Words in Context
Cat and Plum Blossoms is an important work of Nihonga, or classical Japanese painting. Unlike Kuroda Seiki, who adopted traditional European methods such as painting with oil on canvas, Hishida Shunsō ______blank traditional Japanese approaches. For instance, Hishida produced Cat and Plum Blossoms by applying color pigments to a silk scroll.
A) distrusted
B) embraced
C) released
D) overlooked
B) embraced
Before it unveiled a massive new gallery in 2009, the Art Institute of Chicago was only able to display about 5% of its art collection. ______blank the museum is able to display close to 30% of its collection.
A) Additionally,
B) For example,
C) Nevertheless,
D) Today,
D) Today,
Located in the northern United States, the Great Lakes Basin contains roughly 35,000 islands. Lake Superior has Grand Island, for example. Lake Michigan has Belle Isle. Lake Huron, though, is home ______blank the largest island of them all: Manitoulin Island.
A) to;
B) to—
C) to
D) to,
C) to
In 1990, California native and researcher Ellen Ochoa left her position as chief of the Intelligent Systems Technology Branch at a NASA research center ______blank the space agency’s astronaut training program.
A) to join
B) is joining
C) joined
D) joins
A) to join
What is the first word of the Chatfield fight song?
Go
Cucurbits, a group of plants that includes squash and melons, relied on mastodons to spread their seeds in the Ice Age. When these animals died out, cucurbits faced extinction in turn, having lost their means of seed dispersal. Around this time, however, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples in North America began raising cucurbits as crops, thus ______blank the plants’ survival.
A) verifying
B) multiplying
C) comforting
D) ensuring
D) ensuring
In most deer species, males grow antlers, and females don’t. ______blank reindeer are different. They are the only deer species in which the females grow antlers, too.
A) Similarly,
B) Next,
C) However,
D) Thus,
C) However,
The algaita is a double reed wind instrument from West Africa. The reed of a wind instrument is the mouthpiece ______blank A double reed contains two pieces of cane that vibrate and produce sound as air passes between them.
A) where sound is made?
B) where is sound made.
C) where sound is made.
D) where is sound made?
C) where sound is made.
Eighteen letters written by Louisa May Alcott, author of the popular novel Little Women (1868), can be found at the New York Historical Society. ______blank letters demonstrate Alcott’s keen business sense in her interactions with publishers.
A) One
B) That
C) This
D) These
D) These
How many clubs and activities are there at Chatfield?
42 (+/- 5)
According to a team of neuroeconomists from the University of Zurich, ease of decision making may be linked to communication between two brain regions, the prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex. Individuals tend to be more decisive if the information flow between the regions is intensified, whereas they make choices more slowly when information flow is ______blank.
A) reduced
B) evaluated
C) determined
D) acquired
A) reduced
Every chemical compound has a spectroscopic fingerprint, a pattern of reflected light unique to that compound. ______blank upon analyzing the light reflected by the bright regions on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, Maria Cristina De Sanctis of Rome’s National Institute of Astrophysics was able to determine that the regions contain large amounts of the compound sodium carbonate.
A) Regardless,
B) Meanwhile,
C) Thus,
D) In comparison,
C) Thus,
Researchers Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley investigated how ______blank In a series of experiments conducted in 2022, they found that people performing small acts of kindness underestimated the positive effect their actions had on others.
A) do people perceive acts of kindness.
B) do people perceive acts of kindness?
C) people perceive acts of kindness?
D) people perceive acts of kindness.
D) people perceive acts of kindness.
The soundtrack to Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala expressively captures the clashing of cultures that happens when ______blank (a young Indian woman from Uganda and a young African American man from Mississippi) meet. Featured throughout the film are songs from Uganda’s Afrigo Band, the Indian composer L. Subramaniam, and the Mississippi blues musician Sam Chatmon.
A) it’s two protagonists
B) its two protagonist’s
C) it’s two protagonist’s
D) its two protagonists
D) its two protagonists
In what year was CSH opened?
1985
Ecologist Exequiel Ezcurra and colleagues found that the inhabitants of the Mexica empire used natural landmarks to track time with a high degree of ______blank. By observing the sun’s position in relation to various points on the mountains surrounding the Basin of Mexico, the Mexica were able to precisely identify the dates when significant events such as solstices occurred.
A) precariousness
B) exactitude
C) resilience
D) inconspicuousness
B) exactitude
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah chronicles the divergent experiences of Ifemelu and Obinze, a young Nigerian couple, after high school. Ifemelu moves to the United States to attend a prestigious university. ______blank Obinze travels to London, hoping to start a career there. However, frustrated with the lack of opportunities, he soon returns to Nigeria.
A) Meanwhile,
B) Nevertheless,
C) Secondly,
D) In fact,
A) Meanwhile,
Humans were long thought to have begun occupying the Peruvian settlement of Machu Picchu between 1440 and 1450 CE. However, a team led by anthropologist Dr. Richard Burger used accelerator mass spectrometry to uncover evidence that it was occupied ______blank 1420 CE, according to Burger, humans were likely inhabiting the area.
A) earlier. In
B) earlier, in
C) earlier, which in
D) earlier in
A) earlier. In
Cheng Dang and her colleagues at the University of Washington recently ran simulations to determine the extent to which individual snow ______blank affect the amount of light reflecting off a snowy surface.
A) grain’s physical properties’
B) grains’ physical properties
C) grains’ physical property’s
D) grains physical properties
B) grains’ physical properties
In what year was E hall added to the school?
2007
Close analysis of the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, has revealed subtle deviations from the artist’s signature techniques. These variations suggest that the work may be that of a student under Vermeer’s tutelage—potentially ______blank our understanding of Vermeer as a solitary artist.
A) negating
B) prefiguring
C) entrenching
D) substantiating
A) negating
In hindsight, given the ideas about the natural world circulating among British scientists in the 1800s, the theory of natural selection was an obvious next step. It may not have been a coincidence, ______blank that Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace arrived at the concept independently. Indeed, contrary to the popular myth of the lone genius, theirs is not the first paradigm-shifting theory to have emerged from multiple scholars working in parallel.
A) however,
B) then,
C) moreover,
D) for example,
B) then,
In 2018, a team of researchers led by Dr. Caitlin Whalen compiled every available measurement of ocean mixing rates from the past two decades. With this novel data set, the team was able to determine how current-driven mixing varies across ______blank and what impact it has on the distribution of heat and nutrients in the ocean.
A) regions,
B) regions:
C) regions;
D) regions
D) regions
In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By reducing the runoff flowing into city sewers, ______
A) the mitigation of both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways has been achieved by bioswales.
B) the bioswales have mitigated both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways.
C) the bioswales’ mitigation of both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways has been achieved.
D) both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways have been mitigated by bioswales.
B) the bioswales have mitigated both street flooding and the resulting pollution of nearby waterways.
What is the address of Chatfield Senior High School?
7227 S Simms Blvd, Littleton, CO 80127