Module I: Reading and Writing

Some ethicists challenge the concept of personal character, claiming that if it were meaningful, situational factors could not, as they clearly can, induce behavior contrary to that character. As Rachana Kamtekar observes, this argument is difficult to reconcile with our lay conception of character: we expect a person of helpful character to be frequently helpful, not ____ helpful.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A sporadically

B unfailingly

C self-servingly

D grudgingly

Run by researchers in Australia, the 45 and Up Study is an examination of aging that has attempted to track approximately 267,000 people for several years. Long-running studies like these are of real significance not merely for statistical robustness but also because of _____, over such a length of time, a substantial number of participants will withdraw or fall out of contact with the researchers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A replicability

B attrition

C impartiality

D circumspection

In the architectural process called modular construction, a building is manufactured in modules under controlled conditions and then assembled at its intended location. ____, of this approach the fewer weather delays and a greater potential for reuse and recycling.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A Epitomes

B Components

C Safeguards

D Proponents

Studying postcards from vanished tourist destinations, menus from nineteenth-century restaurants, and posters promoting foreign travel may seem like a frivolous pursuit, but ephemeral objects like these are useful in evidence of cultural change: they can ____ shifts in norms, values, and concerns that traditional objects of historical inquiry may not.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A attest to

B dissociate from

C compensate for

D obscure

For her film I Am Somebody (1970), a documentary about a successful months-long strike held by Black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, director Madeline Anderson chose a narrator who had participated in the ____, allowing the narrative to be shaped by one of their own, amplified the agency and power the workers possessed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A protest a decision that,

B protest, a decision that

C Protest a decision that

D protest a decision that

Module I: Reading and Writing

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