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 Reading and Writing (Test RT.8.24.V7)
27 QUESTIONS

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DIRECTIONS

The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).

All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.

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Becoming a member of the organization Indigenous Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into
Photograph has helped Sara Aliaga Ticona (Aymara) to space in 1990, astronauts have needed to complete
______ her work with an audience beyond Bolivia, where regular missions to repair the telescope and keep it
she's from. The organization's database of members is working smoothly. Researchers hope that robots will
used by photography editors and others in the media soon be able to make these repairs. Employing robots
industry around the world. instead of humans to make repairs will be helpful, as
_______ astronauts to maintain the telescope can be
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and expensive.
precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) share
and precise word or phrase?
B) split
A) straightening
C) challenge
B) relying on
D) examine
C) reducing
D) forgetting about

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In 1776, the United States sent Benjamin Franklin to The creation of Lotte Reiniger's 1926 animated film
France to try to win the country's support in the United The Adventures of Prince Achmed was ______ process.
States' fight for independence from Great Britain. Franklin Over the course of three years, Reiniger and her
was very popular in France. This ______ surely helped him collaborators painstakingly made more than 250,000
to convince France to assist the United States. individual images of hand-cut paper silhouettes and
repeatedly had to invent entirely new methods and
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and tools to create the special effects Reiniger envisioned.
precise word or phrase?
A) controversy Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase?
B) sincerity
C) esteem A) a haphazard

D) thoughtfulness B) a contentious
C) an ineffectual
D) an arduous

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The following text is from Yung Wing's 1909 memoir My The following text is from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel
Life in China and America. Yung Wing was the first Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, who is narrating
American college graduate of Chinese heritage: Phoebe this portion of text, describes the state of scientific
Brown was the first prominent female hymn writer in the knowledge as he began his own study of the natural
United States. world.

I look back upon my acquaintance with Mrs. Phoebe H. The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him
Brown with a mingled feeling of respect and admiration. and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most
She certainly was a remarkable New England woman-a learned philosopher knew little more. He had partially
woman of surpassing strength of moral and religious unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal
character. Those who have had the rare privilege of lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. He
reading her stirring biography, will. I am sure, bear might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not
me out in this statement. She went through the crucible to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary
of unprecedented adversities and trials of life and came and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. I
out one of the rare shining lights that beautify the New had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that
England sky. seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel
of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined
sentence in the text as a whole? Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A) It emphasizes that Brown's life has been a popular
subject for writers because it was so remarkable. A) It explains what can be gained from a scientific
B) It suggests that other people who are familiar with approach to understanding natural phenomena.
Brown's life would share the author's view of her. B) It describes an intensely debated scientific
C) It explains why Brown was unique amongst her controversy that Victor dedicated his life to
peers. resolving.
D) It describes the nature of the relationship between C) It undermines the idea that a practical approach to
Yung and Brown. understanding natural phenomena is inferior to a
scientific approach.
D) It suggests that Victor did not discover what he
wanted to know from the scientific research
available to him.

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In the 1940s, Evelyn Cunningham worked for the Why do ocelots purr but jaguars roar? Researchers
Pittsburgh Courier, focusing on coverage of the early civil hypothesize that this difference between the two-feline
rights movement. Cunningham's accomplishment is just species may be partly due to a U-shaped bone in their
one example of the rich history of Black journalism in the throats called the hyoid. Ocelots, which are much
United States. That history is preserved by the National smaller than jaguars, have a rigid hyoid that rumbles
Association of Black Journalists, which was founded in when the cat's larynx vibrates, resulting in a purr. By
Washington, DC, in 1975 to support Black media contrast, jaguars have a somewhat flexible hyoid, and
professionals and honor people like Cunningham. the bone is attached to the skull with a stretchy
ligament that ocelots lack. These traits allow jaguars
Which choice best states the main idea of the text? and most other species of big cats to produce powerful
roars. The same traits may also prevent most big cats
A) The National Association of Black Journalists was
from purring.
founded in Washington, DC, in the 1900s.
B) Black journalis has an interesting history both inside
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
and outside the United States.
C) Cunningham's achievements are often overlooked in A) Both ocelots and jaguars have U-shaped hyoid
countries other than the United States. bones, but ocelots' hyoids are rigid whereas
D) Black journalism in the United States has an jaguars' hyoids are flexible.
important history that the National Association of B) Researchers are uncertain why relatively small
Black Journalists helps to honor. cats, such as ocelots, purr but relatively large cats,
such as jaguars, roar.
C) Jaguars and most other species of big cats can roar
because they have flexible hyoid bones that are
attached by stretchy ligaments to their skulls.
D) Differences related to the hyoid bone in ocelots
and jaguars may help explain why one species
purrs and the other roars.

