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Module I: Reading and Writing
In the 1990s, conservationists began planting more than 500,000 native trees in the habitat of the Azores bullfinch to boost the bird's numbers. This approach was apparently ________: the Azores bullfinch's population size increased from as few as 100 birds at the end of the 1980s to around 1,300 in 2023.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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disastrous
costly
successful
amusing
The discoverers of the minor planet 7334 Sciurus named it after the animal genus that includes squirrels. Most of the recently discovered minor planets, however, are given only an identification number, largely due to there being over 500,000 such bodies known at present, which makes the already challenging task of finding a unique name for each nearly _________.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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feasible
insurmountable
substantial
unnecessary
Posed in 1895, the Painlevé conjecture ________ many mathematicians before yielding to the efforts of Jinxin Xue, who presented a proof of it in 2014.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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indoctrinated
appeased
confounded
disregarded
The following text is adapted from John Matheus’s 1925 short story "Fog."
The fog extended its tentacles over city and river, gradually obliterating traces of familiar landscapes. At five-thirty the old Panhandle bridge, supported by massive sandstone pillars, stalwart as when erected fifty years before to serve a generation now passed behind the portals of life, had become a spectral outline against the sky.
As used in the text, what does the word "traces" most nearly mean?
The fog extended its tentacles over city and river, gradually obliterating traces of familiar landscapes. At five-thirty the old Panhandle bridge, supported by massive sandstone pillars, stalwart as when erected fifty years before to serve a generation now passed behind the portals of life, had become a spectral outline against the sky.
As used in the text, what does the word "traces" most nearly mean?
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Indications
Copies
Debris
Recollections
Although Hawaiian literature is highly heterogeneous in many ways, it is also characterized by considerable ________: scholars have drawn connections linking works by writers such as David Kalakaua and Kaul Hart Hemmings to the traditional stories of the Kānaka Maoli, the Native Hawaiian people.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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subtlety
innovation
sophistication
continuity
Catherine L. Cardelús is a researcher who studies canopy soil. Canopy soil is formed in a tree's branches (or canopy) when dead leaves and other falling things collect. This material breaks down, becoming canopy soil. Canopy soil helps preserve a healthy water cycle (how water moves through the environment) in rainforests. This benefit is one reason Cardelús is interested in the canopy soils in large bulky trees in rainforests in Costa Rica.
Which choice best describes the text's overall structure?
Which choice best describes the text's overall structure?
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It introduces a researcher and gives information about what she researches.
It presents an idea and mentions a researcher who disagrees with that idea.
It compares the sizes of two types of trees over several years.
It explains a disagreement between researchers and how it was resolved.
The following text is from Louise Erdrich's 1986 novel The Beet Queen. The narrator discusses her relationship with her young niece, Dot. Dot, Celestine, the narrator's sister-in-law, is Dot's mother.
Dot was so impatient with babyhood as I. She tried in one sense to grow out of it. Celestine never saw that, because she, and only she, took pleasure in Dot's helpless softness. Only Celestine was saddened by her daughter's fierce progress. Day by day Dot grew stronger in her shopping-cart stroller. She exercised to exhaustion, bouncing for hours to develop her leg muscles.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Dot was so impatient with babyhood as I. She tried in one sense to grow out of it. Celestine never saw that, because she, and only she, took pleasure in Dot's helpless softness. Only Celestine was saddened by her daughter's fierce progress. Day by day Dot grew stronger in her shopping-cart stroller. She exercised to exhaustion, bouncing for hours to develop her leg muscles.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It anticipates how Celestine's attitude toward life will change as she gets older.
It offers a detail that shows how Dot is growing stronger.
It indicates how sad Celestine is by describing a behavior she engages in.
It lists some of the more obvious aspects of the narrator's personality.
Wakako Yamauchi is best known for And the Soul Shall Dance, her 1977 play about a Japanese American family in Southern California. The play is based on a short story Yamauchi had published three years earlier. Adapting the story wasn't easy. Theater relies on dialogue between characters, but the original story features little dialogue and instead describes its characters' silent thoughts. Yamauchi created situations where characters reveal their thoughts by speaking them aloud during conversations with each other.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It offers information about how Yamauchi adapted her short story into a play.
It argues that Yamauchi's play influenced later playwrights.
It describes how Yamauchi chose the actors who performed in the play.
It explains why Yamauchi's short story is better known than the play adaptation is.
Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana weaves stories of triumph, using her unique method of applying colorful yarn to photographs of people. In some works, Villasana focuses on celebrating cultural icons who are people of color, as she does in her depiction of boxer Muhammad Ali. However, in other works, Villasana honors ordinary people, as she does in her captivating portrayal of a young girl sitting on a sidewalk. Villasana sees both of these approaches as ways of depicting the power and interconnectedness of all people.
According to the text, what kind of material does Villasana use in her artworks?
According to the text, what kind of material does Villasana use in her artworks?
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Yarn
Paint
Chalk
Stone
The following text is from José Rizal’s 1891 novel The Reign of Greed (translated by Charles Derbyshire in 1912).
In his solitary retreat on the shore of the sea, whose mobile surface was visible through the open windows, extending outward until it mingled with the horizon, Padre Florentino was relieving the monotony by playing on his harmonium sad and melancholy tunes, to which the soft roar of the surf and the sighing of the treetops of the neighboring wood served as accompaniments. Notes long, full, mournful as a prayer, yet still vigorous, escaped from the old instrument. Padre Florentino, who was an accomplished musician, was improvising, and, as he was alone, gave free rein to the sadness in his heart.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
In his solitary retreat on the shore of the sea, whose mobile surface was visible through the open windows, extending outward until it mingled with the horizon, Padre Florentino was relieving the monotony by playing on his harmonium sad and melancholy tunes, to which the soft roar of the surf and the sighing of the treetops of the neighboring wood served as accompaniments. Notes long, full, mournful as a prayer, yet still vigorous, escaped from the old instrument. Padre Florentino, who was an accomplished musician, was improvising, and, as he was alone, gave free rein to the sadness in his heart.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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Padre Florentino is insecure about his ability to improvise music.
Padre Florentino has dedicated himself to becoming a skilled musician.
The sadness of Padre Florentino’s music reflects his own feelings.
The residence of Padre Florentino is difficult to find.
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