Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is adapted from John Matheus’s 1965 short story “Tog.” A train has stopped at a station where heavy fog has set in.
The little conductor stood on tiptoe in an effort to keep one hand on the signal rope, craning his neck in a vain and dissatisfied endeavor to pierce the mistiness of the fog. The motorman chafed in his box, thinking of the drudging fog of the laboring man, He registered discontent.
As used in the text, what does the word “registered” most nearly mean?
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Bypassed
Enrolled
Valued
Displayed

As a member of Indigenous Photography, artist Tshepisa Nabula ka Mogrageni (Xhosa) can _____ her work more broadly than she could without the organization’s reach. Photography editors around the world can search for Indigenous photographer members on the organization’s website to find images that document and reflect the lives of Indigenous communities.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
 

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empty
promote
alter
discover
Originating in the traditional stories of the Kamaka Maoli, the Native Hawaiian people, the literature of Hawaii has a rich history that was later brought to international prominence by writers such as Mary Kawena Pukui. Now, by producing acclaimed works, Gary Pak has _____ his place in that literary tradition.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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contemplated
obscured
solidified
extracted
In a 2018 article about films depicting the experiences of Black Americans, critics for the _New York Times_ praise Madeline Anderson’s 1970 film / _I Am Somebody_ as “galvanizing” and Reginald Hudlin’s 1990 film / _House Party_ as “exuberant.” Fans of the two films hope that such ______ will attract new audiences to these works.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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impartiality
ambivalence
foresight
acclaim
Researchers César A. Hidalgo, Elisa Castañer, and Andres Sevtsuk created a computer model to predict the mix of businesses and places of interest found in a given neighborhood. The team used data from the Google Places API service to help identify florists, beauty salons, and other businesses and map their locations. This approach has some limits—data from Places API tend to be restricted to places that are customer facing—but the data set nonetheless provides an extremely reliable source to study collocation patterns of neighborhood amenities.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
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It describes the imprecise and subjective nature of neighborhood boundaries.
It introduces a model that a research team built to evaluate the mix of amenities in urban neighborhoods.
It emphasizes the potential utility of the team’s model.
It identifies a specific flaw in using a data set about amenities in cities.
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