Module I: Reading and Writing

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Becoming a member of the organization Indigenous Photograph has helped Sara Aliaga Ticon (Aymara) to ___ her work with an audience beyond Bolivia, where she’s from. The organization’s database of members is used by photography editors and others in the media industry around the world.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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share
split
challenge
examine
Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space in 1990, astronauts have needed to complete regular missions to repair the telescope and keep it working smoothly. Researchers hope that robots will soon be able to make these repairs. Employing robots instead of humans to make repairs will be helpful, as ___ astronauts to maintain the telescope can be expensive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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straightening
relying on
reducing
forgetting about
In 1776, the United States sent Benjamin Franklin to France to try to win the country’s support in the United States’ fight for independence from Great Britain. Franklin was very popular in France. This ___ surely helped him to convince France to assist the United States.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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controversy
sincerity
esteem
thoughtfulness
The creation of Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed was ___ process. Over the course of three years, Reiniger and her collaborators painstakingly made more than 250,000 individual images of hand-cut paper silhouettes and repeatedly had to invent entirely new methods and tools to create the special effects Reiniger envisioned.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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a haphazard
a contentious
an ineffectual
an arduous
The following text is from Yung Wing’s 1909 memoir My Life in China and America. Yung Wing was the first American college graduate of Chinese heritage; Phoebe Brown was the first prominent female hymn writer in the United States.
I look back upon my acquaintance with Mrs. Phoebe H. Brown with a mingled feeling of respect and admiration. She certainly was a remarkable New England woman—a woman of surpassing strength of moral and religious character. Those who have had the rare privilege of reading her stirring biography will, I am sure, bear me out in this statement. She went through the crucible of unprecedented adversities and trials of life and came out one of the rare shining lights that beautify the New England sky.
Which choice best describes the function of the reference to Brown’s biography in the text as a whole?
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It emphasizes that Brown’s life has been a popular subject for writers because it was so remarkable.
It suggests that other people who are familiar with Brown’s life would share the author’s view of her.
It explains why Brown was unique amongst her peers.
It describes the nature of the relationship between Yung and Brown.
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