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1- Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although

shedoesn’t have a definite idea of when it might 2- Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation

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happen,she that humans will someday need legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka
to be able to live in other environments than continuously worked to promote public
those foundon Earth. This conjecture informs her health; this effort
interest in future research missions to the moon. involved traveling throughout the vast
Navajo homeland and writing a medical
Which choice completes the text with the most dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad,
logical and precise word or phrase? the Navajo language.
A) demands Which choice completes the text with the
B) speculates most logical and precise word or phrase?
C) doubts A) impartial
D) establishes B) offhand
C) persistent
D) mandatory

3- Following the principles of community-based 4- The parasitic dodder plant increases its
participatory research, tribal nations and reproductive success by flowering at the same
research institutions are equal partners in health time as the host plant it has latched onto. In
studies conducted on reservations. A 2020, Jianqiang Wu andhis colleagues
collaboration between the Crow Tribe and determined that the tiny dodder achieves this
Montana State University this model: with its host by
tribal citizens worked alongsidescientists to absorbing andutilizing a protein the host
design the methodology and continue to assist in produces when it is aboutto flower.
data collection. Which choice completes the text with the
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
most logical and precise word or phrase? A) synchronization
A) circumvents B) hibernation
B) eclipses C) prediction
C) fabricates D) moderation
D) exemplifies

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5- Given that the conditions in binary star 6- Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo
systems should make planetary formation television’s tendency to
nearly impossible, it’s not surprising that the situate Native characters in the distant past: this
existence of planets in such systems has lacked rejection is evidentin his series Reservation Dogs,
________ explanation. which revolves aroundteenagers who dress in
Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced
on the subject when they used modeling to with current slang.
determinea complex set of factors that could Which choice completes the text with
support planets’ development. the mostlogical and precise word or
phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the A) repudiates
mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
B) proclaims
A) a discernible C) foretells
B) a straightforward D) recants
C) an inconclusive
D) an unbiased

7- For painter Jacob Lawrence, being was an 8- Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at
important part of the artistic process. Because he Brazil’s Butantan Institute are
paid close attention to all the details of his studying the freshwater stingray
Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork
species Potamotrygon rex to
captured nuancesin the beauty and vitality of the
determine whether biological
Black experience during the Harlem Renaissance
characteristics such as the rays’age
and the Great Migration.
and sex have effect on the toxicity
Which choice completes the text with the of their venom—that is, to see if
mostlogical and precise word or phrase? differences in these traits are
associated with considerable
A) skeptical
variations invenom potency.
B) observant
Which choice completes the text with
C) critical the mostlogical and precise word or
D) confident phrase?
A) a disconcerting
B) an acceptable
C) an imperceptible
D) a substantial

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9- Researchers have struggled to pinpoint 10- Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion
specific causes for hiccups, which happen rarely
when a person’s diaphragm contracts . in a world where artists create
However, neuroscientist Kimberley timeless works for exhibition and designers
Whitehead has found that these periodically produce new styles for the public
uncontrollable contractions may play an to buy. Luiseño/ Shoshone-Bannock beadwork
important role in helping infants regulate artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges this
theirbreathing. view: her work can beseen in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and purchased through her
Which choice completes the text with the most
online boutique.
logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the
a. involuntarily mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
b. beneficially
A) prevail
c. strenuously
B) succumb
d. smoothly
C) diverge
D) intersect

11- Scholarly discussions of gender in

12- In studying the use of external stimuli to
Shakespeare’s comedies often celebrate the
reduce the itching sensation caused by an
rebellion of the playwright’s characters against
allergic histamine response, Louise Ward and
the rigid expectations
colleagues found that while harmless
by Elizabethan society. Most of the
applications of vibration or warmingcan
comedies end in marriage, with characters
provide a temporary distraction, such
returning to their socially dictated gender roles
________ stimuli actually offer less relief than
after previously defying them, but there are
a stimulus that seems less benign, like a mild
some notable exceptions.
electric shock.
Which choice completes the text with the
Which choice completes the text with the
mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
mostlogical and precise word or phrase?
A) interjected
A) deceptive
B) committed
B) innocuous
C) illustrated
C) novel
D) prescribed
D) impractical

