Vocabulary/pronouns
The Chilean volcano Calabozos is located in __________ area. Therefore, the risk of loss of human life in the event of an eruption is minimal.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. a hazardous
B. an active
C. mountainous
D. a remote
a remote
Contemporaries of American modernist poet H.D. focused only on her important contributions to the Imagist movement in the 1920s, taking ______ view of her work. However, she wrote in a variety of forms and genres, from short, lyrical works to complex, booklength poems.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. an expansive
B. a limited
C. an imaginative
D. a complicated
B. A Limited
The following text is from Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian is seeing his portrait, painted by Basil Hallward, for the first time.
Dorian made no answer, but passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before.
According to the text, what is true about Dorian?
Question 6 Answer Choices
Dorian is distracted by the beauty of the painting.
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Dorian does not recognize his own image.
Dorian is prone to embarrassment.
Dorian is distracted by the beauty of the painting.
Japanese origamist Akira Yoshizawa is considered the grandmaster of origami, creating more than 50,000 models as well as wet-folding, the most well-known of his invented techniques. ______ dampening the paper before folding, leading to origami models with rounder and more sculpted looks.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Question 19 Answer Choices
Text 1
An animal is said to have a theory of mind when it is able to act according to the mental states of other individuals. Psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff studied whether chimpanzees have such a theory of mind. They showed videos of human actors struggling with various problems. The chimpanzees were able to select photographs that showed the best tool to solve each actor’s problem.
Text 2
Biologist Daniel J. Povinelli and psychologists Kurt E. Nelson and Sarah T. Boysen have argued that previous research into whether chimpanzees have a theory of mind have not adequately addressed alternative explanations for the chimpanzees’ behaviors. Specifically, it may be the case that chimpanzees are following learned behaviors in a known environment, rather than applying a theory of mind in a novel situation.
Based on the texts, how would Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (Text 2) most likely respond to Premack and Woodruff (Text 1)?
Uruguayan-Spanish author Carmen Posadas has written the children’s books Juego de Niños (Child’s Play) and La Cinta Roja (The Red Ribbon). Currently, ______ available in over fifty countries and thirty languages.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Since the 1950s, scientists have known that rapid eye movement, or REM, occurs when someone is sleeping. Previous studies attempting to determine the meaning of these eye movements have been unsuccessful in part because these studies relied on human subjects recalling the content of their dreams. A recent study by physiologists Yuta Senzai and Massimo Scanziani has avoided this issue by studying dreaming mice instead. Their results suggest that REM is correlated to changes in direction during the dream.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the overall structure of the text?
A. It names a problem in the approach taken by Senzai and Scanziani.
B. It introduces the difficulty that the study by Senzai and Scanziani was designed to bypass.
C. It presents the findings of studies done prior to the study by Senzai and Scanziani.
D. It clarifies how others studying REM sleep interpret the study by Senzai and Scanziani.
B. It introduces the difficulty that the study by Senzai and Scanziani was designed to bypass.
The following text is from Frederick Marryat’s 1847 novel The Children of the New Forest.
The old forester lay awake the whole of this night, reflecting how he should act relative to the children; he felt the great responsibility that he had incurred, and was alarmed when he considered what might be the consequences if his days were shortened. What would become of them—living in so sequestered a spot that few knew even of its existence—totally shut out from the world, and left to their own resources?
Based on the text, what is true about the children?
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During a meeting, a group of twelve young deaf people shared their feelings of isolation and their desire for support. In 1988, the group worked together to form Action Deaf Youth, an ______ provides services and programs for deaf children and youth throughout Northern Ireland.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Electroreception is the ability of an animal to sense the flow of electricity around it by using specialized organs known as electroreceptors. Most species known to use electroreception are fish, including many sharks, elephant fishes, and eels. However, electroreception is not limited to fish. Monotremes, a group of mammals that includes the platypus and some echidnas, have electroreceptors on or near their mouths to help locate prey. There is also some evidence that bees can detect static electricity on flowers.
Which choice best describes the function of the third sentence in the overall structure of the text?
Question 4 Answer Choices
The following text is Baron George Gordon Byron’s poem “Answer to ——’s Professions of Affection,” written around 1814. The poem is addressed to an unknown person.
In hearts like thine ne’er may I hold a place
Till I renounce all sense, all shame, all grace—
That seat,—like seats, the bane of Freedom’s realm,
But dear to those presiding at the helm—
Is basely purchased, not with gold alone;
Add Conscience, too, this bargain is your own—
‘T is thine to offer with corrupting art
The rotten borough of the human heart.
What is the main idea of the text?
Question 8 Answer Choices
The speaker is thinking of purchasing a seat.
In 1986, after a 56-day expedition, Ann Bancroft became the first woman to reach the North Pole. Her experience as a physical education teacher and her leadership of the first all-female team to cross the ice to the South ______ her to create a foundation that supports girls in pursuing their dreams.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Neurons respond to stimuli from sensory organs or other neurons. Learning occurs when neurons change how they respond to stimuli based on previous experience, which is a property of memory. Electrical engineers seek to replicate similar processes in their development of computer memory. Recently, research by electrical engineer Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo has demonstrated that vanadium dioxide (VO2) has a similar memory property to that of neurons, suggesting that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Question 14 Answer Choices
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the body’s response to an infection. These infections are typically bacterial but may be fungal, parasitic, or viral. The body’s response to these infections leads to increased inflammation and organ damage. This damage in turn results in a weakened immune system, which increases the likelihood of reinfection. In a recent study, a team of doctors and pharmacologists led by Shubham Soni claims that administering ketone esters can reduce inflammation and immune system weakening caused by sepsis.
Which finding from the team led by Soni, if true, would most directly support its claim?
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American artist Simone Leigh creates art in various mediums, including sculptures, video, and ______ the themes and images in her artwork, Leigh has emphasized that Black women are her primary audience and that they would be familiar with the allusions in her work.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Question 18 Answer Choices