Module I: Reading and Writing

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Folk and traditional art can take a wide variety of forms, including arts as ______ one another as storytelling and quilting. The National Heritage Fellowship was created to honor people for their accomplishments in these diverse arts and includes among its winners the gospel singer Willie Mae Ford Smith.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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useful to
humble about
different from
confused with
The following text is adapted from John Mathew's 1926 short story, "Mr. Bradford Teaches Sunday School." Mr. Bradford is driving through the countryside in Florida.
The moss in the towering water oaks had become enlivened with a verdant sheen of silver and hung like festoons of carnival or like funeral decorations for the mourning of the dead. The pine green was resplendent. The bald cypresses spread themselves along the water courses while the willows wept as they always did.
Mr. Bradford was conscious of this gorgeous display of nature.
As used in the text, what does the word "display" most nearly mean?
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Exhibition
Concealment
Similarity
Preposterousness
Possessing an outstanding collection of public art, Chicago has everything from monumental sculptures like Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate across Millennium Park to innovative street art like Annie 126's mural High Tide located on South State Street. The ______ public art on display in the city can thus satisfy any art lover.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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controversy over
breadth of
apathy toward
comfusion about
As with other river deltas, the Danube River delta is ______: it is a constantly evolving network of channels and strips of land that change in size and shape as the river deposits new sedimentary particles where the river meets the waters of the Black Sea.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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immutable
uncultivated
sustainable
dynamic
A survey found that in April 2022, 7.8 percent of subscribers to fashion and apparel services canceled their subscriptions. Reducing this kind of subscriber turnover is especially challenging for subscription sellers: customers' initial enthusiasm for a subscription is often quick to ______ and sellers must thus devise other incentives to bolster retention.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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subside
rejuvenate
converge
resolve
The Vrouw Maria is just one of approximately three million known historical shipwrecks spread throughout the world's oceans, and their impact on sea life and underwater ecosystems is of great interest to researchers. Rachel Mugge and colleagues were particularly curious about the effects of wooden shipwrecks on seafloor microbial communities. The researchers studied two wooden shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico by placing pieces of pine and oak between zero and 200 meters away from each shipwreck to collect samples of three kinds of microbes: bacteria, archaea, and fungi. They found that across the three microbial communities, peak diversity and richness was observed on pine and oak samples placed approximately 125 meters from the shipwrecks.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
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It states the number of known shipwrecks, describes the historical significance of one of those shipwrecks, and then comments on the various microbes found at the shipwreck site.
It introduces a study of microbial communities near shipwrecks that has received significant scholarly attention, summarizes the results of that study, and then describes a research team's reaction to the study.
It names a famous historical shipwreck, describes the type of wood used to build that ship, and then explains how that wood type influences underwater microbial communities.
It notes a general scientific interest in shipwrecks' ecological effects, describes a specific study related to that interest, and then states one of the study's findings.
The Federalist Papers are a collection of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. They were published pseudonymously in the New-York Packet and other New York newspapers in 1787-88 and argue that New Yorkers should vote to ratify the proposed United States Constitution. Though the authorship of most of the individual essays is certain, that of a few is in question: for instance, while No. 6, "Concerning Dangers from Dissensions between the States," was surely penned by Hamilton, No. 62, "The Senate," may have been written by either Hamilton or Madison.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
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The text lists the authors of a collection of essays and then notes that some of the essays were written by one person, while others were written by two people.
The text describes why a collection of essays is notable and then details its publication history.
The text summarizes an argument made in a collection of essays and then suggests that the essays' authors didn't unanimously agree with the argument.
The text mentions a collection of essays and then points out something about these essays that is not completely known.
Community science, which involves professional scientists collaborating with amateur science enthusiasts to study a topic, is often an effective and engaging way to conduct research. It can allow people to assist with conservation efforts, provide youth with learning experiences outside of the classroom, and increase the amount of data researchers can collect. This approach was essential to the success of a study by biologist Grace Herzel and colleagues of butterfly color and its relation to behavior which included findings from hundreds of students and community members in northwestern Arkansas.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
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It argues for a new approach to scientific research, comments on the public's opinion about the approach, and then describes how that approach was applied in a certain study.
It introduces the topic of a scientific study, describes the study's importance, and then presents the study's results.
It describes the development of a type of scientific collaboration, shows how that type of collaboration has been used in a particular field of study, and then suggests future collaborative projects.
It identifies a particular approach to research, lists some benefits of that approach, and then mentions a study in which that approach was used.
The following text is adapted from Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The narrator is traveling by boat with Harris and another friend.
[Harris] told us anecdotes of how he had gone across the English Channel when it was so rough that the passengers had to be tied into their beds, and he and the captain were the only two living souls on board who were not ill. Sometimes it was he and the second mate who were not ill; but it was generally he and one other man. If not he and another man, then it was he by himself.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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Harris is worried that the captain will start to feel sick during this boat trip.
Harris has a hard time remembering his first trip across the English Channel when his friends ask about it.
When Harris speaks of an earlier trip, he often changes the details but always brags about his own wellness.
Harris spent most of his time with a particular passenger during a previous boat trip.
"Tomato" is an example of a loanword - that is, a word that originated in one language and was later adopted by another. The word came to English indirectly from tomate, the Spanish word for the widely cultivated plant. Spanish had borrowed it from Nahuatl, an Indigenous language of Central Mexico, in which the word's original form is tomatl. "Maize" is also Indigenous in origin and entered English through Spanish, but in this case, the original source was Taino, a language of the Caribbean islands, in which the word for the corn plant is mahís
The author makes which point about the Spanish language?
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It has borrowed words from Indigenous languages and contributed words to them.
Its contribution to English vocabulary roughly equals the collective contribution by Indigenous languages.
It adopted Nahuatl and Taino words in approximately equal numbers.
It has served as a medium through which Indigenous languages have influenced English.
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