A Burial at Ornans, painted in the realist style by Gustave Courbet, depicts an ordinary provincial funeral in stark detail. The realists' emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Isidore Pils, which instead ______ their subjects' positive traits, altering subjects to appear more beautiful or heroic than they actually were. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Quinoa grain was domesticated in South America. Its physical structure is no longer identical to the structure of the wild plant it is descended from. Maize (corn) also ______ its wild ancestor. That ancestor plant had a few small kernels. Indigenous people in Mexico carefully bred the crop until it had numerous fleshy kernels. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The collectibles market is one of the most difficult segments of the consumer economy to ______. Few economists would have predicted, for example, that the prices of vintage movie posters would soar in the 2010s, but soar they did. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Tsuruoka, Japan, was named a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO in 2014, a title that ______ that Tsuruoka has a unique and vibrant food culture worthy of celebration. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is from Louise Erdrich's 1988 novel The Beet Queen. Celestine takes her infant daughter with her to the butcher shop where she makes sausages.1 Sometimes Celestine turned around and met the direct gaze of her daughter, a look so penetrating that Celestine's breath caught. She dropped the spice, the string, the knife she was using and took the girl up in her arms, ready for her to speak as if a spell had suddenly lifted. When the baby flexed her entire body and struggled to free herself, Celestine put her down. No matter how thorough Celestine's exhaustion, no matter how little sleep she'd had, there was a nerve of excitement running through eac2h hour. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

In 1827, Rev. John Wilk and other free Black men in New York City founded Freedom's Journal, America's first Black-owned-and-operated newspaper. Wilk's accomplishment is just one example of the rich history of Black journalism in the United States. That history is preserved by the National Association of Black Journalists, which was founded in Washington, DC, in 1975 to support Black media professionals and honor people like 3 Wilk. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Though Vasily Grossman's novel Stalingrad is considered inferior to his later work Life and Fate, some critics praise it despite an arduous writing process required to satisfy Soviet censors. Marcel Theroux in The Guardian called Stalingrad "lucid and readable". Of the novel's eleven drafts, the first is largely illegible, the sixth closely hews to Soviet orthodoxy, and published versions most resemble the fifth. The English edition's translators culled material from unpublished drafts and published Russian versions to create a comprehensive edition. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Hydroelectric generators and many other widely used mechanical systems have moving parts that rub or slide against one another, creating friction. This friction increases energy consumption and causes wear, which decreases the stability and life span of the system. Using carbon nanotubes and oil, Chanaka Kumara and colleagues at a US Department of Energy lab have created a coating for moving parts that reduces friction to the point where it is almost nonexistent. The new coating is suitable for common applications, unlike other approaches that require special conditions. What does the text most strongly suggest about the coating created by Kumara and colleagues?

Optimal foraging theory (OFT) holds that animals' foraging behaviors reflect cost-benefit trade-offs that vary by species and with dynamic ecological circumstances. One such circumstance is lunar intensity, which 4 Paul C. Griffiths and colleagues found to be negatively associated with foraging by snowshoe hares but Ian C. Colquhoun found to be positively associated with foraging by black lemurs. This discrepancy is explicable in terms of OFT: the lemurs' greater reliance on vision means that higher lunar intensity benefits them more than it benefits the hares. Information in the text best supports which statement about OFT?

High-speed rail (HSR) systems have trains that move at much higher speeds than traditional trains. HSR is expanding in Switzerland, Uzbekistan, and many other countries around the world. The United States, however, has been slow to build HSR systems. Researchers surveyed United States residents about their attitudes toward HSR. The researchers claim that this survey reveals that there is strong support for building more HSR lines in the United States. Which quotation from a survey respondent would best illustrate the underlined claim?