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The following text is adapted from Yone Noguchi's 1914 memoir The
Story of Yon Noguchi. Noguchi is returning home after eleven years
abroad.

I reached Tsushima, my native town, at evening.

I frightened my old father at the station, who was actually trying
to find some other people. There is no wonder that he could not
recognise me; I must have changed a great deal.

As used in the text, what does the word “find” most nearly mean?

A) judge
B) locate
C) reveal
D) affect

The ___ Andrew Fukuda`s book This Light Between Us has been
very positive. Many reviewers have praised the book, and it won the
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

Which choice completes the most logical and precise word or

phrase?

A) neglect of
B) reception of
C) confusion about
D) inspiration for

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A speaker at a recent children1s book punlishing conference noted

that, while many authors do excellent work, in her mind, no one
has ever ___ Patrica C. McKissack`s work as the author of The
Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural: there is no better
example of the form, according to the speaker.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise
word or phrase?

A) eclipsed
B) convened
C) cited
D) augmented

Some social scientists argue that while a pluralistic, multiparty

system is key to democracy, the public's understanding of
economics is also central to its subsequent comprehension of a
state's politics, and if an electorate is to function, economic issues
cannot remain the dominion only of academics. Economics is too
___ to leave ro economists alone.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise
word or phrase?

A) critical
B) complex
C) accessible
D) respectable
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The Gleaners, painted in the realist style by Jean-François Millet,

depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field after the harvest
and emphasizes accuracy in its portrayal of the experiences of
ordinary working people. This style largely ___ the conventions of
the romantic style evident in many paintings by Dominique Louis
Féreol Papety,which instead accentuated their subjects' positive
traits by, for example, placing them in the staged settings with
expensive looking decorations and presenting them with smooth
unblemished skin.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise
word or phrase?

A) extended
B) imitated
C) rejected
D) epitomized

In the early days of television in the 1940s, many people thought

that US television programs would rely on the financial support of
ad agencies and commercial sponsors, much like radio did. But
advertisers hesitated to jump into a new space, particularly at a
time when the manulfacturing of new television sets was stalled due
to the US's involvement in World War II. Broadcasters, like the
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), needed to persuade
advertisers to support their programming despite not knowing
whether there would be a robust television audience to begin with.

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Which choice best describes the function of the underlined phrase
in the text as a whole?

A) It describes how broadcasters attempted to convince advertisers

to support television.
B) It identifies a specific reason behind some advertisers' hesitance
to support television.
C) It explains why a type of television programming was popular at
the time.
D) It compares the beginnings of radio programming with the
beginnings of television programming in the United States.

The following text is from Armando Palacio Valdés's short story

“The Love of Clotilde,” originally published in Spanish in 1884. In the
story, Don Jerónimo is a financial supporter of artists in the theater.

Any youth from the provinces who arrived in Madrid with a drama
in his pocket could take no surer road to seeing it produced than
that which led to the ho Don Jeronimo. One and all, he received
them with open arms, the good and the bad alike. There is no
denying that, since he was rather brusque in his ways, he never
spared the young authors who asked his advice and read him their
productions, but the criticized vigorously, even to the verge of
insult.

Which choice best describes the underlined portion in the text as a

whole?

A) It conveys Don Jeronimo`s lack of interest in continuing to

support playwrights.
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B) It explains Don Jerónimo's view of the quality of theatrical works
of the time.
C) It creates a contrast between the inexperience of a young
playwright and the wisdom of Don Jeronimo,
D) It emphasizes the degree to which Don Jeronimo's support is
consequential for inexperienced playwrights.

Dubautia scabra is a species in a family of plants known collectively

as the silversword alliance. all of which grow only on the Hawaiian
Islands. Members of this alliance exhibit an extraordinary range of
phenotypes, with some species maturing into vines and others into
shrubs and trees. All species in the alliance descended from a single
ancestral tarweed plant that arrived on the islands around 5 million
year ago. The tarweed's descendants diversified into distinct
species as they adapter to live in the wide variety of habitats found
on the Hawaiian Islands.

