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100
The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx briefly made contact with the asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2020. NASA scientist Daniella Della-Giustina reports that despite facing the unexpected obstacle of a surface mostly covered in boulders, OSIRIS-REx successfully _____ a sample of the surface, gathering pieces of it to bring back to Earth.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) attached
B) collected
C) followed
D) replaced
B) collected
100
In the given triangle, AB=AC and angleABC has a measure of 67°. What is the value of x ?
B) 46
100
“To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, ______blank
Which quotation from “To You” most effectively illustrates the claim?
A) “You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time.”
B) “These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they.”
C) “I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing / but you.”
D) “I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you.”
A) “You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time.”
100
What are the 3 verb tenses?
past, present, future
100
Hiro and Sofia purchased shirts and pants from a store. The price of each shirt purchased was the same and the price of each pair of pants purchased was the same. Hiro purchased 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants for $86, and Sofia purchased 3 shirts and 5 pairs of pants for $166. Which of the following systems of linear equations represents the situation, if x represents the price, in dollars, of each shirt and y represents the price, in dollars, of each pair of pants?
A) 4x + 2y = 86 3x + 5y = 166
B) 4x + 3y = 86 2x + 5y = 166
C) 4x + 2y = 166 3x + 5y = 86
D) 4x + 3y = 166 2x + 5y = 86
A) 4x + 2y = 86 3x + 5y = 166
200
Handedness, a preferential use of either the right or left hand, typically is easy to observe in humans. Because this trait is present but less _____ in many other animals, animal-behavior researchers often employ tasks specially designed to reveal individual animals’ preferences for a certain hand or paw. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) recognizable
B) intriguing
C) significant
D) useful
A recognizable
200
A rectangle has a length of 3 units and a width of 39 units. Which expression gives the area, in square units, of this rectangle?
A) 2(3 + 39)
B) 2(3 x 39)
C) 3 + 39
D) 3 x 39
D) 3 x 39
200
“Ghosts of the Old Year” is an early 1900s poem by James Weldon Johnson. In the poem, the speaker describes experiencing an ongoing cycle of anticipation followed by regretful reflection.
Which quotation from “Ghosts of the Old Year” most effectively illustrates the claim?
A) “The snow has ceased its fluttering flight, / The wind sunk to a whisper light, / An ominous stillness fills the night, / A pause—a hush.”
B) “And so the years go swiftly by, / Each, coming, brings ambitions high, / And each, departing, leaves a sigh / Linked to the past.”
C) “What does this brazen tongue declare, / That falling on the midnight air / Brings to my heart a sense of care / Akin to fright?”
D) “It tells of many a squandered day, / Of slighted gems and treasured clay, / Of precious stores not laid away, / Of fields unreaped.”
B) “And so the years go swiftly by, / Each, coming, brings ambitions high, / And each, departing, leaves a sigh / Linked to the past.”
200
In recent years, economists around the world have created new tools that quantify the overall well-being of a country’s citizens. Economists in India, for example, use an Ease of Living Index. This tool ______ economic potential, sustainability, and citizens’ quality of life.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) measures
B) had measured
C) would have measured
D) will have been measuring
A) measures
200
The front of a roller-coaster car is at the bottom of a hill and is 15 feet above the ground. If the front of the roller-coaster car rises at a constant rate of 8 feet per second, which of the following equations gives the height h, in feet, of the front of the roller-coaster car s seconds after it starts up the hill?
A) h = 8s + 15
300
Anthropologist Kristian J. Carlson and colleagues examined the fossilized clavicle and shoulder bones of a 3.6-million-year-old early hominin known as “Little Foot.” They found that these bones were ____ the clavicle and shoulder bones of modern apes that are frequent climbers, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, suggesting that Little Foot had adapted to life in the trees. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) surpassed by
B) comparable to
C) independent of
D) obtained from
B comparable to
300
Triangle XYZ shown is a right triangle. Which of the following has the same value as sin X?
A) tan X
B) tan Y
C) cos X
D) cos Y
D) cos Y
300
In a study by Mika R. Moran, Daniel A. Rodriguez, and colleagues, residents of Quito, Ecuador, and Lima, Peru, were surveyed about parks in their cities. Of the 618 respondents from Quito, 82.9% indicated that they use the city’s parks, and of the 663 respondents from Lima, 72.7% indicated using city parks. Given that the percentage of Quito respondents who reported living within a 10-minute walk of a park was much lower than that reported by Lima respondents, greater proximity alone can’t explain the difference in park use.
The text makes which point about the difference between the proportions of Quito residents and Lima residents using parks?
A) It was much larger than the researchers conducting the study expected.
B) It is caused by something other than the parks’ proximity to city residents.
C) It could be due to inaccuracies in the survey results.
D) It was calculated using sources that predate the survey.
B) It is caused by something other than the parks’ proximity to city residents.
300
Using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Mercedes López-Morales and colleagues measured the wavelengths of light traveling through the atmosphere of WASP-39b, an exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system. Different molecules absorb different wavelengths of light, and the wavelength measurements showed the presence of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in WASP-39b’s atmosphere. This finding not only offers the first decisive evidence of CO₂ in the atmosphere of an exoplanet but also illustrates the potential for future scientific breakthroughs held by the JWST.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A) It discusses a method used by some researchers, then states why an alternative method is superior to it.
