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Section 1, Module 1: Reading and Writing

The following text is from Mark Twain's 1876 novel

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, a child, has ■
As used in the text, what does the word "surveyed"
been told by his aunt to paint their house's fence.
most nearly mean?
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of
[@ Looked at
whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and al
settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of [ @ Had questions about
board fence nine feet high.
[© Organized

[ @ Was captivated by

Though most studies of the effect of altitude on

blood chemistry usually concentrated on people who
El
live about sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al- Which choice completes the text with the most logical
Sweedan and Moath Alhaj have instead chosen the and precise word or phrase?
path [ @ predictable
in their recent work of studying the blood of people
who live below sea level, in locations such as the [@ timeworn
California towns of Salton City and Imp

[ © innovative

[ @ idealistic

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The Gleaners, painted in the realist style by Jean

Fran ois Millet, depicts peasants picking stray wheat II
from a field after the harvest. The realists' emphasis Which choice completes the text with the most logical
on accurately portraying the experiences of average and precise word or phrase?
working people was largely a rejection of the
romantic style evident in many paintings by Jerome- [ @ counteract
Martin Langlois, which instead their
subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all
imperfection. [ @ accentuate

[© rectify

[@ obscure

Although our knowledge of the Pliocene epoch and

the lives of the hominids during this time was once ,
recent analyses of fossils like that of the individual Which choice completes the text with the most
known as KNM-KP 271, discovered in Kenya in logical and precise word or phrase?
1963, have sharpened our picture of what a day in the
life of KNM-KP 271 may have looked like. [@ nebulous

[ @ intricate

[© unprecedented

[ @ concrete

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In what is now Washington state, the Tulalip

Cultural Center. Relying on traditional knowledge to
guide the design of exhibits, this institution present Which best describes the overall structure of the text?
Tulalip history and culture to the tribe's citizens.
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a tribe in
@ It discusses two cultural centers operated
by tribes, then compares them with non
Oklahoma, employs
Indigenous institutions that present Indigenous
a similar strategy in its own cultural center. Both
exhibits.
centers contrast with museums that aren't Indigenous
led; when displaying Indigenous artifacts, such
museums tend to anticipate mainly non-Indigenous @ It describes how tribal cultural centers
audiences and rely on Euro-centric strategies for designed exhibits of a particular set of
designing exhibits. artifacts, then analyzes how non-Indigenous
institutions designed exhibits of the same
artifacts.

© It outlines an early strategy for exhibit design

used by one tribal cultural center, then explain
a newer strategy used by a different tribal
cultural center.

@ It examines how tribal citizens responded

to exhibits at tribal cultural centers, then
speculates how non-Indigenous audiences
would respond to the same exhibits.

Luang Prabang has high pedestrian traffic, but

simply replicating a feature of Luang Prabang II
associated wit walkability-e.g., its human-scaled Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
architecture may be insufficient to induce increased
walking in other cities. As urbanist Mariela Alfonzo
@ To describe the effect of human-scaled
architecture on any given city's walkability
argues, our understanding of individuals' decision-
making about whether to walk is insufficiently
robust: some studies emphasize the role of local @ To explain why it is challenging to compare
norms, others the role of demographic the amount of pedestrian traffic in different
characteristics, and so on, but walking decisions are cities
made in complex context in which multiple
conditions and needs inform individuals' choices. © To present a claim about how
individuals' decision-making about
walking can be improved

@ To discuss the difficulty of identifying a reliable

way to increase walking in any given city

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In Hooc4k, an Indigenous language from the Mid

Atlantic region of what is now the United States, II
okayeke means "bad," whereas ati okayeye'tesel Which choice best describes the function of the
means "bad houses." This phenomenon, in which underlined part?
an element of a root word is repeated, sometimes
with modification, within another word that is ® It elaborates on the description of
related to the root word, is called reduplication. In reduplication by exampling how it works in the
this case, the element "ye" in okavake gets specific Hooc4k word mentioned earlier.
reQeated in ati
okayeye'tesel. There are many examples of this type @ It provides English translation of the Hooc4k
of reduplication in Hooc4k. word mentioned earlier.

© It acknowledges that Hooc4k has some

important exceptions to the general pattern
described earlier.

@ It emphasizes how frequently reduplication

occurs in Hooeqk.

Researcher Cesar A. Hidalgo, Elisa Castaner, and

Andres Sevtsuk created a computer model to According to the text, what is one potential drawback
predict the mix of businesses and places of interest of Hidalgo and colleagues' method?
found in a given neighborhood. The team used data
from the Google Places API service to help identify @ It depends upon data that are likely to be
furniture stores, florists, and other businesses and outdated.
map their locations. This approach has some
limits-data from Places API tend to be restricted to @ It is based on recent advancements from other
places that the customer facing-but the data set fields that have yet to be applied outside of
nonetheless provides an extremely reliable source those contexts.
to study colocation patterns of neighborhood
amenities. © It is likely to contribute to inaccurate
identifications of the boundaries of specific
neighborhoods.

