an
gigantean
Orange Roughy 149 fish vertebrate temperate/arctic sea
Hoplostethus
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atlanticus
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Inuit lore holds that the Greenland shark can destroy human flesh with its skin and can live for centuries, and it
turns out this piece of folklore holds an astounding level of scientific accuracy. Although the Greenland shark’s
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skin isn’t destructive to the touch, the legend that Greenland sharks outlive humans four or five-fold is entirely
true.
Which of the following is supported by the information in the table?
A) The Orange Roughy has the shortest lifespan of any living fish.
B) The Greenland Shark has the longest average lifespan of any vertebrate or invertebrate.
C) All reptiles live on tropical islands.
D) The top 10 longest living animals are all fish, reptiles, mollusks, echinoderms, or mammals.
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uring the English neoclassical period (1660–1789),
D yrian purple, which is named after the city of Tyre in
T
many writers imitated the epic poetry and satires of Lebanon where _______ was originally produced, was a
ancient Greece and Rome. They were not the first in dye that was so expensive to make in ancient times
England to adopt the literary modes of classical ______ that it was often referred to as "imperial" or "royal"
some of the most prominent figures of the earlier purple.
Renaissance period were also influenced by ancient
Greek and Roman literature. hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W
to the conventions of Standard English?
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W A) they
to the conventions of Standard English? B) that
A) antiquity, however C) one
B) antiquity, however, D) it
C) antiquity, however;
D) antiquity; however,
y
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lacksmith and artisan Philip Simmons (1912–2009)
B
preserved an important aspect of the art and heritage
Stof Charleston, South Carolina—a city famous for its
unter’s employer is KPMG, a tax and financial
H homely yet intricate ironwork. Normally, homeowners
services firm in Atlanta. Approximately half of KPMG’s could swap out aging gates and ornaments for
an
workforce uses flextime. Other major companies that mass-produced replacements. Instead of purchasing
offer flex scheduling include Kraft Foods and Texas standardized ironwork, _______ to repair and replicate
ic
Instruments. Many government agencies offer the distinctive items in their homes.
flextime as well. These employers realize that flex
er
scheduling not only facilitates their employees’ hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W
work-life balance but also helps to increase employee to the conventions of Standard English?
Am
retention and productivity, and to decrease unplanned A) it was Charleston whose residents called
absences from work. That is not a trifling __________ upon Simmons
Georgetown University study found that unplanned B) Simmons was called upon by Charleston
employee absences cost some companies almost $1 residents
million annually. C) Charleston residents could call upon
Simmons
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W D) calling upon Simmons could be done by
to the conventions of Standard English? Charleston residents
A) matter; a recent
B) matter, a recent
C) matter, if a recent
D) matter, although a recent
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et for me, only one hero meant anything: Nyoka,
Y few years ago, while taking a guided tour of Russia, I
A
Jungle Girl. She was a sort of female Tarzan, although encountered a strange sight. I _______ into a hotel on
more relatable to me. She lived in the jungle, through the outskirts of St. Petersburg and was making my
which she ran barefoot, repelling lions and grappling way to my room when I noticed a full-sized go-kart
with giant crocodiles. She rescued poor natives from track, right in the middle of the hotel’s atrium.
the tyranny of crooked hunters. She was resourceful, Intrigued, I decided to explore the hotel further: on the
___________________ discouraged her for long. Every second floor, I discovered a large room that contained
week she was left facing a dilemma that was almost two dozen billiards tables and almost four
seemingly impossible to escape; by the following dozen pinball machines.
week, she had come up with a solution. After an hour
with her, I felt as though I could do anything. hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W
to the conventions of Standard English?
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W A) have just checked
to the conventions of Standard English? B) had just checked
y
A) tough, and intelligent; no problem, C) could just check
B) tough, and intelligent: no problem D) am just checking
ud
C) tough, and intelligent, no problem
D) tough—and intelligent, no problem
St
or many marine biologists, careers in education and
F
an
research may be very appealing. Other marine
biologists may gravitate to the numerous
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n Saturday mornings, the local cinema offered a
O opportunities for industry and applied science careers
program for children, a kind of exclusive club: no after earning a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in
er
adults allowed, apart from the cinema staff. The marine biology— __________ in the aquaculture
program always _____ with a short informative film industry, which has had an 8.3% annual rate of growth
Am
about something encouraging for a country not long worldwide since the mid-1980s and is currently the
out of a war. We scorned this segment, unless it was fastest-growing food production industry.
about steam trains or breaking land speed records.
