Module I: Reading and Writing

Becoming a member of the organization Indigenous Photograph has helped Ilanegan Bainon (Murut) to _____ his work with an audience beyond Malaysia, where he's from. The organization's database of members is used by photography editors and others in the media industry around the world.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A share

B split

C challenge

D examine

Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space in 1990, astronauts have needed to complete regular missions to repair the telescope and keep it working smoothly. Researchers hope that robots will soon be able to make these repairs. Employing robots instead of humans to make repairs will be helpful, as _____ astronauts to maintain the telescope can be expensive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A forgetting about

B straightening

C relying on

D reducing

In 1776, the United States sent Benjamin Franklin to France to try to win the country's support in the United States' fight for independence from Great Britain. Franklin was very popular in France. This _____ surely helped him to convince France to assist the United States.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A thoughtfulness

B sincerity

C esteem

D controversy

Whatever the general attitude toward William Greaves's 1968 film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Take One and Spike Lee's 1992 film Malcolm X 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 "a vital artifact of its time" and the latter as "electrifying."
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A strangely

B skeptically

C favorably

D neutrally

The creation of Lotte Reiniger's 1926 animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed was _____ process. Over the course of three years, Reiniger and her collaborators painstakingly made more than 250,000 individual images of hand-cut paper silhouettes and repeatedly had to invent entirely new methods and tools to create the special effects Reiniger envisioned.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A an arduous

B a contentious

C a haphazard

D an ineffectual

Module I: Reading and Writing

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