Module I: Reading and Writing

The following text is from Rudolfo Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima. The young narrator is eating breakfast with his two sisters in their home in rural New Mexico.
I sat across the table from Deborah and Teresa and ate my atole and the hot tortilla with butter. I said very little. I usually spoke very little to my two sisters. They were older than I and they were very close. They usually spent the entire day in the attic, playing dolls and giggling. I did not concern myself with those things.
As used in the text, what does the phrase "concern myself with" most nearly mean?

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A craft

B get angry about

C care about

D earn

The percentage of US forest land that a 2023 federal report identified as being either mature or old growth exceeds other recent estimates. Given how little _______ there is among scientists regarding the scope of these categories, this discrepancy shouldn't be surprising: forest researchers regularly dispute one another's classifications.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A interest

B deliberation

C vigilance

D consensus

Karam Kang has demonstrated that lobbying does little to alter the probability that a particular energy policy under consideration by the United States Congress will be enacted, but lobbying is not _______ finding seems to suggest. As Kang herself notes, lobbying can shape which policy proposals members of Congress bring forward for consideration in the first place.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A counterproductive

B cynical

C biased

D ineffectual

Though it does not guarantee a book's commercial success, _______ can play a big role in that success – a well-executed marketing campaign helped to make Danielle Steel's novel The Gift, the fourth-best-selling novel of 1994.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A originality

B publicity

C complexity

D practicality

People sometimes dismiss a claim if it comes from a source they regard as self-interested, but from a strictly logical perspective, the source of a claim is _______: it has no direct bearing on whether the claim is true.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A implicit

B indisputable

C indistinct

D irrelevant

Module I: Reading and Writing

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