@ It may lead to conclusions that are not

reflective of all the amenities in a given
neighborhood.

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The groundbreaking Negro Ensemble Company (NEC),

founded in 1967, produced Paul Carter Harrison's Ill
award-winning play The Great MacDaddy in 1974. According to the text, how did Hooks and Ward
The company was cofounded by Robert Hooks, an initially meet?
actor, producer, and activist, and actor and (®
playwright Douglas Turner Ward, who had met Hooks and Ward participated in the
while performing in a 1960 touring production of same workshop at NEC.
Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. They
shared a vision of a theater company that would @ Harrison introduced Hooks to Ward at a
nurture and showcase the work of Black theater performance of The Great MacDaddy.
professionals. Since its beginning, NEC has provided
a forum for the voices © Hooks and Ward attended the same
of Harrison and other Black playwrights through performance of The Great MacDaddy.
workshops and performances.
@ Hooks and Ward were both actors in
a production of A Raisin in the Sun.

Poems is an 1895 collection of poetry by Frances

E.W. Harper. In one of Harper's poems, the speaker
m
Which quotation from Poems most effectively
criticizes activists who champion humanitarian causes illustrates the claim?
in other countries while overlooking local concerns,
saying @ "God bless our native land, / Her homes and
children bless, / Oh may she ever stand/ For
truth and righteousness." (from "God Bless
Our Native Land")

@ "Men may tread down the poor and lowly/

May crush them in anger and hate / But surely
the mills of God's justice / Will grind out the
grist of their fate." (from "An Appeal to My
Countrywomen")

© "Say not the age is hard and cold-/ I think it

brave and grand/ When men of diverse sects
and creeds / Are clasping hand in hand." (from
"The Present Age")

@ "When ye plead for the wrecked and fallen, /

The exile from far-distant shores, / Remember
that men are still wasting / Life's crimson
around your own doors." (from "An Appeal to
My Countrywomen")

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Impact of Four Key Industries on Oklahoma Economy in 2017

Approximate total Number of people Average contribution per
Industry
contribution by industry employed by industry employee by industry
Professional services $7,694,000,000 69,846 $110,157
Tribal economic activity $7,312,400,000 51,674 $141,510
Administration/waste $5,830,600,000 96,964 $60,132
Wholesale trade $10,723,400,000 58,346 $183,790

m
The Cherokee Nation, the Seminole Nation, and the
more than thirty other tribes in Oklahoma operate
numerous businesses and generate billions of dollars Which choice most effectively uses data from the table
in revenue. An economics student is researching the to complete the comparison?
tribes' collective activity as a single industry. The
student wants to compare the average amount that @ below wholesale trade but above both
industry contributed per employee to Oklahoma's professional service and administration/waste.
economy with the average amount contributed per
employee by three other industries. Looking at the @ above all three of the four industries shown in
table, the student finds that tribal economic activity the table.
contributed over $141,000 per employee, on
average, ranking it © below all three of the four industries shown in
table.

@ above either administration/waste or

professional services and nearly equal to
wholesale trade.

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Forest Area for Three

Land Use Capability Classes in the
m
Chorotega Region, Costa Rica Which choice most effectively uses data from the
graph to complete the assertion?
1,050
,.......975
® difference between the forest cover area in
Class I-V and in Class VI in 2000.

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t /
-s.
J 900
. C.I 825
.JCIJ,
0
-Ei 750
Q 600
CI
Js
675
525
@ increase in the forest cover area for all classes
from 1979 to 2000.

-.
co
;:::1
tT
450 © decrease in the forest cover area for all classes
t/J
'-' 375 from 1960 to 1979.
co 300
s- . 225
C IJ

<i:: @ similarity in forest cover area in Class I-V and

150
75 Class VII in 1986.
0
1960 1979 1986 2000
Year
......._ Class VI (severe limitations on
use for crops)
- -o - Class VII (very severe
limitations on use for crops)
···O·· Class I-IV (valuable for crops)

To understand the extent of deforestation in the

Chorotega Region of Costa Rica, Juan Pablo Arroyo
Mora and colleagues used aerial photography and
remote sensing data to track changes in the forest
cover area across different land use capability class
(categories that indicate possible uses of forest land.)
Due to the Chorotega region's accessibility, various
types of forest areas were converted to cattle practices
as rising international meat prices drove a cattle
ranching boom in the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid
1980s, however, increased public awareness and
environmental reforms, along with a decline in meat
prices, engendered a natural forest regrowth, as
evident by the

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Veronice L. Bura, Akito Y. Kawahara, and Jayne E.