Which choice best describes the inction of the underlined phrase in

the text as a whole?

A) It provides the common name for the Dubautia scabra plant.

B) It explains why Dubautia scabra is unique among members of the
silversword alliance.
C) It lists species from a family of plants found only on the
Hawaiian Islands,
D) It supplies the name used to refer to a group of related plant
species.

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Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana weaves stories of triumph,

using her unique method of applying colorful yarn to photographs
of people. In some works, Villasana focuses on celebrating cultural
icons who are people of color, as she does in her depiction of boxer
Muhammad Ali. However, in other works, Villasana honors ordinary
people, as she does in her captivating portrayal of a street musician
with a guitar. Villasana sees both of these approaches as ways of
depicting the power and interconnecetedness of all people.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A) Villasana's depiction of Muhammad Ali receives more attention

from scholars than her depiction pf a street musician with a guitar
does.
B) Villasana`s works focus on recognizing both famous and
everyday examples of human strength and connecton.
C) Villasana's portrayal of a street musician with a guitar focuses
more on connection than it does on human resilience.
D) Villasana began her artistic career by painting portraits of
famous people and then transitioned to depicting everyday people
instead

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Community science involves professional scientists collaborating

with members of the public to study a topic. This approach to
research can promote community engagemen by sparking youth
interest in science. It's also very effective because it greatly
increases the amount of data that can be collected, such as when
biologist Abbigail Merrill and colleagues studied now butterfly color
relates to flower choice and used findings reported by hundreds of
students and community members in northwestern Arkansas.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A) A community science approach can benefit communities by

increasing youth interest in science, but it`s likely to help
researchers obtain accurate data.
B) A community science approach allows researchers to collect
significantly more data even though it's unlikely to have much of an
effect on youth interest in science
C) A community science approach can increase youth interest in
science and generate large amounts of data, benefiting both
communities and researchers.
D) Abbigail Merrill and colleagues used a community science
approach in their butterfly research and were surprised at the
effect this had on youth interest in science.

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Name of Common Direction of

Species name
snake name movement

Acanthophis common
Perth girl away from sound
antarcticus death adder

Oxyuranus coastal
Squishy away from sound
scutelatus taipan

woman
Dorsal girl Aspidites ramsayi toward sound
python

Biologists Christina Zdenek, Chris Hay, and their team exposed

various snakes to airborne sound and recorded whether they moved
toward or away from the sound. The table shows the results for
three of the snakes observed in the study. Based on the table a
student concludes that Perth Girl and Squishy behaved similarly in
the sound trials.

Which choice best describes data from the table that support the
student's conclusion?

A) Dorsal Girl and Perth Girl both moved toward the sound.
B) Perth Girl and Squishy both moved away from the sound.
C) Squishy moved toward the sound, while Perth Girl moved away
from it.
D) Squishy moved toward the sound, while Dorsal Girl moved away
from it.

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Among the most visited art museums in the world, the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City had approximately two million visitors
in 2019. The Museum of Modern Art also offers virtual tours that art
jovers can view online for free. Although there were initial concerns
that people who viewed the virtual tours would then consider an
in-person visit unnecessary, museum administrators claim that
their surveys of in-person visitors show that those concerns were
unjustified.

Which statement, if true, would most directly support the

administrators' claim?

A) Most surveyed visitors to the Museum of Modern Art indicated

that they were unaware of the virtual tours before their first in-
person visit.
B) Most surveyed visitors to the Museum of Modern Art indicated
that they lived somewhere other than New York City.
C) Many surveyed visitors to the Museum of Modern Art indicated
that the virtual tours convinced them to plan an in-person visit.
D) Many surveyed visitors to the Museum of Modern Art indicated
that they would likely view the virtual tours in order to reminisce
about their in-person visit.

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The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in

ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists
taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking.
along with providing instruction in other subjects. In the play,
Aristophanes satirizes sophists as teaching people to speak
dishonestly, as seen when the character ___

Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation

The Clouds to illustrate the claim?

