Module I: Reading and Writing

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Effect of Neighboring Species by Type on Target Species
Neighboring speciesNeighboring species typeTarget speciesEffect value
viper’s-buglossinvasivebutterfly flower−0.3312
purple loosestrifeinvasivewinged loosestrife−2.2434
Virginia spring beautynativestar chickweed0.8674
Canadian wood betonynativemayapple0.4729
Researchers Carolina Laura Morales and Anna Traveset gathered data about flowering plants growing alongside each other in various locations. In each case, the researchers identified a native plant as a “target species” and a nonnative invasive plant as a “neighboring species.”
Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ conclusion?
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viper's-bugloss (invasive) and butterfly flower (target)
purple loosestrife (invasive) and winged loosestrife (target)
Virginia spring beauty (native) and star chickweed (target)
Canadian wood betony (native) and mayapple (target)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt— there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s protagonist, Ferdinand Bardamu, and those of Céline—but it should not be taken to mean that every person or event depicted in Journey to the End of the Night has a real-life analogue. Much of the novel is pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead focus excessively on correspondences between the novel and Céline’s life can thus ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
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misrepresent Journey to the End of the Night as being more widely read than it actually is.
fail to appreciate how much creativity Céline shows in the book.
refuse to acknowledge that Céline drew on real-world material when writing Journey to the End of the Night.
overemphasize the extent to which Céline took inspiration from earlier writers.
Many linguists have claimed that the lyricism of Alexander Pushkin’s Russian novel in verse Eugene Onegin makes the work incapable of being faithfully translated, especially into English. The original work is written much like a long poem, featuring linguistic patterns and flourishes specific to the Russian language. Rather than striving to portray each scene of the novel literally, John Cranko, in his ballet adaption of Eugene Onegin, opted to let the essence of the work’s emotions inspire the passion of the dancers. Critic Emma Golden writes that Cranko’s “choreography uses the poetry of the human body to summon the parts of Pushkin’s novel that were deemed untranslatable—its commitments to rhythm, cadence, symmetry.” It seems, then, that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
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English is a particularly difficult language into which to translate poetic works, as its rhythms differ from those of many other languages.
most critics believe that, like other English translations of Eugene Onegin, Cranko’s ballet adaptation fails to capture the essence of the original’s meaning.
Cranko’s loose adaptation of Eugene Onegin into a different medium may have preserved fundamental elements of the source material better than a strictly literal written translation of the text would have.
though written works are frequently adapted into other media, they rarely succeed in capturing the original's emotional core.
Many ranching terms come from Spanish. For example, the word “mustang” (a wild horse) _____ from the Spanish word mestefas, and “stockade” (a fence) derives from estacada. This is because the first Anglo, African, and Native American cattle ranchers in the southwestern US learned the trade from Spanish-speaking Mexican vaqueros, or cowboys.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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derives
have derived
derive
were deriving
As water in oceans, lakes, and rivers is heated by the Sun, it turns into water vapor and rises into the atmosphere, where it cools and forms clouds before falling back to Earth as rain or _____ process is called the water cycle.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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snow this
snow? This
snow, this
snow. This
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