Yack investigated the evolution and function of m
Which finding, if true, would most directly support
sound production in silk moth and hawk moth
caterpillars. They found that during harmless Bura and colleagues' claim?
simulated attacks on isolated caterpillars, 33% of the
@ In most case, the sound that caterpillar species
tested species
produced during simulated attacks was not
produced sound, which ranged from clicks in
produced by other caterpillar species during
Manduca pellenia to whistles in Rhodiniafugax.
simulated attacks.
Although some insects use sound to communicate
with members
@ Chickens and yellow warblers, two predators
of the same species, the researchers claim that the
of caterpillars, have been observed to stop
caterpillar sounds recorded in their study are directed
their attacks in response to caterpillars sounds.
primarily at predators.
© Caterpillar clicks were emitted in a frequency
of detectable by birds that prey on caterpillar,
but caterpillar whistles were not.

@ Each caterpillar species tended to produce

one sound during simulated attacks, although
individuals occasionally made a variety of
other sounds during simulated attacks as well.

m
Which choice most logically completes the text?
The British Bronze Age began when @ some hoards contained no gold, as was the
sophisticated techniques for making tools, case for the Parc-y-Meirch hoard.
weapons, and other objects from metal were
introduced to the British Isles around 2500 BCE,
@ most Bronze Age gold objects were melted
and it lasted until around 700 BCE. In Britain
down so that the gold could be reused.
during this time, collections of
valuable metal objects (called hoards) were
sometimes buried for safekeeping. Some stayed
© the skills needed to make tools and weapeons
buried for many centuries, such as the Parc-y-Meirch from bronze were to adapt to making
decorative items from gold.
hoard, wh was unearthed around 1868, and the
Fittleworth hoard, discovered in 1995. And although
@ some hoards were found as a result of artifacts
the period is known as the Bronze Age, some hoards,
being dug up by accident.
like the Fittleworth hoard, contained decorative
objects made of gold; gold was much rarer than
bronze, however, and thus it is not surprising that

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Section 1, Module 1: Reading and Writing

The state of North Dakota has designated the

spiny water flea as an invasive species that could
outcompete some of the state's native species. Many Which choice most logically completes the text?
other states draw similar distinctions between
@ It's useful at present for North Dakota to
invasive and native species. But researchers
distinguish between invasive and native
Alejandro Camacho and Jason McLachlan have
species in some instances but not in the case
pointed out that Earth's climate is changing in ways
of the spiny water flea.
that challenge such designations. Climate changes
may cause animals to leave their current ranges and
establish new ones. @ North Dakota was previously home to some
Climate changes may also create good habitats in spiny water flea but they were outcompeted by
areas where a species couldn't live previously. These invasive species.
observations suggest that
© state such as North Dakota may need to
reevaluate their classifications of
species.

@ North Dakota should coordinate with other

states to protect their native species from
invasive species.

Water boils at around 212°F at sea level, but in

Highland, Utah (elevation: 4,977 feet above sea
level), it boils at around 202°F. Food writer J. Kenji Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
Lopez-Alt, who explores the science behind cooking, the conventions of Standard English?
that [@ explains
lower boiling points at higher elevations "can wreak
all sorts of havoc on recipes."
[@ explain

[© have explained

[ @ are explaining

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It is widely
Modern lmown that NewaYork
Art (MoMA) City's Museum
vast collection of oil of m
Whic h choice completes the text so that it conforms to
paintings, including Franz Marc's The World Cow the conventions of Standard English?
and Katherine S. Dreier's Abstract Portrait of Marcel
Duchamp. [@ housing J
[@ tohouse J
[© to have housed J
[@ houses J

Lily Everett and Mary Foote were among the 300

artists who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, a m
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
groundbreaking New York City art exhibition that
introduced modernism to American audience. Marcel the conventions of Standard English?
Duchamp's abstract cubist aesthetic received the
most skepticism form critics, as represented [@ these J
a radical departure from the more realistic painting
style that was popular at the time. [@ they J
[© we J
it J

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Section 1, Module 1: Reading and Writing

In Moscow, Russia, the average temperature is 62.6

degrees Fahrenheit in June, to 66.6 degree in
m
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
July, and then dips slightly to 62.6 degrees in August. the conventions of Standard English?

[@ has risen

[@ rises

[© rising

[@ rose

After finding information about Major Robert

Odell Owens, who represented New York in the Ea
United States House of Representatives, the Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
student the conventions of Standard English?
discovered biographical sketches of two other Black
Americans who served in Josiah Thomas
Walls of Florida and Thomas Ezekiel Miller of South
[@ Congress.
J
Carolina. [@ Congress:
J
[© Congress;
J
[@ Congress
J

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The first documented use of the English word

"depart" is attributed to poet Geoffrey Chaucer's 1386
m
work "The Parson's Tale." However, Chaucer didn't Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
write
Modernin English; he wrote it what we now call
Middle English, which was commonly used during
the period.
[@ rather,

[@ finally,

[© as a result,

[@ similarly,

In his essay "Of Coaches," French philosopher Michel

de Montaigne explores a relatively light subject, but
he expresses heavier fare in "Of the Inconvenience of
Greatness." Regardless of subject matter, Montaigne Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
works to question his own perceptive throughout the conventions of Standard English?
his essay. his personal motto was "What do
I know?"
[@ Still,

