Module I: Reading and Writing

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The Hornbostel-Sachs system classifies musical instruments by how they produce sound. For example, an instrument that is popular in Switzerland called the alphorn produces sound primarily through the vibration of air through the instrument’s body. ______ under the Hornbostel-Sachs system, the alphorn is an aerophone.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
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Furthermore,
Thus,
Instead,
Similarly,
The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole has been found by a friend after getting lost in the woods. It is beginning to snow.
The Mole saw the wood that had been so dreadful to him in quite a changed aspect. Holes, hollows, pools, pitfalls, and other menaces to the wayfarer were vanishing fast, and a gleaming carpet was springing up everywhere, that looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet.
As used in the text, what does the word “delicate” most nearly mean?
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Considerate
Deserted
Fragile
Accurate
The following text is adapted from Matthew Arnold’s 1869 nonfiction book Culture and Anarchy
The Times [a British newspaper], replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behaviour of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal is that every one should be free to do and to look just as he likes. But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like, the rule by which he fashions himself; but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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The English are not as well known for their sense of taste as they ought to be.
Most people disagree with each other on what is beautiful.
Culture’s duty is to use scientific methods to determine what is beautiful.
One of the functions of culture is to create a consensus about matters of good taste.
Researchers in France claim that leopards and brown bears are among the twenty most “charismatic” animals (defined as “attractive, fascinating, or appealing”). To create their top-twenty list, researchers used survey data from Western Europe. European attitudes toward leopards and brown bears might not be shared around the world, ______
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
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in other words.
of course.
for example.
in particular.
Many works of the Greek astronomer Hipparchus (2nd century BCE) are ______ his Commentary, a critique of a popular astronomical poem, is an extant work: it can still be read.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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lost and conversely,
lost, and conversely
lost. Conversely,
lost, conversely,
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