Module I: Reading and Writing

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The way in which individual elements are balanced within a photographic image tends to affect how viewers perceive it: symmetry tends to give the elements equal importance, asymmetry emphasizes differences, and radial balance (organizing the elements around a central point) emphasizes the center over the periphery. What a photograph conveys is therefore largely ___ how it is balanced.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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reserved for
inhibited by
contingent on
obligated to
Stars form in cloudlike swirls of gas and dust that cannot be touched, but astrophysicist Nia Imara believes these formations need not remain completely ___ to researchers: she uses simulation data and sophisticated 3D printers to produce interactive models of these stellar nurseries.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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regrettable
explicable
intangible
repeatable
Categorical claims about the original function and significance of the Urfa Man—a statue of a human figure found in what is now Turkey and dating from around 11,000 years ago—should be treated ___: we simply do not know enough about the people of the time to say with certainty what the statue meant to them.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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indulgently
skeptically
reverentially
individually
Often, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is given to a single person, such as Irving Langmuir in 1932. But scientists recognized with a Nobel Prize do not often conduct their work in ___ the scientific community. Instead, success in fields like chemistry is usually achieved through direct cooperation with other experts, as was the case for George Smith, who was among those awarded for “the phage display of peptides and antibodies.”
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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isolation from
deference to
collaboration with
competition with
The following text is from José Rizal’s 1891 novel The Reign of Greed (translated by Charles Derbyshire in 1912).
A lady accompanied by her husband entered at that moment and took her place in one of the two vacant boxes. She had the air of a queen and gazed disdainfully at the whole house, as if to say, “I’ve come later than all of you, you crowd of upstarts and provincials, I’ve come later than you!” There are persons who go to the theater like contestants in a mule-race: the last one in wins, and we know very sensible men who would ascend the scaffold rather than enter a theater before the first act.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It illustrates the lady’s contemptuous attitude toward the other people in the theater.
It helps explain why some people are especially perceptive of the social dynamics at theaters.
It emphasizes a character’s dedication to her career.
It conveys the urgency some theater patrons feel to be the first ones to arrive at a performance.
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