[ @ Conversely,

[© Fittingly,

[@ Nowadays,

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Blanche K. Bruce was an outspoken abolitionist

whose Washington, DC, home was a stop on the
underground railroad (the network of people and Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
places that some enslaved people used to escape to the conventions of Standard English?
freedom). It was relatively rare for supporters of the
[ @ Fittingly,
railroad to be secretive about their antislavery views.
they
were vocal abolitionist like Bruce. [@ Granted,

[© For example,

[ @ More often,

While researching a topic, a student has taken the m

following notes. The student wants to emphasis the similarity between
• The Archipelago-Madrean Mountains are the two mountain ranges. Which choice most
located in northwestern Mexico. effectively uses relevant information from the notes to
accomplish this goal?
• They cover an area of 1,038 square miles (mi2)
@ There are dozens of different mountain
• The Big Hatchet Mountains are located i ranges in located in the southwestern US
the southwestern United States. and northwestern Mexico.
• They cover an area of 65 mi2
• These mountain ranges are two of the @ The Archipelago-Madrean Mountains and
dozens of "sky inlands" in the southwestern the Big Hatchet Mountains are both inland
US and northwestern Mexico. mountain ranges whose surroundings are
different from those of the surrounding
• A sky inland is an isolated mountain range
mountains.
whose environment differs dramatically from
that of the surrounding lowlands.
© The Archipelago-Madrean Mountains cover
an area of 1,038 mi2, while the Big Hatchet
Mountains cover an area of 65 mi2.

@ Even though they are both sky inlands, the

Archipelago-Madrean Mountains and the Big
Hatchet Mountains are located in different
countries.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the

following notes:
The student wants to provide a quotation from
• The Future of Nostalgia is a scholarly book by chapter 17. Which choice most effectively uses
literary theorist Svetlana Boym. relevant information from the notes to accomplish this
• The book provides a multifaced exploration goal?
of the concept of nostalgia. (®
After discussing themes of nostalgia in Joseph
• Chapter 14 discusses themes of nostalgia in Brodsky's writing, Svetlana Boym goes on to
Joseph Brodsky's writing. discuss various skeptics' takes on the concept
• Chapter 17 discusses various skeptics' takes of nostalgia.
on the concept of nostalgia.
• In chapter 17, Boym writes, "The poethics of @ Svetlana Boym's The Future of Nostalgia is
nostalgia combines estrangement and human a multifaced exploration of nostalgia.
solidarity, affect and reflection."
© In an exploration of various skeptics' takes
on the concept of nostalgia, Svetlana
Boym writes, "The poethics of nostalgia
combines
estrangement and human solidarity, affect and
reflection."

@ Svetlana Boym discusses themes of nostalgia in

Joseph Brodsky's writing in chapter 14 of her
book.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the

following notes:
The student wants to specify the cup's name in
• Hina Hanta is an online archive curated by the Choctaw. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
• Hina Hanta means "bright path" in Choctaw.
® The Hina Hanta archive features cultural
• It features images of cultural artifacts relevant artifacts, such as a cup and a stickball collar,
to the history of the Choctaw people. that are relevant to the history of the Choctaw
• It includes a cup (isht ishko in Choctaw) people.
made from clay.
• It includes a stickball collar (innuchi) @ The clay cup, which is included in the Hina
made from horsehair. Hanta online archive, is called an isht ishko in
Choctaw.

© Hina Hanta, which means "bright path" in

Choctaw, includes a cup in its archive.

@ The name of the online archive Hina Hanta

means "bright path" in Choctaw.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the

following notes: m
• A currency is a money system. The student wants to specify how long Mozambique
officially used the escudo. Which choice most
• Sometimes, countries adopt a new currency effectively uses relevant information from the notes to
to replace an older one. accomplish this goal?
• Mozambique adopted the escudo as its o ® Countries sometimes adopt new currency
systems, as Mozambique did when it replaced
al currency in 1914. the escudo with the metical.
• The metical replaced the escudo in 1980.
• The metical remains Mozambique's official @ Though Mozambique currently uses the
currency. metical, the country's former official currency
was introduced in 1914.

© The escudo was Mozambique's official

currency from 1914 to 1980.

@ The metical has been Mozambique's official

currency since 1980, when it replaced the
escudo.

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The following text is adapted from John

Matheus's 1926 short story, "Mr. Bradford ■
As used in the text, what does the word "display" most
Teaches Sunday School." Mr. Bradford is driving
through the countryside in Florida. nearly mean?
The moss in the towering water oaks had become [ @ Spectacle
enlivened with a verdant sheen of silver and hung
like festoons of carnival or like funeral
decorations
[@ Reproduction
for the mourning of the dead. The pine cones were
pungent, the pine green was resplendent. The [© Pretentiousness
bald cypresses spread themselves along the
water
courses while the willows wept as they always did. [@ Disguise

Mr. Bradford was conscious of this gorgeous

display of nature.

