Module I: Reading and Writing

Although critics believed that customers would never agree to pay to pick their own produce on farms, such concerns didn't______ Booker T. Whatley's efforts to promote the practice. Thanks in part to Whatley's determined advocacy, farms that allow visitors to pick their own apples, pumpkins, and other produce can be found throughout the United States.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A enhance

B hinder

C misrepresent

D aggravate

The artisans of the Igun Eronmwon guild in Benin City, Nigeria, typically______ the bronze- and brasscasting techniques that have been passed down through their families since the thirteenth century, but they don't strictly observe every tradition; for example, guild members now use air- conditioning motors instead of handheld bellows to help heat their forges.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A experiment with

B adhere to

C improve on

D grapple with

Set in a world where science fiction tropes exist as everyday realities, Charles Yu's 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe traces a time traveler's quest to find his father. Because the journey at the novel's center is so ______ with the protagonist ricocheting chaotically across time, the reader often wonders whether the pair will ever be reunited.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A haphazard

B premeditated

C inspirational

D fruitless

In a 2019 study, Jeremy Gunawardena and colleagues found that the single- celled protozoan Stentor roeseli not only uses strategies to escape irritating stimuli but also switches strategies when one fails. This evidence of protozoans sophisticatedly "changing their minds" demonstrates that single- celled organisms may not be limited to ______behaviors.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A aggressive

B rudimentary

C evolving

D advantageous

Some economic historians ______ that late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century households in the United States experienced an economy of scale when it came to food purchases—they assumed that large households spent less on food per person than did small households. Economist Trevon Logan showed, however, that a close look at the available data disproves this supposition.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A surmised

B contrived

C questioned

D regretted

Module I: Reading and Writing

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