Module I: Reading and Writing

timer

The dinosaur displays at museums such as the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt (which has a life-sized Diplodocus longus statue among its holdings) are notable for the ________ of the research behind them—the museum staff consulted numerous sources to ensure the accuracy of the displays.
Which choice completes the sentence with the most appropriate and precise meaning?

1
Mark for Review
novelty
rigor
obscurity
shallowness
The following text is adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 play Beyond the Horizon. Andrew and Robert Mayo are brothers who grew up on their family’s farm.
ANDREW: Farming ain’t your nature. There’s all the difference shown in just the way two feel about the farm. You—well, you like the home part of it, I expect; but as a place to work and grow things, you hate it. Ain’t that right?1
ROBERT: Yes, I suppose it is. For you it’s different. You’re a Mayo through and through. You’re wedded to the soil. You’re as much a product of it as an ear of corn i2s, or a tree. Father is the same. This farm is his life-work
Which choice best describes what the excerpt emphasizes?
2
Mark for Review
It illustrates that two characters share a goal
It shows how two characters solved a mystery
It describes a place two characters visited on vacation
It emphasizes a difference between two characters
Despite a growing view among young people and others in South Africa that celebrated anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela should have taken greater strides as president to effect more substantive structural changes in the country’s stratified society, years after his death in 2013 Mandela continues to be ________ by many worldwide.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate and precise meaning?
3
Mark for Review
evaluated
reinterpreted
lauded
criticized
Amaranth grain was domesticated in Mexico. Its physical structure is no longer identical to the structure of the wild plant it is descended from. Summer squash also ________ its wild ancestor. That ancestor plant had a hard rind and bitter flesh. Indigenous people in eastern North America carefully bred the crop until it had a soft rind and mild-tasting flesh3.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
4
Mark for Review
reacts to
helps with
varies from
argues with
The adult io moth appears black, orange, and yellow with large eyespots as a result of pigmented scales that cover its wings and body. Although scales are widely known as the source of a moth’s color and pattern, the ________ of these scales goes beyond visual display; they also detach when moths are caught in a spiderweb

Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
5
Mark for Review
attractiveness
utility
tendency
frailty
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 G.I. Joe action figures would soar in the 2010s, but they did.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
6
Mark for Review
avoid
monitor
forecast
exchange
Noah Fierer and colleagues ________ pots of sterilized soil with slurries of live microbes collected from soil in five sites across Colorado, including areas of sagebrush and ponderosa pine forest. Fierer and team then grew mustard plants in the pots to see if the different microbial slurries affected levels of spicy glucosinolates like 3-methylthiopropyl in the plants’ seeds.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
7
Mark for Review
estimated
sanitized
precluded
populated
Derived from research conducted with factory workers from 1924 to 1933, the Hawthorne effect suggests that participants’ awareness that they are being studied alters their behavior and influences study outcomes. Since then, several researchers have claimed to invalidate this phenomenon, positing that the Hawthorne effect cannot be ________ because attempts to detect it invariably involve faulty research methods.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
8
Mark for Review
substantiated
hypothesized
rectified
inculcated
Paleontologists think that Ornithomimus, Phorusrhacos, and other long-extinct theropods and sauropods had hollow bone extensions inside the animals’ bones. Such structures are found in modern birds, which is why some paleontologists treat the respiratory systems of birds as those of Ornithomimus, Phorusrhacos, and other theropods and sauropods ________.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
9
Mark for Review
subordinates of
emissaries for
harbingers of
proxies for
For her installation The Last Cruze, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier traveled to Lordstown, Ohio, where she documented the lives of workers at the local automobile plant. In the installation, text culled from a series of in-depth interviews with employees and their families sixty-seven gelatin silver prints, highlighting the collaborative, documentary nature of Frazier’s work.
Which choice best completes the sentence with the most accurate meaning?
10
Mark for Review
punctuates
punctuate
punctuating
are punctuated by
logo

Guest