Belane Mocsary, who traveled solo to four continents

II
in the early 1900s, undoubtedly accomplished much, Which choice completes the text with most logical
but her place in our historical memory is perhaps and precise word or phrase?
more than that of a noteworthy "first" such [@ enduring
Adeline and Augusta Van Buren, who were the first
women to ride solo motorcycles across the [ @ conspicuous
continental United States, a deed for which they will
always be remembered.
[© deserving

[ @ uncertain

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A number of recording artists distinctions

between Indigenous music and other musical style. II
For example, Inuit singer-songwriter Tanya Tagaq Which choice completes the text with the most logical
incorporated Inuit throat singing into electronic and precise word or phrase?
music on her album Tongue, and
Swinomist/Ifiupiaq musician Black Belt Eagle Scout [® disguise
combined powwow style melodies with rock on her
album At the Party with My Brown Friends. [ @ reject

[© replace

[@ observe

Text corpora such as the British National Corpus are

enormous collections of electronically stored texts
that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses
II
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
regarding how a word is in spoken and written and precise word or phrase?
English. For instance, one might have a guess about
the incidence of the word "world," but only an [® pervasive
analysis of a corpus can prove that "world" i the
eighth most commonly used noun. [ @ credible

[© assertive

[@ profound

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though it seemed to many mathematicians, the

honeycomb conjecture, posited in the first century
BCE, eventually yielded to the efforts of Thomas C. Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?
Hales, who presented a proof ofit in 1999.
[ @ Irreproachable

[ @ Unequivocal

[ © Insuperable

[ @ Ineluctable

Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana weave stories

of triumph, using her unique method of applying II
colorful yarn to photographs of people. In some Which choice best states the function of the
works, ViJlasana focuses on celebrating cultural i" underlined portion in the text as a whole?
who are people of color, as she does in her depiction
of activist Ryu Gwansun. l'lowever, in other works. @ To emphasize that ViJlasana prefers to focus on
ViJlasana honors ordinaIY11.eoQle, as she does in famous figures in her work
her caQtivating11.ortrayal of young girl sitting on a
sidewalk. ViJlasana sees both of these approaches as @ To offer an overview of Villasana artistic style
ways of depicting the power and interconnectedness
of all people. © To demonstrate the ViJlasana collaborates
frequently with other artists

@ To provide an example of an everyday

individual whom ViJlasana has portrayed in
her work

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Textl
For decades, ornithologists assumed that if they saw II
a singing Bell's vireo-a bird species found in Based on the text, how would Odom and colleagues
temperate North American-they must be observing a (Text 2) most likely respond to the view of
male. birdsong presented in Text 1?
That's because birdsong has long been considered (®
They would suggest that it reflects a
a male trait; researchers have argued that males to tendency to study male birds rather than
attract mates and claim territory. female birds.

Text2 @ They would claim that other factors than mate

Recent evidence shows that a female Bell's vireo is as attraction and territorial defense have driven
capable of song as a male is. In fact, Karan J. Odom that evolution of singing in male birds.
and colleagues found evidence of female song in 71%
of the 323 species they examined. They claim © They would underscore that male songbirds in
that the historical mischaracterization of birdsong temperature zones are likely using their songs
as a male trait is largely the result of bias: much for different purposes than are male songbirds
of the in the tropics.
research ornithologists have carried out has been near
universities in the temperate northern hemisphere, @ They would argue that it was influenced by
where female birdsong is less common than it is in the the kinds of study sites researchers tended to
tropics. selected.

Like all species of baleen whales, the Antarctic minke

whale feeds on tiny creatures known as krill by
II
Based on the text, what can most reasonably be
filtering water through bristlelike keratin structures concluded about kriJl consumption among Antarctic
called baleen plates. In this way, baleen whales can
minke and bowhead whale?
eat up to 30 percent of their total mass per day. And
while no one would call the Antarctic minke whale ® The bowhead whale is able to eat more kriJl
small per day than the Antarctic minke whale is.
can have a mass as high as 10,000 kg-it is one the
smaller whales and is much smaller than the bowhead @ Both the Antarctic minke whale and the
whale, which can weight a whopping 66,000 kg and bowhead whale can eat as much as 19,800 kg
consume as much as 19,800 kg of krill per day. of krill per day.

© The quantities of krill consumed by bowhead

whale has made it difficult for Antarctic minke
whales to find sufficient food.

@ Most baleen whales included kriJl in their

diary, but the Antarctic minke whale is less
likely than the bowhead whale to do so.