A) Strepsiades encourages his son to learn to be a sophist, saying,

"But go as uickly as possible and learn instead of me."
B) Socrates, a sophist, says of a new customer, "I have not seen any
man so boorish, nor so impracticable, nor so stupid, nor so
forgetful; who, while learning some little petty quibbles, forgets
them before he has learned them."
C) Strepsiades, taking lessons from a sophist, says he wants to
become "a fabricator of falsehoods, inventive of words, a practiced
knave in lawsuits,... a fox, a sharper, a slippery knave, a dissembler, a
slippery fellow, an impostor."
D) Pheidippides says, after taking lessons from a sophist, "How
pleasant it is to be acquainted with new and clever things, and to be
able to despise the established laws!"

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The musical Hadestown was produced off-Broadway in New York in

2016. A revised version of the musical premiered on Broadway in
2019, in a larger production. In a review of the Broadway
production, theater critic Jesse Green enthusiastically praised the
musical's storytelling. However, Green also explained that he had
seen the earlier version of Hadestown in 2016 and had found the
storytelling to be very confusing. This suggests that in Green's view,
___

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) Hadestown should have had a larger production in 2019 than it

actually did.
B) Hadestown improved greatly between 2016 and its premiere on
Broadway.
C) the 2019 version of Hadestown was less enjoyable than the 2016
version.
D) the 2016 version of Hadestown had fewer storytelling problems
than the 2019 version did.

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Biochemists I. Sam Saguy and Eli J. Pinthus studied the mass and
heat transfer processes that occur when foods, such as the Indian
snacks bhatoora and paneer pakora, are fried in oil. During frying,
water in the crust evaporates, leaving voids that oil can fill, thereby
increasing the food's fat content. As the process continues, water
from the food' center moves to the crust as long as the crust
remains permeable. Therefore, the less moistere a food loses during
frying, ___

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) A the less the fat content is increase through frying.

B) the higher the temperature must be to fry the food.
C) the crispier the crust will be when frying is completed.
D) the slower the crust will lose its permeability.

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

(elevation: 5,049 feet above sea level), it boils at around 202°F. Food
writer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, who explores the science behind cooking,
___ that lower boiling points at higher elevations "can wreak all
sorts of havoc on recipes."

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) have explained C) explain

B) are explaining D) explains

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Many Farms Chapter is one of the 110 chapters of the Navajo Nation
(Naabeeho Binahasdzo). The chaptter, known as Daakeh Holani in
Navajo language (Dine bizaad), was the subject of a profile ___ in
the Navajo Times on August 22, 2013

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) appeared
B) has appeared
C) appears
D) appearing

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With the feature-length drama Fancy Dance, Seneca-Cayuga

director Erica Tremblay joined the growing number of Indigenous
women adding their voices to North American ___ film, a selection
of the Sundance Film Festival, is about a Seneca woma reconnect
with family.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) cinema and her

B) cinema. Her
C) cinema her
D) cinema, her

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The editors of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape

turned to Pamela Frierson, an essayist, to craft the entry for
"pahoehoe," a term referring to a form of lava with a smooth or ropy
surface. For "arroyo," however, the editors chose the nonfiction
___ author of Adios to the Brushlands.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) writer Arturo Longorio

B) writer, Arturo Longorio,
C) writer, Arturo Longorio
D) writer Arturo Longorio,

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Working with equipment designed for a billionths of a meter scale,

___

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) nanoengineers have synthesized graphene oxide nanoparticles

that are used to increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
B) nanoengineers' synthesized graphene oxide nanoparticles are
used to increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
C) synthesized graphene oxide nanoparticles used to increase the
capacity of lithium-ion batteries have been created by
nanoengineers.
D) graphene oxide nanoparticles that have been synthesized by
nanoengineers are used to increase the capacity of lithium ion
batteries.
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Just as the Chandrasekhar limit in astrophysics is named not after

its first discoverer but after the physicist who further developed the
limit, so too does the Argand diagram in mathematics take its name
from a ___ who was not the first to describe the diagramm.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) mathematician: in this case, Jean-Robert Argand,

B) mathematician - in this case, Jean-Robert Argand,
C) mathematician - in this case, Jean-Robert Argand -
D) mathematician in this case, Jean-Robert Argand,

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Jetties - long, narrow structures that extend from a landmass into

the water are often constructed to protect coastlines from erosion.
Jetties can sometimes have the opposite ___ obstructing the
natural flow of sand along the shore can lead to increased erosion in
some areas.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventionns of Standard English?

