Vocab
Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the Crow Tribe and Montana State University _______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) circumvents
B) eclipses
C) fabricates
D) exemplifies
D) exemplifies
In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was
working on converting printed books into a digital
format. He found that some words were distorted
enough that digital scanners couldn’t recognize
them, but most humans could easily read them.
Based on that finding, von Ahn invented a simple
security test to keep automated “bots” out of
websites. The first version of the reCAPTCHA test
asked users to type one known word and one of the
many words scanners couldn’t recognize. Correct
answers proved the users were humans and added
data to the book-digitizing project.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the
text?
A) To discuss von Ahn’s invention of reCAPTCHA
B) To explain how digital scanners work
C) To call attention to von Ahn’s book-digitizing
project
D) To indicate how popular reCAPTCHA is
A) To discuss von Ahn’s invention of reCAPTCHA
“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, _______ 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.”
Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether _______ wanted a bag.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) they
B) one
C) you
D) it
A) they
Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for _______ in the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points up, toward the surface and away from worms’ food sources.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) food:
B) food,
C) food while
D) food
A) food:
The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this _______ with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) synchronization
B) hibernation
C) prediction
D) moderation
A) synchronization
The following text is from Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth. Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park. Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches. On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting
of the scene.
B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an
internal conflict.
C) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then
expands on.
D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.
D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.
Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Martín Chambi is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures of Latin American photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Chambi’s photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Chambi was able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with both dignity and authenticity. Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim?
A) Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.
B) Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high level of technical skill, as seen in his strategic use of illumination to create dramatic light and shadow contrasts.
C) During his lifetime, Chambi was known and celebrated both within and outside his native Peru, as his work was published in places like Argentina, Spain, and Mexico.
D) Some of the peoples and places Chambi photographed had long been popular subjects for Peruvian photographers
A) Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.
In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as “the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the _______ that all life’s virtues derived from this absence.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) soul,” positing
B) soul”: positing
C) soul”; positing
D) soul.” Positing
A) soul,” positing
Scientists believe that, unlike most other species of barnacle, turtle barnacles (Chelonibia testudinari) can dissolve the cement-like secretions they use to attach _______ to a sea turtle shell, enabling the barnacles to move short distances across the shell’s surface.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) it
B) themselves
C) them
D) itself
B) themselves
Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she
doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen,
she _______ that humans will someday need to be
able to live in other environments than those found
on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in
future research missions to the moon.
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) demands
B) speculates
C) doubts
D) establishes
B) speculates
A study by a team including finance professor Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to the actual earnings later reported by those companies. The team found that the greater the exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager’s forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?
A) To summarize the results of the team’s analysis
B) To present a specific example that illustrates the
study’s findings
C) To explain part of the methodology used in the
team’s study
D) To call out a challenge the team faced in
conducting its analysis
C) To explain part of the methodology used in the
team’s study
In the mountains of Brazil, Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha—two plants in the Velloziaceae family—establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock. Plant ecologists Anna Abrahão and Patricia de Britto Costa used microscopic analysis to determine that the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha, which grow directly into the quartzite, have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip; further analysis indicated that these hairs secrete both malic and citric acids. The researchers hypothesize that the plants depend on dissolving underlying rock with these acids, as the process not only creates channels for continued growth but also releases phosphates that provide the vital nutrient phosphorus.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?
A) Other species in the Velloziaceae family are found in terrains with more soil but have root structures similar to those of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha.
B) Though B. tomentosa and B. macrantha both secrete citric and malic acids, each species produces the acids in different proportions.
C) The roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha carve new entry points into rocks even when cracks in the surface are readily available.
D) B. tomentosa and B. macrantha thrive even when transferred to the surfaces of rocks that do not contain phosphates
C) The roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha carve new entry points into rocks even when cracks in the surface are readily available.
British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix. _______ findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) They’re
B) It’s
C) Their
D) Its
C) Their
The classic children’s board game Chutes and Ladders is a version of an ancient Nepalese game, Paramapada Sopanapata. In both games, players encounter “good” or “bad” spaces while traveling along a path; landing on one of the good spaces _______ a player to skip ahead and arrive closer to the end goal.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) allows
B) are allowing
C) have allowed
D) allow
A) allows
Given that the conditions in binary star systems
should make planetary formation nearly impossible,
it’s not surprising that the existence of planets in
such systems has lacked _______ explanation.
Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light on
the subject when they used modeling to determine
a complex set of factors that could support
planets’ development.
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) a discernible
B) a straightforward
C) an inconclusive
D) an unbiased
B) a straightforward
The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit’s 1906 novel The Railway Children.
Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions.
According to the text, what is true about Mother?
A) She wishes that more ladies would visit her.
B) Birthdays are her favorite special occasion.
C) She creates stories and poems for her children.
D) Reading to her children is her favorite activity.
C) She creates stories and poems for her children.
Herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs could grow more than 100 feet long and weigh up to 80 tons, and some researchers have attributed the evolution of sauropods to such massive sizes to increased plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era. However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution, such as when the first large sauropods appeared, when several sauropod lineages underwent further evolution toward gigantism, or when sauropods reached their maximum known sizes, suggesting that _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide affected different sauropod lineages differently.
B) the evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
C) atmospheric carbon dioxide was higher when the largest known sauropods lived than it was when the first sauropods appeared.
D) sauropods probably would not have evolved to such immense sizes if atmospheric carbon dioxide had been even slightly higher
B) the evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
In 1937, Chinese American screen actor Anna May Wong, who had portrayed numerous villains and secondary characters but never a heroine, finally got a starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter of Shanghai, a film that _______ “expanded the range of possibilities for Asian images on screen.”
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) critic, Stina Chyn, claims
B) critic, Stina Chyn, claims,
C) critic Stina Chyn claims
D) critic Stina Chyn, claims,
C) critic Stina Chyn claims
In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations. Hopper’s subsequent career would involve more than just _______ as a pioneering computer programmer, Hopper would help usher in the digital age.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) equations, though:
B) equations, though,
C) equations. Though,
D) equations though
A) equations, though:
Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo _______television’s tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident in his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around teenagers who dress in contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced with current slang. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) repudiates
B) proclaims
C) foretells
D) recants
A) repudiates
The following text is from Maggie Pogue Johnson’s 1910 poem “Poet of Our Race.” In this poem, the speaker is addressing Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author.
Thou, with stroke of mighty pen,
Hast told of joy and mirth,
And read the hearts and souls of men
As cradled from their birth.
The language of the flowers,
Thou hast read them all,
And e’en the little brook
Responded to thy call.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the
text?
A) To praise a certain writer for being especially
perceptive regarding people and nature
B) To establish that a certain writer has read
extensively about a variety of topics
C) To call attention to a certain writer’s careful and
elaborately detailed writing process
D) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spent in nature with a certain writer
A) To praise a certain writer for being especially
perceptive regarding people and nature
In documents called judicial opinions, judges explain the reasoning behind their legal rulings, and in those explanations they sometimes cite and discuss historical and contemporary philosophers. Legal scholar and philosopher Anita L. Allen argues that while judges are naturally inclined to mention philosophers whose views align with their own positions, the strongest judicial opinions consider and rebut potential objections; discussing philosophers whose views conflict with judges’ views could therefore _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) allow judges to craft judicial opinions without needing to consult philosophical works.
B) help judges improve the arguments they put forward in their judicial opinions.
C) make judicial opinions more comprehensible to readers without legal or philosophical training.
D) bring judicial opinions in line with views that are broadly held among philosophers.
B) help judges improve the arguments they put forward in their judicial opinions.
In 1637, the price of tulips skyrocketed in Amsterdam, with single bulbs of rare varieties selling for up to the equivalent of $200,000 in today’s US dollars. Some historians _______ that this “tulip mania” was the first historical instance of an asset bubble, which occurs when investors drive prices to highs not supported by actual demand.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) claiming
B) claim
C) having claimed
D) to claim
B) claim
In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon recovering two years later, _______ forcing an angered Richard from the royal court and precipitating a series of battles later known as the Wars of the Roses.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) Henry resumed his reign,
B) the reign of Henry resumed,
C) Henry’s reign resumed,
D) it was Henry who resumed his reign,
A) Henry resumed his reign,