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Meredith E. Protas and colleagues have explored

how convergent evolution-a phenomenon that Ill
occurs when the same trait evolves Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
independently in two reproductively separate
lineages-can result from a genetic mechanism @ Before Green and Extavour's study,
shared by both convergence evolution was assumed to require
lineages. Meanwhile, Bas J. Zwaan and colleagues a shared genetic mechanism between two
have investigated how convergence occurs through lineages that shared the trait.
different genetic mechanisms, but the relative
prevalence of convergence through shared and @ Green and Extavour's study was conducted
different genetic processes is still poorly using data from the studies by Protas and
understood. This motivated biologist Delbert A. colleagues and Zwaan and colleagues.
Green II and Cassandra G. Extavour to evaluate
both types of convergence in a single study for their
2012 paper.
© Green and Extavour's study addresses
convergent evolution more comprehensively
than the studies by Protas and colleagues and
Zwaan and colleagues do.

@ Both the study by Protas and colleagues

and that by Green and Extavour compare
convergence through shared genetic
mechanism to convergence through different
genetic mechanisms.

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US Hydroelectric Power Plants, 2019

Generators Average power

Plant State Mode Water source
in plant generation (MWh/yr)
Kaw Hydro Oklahoma run-of-river 1 103,163 Arkansas River
Kankakee Hydro Facility Illinois run-of-river 3 1,832 Kankakee River
Richard B. Russell Georgia peaking 8 394,195 Savannah River
Gaston Shoals South Carolina peaking 4 14,059 Broad River

A run-of-river hydroelectric power plant, as the

name suggests, uses the natural flow of a water DJ
source to generate electricity but is unable to start or Which choice most effectively uses data from the table
stop that flow through its generator. In contrast, a to complete the example?
peaking hydroelectric power plant (used when
demand for electricity peaks) controls the flow of @ average power generated annually by the
water through its generators: starting flow when Richard B. Russell plant is higher than that
demand is high enough, stopping it when demand is generated by any of the run-of-river plants in
too low, and otherwise regulating it to keep pace the table.
with changing electricity needs. Although peaking
plants do not typically operate continuously as run- @ Gaston Shoals plant, which is a peaking plant,
of-river plants do, peaking plants can generate more has more generators than any of the other
megawatt-hour of power per year (MWh/yr) than plants in the table.
some run-of-river plants. For example, the
© average power generated annually by the Kaw
Hydro plant is higher than that generated by
the Gaston Shoals plant.

@ run-of-river plant with the highest average

annual power generation in the table generates
more electricity than the peaking plant with
the highest annual power generation in the
table.

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Days per Winter That Lakes Have Surface Ice

Lake Latitude (degrees) 1980-81 1985-86 1990-91 1995-96 2000-01 2005-06

Kalmarinjiirvi 62.79 198 172 175 184 131 152
Lake Neusiedl 47.82 77 86 87 128 50 104
Mirror Lake 43.94 122 129 125 136 141 119

It is common for freshwater lakes near or above a

latitude of 45° north of the equator, like Lake Mjosa
in Norway, to accumulate surface ice in winter. The
m
Which choice best describe data in the table that
amount and duration of ice depends on many factors, support the researcher's claim?
including local weather conditions as well as the
lake's depth, volume, and surface area, but a climate r® Kalmarinjiirvi had fewer days of ice in the
researcher claims that some lakes in these latitudes winter of 2005-06 that it did in the winter
have seen a decline in the duration of ice between the of 1980-81.
early 1980s and the mid-2000s.
@ Kalmarinjiirvi is at a higher latitude than
Mirrow Lake and typically had fewer days of
ice per winter than Mirrow Lake did.

© Kalmarinjiirvi is at a higher latitude than

Mirrow Lake and typically had more days
of ice per winter than Mirrow Lake did.

@ Lake Neusiedl had more days of ice in the

winter of 2005-06 than it did in the winter of
1980-81.

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Some fuel additives contain cerium oxide

nanoparticles (CeO2-NPs), which can leach into
m
waterways and soils via wastewater. In a 2015 Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the
study, Mael Garaud and colleagues found that hypothesis presented in the text?
CeO2-NPs can accumulate in the bodies of (@
When D. po(ymorpha and 0. mykiss are
zebra mussels (Dreissena po(ymorpha). While e}..l)Osed to similar levels of CeO2-NPs,
bioaccumulation of manufactured nanoparticles may concentrations of CeO2-NPs in animals of both
be inherently worrisome, it has been hypothesized species show little variation from individual to
that CeO2-NP bioaccumulation in invertebrate like individual.
D. po(ymorpha could serve a valuable proxy role,
observing the need for manufacturers to conduct
costly and intrusive sampling of vertebrate species
@ The rate of CeO2-NP uptake in D. po(ymorpha
differs from the rate ofCeO2-NP uptake in
such as rainbow trout (0ncorhynchus mykiss),
commonly used in regulatory compliance testing-for 0. mykiss in a way that is not yet well
manipulative bioaccumulation, as environmental understood by researchers.
protection laws currently require.
© D. polymorpha has been shown to accumulate
several other types of manufactured
nanoparticles in addition to CeO2-NPs, whereas
o. mykiss has been shown to accumulate only
CeO2-NPs.

