Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is adapted from Yone Noguchi's 1914 memoir The Story of Yone Noguchi. Noguchi is returning home after eleven years abroad.
I reached Tsushima, my native town, at evening.
I frightened my old father at the station, who was actually trying to find me among some other people. There is no wonder that he could not recognise me: I must have changed a great deal.
As used in the text, what does the word "find" most nearly mean?
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Locate
Reveal
Persuade
Embarrass
The ____ Keshni Kashyap's book Tina's Mouth has been very positive. Many reviewers have praised the book, and it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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inspiration for
reception of
neglect of
confusion about
Some social scientists argue that while a belief in the importance of reason and progress is key to democracy, the public's understanding of history is also central to its subsequent comprehension of a state's politics, and if an electorate is to function, historical issues cannot remain the dominion only of academics. History is too ______ to leave to historians alone.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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respectable
complex
accessible
critical
A speaker at a recent children's book publishing conference noted that, while many illustrators do excellent work, in her mind, no one has ever ______ Jerry Pinkney's work as the illustrator of The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South; there is no better example of the form, according to the speaker.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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cited
eclipsed
augmented
convened
The Village Politicians, painted in the realist style by Wilhelm Leibl, depicts a group of peasants clustered together in conversation and emphasizes accuracy in its portrayal of the experiences of ordinary working people. This style largely ______ the conventions of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Thomas Couture, which instead accentuated their subjects' positive traits by, for example, placing them in staged settings with expensive looking decorations and presenting them with smooth, unblemished skin.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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rejected
imitated
epitomized
extended
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