Module I: Reading and Writing

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Maryam Hosseini and her team used aerial images of well-mapped areas of Manhattan to train a computer program to identify sidewalks. When it was tested on images of Brooklyn, it ___ identified sidewalks in areas that were not well mapped, and even whether sidewalks were concrete or cobblestone. Hosseini believes the program will improve on this already-strong performance as it gets used more.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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reliably
clumsily
rarely
slowly
The Chao Phraya River delta is a constantly changing landform made up of a network of distributaries, small channels that branch off from the main river. The delta is shaped and reshaped over time as sediments carried by the river ___ where the river meets the Gulf of Thailand, eventually forming new portions of land.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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accumulate
dissolve
accelerate
thrive
The Third-Class Carriage, painted in the realist style by Honoré Daumier, depicts working-class travelers in a third-class railway car. The realism’s emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval, which instead ___ their subjects’ beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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exaggerate
correct
undermine
mock
The decline of the giant pika, a species found throughout northern North America before it became extinct around 8000 BCE, surely had a number of ___ the larger ecosystem in which it existed. The giant pika was part of a complex food web with other organisms, and its disappearance likely affected several other species.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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similarities to
precedents in
sources in
consequences for
The following text is adapted from Pam Muñoz Ryan’s 2020 novel Maizland. In the village where Max lives, there is an old fortress called La Reina. Children in the village say that the fortress is haunted.
For as long as he could remember, Max had begged Papá (his father) to take him to see La Reina and the ruins up close. He’d be a hero among his friends if he was the first boy to cross the haunted gates! Just because Papá didn’t believe in ghosts didn’t mean they weren’t there. Maybe this summer Papá would finally take him. He was almost twelve.
Which choice best describes the overall purpose of the text?
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To show how much Max wants to visit La Reina
To portray how proud Max’s father is of Max
To criticize Max for disliking summer
To explain why Max doesn’t want to grow up yet
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