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Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873–1908) varied his focus and tone depending on the genre in which he
was writing. In his poetry, he used heartfelt language to evoke the beauty and peacefulness of his natural
surroundings; in his journalism, ______ he employed humor and satire to comment on political issues
affecting his Muskogee Creek community.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. that is,

B. granted,

C. similarly,

D. by contrast,
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Originally coined by economist Joan Robinson to refer to markets with multiple sellers of a product but
only one buyer, the term “monopsony” can also refer to markets where demand for labor is limited. In a
product monopsony, the single buyer can force sellers to lower their prices. ______ in a labor monopsony,
employers can force workers to accept lower wages.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Earlier,

B. Instead,

C. Similarly,

D. In particular,
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“Wishcycling”—putting nonrecyclable items into recycling bins under the mistaken belief that those items
can be recycled—ultimately does more harm than good. Nonrecyclable items, such as greasy pizza boxes,
can contaminate recyclable materials, rendering entire batches unusable. ______ nonrecyclable products
can damage recycling plants’ machinery.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. Fittingly,

B. On the contrary,

C. Moreover,

D. Nevertheless,
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Before California’s 1911 election to approve a proposition granting women the right to vote, activists
across the state sold tea to promote the cause of suffrage. In San Francisco, the Woman’s Suffrage Party
sold Equality Tea at local fairs. ______ in Los Angeles, activist Nancy Tuttle Craig, who ran one of
California’s largest grocery store firms, distributed Votes for Women Tea.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. For example,

B. To conclude,

C. Similarly,

D. In other words,
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Some members of the US Supreme Court have resisted calls to televise the court’s oral arguments,
concerned that the participants would be tempted to perform for the cameras (and thus lower the quality
of the discourse). ______ the justices worry that most viewers would not even watch the full deliberations,
only short clips that could be misinterpreted and mischaracterized.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. However,

B. Additionally,

C. In comparison,

D. For example,
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Earth’s auroras—colorful displays of light seen above the northern and southern poles—result, broadly
speaking, from the Sun’s activity. ______ the Sun releases charged particles that are captured by Earth’s
magnetic field and channeled toward the poles. These particles then collide with atoms in the
atmosphere, causing the atoms to emit auroral light.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Specifically,

B. Similarly,

C. Nevertheless,

D. Hence,
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To discover which fruit varieties were grown in Italy’s Umbria region before the introduction of industrial
farming, botanist Isabella Dalla Ragione often turns to centuries-old lists of cooking ingredients. ______
she analyzes Renaissance paintings of Umbria, as they can provide accurate representations of fruits that
were grown there long ago.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. In sum,

B. Instead,

C. Thus,

D. Additionally,
Question ID eda8735f
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In 1873, Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal observed that brain fibers have distinct boundaries
with clear end points, a finding that went against earlier assumptions about the brain. ______ scientists
had assumed that the brain was a continuous web of fused fibers, not a vast network of distinct,
individual cells.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. However,

B. Previously,

C. As a result,

D. Likewise,
Question ID 0fc16996
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Most of the planets that have been discovered outside our solar system orbit G-type stars, like our Sun. In
2014, ______ researchers identified a planet orbiting KELT-9, a B-type star more than twice as massive and
nearly twice as hot as the Sun. Called KELT-9b, it is one of the hottest planets ever discovered.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. likewise,

B. however,

C. therefore,

D. for example,
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At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or
hear. Domesticated dogs, ______ can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of
sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a
very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. in other words,

B. for instance,

C. by contrast,

D. accordingly,
Question ID 0c84bc04
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Researchers Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Lucía Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that while
mathematicians may have traditionally worked alone, evidence points to a shift in the opposite direction.
______ mathematicians are choosing to collaborate with their peers—a trend illustrated by a rise in the
number of mathematics publications credited to multiple authors.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Similarly,

B. For this reason,

C. Furthermore,

D. Increasingly,
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The more diverse and wide ranging an animal’s behaviors, the larger and more energy demanding the
animal’s brain tends to be. ______ from an evolutionary perspective, animals that perform only basic
actions should allocate fewer resources to growing and maintaining brain tissue. The specialized
subtypes of ants within colonies provide an opportunity to explore this hypothesis.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Subsequently,

B. Besides,

C. Nevertheless,

D. Thus,
Question ID ab9fed42
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In November 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil was living in what must have seemed like the ideal city for a young
artist: Paris. She was studying firsthand the color-saturated style of France’s modernist masters and
beginning to make a name for herself as a painter. ______ Sher-Gil longed to return to her childhood home
of India; only there, she believed, could her art truly flourish.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Still,

B. Therefore,

C. Indeed,

D. Furthermore,
Question ID 073cdd71
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In his 1925 book The Morphology of Landscape, US geographer Carl Sauer challenged prevailing views
about how natural landscapes influence human cultures. ______ Sauer argued that instead of being
shaped entirely by their natural surroundings, cultures play an active role in their own development by
virtue of their interactions with the environment.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Similarly,

B. Finally,

C. Therefore,

D. Specifically,
Question ID 30c71ab8
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The Babylonian king Hammurabi achieved much during his forty-year reign. He conquered all of
Mesopotamia and built Babylon into one of the most powerful cities of the ancient world. Today, ______ he
is mainly remembered for a code of laws inscribed on a seven-foot-tall block of stone: the Code of
Hammurabi.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. therefore,

B. likewise,

C. however,

D. for instance,
Question ID 814c487f
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A firefly uses specialized muscles to draw oxygen into its lower abdomen through narrow tubes, triggering
a chemical reaction whereby the oxygen combines with chemicals in the firefly’s abdomen to produce a
glow. ______ when the firefly stops drawing in oxygen, the reaction—and the glow—cease.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. For instance,