hich choice completes the text with the most logical
W
hich choice completes the text so that it conforms
W transition?
to the conventions of Standard English? A) believe it or not,
A) began B) astonishingly,
B) has begun C) for instance,
C) have begun D) in contrast,
D) will begin
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“ Comedy of Manners” is the classification that literary hile researching a topic, a student has taken the
W
critics use for these plays. Wycherley and Congreve following notes:
were the major seventeenth-century innovators, but ● Jacob Lawrence was a mural painter.
this mode of writing has continued through to the ● His vibrant patterns and simplified, angular
present day; critics claim that the popular Carry On figures created powerful, direct images.
films are examples of this persistent yet frequently ● His most famous work is the Migration Series
tedious form of comedy. The two main concerns of (1940-41): 60 panels depicting African
the genre seem to be wealth and romance. While no Americans’ migration from the rural south to
one would deny that the pursuit of love and money northern cities after World War I.
occupies a great deal of energy and time, the ● Half the panels are in the Museum of Modern
treatment of these themes under Comedy of Manners Art; the others are in the Phillips Collection.
conventions was, ________ often superficial. ● In 1954-56, he produced Struggle, a 30-panel
series focusing on neglected aspects of
hich choice completes the text with the most logical
W American history from 1775-1815.
y
transition? The student wants to emphasize the large scale of
A) unfortunately, Jacob Lawrence’s work. Which choice most effectively
ud
B) surprisingly, uses relevant information from the notes to achieve
C) consequently, this goal?
D) for example, St A) Lawrence’s Struggle series contained only half
as many panels as the Migration series.
B) In the 1940s and 1950s, Lawrence created
an
projects consisting of dozens of panels to
show a wide range of historical events.
redictions that electronic books would replace
P C) Lawrence’s murals, which consist of a series
ic
physical ones entirely appear to have been premature. of panels, feature bold and angular designs.
D) Lawrence’s Migration Series, his best-known
er
______ sales of printed books have actually overtaken
sales of electronic ones in some genres. While easy work, is divided between the Museum of
Modern Art and the Phillips Collection.
Am
access to online platforms satisfies consumers’
demand for instant content, print offers readers a
tactile experience they cannot obtain from screens.
hich choice completes the text with the most logical
W
transition?
A) In fact,
B) Nevertheless,
C) Similarly,
D) On the other hand,
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his text is adapted from Philip Kowalski, “An
T hile researching a topic, a student has taken the
W
Unnatural History of the American Zoo” following notes:
The first American zoo was established in ● The “colossal heads” are the most famous
Philadelphia in 1874, and for most Americans artworks produced by the Olmecs, the first
today, zoos figure as positive impositions on the Mesoamerican civilization (1200 BCE - 400
landscape. They preserve many species CE).
threatened in their natural habitats by forces such ● Scholars theorize that the heads depicted
as climate change in the Arctic and the mercenary Olmec rulers.
poaching in Africa - forces that might spell the ● They were carved from boulders weighing
potential extinction of polar bears and elephants, between 6 and almost 50 tons.
among others. But this conservatorship that zoos ● Each one wears a headdress whose meaning
offer also reflects the values of a culture that still is unclear.
privileges a traditional human-centered and ● The monument at Takalik Abaj in Guatemala
human-controlled view of the natural world.As is the only sculpture outside the Olmec
y
theorized by the American philosopher and heartland.
intellectual historian A. O. Lovejoy in the 1930s, The student wants to emphasize the mystery
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the so-called “Great Chain of Being” assumed that surrounding the sculptures. Which choice most
“man” ruled over the entire natural world and, like effectively uses relevant information from the notes to
Adam in the Garden of Eden, was the caretaker of St achieve this goal?
all living things. A) While all of the heads are immense, they do
vary in size: the smallest weigh six tons,
an
hich choice best describes the function of the
W whereas the largest ones weigh 50.
underlined sentence? B) Only one of the heads is located outside the
A) To introduce a historical figure whose ideas Olmec heartland.
ic
are no longer widely studied. C) The faces, which scholars believe may
B) To summarize an argument that zookeepers represent Olmec rulers, sit below headdresses
er
often use to defend their practices. of unknown significance.
C) To provide background for a belief that the D) The Olmecs, who created the first civilization
Am
author finds problematic. in Mesoamerica, carved a series of enormous
D) To imply that Lovejoy’s theory has been stone heads.
interpreted inaccurately by subsequent
scholars.
STOP
If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this module only. Do not turn to any other module
in the test.
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