Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is from Mark Oshiro’s 2018 novel Anger Is a Gift. In the novel, Moss and his friends are on a subway train in Northern California.
Lights from the outside world then filled the train car as it rose out of the ground and climbed the elevated track. As long as Moss had lived in West Oakland, he’d never tired of this specific view, so he pointed toward the windows. “Check it,” he said, and the Port of Oakland began to pass by them.
As used in the text, what does the word “specific” most nearly mean?
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Imaginary
Correct
Energetic
Particular
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 “supported” most nearly mean?
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Cherished
Defended
Held up
Improved on
Although the government of the Soviet Union attempted to ______ Georgi Vladimov’s novel Faithful Ruslan, copies of the book circulated in secret among readers in several parts of the country.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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replicate
import
suppress
critique
Although the clustering of information technology firms in Northern California is often cited as typical of industrial agglomeration, Giulia Faggio et al. use UK data to show that the mix of factors driving the phenomenon is ______ across industries: while the potential for knowledge spillovers can prompt agglomeration, collocation among tube manufacturers occurs for different reasons.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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credible
heterogeneous
imperative
decisive

The following text is from Anne Spencer’s 1922 poem “Translation.”
We trekked into a far country,
My friend and I.
Our deeper content was never spoken,
But each knew all the other said.
He told me how calm his soul was laid
By the lack of anvil and strife.
“The wooing kestrel,” I said, “mutes his mating-note
To please the harmony of this sweet silence.”

Which choice best describes the function of the reference to the “wooing kestrel” (a type of birD. in the text as a whole?

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It emphasizes the speaker’s belief that her friend is not sharing his true feelings with her.
It suggests that nature has secrets that humans are fundamentally incapable of discovering.
It illustrates the assertion that peace is a subjective state rather than an objective one.
 It presents the natural world as aligning with the experience of the speaker and her friend.
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