@ Compared with 0. mykiss, D. po(ymorpha can

accumulate detectable CeO2-NP concentrations
with significantly fewer negative effects.

Ca1lie W Babbitt, Hema Madaka, and colleagues

assembled a database of materials used in consumer 111
electronics by studying products in the lab and by Which finding, if true, would most directly challenges
gathering data from similar product studies. The the second research team's conclusion?
team gave each of these studies a rating for level @ The study by Huisman and colleagues had a
of traceability (with a higher rating for clearer lower traceability rating than the study by
description of procedures) and or category Oguchi and colleagues did.
consistency (with a higher rating for using materials
categories more closely aligned with the categories
in the team's database). Based on these ratings, a @ The study by Huisman and colleagues had a
second research team concluded that the high consistency rating and a high traceability
methodology was better e}..l)lained in a study by rating.
Jaco Huisman and colleagues than it was in a study
by Oguchi Masahiro and colleagues. © The study by Huisman and colleagues had a
lower consistency rating than the study by
Oguchi and colleagues did.

@ The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a low

consistency rating and a low traceability rating.

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Arthurian legends (tales related to the character

of King Arthur) derive from many sources, such as m
Which choice most logically completes the text?
Preiddeu Annwjh, composed around 900, and Perceval,
the Story of the Grail from around 1181. Sir Thomas @ Geoffrey of Monmouth's accounts of
Malory's 15th-centruy text Le Marte d'Arthur was Arthurian legends in History are more similar
an attempt to compile these stories into a coherent overall in content to the accounts in Perceval,
narrative. Many of Malory's sources derive from
the Story of the Grail than they are to the
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of
account in Le Marte d'Arthur.
Britain, written in the 1130s. While neither History
nor any works that predate it mention Arthur's famous
Round Table at which his knights assembled, Le @ Malory encountered the Round Table in a
Marte d'Arthur does, suggesting that version that Geoffrey of Monmouth was not
familiar with when writing his History.

© Le Marte d'Arthur is more historically accurate

than History, because Perceval, the Story of the
Grail had not been written when Geoffrey of
Monmouth writing his work.

@ When a version of an Arthurian legends

contradicted the version in History, Malory
preferred to include Geoffrey of Monmouth's
version in Le Marte d'Arthur.

In June of 1987, South Korean liberalized its stock

market, meaning that it began allowing foreign m
Which choice most logically completes the text?
individuals and businesses to invest money in Sou
Korean companies. This was part of a wave of stock ® investment growth is likely to be more
markets liberalization from the mid-1980s through consistent in countries that liberalize than in
the mid-1990s-Brazil in 1988, Venezuela in 1900, countries that do not.
and so on. In an analysis of economic data from 1976
to 1993, Ross Levine and Sara Zervos found that
liberalization did not lead to enduring increases in @ it typically takes at least three years for
investment companies to benefit from government
in companies based in countries that liberalized. policies allowing foreign investment, but
Peter Blair Henry, however, found that, on governments rarely maintain such policies for
average, investment in companies in liberalized that long.
countries increased significantly in the three years
following liberation. Taken together, these results © economist's expectations about the effect of
suggest that liberalization on investment were largely
correct.

@ companies based in countries that begin

allowing foreign investment will probably see

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short term increases in investment, but that
their gains are unlikely to last.

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Each year, the Nobel Prize in Literature is

given 国
to an author who has, in the words of its Which choice completes the text so that it
founder Alfre Nobel, "produced the most conforms to
outstanding work in an idealistic_ in
1952, for instance, judges recognized the conventions of Standard English?
Franr;ois Mauriac "for the deep spiritual
insight and the artistic intensity with which [ @ direction“ ]
he has in his novels penetrated the drama of
human life." and,
[ @ dlrecnon” ]

[ ©小 recnon,” ]

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In Los Angeles County, California, bicycle
paths such as the San Gabriel River bicycle
path—which is 28 miles long—have
m
become an increasingly popular means of Which choice completes the text so that it
travel. Moreover, lawy er and cycling conforms to
has identified several features of the Los the conventions of Standard English?
Angeles landscape, like its temperate climate
and mostly flat roads, that make the city �opez,
naturally bike-friendly.