13- The province of Xoconochco was situated on the 14- As Mexico’s first president from an Indigenous
Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast community, Benito Juarez became one of the most
ofTenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. figures in his country’s history:
Because Xoconochco’s location within the among the many significant accomplishments of
his long tenure
empire was so , cacao and other trade
in office (1858–1872), Juarez consolidated the
goods produced there could reach the capital
authority of the national government and advanced the
only after along overland journey. rights of Indigenous peoples.
Which choice completes the text with the most Which choice completes the text with the most logical
logical and precise word or phrase? and precise word or phrase?
A) unobtrusive A) unpredictable
B) concealed B) important
C) approximate C) secretive
D) peripheral D) ordinary

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15- Due to their often strange images, highly 16- The Cambrian explosion gets its name from the
experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, sudden appearance and rapid diversification of
many of John Ashbery’s poems can be quite animal remains in the fossil record about 541
difficult to and thus are the object of heated million years ago, during the Cambrian period.
debate among scholars. Some scientists argue that this change in the
Which choice completes the text with the most fossil record might be because of a shift in many
logical and precise word or phrase? organisms to body types that were more likely to be
preserved.
A) delegate
Which choice completes the text with the most
B) compose logical and precise word or phrase?
C) interpret
A) catastrophic
D) renounce
B) elusive
C) abrupt
D) imminent

17- During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, 18- Within baleen whale species, some individuals
Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the develop an accessory spleen—a seemingly
skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early functionless formation of splenetic tissue outside
Bronze Age society, buried with valuable the normal spleen. Given the formation’s greater
objects signaling a high position of power. This prevalence among whales known to make deeper
finding may persuade researchers who have dives, some researchers hypothesize that its role
argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by isn’t. ; rather, the accessory spleen may
men to that women may have also held actively support diving mechanisms.
leadership roles.
Which choice completes the text with the
Which choice completes the text with the most most logical and precise word or phrase?
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) replicable
A) waive B) predetermined
B) concede C) operative
C) refute D) latent
D) require

19- According to a US tax policy expert, state taxes 20- The author’s claim about the relationship between
are other factors when considering an Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is , as it fails
interstate move. Even significant differences in to account for several recent archaeological
state taxation have almost no effect on most discoveries. To be convincing, his argument
people’s decisions, while differences in would need to address recent finds of additional
employment opportunities, housing availability, hominid fossils, such as the latest Denisovan
and climate are strong influences. specimens and Homo longi.
Which choice completes the text with the Which choice completes the text with the most
most logical and precise word or phrase? logical and precise word or phrase?
A) consistent with A) disorienting
B) representative of B) tenuous
C) overshadowed by C) nuanced
D) irrelevant to D) unoriginal

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21- The Mule Bone, a 1930 play written by Zora 22- The process of mechanically recycling
Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, is perhaps plastics is often considered because
the best-known of the few examples of of the environmental impact and the loss of
_________in literature. Most writers prefer material quality that often occurs. But
working alone, and given that working together chemist Takunda Chazovachii has helped
cost Hurston and Hughes their friendship, it is develop a cleaner process of chemical
not hard to see why. recycling that converts superabsorbent
polymers from diapers into a desirable
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
reusable adhesive.
and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most
A) characterization logical and precise word or phrase?
B) interpretation
A) resilient
C) collaboration
B) inadequate
D) commercialization
C) dynamic
D) satisfactory

23- Interruptions in the supply chain for microchips 24- For her 2021 art installation Anthem, Wu Tsang
used in personal electronics have challenged an joined forces with singer and composer Beverly
economist’s assertion that retailers can expect Glenn-Copeland to produce a piece that critics
robust growth in sales of those devices in the found truly : they praised Tsang for
coming months. The delays are unlikely to creatively transforming a museum rotunda into a
_______her projection entirely but will almost dynamic exhibit by projecting filmed images of
certainly extend its time frame.
Glenn-Copeland onto a massive 84-foot curtain
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and and filling the space with the sounds of his and
precise word or phrase? other voices singing.
A) dispute Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
B) withdraw precise word or phrase?
C) underscore A) restrained
D) invalidate B) inventive
C) inexplicable
D) mystifying

25- Some scientists have suggested that mammals in

the Mesozoic era were not a very group, but
paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo’s research suggests
that early mammals living in the shadow of
dinosaurs weren’t all ground-dwelling
insectivores. Fossils of various plant-eating
mammals have been found in China, including
species like Vilevolodon diplomylos,which Luo
says could glide like a flying squirrel.
Which choice completes the text with the
most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) predatory
B) obscure
C) diverse
D) localized

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