Module I: Reading and Writing

Manul cats are small, shy felines. They live mostly alone in out-of-the-way parts of Asia, such as on Mount Everest. These cats have been difficult to research because their habitats are so _____ large populations of humans.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A drawn to

B full of

C distant from

D responsible for

Some paleontologists thought that a sudden shift toward an arid climate on the Australian continent may have brought about the rapid extinction of several species of large kangaroos around 20,000 years ago. However, new evidence that the change in conditions occurred well before those species went extinct is forcing paleontologists to _____ that hypothesis.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A revise

B interpret

C recollect

D introduce

The following text is from Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, a child, has been told by his aunt to paint their house's fence. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.
As used in the text, what does the word "surveyed" most nearly mean?

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A Had questions about

B Was intrigued by

C Looked at

D Ordered

The invention in 1958 of the integrated circuit (or microchip) radically altered the semiconductor industry. In fact, some historians argue that it fundamentally _____ the industry by enabling it to take advantage of mass production methods for the first time.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A obstructed

B transformed

C bypassed

D overwhelmed

Text corpora such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding how _____ a word is in spoken and written English. For instance, one might have a guess about the incidence of the word "day," but only an analysis of a corpus can prove that "day" is the fifth most commonly used noun.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A assertive

B credible

C pervasive

D profound

Module I: Reading and Writing

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