Module I: Reading and Writing

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In his experimental film Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Godfrey Reggio manipulates shots to accord with Philip Glass’s original score, variously applying slow-motion and time-lapse techniques to shots of commuters and rhythmically intercutting between the movement of water and the flow of automobile traffic, among other pairings, to create ______ images and music.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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a hierarchy among
a mystery from
an exaggeration of
a consonance between
Claudine Mukesharugo, a tea producer in Rwanda, and Vinicio Gonzales, a coffee grower in Guatemala, are both part of a global community of small farmers who partner with the grassroots organization Thrive Farmers. Their partnership with the organization is based on a revenue-sharing model that puts the farmers at the forefront. With this model, farmers aren’t just supplying initial crops but are stakeholders through the sale of the finished products.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
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To describe how a partnership between two farms that produce different types of crops led to the development of a new business model for small farmers
To introduce the idea that around the world, small farmers have increasingly been managing their farms as if they were large businesses
To suggest that the Thrive Farmers organization is generating greater global demand for crops grown by small farmers
To explain that some small farmers follow a business model that allows them to have greater involvement in the sale of products made with their crops
Exercising Dogs on Watling Street is an oil painting by Sonia Lawson, a British artist. Lawson created ______ in 1979.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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them
it
those
these
The dinosaur displays at museums such as the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (which has a mounted Apatosaurus skeleton among its holdings) are notable for the _____ of the research behind them—the museum staff consulted numerous sources to ensure the accuracy of the displays.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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rigor
obscurity
shallowness
novelty
Ian Gilligan et al. claim that during the Ice Age, humans at Yafteh Cave in Southwest Asia made fitted clothing by boring holes in pieces of hide and fur with a sharpened bone tool called an awl and then threading cord through the holes to bind the pieces together. Eventually, as evidenced by artifacts at Ust-Kova in Siberia, someone perforated the end of a bone awl to make an eye (hole) to hold the cord, thereby creating a sewing needle with which both steps could be performed in a single motion. This sped up the process of making clothing and, by freeing them from the need to push cord through holes manually, allowed artisans to make smaller holes and thus finer seams.
Based on the text, what can be concluded about clothing made during the Ice Age?
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Clothing made with awls at sites like Yafteh Cave likely had coarser seams than clothing made with needles at sites like Ust-Kova did.
Clothing made with awls at sites like Yafteh Cave could likely be made more quickly than clothing made with needles at sites like Ust-Kova.
Clothing made with awls at sites like Yafteh Cave likely had finer seams than clothing made with needles at sites like Ust-Kova did.
Clothing made at sites like Yafteh Cave was likely made with needles, while clothing made at sites like Ust-Kova was likely made with awls.
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