Module I: Reading and Writing

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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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subtlety
innovation
sophistication
continuity
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