Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is from Rudolfo Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima. The young narrator is eating breakfast with his two sisters in their home in rural New Mexico.
I sat across the table from Deborah and Teresa and ate my atole and the hot tortilla with butter. I said very little. I usually spoke very little to my two sisters. They were older than I and they were very close. They usually spent the entire day in the attic, playing dolls and giggling. I did not concern myself with those things.
As used in the text, what does the phrase “concern myself with” most nearly mean?
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Get angry about
Lend
Care about
Create
The percentage of US forest land that a 2023 federal report identified as being either mature or old growth exceeds other recent estimates. Given how little ______ there is among scientists regarding the scope of these categories, this discrepancy shouldn’t be surprising: forest researchers regularly dispute one another’s classifications.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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vigilance
interest
deliberation
consensus
Karam Kang has demonstrated that lobbying does little to alter the probability that a particular energy policy under consideration by the United States Congress will be enacted, but lobbying is not as ______ as this finding seems to suggest. As Kang herself notes, lobbying can shape which policy proposals members of Congress bring forward for consideration in the first place.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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cynical
counterproductive
biased
ineffectual
People sometimes dismiss a claim if it comes from a source they regard as self-interested, but from a strictly logical perspective, the source of a claim is ______; it has no direct bearing on whether the claim is true.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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indisputable
indistinct
implicit
irrelevant
When people think of dinosaurs with feathers, they typically think of winged dinosaurs, such as the bat-like AmbopteryxHowever, many dinosaurs that didn’t have wings also had feathers on their bodies. For instance, research indicates that the wingless, large Yutyramus likely had feathers.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It indicates that the dinosaurs mentioned earlier in the text weren’t the only ones that had feathers.
It reveals that the dinosaurs mentioned earlier in the text used their feathers for an important purpose.
It defines a term related to the type of dinosaur feathers mentioned earlier in the text.
It gives an example of a dinosaur with the characteristics mentioned earlier in the text.
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