B) It describes how researchers made a scientific discovery, then explains the importance of that discovery.
C) It outlines the steps taken in a scientific study, then presents a hypothesis based on that study.
D) It examines how a group of scientists reached a conclusion, then shows how other scientists have challenged that conclusion.
B) It describes how researchers made a scientific discovery, then explains the importance of that discovery.
300
In the xy-plane, the graph of the linear function f contains the points (0,3) and (7,31). Which equation defines f, where y=f(x)?
A) f(x)=28x + 34
B) f(x)=3x + 38
C) f(x)=4x + 3
D) f(x)=7x + 3
C) f(x)=4x + 3
400
Rejecting the premise that the literary magazine Ebony and Topaz (1927) should present a unified vision of Black American identity, editor Charles S. Johnson fostered his contributors’ diverse perspectives by promoting their authorial autonomy. Johnson’s self-effacement diverged from the editorial stances of W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, whose decisions for their publications were more ______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) proficient C) ambiguous
B) dogmatic D) unpretentious
B) dogmatic
400
An angle has a measure of (9pi)/20 radians. What is the measure of the angle in degrees?
81
400
Many of William Shakespeare’s tragedies address broad themes that still appeal to today’s audiences. For instance, Romeo and Juliet, which is set in the Italy of Shakespeare’s time, tackles the themes of parents versus children and love versus hate, and the play continues to be read and produced widely around the world. But understanding Shakespeare’s so-called history plays can require a knowledge of several centuries of English history. Consequently, ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) many theatergoers and readers today are likely to find Shakespeare’s history plays less engaging than the tragedies.
B) some of Shakespeare’s tragedies are more relevant to today’s audiences than twentieth-century plays.
C) Romeo and Juliet is the most thematically accessible of all Shakespeare’s tragedies.
D) experts in English history tend to prefer Shakespeare’s history plays to his other works.
A) many theatergoers and readers today are likely to find Shakespeare’s history plays less engaging than the tragedies.
400
Philosopher Peter Kivy was a leading figure in musical ______blank evidenced by his belief that instead of evoking particular emotions, such as sadness or joy, compositions elicit a listener’s emotional response to the structure and artistry of the music itself, Kivy’s approach to the study of music was decidedly formalist.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) aesthetics as
B) aesthetics and as
C) aesthetics, as
D) aesthetics. As
D) aesthetics. As
400
An economist modeled the demand Q for a certain product as a linear function of the selling price P. The demand was 20,000 units when the selling price was $40 per unit, and the demand was 15,000 units when the selling price was $60 per unit. Based on the model, what is the demand, in units, when the selling price is $55 per unit?
A) 16,250
B) 16,500
C) 16,750
D) 17,500
A) 16,250
500
Containing over 160 billion base pairs of DNA resulting from polyploidy (whole genome duplication) and accumulation of noncoding DNA without significant deletion, the genome of Tmesipteris oblanceolata (New Caledonian fork fern) is the largest known among eukaryotes—and, given the high biological costs of extremely large genomes, is unlikely to be ______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) protracted
B) superseded
C) curtailed
D) obviated
B) superseded
500
Point F lies on a unit circle in the xy-plane and has coordinates (1,0). Point G is the center of the circle and has coordinates (0,0). Point H also lies on the circle and has coordinates (-1,y), where y is a constant. Which of the following could be the positive measure of angle FGH, in radians?
A) (27pi)/2
B) (29pi)/2
C) 24pi
D) 25pi
D) 25pi
500
In the 1980s, many musicians and journalists in the English-speaking world began to draw attention to music from around the globe—such as mbaqanga from South Africa and quan họ from Vietnam—that can’t be easily categorized according to British or North American popular music genres, typically referring to such music as “world music.” While some scholars have welcomed this development for bringing diverse musical forms to prominence in countries where they’d previously been overlooked, musicologist Su Zheng claims that the concept of world music homogenizes highly distinct traditions by reducing them all to a single category.
Which finding about mbaqanga and quan họ, if true, would most directly support Zheng’s claim?
A) Mbaqanga and quan họ developed independently of each other and have little in common musically.
B) Mbaqanga is significantly more popular in the English-speaking world than quan họ is.
C) Mbaqanga and quan họ are now performed by a diverse array of musicians with no direct connections to South Africa or Vietnam.
D) Mbaqanga and quan họ are highly distinct from British and North American popular music genres but similar to each other.
A) Mbaqanga and quan họ developed independently of each other and have little in common musically.
500
In 2021, Mexican biologist Martha Lydia Macías-Rubalcava led a review of the scientific literature related to endophytic fungi (i.e., fungi that live inside a host ______ researching 120 endophytic fungi–produced compounds, she found that their phytotoxicity can make them viable alternatives to chemical herbicides for controlling weeds.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) plant). By
B) plant), by
C) plant) and by
D) plant) by
A) plant). By
500
In the given system of equations, p is a constant. If the system has no solution, what is the value of p?
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