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"Coyote" is an example of a loanword—that is, a word that MISSING

originated in one language and was later adopted by
another. The word came to English indirectly from coyote, Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph
the Spanish word for the wild canine specie Spanish had to complete the statement?
borrowed it from Nahuatl, an Indigenous language of
A) MISSING
Central Mexico, in which the word's original form is
coyotl. "Condor" also has an Indigenous origin and B) MISSING
entered English through Spanish. But in this case, the C) MISSING
original source was Quechua, a language of South D) MISSING
America, in which the word for the large vulture species is
kuntur.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A) The English words "coyote" and "condor" are both

examples of loanwords from Indigenous languages.
B) When borrowing from Indigenous languages, Spanish
adopted roughly as many words from Nahuatl as from
Quechua.
C) Many Spanish words with Indigenous origins first
passed through English before entering Spanish.
D) When non-Indigenous languages borrowed from
Indigenous languages, the words often underwent a
significant change in meaning.

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"A Pair of Silk Stockings” is an 1897 short story written by MISSING

Kate Chopin. In the story, Mrs. Sommers is depicted as
sometimes making decisions without conscious Which choice most effectively uses data from the
deliberation: _______ graph to complete the statement?
A) MISSING
Which quotation from "A Pair of Silk Stockings" most
B) MISSING
effectively illustrates the claim?
C) MISSING
A) "She handed the girl a five-dollar bill and waited for
her change and for her parcel. What a very small D) MISSING
parcel it was!"
B) "She had no time-no second of time to devote to the
past. The needs of the present absorbed her every
faculty."
C) "She was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time
to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing
function and to have abandoned herself to some
mechanical impulse that directed her actions and
freed her of responsibility."
D) "Mrs. Sommers selected a black pair and looked at
them very long and closely. She pretended to be
examining their texture. which the clerk assured her
was excellent."

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There are over 150 species of the cactus genus

Mammillaria throughout the Americas, but their
survival can be threatened by high precipitation and
dense vegetation that blocks sunlight. Researchers
have located species from the genus in almost every
state in Mexico, with several of them, like M.
knippeliana, restricted to only one state. The fact that
this genus has not been observed in eastern and
western Coahuila has been attributed to a lack of
appropriate habitat, but much of the landscape in this
area is notoriously inaccessible, which suggests that
_________
To understand the extent of deforestation in the
Chorotega region of Costa Rica, Juan Pablo Arroyo-Mora Which choice most logically completes the text?
and colleagues used historical aerial photography and
A) M. knippeliana may have been overlooked in
remote sensing data to track changes in the forest cover
eastern and western Coahuila because of its
area across different land use capability classes
similarity to another species.
(categories that indicate possible uses of forest land). Due
B) the current methods of collecting and tracking
to the Chorotega region's climate, various types of
Mammillaria species throughout Mexico may
forested areas were converted to cattle pasture as rising
cause an overestimation of the number of species
international meat prices drove a cattle ranching boom in
in this genus.
the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid-1980s, however,
C) the perceived absence of Mammillaria in eastern
increased public awareness and environmental reforms,
and western Coahuila may be due to insufficient
along with a decline in meat prices, triggered a natural
exploration of the region.
regrowth process, as evident by the ______
D) the dense vegetation and high annual
precipitation levels in eastern and western
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph
Coahuila impede the ability of Mammillaria
to complete the assertion?
species to survive.
A) increase in the forest cover area for all classes from
1979 to 2000.
B) similarity in forest cover area in Class I-IV and Class
VII in 1986.
C) difference between the forest cover area in Class I-IV
and in Class VI in 2000.
D) decrease in the forest cover area for all classes from
1960 to 1979.

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The 1958 poem "The Ghost's Leavetaking" by American Florence Esté and Lily Everett were among the 300
author Sylvia Plath ______ the first use of the word artists who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, a
"dreamscape." groundbreaking New York City art exhibition that
introduced modernism to American audiences. Though
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to shocking at the time, an abstract cubist painting
the conventions of Standard English? exhibited by Marcel Duchamp-one of several works
that received scorn from critics-_______ the Western art
A) having contained
canon more than a century later.
B) to contain
C) containing Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
D) contains the conventions of Standard English?
A) were entering
B) enter
C) has entered
D) have entered

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Increasing the heat on an uncovered boiling pot of water Each year, the Nobel Prize in Literature is given to an
does not increase the temperature of the water. What author who has, in the words of its founder Alfred
increases is the rate at which the water turns to ______ a Nobel, "produced the most outstanding work in an
pressure cooker pot, though, an airtight seal traps the idealistic ______ in 1912, for instance, judges recognized
vapor in the pot, creating pressure that allows the Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann [for] his fruitful,
temperature of the water to increase past its boiling point. varied and outstanding production in the realm of
dramatic art."
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
A) vapor. With
B) vapor and with A) direction"

C) vapor, with B) direction" and,

D) vapor with C) direction";

D) direction,"

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With a blend of traditional design elements, such as Paintings by the renowned twentieth-century US
arched Gothic ceilings, and modern ones, such as floor-to- ________ were featured in Artist to Artist, an exhibition
ceiling _______ design splits the difference between old and at the Smithsonian Art Museum that paired the works
new, a mixture that is increasingly seen in home interiors of artists whose career trajectories intersected in
in the US. meaningful ways.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
conventions of Standard English? the conventions of Standard English?

