Module I: Reading and Writing

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A team led by Portuguese researcher Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira found that many species of mushrooms contain chemicals called phenolic compounds, such as cinnamic acid and catechin. _____ Ferreira detected cinnamic acid in Agaricus blazei mushrooms and catechin in Lentinus edodes mushrooms.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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For this reason,
However,
Nevertheless,
For example,
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 “traces” most nearly mean?

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Indications
Recollections
Copies
Debris
The very few people who have watched all of the movie Logistics have found it to be _____ experience. The movie’s extreme length (over 35 days) requires both mental and physical endurance.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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an ordinary
a casual
an exhausting
a quick
The National Heritage Fellowship was created to raise public awareness about exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. In 1991, the fellowship was given to the blues guitarist and singer Riley “B.B.” King to ______ his lifetime contributions to the arts.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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promote
compel
divide
cluster
The geographic distribution of animal characters in traditional stories typically _____ current distributions of corresponding species, likely because such stories often serve to transmit information cautioning about local wildlife. Folktales from the British Isles featuring bears are an apparent exception, persisting as culturally significant long after wild bears had gone extinct there.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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acquiesces to
aligns with
digresses from
compensates for
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