@ advocate, Ernesto Hernandez-

Lopez, [ © advocate Ernesto

Hernandez-Lopez @ advocate,
Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez,

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Yerevan is the capital city of Armenia

and, 匡i
roughly one m 出 ion people, home to an Which choice completes the text so that it
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the conventions of Standard English?
percent of Armenia's total population.
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It was the kind of challenge that would
set any art curator's mind into that
elusive thread that could link artists as
disparate as American abstract painter
Anne Ryan, Romanian impressionist
painter Micaela Eleutheriade, and 匡l
Flemish mannerist painter Anthony van Which choice completes the text so that it
Dyck. conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
[ @ motion, finding:
]
[ @ motion.Finding ]
[© motion; finding ]

［ ＠ motion:finding ]

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In 2020,i tn erna
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as el colors,poverext osed ones, andy t [ @ ]a ]
respectively,
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With their distinctive cone shapes and steeply

sloping sides, the volcanoes Maungarei (New 匠l
Zealand) and Harunasan (Japan) may look Which choice completes the text with the most
similar from afar. logical
Tehnuka Hanko and other volcanologists, transition?
_ can tell by how each was formed that
Maungarei is a cinder cone volcano, while [ @ in addition,
Harunasan is a composite volcano.
[ @ therefore,

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Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock is excited
about the potential of the new James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST). Unlike its predecessor
the Hubble Telescope, the JWST is optimized for
infrared wavelength. When light from distant
因
Which choice completes the text with the most
galaxies is infrared, _the JWST can provide logical
sharp images that reveal much more transition?
information about those galaxies than the
Hubble could. [ @ consequently,

[@

admittedly,

[©
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• Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) made about

•
1,000 violins in his lifetime.
Mus icians prize his Stradivarius violins for
区I
Which choice most effectively uses information from
their famed sound quality. the given sentences to explain how the JulesFalk
• Many of the 500 or so that exist today are Stradivarius got its name?
named for a previous owner.
• The JulesFalk Stradivarius is named for Jules 产 JulesFalk was anAmerican violinist.
Falk, anAmerican violinist. I

@ Of the 1,000 or so violinsAntonio Stradivari

made, only about 5000 exist today.

© Designed byAntonio Stradivari, Stradivarius

violins like the JulesFalk are renowned for
their quality.

www.satqas.co @ The JulesFalk Stradivarius is named after its

former owner, JulyFalk.

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• GrimanesaAmoros is a PeruvianAmerican
artist.
• She is well known for her large-scale LED light
匹i
Which choice most effectively uses information from
sculptures. the given sentences to emphasize when and where
• Argen tum debuted in 2018 at the Bronx Argentum debuted?
Museum of theArts in New York City, New York.
@ As is common of GrimanesaAmoros's
• It is made of iridescent multicolored LED sculptures, the iridescent multicolored LED
domes. domes of Argentum cut an imposing 253 cubic
• It occupies 253 cubic feet of space. foot figure when the piece debuted.

@ Artist GrimanesaAmoros often works with

light in her sculptures, which tend to be large
in scale.

© In 2018, GrimanesaAmoros debuted Argentum

in New York City, New York.

@ GrimanesaAmoros is a
PeruvianAmerican artist who often
works with LED light in her large-scale
sculptures, such as Argentum [2018].

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• Calida Garcia Rawles is an African American

painter. 匹i
• She is known for her large-scale, hyperrealistic Which choice most effectively uses information from
paintings depicting African American figures in the given sentences to emphasize the location of the
water. figures in Lost in the Shuffle?
• The painting Lightness ofBeing (24 x 30 in) @ At 36 by 24 inches, Rawles's Lost in the Shuffle
depicts a young man with his arms outstretched is even larger than the sizable 24-by 30-inch
painting Lightness ofBeing.

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floating on the right side of the canvas.
• Los t in the Shuffle (36 x 24 in) depicts two @ Rawles captures the water in painting such
young men with their arms outstretched
as Lightness ofBeing and Lost in the Shuffle in
floating in the bottom left and upper right
vivid hues of sky blue and indigo.
conners of the canvas.
• She paints the water with vivid blue colors,

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© In Rawles's painting Lost in the Shuffle, two
young men are depicted in the bottom left and
• The mood in the painting is calm. upper right corners of the canvas.

m
@ While the number of figures may differ,
constant among Rawles's hyperrealistic works
is the calm mood that painting evoke.

• Ynes Mexia was a Mexican American botanist. 四

• Between 1917 and 1938, she collec ted over Which choice most effectively uses information from
150,000 botanical samples throughout the the given sentences to emphasize when she collected
Americas. both of the samples?
• She collected a sample of Trixis antimenorrhoea @ Thousands of botanical samples collected by
in Minas Gerais, Brazil, on June 26, 1930. Ynes Mexia can now be found in one place:
• She collected a sample of Stephanomeria online at the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium.
thurberi in Chihuahua, Mexico, on May 27,
1929. @ While both specimens collected by Ynes
• These specimens are members of Mexia are members of the same family, Trixis
the Asteraceae family. antimenorrhoea was found in Minas Gerais
• They can now be viewed online at the C.V. and Stephanomeria thurberi was found in
Starr Virtual Herbarium. Chihuahua.

© On June 26 in 1930, Ynes Mexia added

a new specimen to her growing collection
of
botanical samples: Trixis antimenorrhoea of the
Asteraceae family.
@ Ynes Mexia collected a ssample of Trixis
antimenorrhoea in June of 1930, after collecting
Stephanomeria thurberi in May of 1929.

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