Reading Comprehension
Deciding that none of the nominees was ______________ the award, the film committee began reviewing a new group of candidates with better qualifications.
worthy of
Which is the best version of the italicized portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?
(3) Much of the freight their trucks carried in the early years were fruit grown in the San Joaquin valley
Which of the following fractions is equal to 0.06?
Which of the following expressions is 5 times as much as the sum of r and s?
(r + s) × 5
Function g is defined by g(x) = 3(x + 8). What is the value of g(12)?
Nuclear engineer Meena Mutyala argues that nuclear power is an environmentally ______________ technology, operating with essentially no emissions.
benign
Which is the best version of the italicized portion of sentence 10 (reproduced below)?
Though not the first nectarine—the fruit had existed in
China for two millennia; the Sun Grand was unique in
being hardy enough to ship great distances.
millennia—the
A club has 36 members. If each member donates 12 items for an auction, how many items will there be in the auction?
432
In the xy-plane, a line crosses the y-axis at the point (0, 3) and passes through the point (4, 5). Which of the following is an equation of the line?
y = 1/2 x + 3
Which of the following expressions is equivalent to (x + 7)(x2 – 3x + 2)?
x3 + 4x2 – 19x + 14
Sherry Turkle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been writing about humantechnology interactions for the past three decades. She has become increasingly wary of the capacity of online spaces to fulfill us in the ways we seem to want them to. According to Turkle, part of the problem with the internet is that it encourages self-invention. “At the screen,” she writes in Alone Together (2011), “you have a chance to write yourself into the person you want to be and to imagine others as you wish them to be, constructing them for your purposes. It’s a seductive but dangerous habit of mind.”
The main purpose of the passage is to
present a sharp critique
In context, which is the best version of the italicized portion of sentence 10 (reproduced below)?
Ultimately, the spider was determined to be a member of a previously unknown species.
(As it is shown now)
If Manuel deposits 25% of $130 into a savings account, what is the amount of his deposit?
$32.50
4(x + 5) + 4x + 8
Which of the following is equivalent to the expression above?
4(2x + 7)
Which of the following expressions is equivalent to 3x2 + 6x – 24?
3(x – 2)(x + 4)
The neighborhood of Harlem in the twenties offered up a cultural richness that made everything seem possible. Jervis Anderson, writing in the New Yorker in 1981, noted, “Harlem has never been more high-spirited and engaging than it was during the nineteen-twenties. Blacks from all over America and the Caribbean were pouring in, reviving the migration that had abated toward the end of the war—word having reached them about the ‘city,’ in the heart of Manhattan, that blacks were making their own.”
Based on the passage, Anderson puts “city” in quotation marks most likely to
signal a nonliteral usage
Which is the best version of the italicized portion of sentence 13 (reproduced below)?
Agile and athletic, C. rechenbergi rear up on their back legs and lash out when attacked—or it somersaults away, rolling like tumbleweed.
they somersault
A machine is currently set to a feed rate of 5.921 inches , then the value of p is between which of the per minute (IPM). The machinist changes this setting to 6.088 IPM. By how much did the machinist increase the feed rate?
0.167 IPM
Which of the following values is equivalent to 5–3?
1/125
Which of the following best describes the range of
y = –2x4 + 7?
y ≤ 7
Technology has scrambled the lines between public and private. Cellphones make our most intimate conversations available to anyone within earshot, while headphones create zones of pure solitude even in the midst of the liveliest crowd. Smartphones and tablets allow us to spend time with art without ever leaving the office, while sophisticated new robotsenable people who are house-bound to participate in live events remotely.
Which of the following would be most similar to the examples the author provides in the passage?
A person’s unfiltered first reaction to a major event becomes widely known because that person posts it online.
Which version of the italicized portion of sentence 10 (reproduced below) provides the most effective introduction to the last paragraph?
Clifton’s powerful and innovative poems have been widely recognized and appreciated.
many gifts as a writer and teacher have
What is 0.8637 rounded to the nearest hundredth?
0.86
3x – 2y = 15
x = 3
The two lines given by the equations above intersect in the xy-plane. What is the value of the y-coordinate of the
point of intersection?
–3
Which of the following equations is equivalent to 2 raised to the power of 5 x equals 75x = 7?
x=log27/5