B. By contrast,

C. Specifically,

D. In conclusion,
Question ID f033a241
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Although those who migrated to California in 1849 dreamed of finding gold nuggets in streambeds, the
state’s richest deposits were buried deeply in rock, beyond the reach of individual prospectors. ______ by
1852, many had given up their fortune-hunting dreams and gone to work for one of the large companies
capable of managing California’s complex mining operations.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Furthermore,

B. Still,

C. Consequently,

D. Next,
Question ID 56845779
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In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The amendment mandates that
presidential inaugurations be held on January 20, approximately ten weeks after the November election.
______ this amendment requires newly elected US senators and representatives to be sworn into their
respective offices on January 3.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Instead,

B. For instance,

C. Specifically,

D. In addition,
Question ID 5e3e20f9
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For years, biologists have experimented with using grime-eating bacteria rather than harsh chemicals to
clean artworks, and results have been impressive overall. ______ these bacterial strains—which can
metabolize centuries’ worth of oil, glue, dirt, and other surface impurities without creating harmful
byproducts—have proven more effective than traditional chemical cleaning methods.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. However,

B. In many cases,

C. As a result,

D. Additionally,
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In 2019, researcher Patricia Jurado Gonzalez and food historian Nawal Nasrallah prepared a stew from a
4,000-year-old recipe found on a Mesopotamian clay tablet. When they tasted the dish, known as
pašrūtum (“unwinding”), they found that it had a mild taste and inspired a sense of calm. ______ the
researchers, knowing that dishes were sometimes named after their intended effects, theorized that the
dish’s name, “unwinding,” referred to its function: to help ancient diners relax.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Therefore,

B. Alternately,

C. Nevertheless,

D. Likewise,
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In the early 1900s, Jovita Idár fought injustice on both sides of the Mexico–United States border. As a
reporter for the Texas newspaper La Crónica, she voiced support for the Mexican people’s revolt against
authoritarian rule. ______ she founded the League of Mexican Women, a group that advocated for the
rights of Mexican Americans.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Additionally,

B. In conclusion,

C. For example,

D. Rather,
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When, in the 1800s, geologists first realized that much of Earth had once been covered by great sheets of
ice, some theorized that the phenomenon was cyclical, occurring at regular intervals. Each Ice Age is so
destructive, though, that it largely erases the geological evidence of its predecessor. ______ geologists
were unable to confirm the theory of cyclical Ice Ages until the 1960s.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. Hence,

B. Moreover,

C. Nevertheless,

D. Next,
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Establishing Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is no easy task. Each month, readings of a single second
from atomic clocks around the world are taken and sent to the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures (BIPM) in France. ______ BIPM metrologists perform the meticulous work of assembling these
minutely disparate readings into a globally shared time standard.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. There,

B. In particular,

C. For example,

D. Conversely,
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s story collection Interpreter of Maladies features multiple stories about romantic
relationships. In “This Blessed House,” newlyweds argue over whether to replace items left by the previous
owners of their new home. ______ in “A Temporary Matter,” a husband and wife attempt to rekindle their
relationship during a four-night blackout.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. Granted,

B. For example,

C. Likewise,

D. Hence,
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Award-winning travel writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin considers the background research she conducts
on destinations featured in her travel books to be its own reward. ______ McFerrin admits to finding the
research phase of her work just as fascinating and engaging as exploring a location in person.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. By contrast,

B. Likewise,

C. Besides,

D. In fact,
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With her room-sized installation The Interstitium, Iranian American artist Laleh Mehran succeeded in
creating a space that felt, as intended, both “familiar and distant.” ______ with a video screen placed at the
far end of the coal slag-encrusted room, her installation was reminiscent of a typical movie theater—albeit
one found in a subterranean coal mine.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Next,

B. Nevertheless,

C. Indeed,

D. Instead,
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Because an achiral molecule is symmetrical, flipping it yields a structurally identical molecule. A flipped
chiral molecule, ______ can be compared to a glove that has been turned inside out: it produces a
structurally inverted molecule rather than an identical one.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. in other words,

B. by contrast,

C. for example,

D. similarly,
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Okot p’Bitek’s poem Song of Lawino (1966) explores postcolonial Ugandan life through the eyes of a
woman living in a rural village. With its vibrant imagery, bitingly satiric tone, and dexterous use of
traditional Acholi song and phraseology, the poem inspired a generation of East African writers. ______
those who adopted its style are often referred to as Okot School poets.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Nevertheless,

B. Fittingly,

C. By comparison,

D. Instead,
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Archaeologist Sue Brunning explains why the seventh-century ship burial site at Sutton Hoo in England
was likely the tomb of a king. First, the gold artifacts inside the ship suggest that the person buried with
them was a wealthy and respected leader. ______ the massive effort required to bury the ship would likely
only have been undertaken for a king.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. Instead,

B. Still,

C. Specifically,

D. Second,
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One poll taken after the first 1960 presidential debate suggested that John Kennedy lost badly: only 21
percent of those who listened on the radio rated him the winner. ______ the debate was ultimately
considered a victory for the telegenic young senator, who rated higher than his opponent, Vice President
Richard Nixon, among those watching on the new medium of television.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A. In other words,

B. Therefore,

C. Likewise,

D. Nevertheless,
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The chemical trimethylamine N-oxide not only gives fish their fishy smell but also protects them from
crushing hydrostatic pressure in deep waters. Trimethylamine N-oxide strengthens the bonds between
water molecules in a fish’s body. ______ these water molecules maintain their linked structure at extreme
depths, thus preventing pressure-related damage.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Nevertheless,

B. As a result,

C. However,

D. For instance,