A) windows; transitional A) artists Thomas Hart Benton, and Jackson Pollack,

B) windows. Transitional B) artists: Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollack,
C) windows-transitional C) artists Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollack
D) windows, transitional D) artists, Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollack

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In March 1862, John Ahoy joined the US Navy, where he The London Array, an offshore wind farm located off
went on to serve aboard the USS Pinola during the US Civil the coast of England, produces about 630 megawatts
War. _____ he earned a place in US history as one of the (MW) of electricity per year. ______ England's Hornsea
war's few Chinese-born American soldiers. Project One offshore wind farm, which generates the
most power of any single offshore farm, produces
Which choice completes the text with the most logical 1,218 MW of electricity.
transition?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) In any case,
transition?
B) Finally,
A) As a result,
C) For instance,
B) That is,
D) In doing so,
C) By comparison,
D) For instance,

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In 1974, Mexican chemist Mario Molina and US chemist F. Generally, sleek vehicles are more aerodynamic than
Sherwood Rowland discovered that chemicals called bulkier ones. The streamlined nose of the Airbus A320
CFCs were harmful to the ozone layer. Their research was jet, _______ helps it glide through wind with relative
extremely influential in the fight against CFCs. _______ it ease, while a boxy pickup truck encounters more wind
laid the foundation for a 1987 treaty that phased out the resistance, making it less aerodynamic.
use of CFCs across the globe.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
transition?
A) for example,
A) Specifically, B) additionally,
B) Regardless, C) meanwhile,
C) Earlier, D) however,
D) However,

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

- Springtails are a group of noninsect hexapods (six- - A merchant vessel is any ship hired to carry cargo or
legged animals). passengers.

- Researchers Claudia Marcela Ospina-Sánchez, Felipe N. - Common merchant vessels include bulk carriers,
Soto- Adames, and Grizelle González conducted a study cruise liners, and oil tankers.
to determine how many springtail species are present in
Puerto Rico. - A vessel's carrying capacity is also known as its
deadweight tonnage (DWT).
- They found a total of 146 springtail species.
- In 2021, there were a total of 1,236 merchant vessels
- They found 1 springtail species belonging to the genus registered in Greece.
Hemisotoma.
- The combined DWT of these vessels was 64.9 million
- They found 3 springtail species belonging to the genus tons.
Sphaeridia.
The student wants to explain what a merchant vessel
Which choice most effectively uses information from the is and provide examples. Which choice most effectively
given sentences to present the study and its findings? uses relevant information from the notes to
accomplish this goal?
A) In Puerto Rico, the genus Hemisotoma contains one
springtail species, and the genus Sphaeridia contains A) There were a total of 1,236 ships hired to carry
three springtail species. cargo or passengers registered in Greece in 2021.
B) According to a study by researchers Claudia Marcela B) The carrying capacity of bulk carriers, cruise
Ospina- Sánchez, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, and Grizelle liners, and oil tankers is measured in deadweight
González, there are 146 springtail species present in tonnage.
Puerto Rico, including one from the genus C) A merchant vessel is any ship hired to carry cargo
Hemisotoma and three from the genus Sphaeridia. or passengers --like bulk carriers, cruise liners,
C) Researchers Claudia Marcela Ospina-Sánchez. Felipe and oil tankers.
N. Soto- Adames, and Grizelle González studied D) In total, Greece's 1,236 merchant vessels had a
springtails in Puerto Rico, and they wanted to know carrying capacity of 64.9 million tons in 2021.
how many species there are in the genus
Hemisotoma and the genus Sphaeridia.
D) There are 146 species of springtail (noninsect
hexapods) in Puerto Rico, but there are more species
from the genus Sphaeridia than from the genus
Hemisotoma.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following

notes:

- Musicians around the world have used protest songs to

raise awareness about human rights violations.

- US folk singer Aunt Molly Jackson released the protest

song "Poor Miner's Farewell" in 1932.

- It exposed the unlivable wages and dangerous working

conditions coal miners faced in Kentucky during the 1920s
and 1930s.

- South African singer-songwriter Hugh Masekela released

the protest song "Bring Him Back Home" in 1987.

- It called on the South African government to free Nelson

Mandela, an anti-apartheid leader who'd been unjustly
imprisoned.

The student wants to contrast the song "Poor Miner's

Farewell" with the song "Bring Him Back Home." Which
choice most effectively uses relevant information from the
notes to accomplish this goal?
A) While both are protest songs, "Poor Miner's Farewell"
is about coal miners in Kentucky, whereas "Bring Him
Back Home" is about the anti-apartheid leader Nelson
Mandela.
B) Hugh Masekala's song "Bring Him Back Home,"
released in 1987, called on the South African
government to free Nelson Mandela.
C) The songs "Poor Miner's Farewell" and "Bring Him
Back Home" both raised awareness about human rights
violations.
D) Released in 1932 by Aunt Molly Jackson, the song "Poor
Miner's Farewell" was a protest against the unlivable
wages and dangerous working conditions faced by
Kentucky coal.

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