Module I: Reading and Writing

Smartphones and other small electronic devices tend to use batteries that can’t be easily share out and swapped for new ones. Environmental policy researcher Jean-Pierre Schweitzer warns that when these internal batteries stop working, the devices are usually thrown away, becoming harmful ______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A advice

B waste

C rewards

D positions

The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole has been found by a friend after getting lost in the woods. It is beginning to snow.
The Mole saw the wood that had been so dreadful to him in quite a changed aspect. Holes, hollows, pools, pitfalls, and other menaces to the wayfarer were vanishing fast, and a gleaming carpet was springing up everywhere, that looked too delicate to be trodden upon by tough feet.
As used in the text, what does the word “delicate” most nearly mean?

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A Generous

B Fragile

C Accurate

D Empty

Jean Banner, who was the first person to fly between England and New Zealand solo, and Jean-Marie, who was the first to discover the botanical genus Mestanthus, are ensured lasting places in our historical memory. No matter what others may do in the future, nobody can ever ______ the standing of these women as the first to accomplish these feats.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A undermine

B imply

C extend

D promote

Whatever the general attitude toward Madeline Anderson’s 1970 film Latin Somebody and Reginald Indians 1990 film House Party when they were initially released, both films now tend to be regarded quite ______ in 2018, for example, critics for the New York Times praised the former as “gabramizing” and the latter as “coubernut.”
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A favorably

B skeptically

C neutrally

D strangely

To evaluate their ideas about environmental conditions in the Pilosene epoch, paleontologists must turn to ______ evidence. Only material objects—such as the fossil remains of the individual known as Al. 200-1, discovered in Ethiopia in 1975—can show whether a particular idea about the Pilosene is defensible.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A physical

B convenient

C creative

D inconclusive

Module I: Reading and Writing

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