A) effect, though,
B) effect, though
C) effect, though;
D) effect; though

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Guard cells are specialized cells that are part of a plant's pores.
These cells help regulate the amount of carbon dioxide a plant takes
in. ___ they help regulate a plant's water loss.

Which choice completes the text with most logical transition?

A) Previously,
B) In conclusion,
C) Instead,
D) Additionly,

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Pasiphae, one of the eighty known moons of Jupiter, is designated

as Jupiter VIII ("VIII" means "8"). Roman numerals typically indicate
the order in which the moons were named rather than the order of
their proximity to Jupiter. It is incorrect to assume, ___ that
Pasiphae is the eighth moon from Jupiter in terms of proximity.

Which choice completes the text with most logical transition?

A) however,
B) moreover,
C) then,
D) finally,

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Dinosaur fossil specimens can be found at science museums all
over the world.
A dinosaur fossil specimen nicknamed Stan is housed at the
Black Hills Institute in Hill City, South Dakota.
Stan, a Tyrannasaurus, lived in the Late Cretaceaus period.
A dinosaur fossil specimen nicknamed Cheryll is housed at the
Palm Beach Museum of natural History in Wellington, Florida.
Cheryll, a Triceratops, lived in the Late Cretaceouss period.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two

dinosaur fossil specimens. Which choice most effectively uses
relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A) While the Tyrannosaurus fossil specimen Stan is in Hill City,

South Dakota, the Triceratops fossil specimen Cheryll is in
Wellington, Florida.
B) The Black Hills Institute is home to Stan, a Tyrannosaurus fossil
specimen from the Late Cretaceous period.
C) Both the Tyrannosaurus fossil specimen Stan and the Triceratops
fossil specimen Cheryll lived in the Late Cretaceous period.
D) Dinosaur fossil specimens can be found at science museums all
over the world, including in Hill City, South Dakota, and Wellington,
Florida.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Grimanesa Amoros is a Peruvian American artist well known for
her LED light sculptures.
Her sculpture Argentum is made of smooth multicolored LED
domes.
It occupies 253 cubic feet of space.
Her sculpture Golden Waters is made of entangled blue and
white LED
It occupies 118,080 cubic feet of space.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Argentum and

Golden Waters. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplis this goal?

A) At 118.080 cubic in size, Grimanesa Amoros's Golden Waters cuts

a larger figure than the 253-cubic-foot Argentum.
B) Argentum is an LED light sculpture made by Grimanesa Amoros,
as is Golden Waters.
C) Grimanesa Amoros is the artist behind Argentum- a sculpture
made of smooth multicolored LED domes.
D) The smooth LED domes of Grimanesa Amoros's Argentum stand
in contrast to the tangled LED tubes of Golden Waters.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Researchers in a 2021 study wanted to determine the rate at
which 17 languages conveyed both information and syllables.
They calculated the bits of information conveyed per second
(the IR, or information rate).
The IR was found to be approximately consistent across the 17
(an average of 39 bits per second).
They calculated the number of syllables spoken per second (the
SR, or syllable rate).
Spanish had the second-fastest SR (7.7 syllables per second).
Vietnamese had the sixteenth-fastest SR (5.3 syllable:

The student wants to present an overview of the study's findings.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the
notes to accomplish this goal?

A) Though some of the languages differed in number of syllables

spoken per second, all 17 conveyed information at roughly the same
rate.
B) Vietnamese had the sixteenth-fasted syllable rate, lower than
that of Spanish, which had the second-fastest; however, Spanish
had the lower information rate of the two.
C) Researchers found that information was conveyed more quickly
in Spanish, at 7.7 syllables per second, than in Vietnamese, at 5.3
syllables per second.
D) The 2021 study determined the information rate (IR) of 17
languages in bits of information conveyed per second.

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