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Paper 26 · ACT June 2018 · Form A11 · English Test

Source question 2. Refer to the source image.

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Source question 3. other: vegetcTrbles are used othet vegetables are iised to I'O Liiid OUL tlie 'orchcs trcq. [2] Fiom c2n e¢iily age, tlie Nic n brothers, raised on a vegeli( bl.e f£1riTh in China's Anliiii province. who were

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Source question 4. tclLight to pl<iy conventioiial .wusical instruTneuts by and Ivcre their fdthei", cl music te<icheL. [B] The siblir,gs' love of miisic ¢iiid Pl¢ gsion foL peifoi"ITEG2nce led ihem to begin ACT-AI1 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. experinienting witli vegetcible miisicaI instrU￿entS a few years ago. [3] Working by liand while con,stLLiCting their edible instru]nents, the bi"others maniially bore holes into the

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Source question 5. vegetables by using long metal drill bits, snacking on discarded pieces as they work. [c] Weiping says that to cieate a low pitch, which mi11ces a deep hole.

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Source question 6. IL by making Nonetlieless) Ic liigli pitch iequii.es a shallow hole.

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Source question 7. Othei" factois, like, the diaineter of the bole and

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Source question 8. cliangcs in air tempciatiile aiid biimidity. also effects the &ound qLiality.

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Source question 9. ati-ect [1] A newly piclced vegetclble that sits at the market foi even one day may lose much of its water content. pro(ILicing a pitch that is oiit of tiine. [2] Because of this, .i the bi'other.g niii,gt C<ql've a fresh set of instruments beforc

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Source question 10. such vegetables prodiicc it H:ill produce this produLes eacli perfoL'mance. [3] S tiIl, the fflost critical ingredient ill cre<qLing Iiigh-qiiality sound, Weidong says, is the

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Source question 11. bound, Weidong says sound Weidong SQL ys, sound Weidong says vegetables, high watei conteiit. 12

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Whi-h sequence of sentences m<1kes this paiagiapli Inobt logical? NO CHANGE ACT-A11 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. [5] While the bi"others' rnus.ical Lepertoire is as'&aried

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Source question 13. ,qs their instrLiments, rallging fi-oThi traditional chill￿e flute music to modern pop songs. [D] They maintain that different vegetables have diflerent scales &nd are theiefor- siiited to difterent type,$ of miisic. Since 2011. the Nan brotliers have perfoi'med reg Lilcqrly, playing a wid= N ariety of mLlSlC 011 their edible iListruLnents and bringing a m.hole new meaning to the ideic of playing with your food. 14

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At this poinL the writer is consideiing adding the fol- loiving Irue statement: Each pitch is te.8ted and perfected with the help of an old electroiiic ttinei, Should the wiiter make this addition here? exercise care Q£nd attention to detail tliey CTi< ft their i'egetable instLiiments. bc turncd into PTecise musical instruments, procesb of creat&ng ingtriirnents that is not relevant at this poinl in the essay. brothers have a strong inusical background. Question 15 asks about Ihe preceding passage as a whole.

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The wriier wants to &qdd Llie following sentence to the essa),: As Èe¢nagers, they perfoi.rncd with a local theater company. The sentence would most logically be placed at,, PASSAGE11 Natiii'e Meets Art [1] LoLc1ted in Olympic Sculptiire Park in Seattle, aitist Mark Dion's Neukoin Vivarium bas been Called ¢1 COtnbin&tion ot art 2( nd ecology, sculpture and nature. Acf-A11 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. The inslallation contains a sixty-foot-long nurse log, it Ib 16 a slowly decayiiig piece of ti.ee Ii"UDk that provides a Iioine aiid iiutiients foi young plaiils lind supports & variety of mici'obial life. [A] This single log offeis visitors to the 17

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V. NO CHANGE

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Source question 17. nutrients foi voung plaiits, offers visitors massilc piece of tree (a sixty-foot log) offei I'isitors

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Source question 18. ui.ban parlc? glimpse into Élle Colllplicatcd cycle of lifc IB uiifolding in the £orest8 outside the city. [2] ViiJaTium conies froill the Latin woId vivuJ. which iiieans 'alive" a fittiiig descL Iption for a piece of art that exeiiiplifies a thriving foi'est ecosystem. [B] Dion found the log, part of a westerii heinlock lyiiig in a Washington

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.d. NO CHANGE torest, aiid, traiispoi-ting it to the city along with some of tlie soil, fungi, and i)laiils tliat Iiad surrounded the

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Source question 20. and, to transport aiid traD%poitsd ttansported tree. [CJ Working willi a teain of scientists and architecls, Dion installed the log in a specially constiueied eighiy-foot-long greeiiliouse. The greeiihouse is cu,8tomized with magnifying glasses and tnicroseopes that disclose millute details of the lite supported by the log. Repeated visits to the ?1. A. lio CHANGE installation i'evea15 the larger process of decay 22 iuid tTansfoLmation.

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Source question 21. Refer to the source image.

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Source question 22. is revealing rev￿al [3] In the wild, this complex, interconnccted system of life would have hlc d no ts'ouble sustaining itself. In the city, however, maintainin(v the nurse log requiies a gie<qt nuinber of energy and teclmology.. [D]

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Source question 23. a great aTnount in ACT-A11 GO ON TO.THE NEXT PAGE. Huniidity is electroiiicall)I monitored, the soil is coiistantly I'eplenislied w.itli illittients, and sunlighL is 24 filtei'ed tlirough gi'Een-liued gLass designed to mimic

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r. NO CHANGE constanily PLovidLd with aiid restOLed by iiiiti'ieiits on a regulai basis, often constantly ieplenishcd with healthtul nutrients. conSt￿ntIY iepllnighed willi restorative iiiitrieiits regulaily, LEie coloi- OI: 41 foiest caiiopy.

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If the writer weie to deletc tlie preceding SLnteiiee, tlie paragraph would pi.iniaiily lose a staleinent tliat: explains why good ali qucility and becllthy Boil ale necessary LD inaintain nature-blc sed exliibits. illustLates Iiow mLich effoI-t ig required to ensui'e that thc exhibit siii"vives iii ali ui.ban setting. the installation than is the nui'be .log. emphasizes Iiow ditficiilt it W<qS tor Dion to build the gi eeiihouse. [4] roi" Dion, Ihe 1£ Inouiii of work in thc middje 26 ol" a bLlSy L'ity i'equiicd to sustain this ecosyslem

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The best placeineiit foi the uiideilined poi'tion WOLild where it is iiow.

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Source question 27. iiistinctively, whicli liiglilighLs the fact that 'it % incredibly difficLIIL, expeii8ive, aiid technological to appro_ximaie (haL systeni., In otlier wol'ds, nature. once destroyed is ￿irtuall

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Source question 28. iiiipossible to recoil struL'I. Questions 29 and 30 ask about the preceding passage as a wholo.

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The wi.itei is coIisidei"inu adding the followino parcn- tlieticèll infoi'iTJation to Lhe essay: (The NeiAk()i?i in the Inst￿leation'S title refe.rs to tlie naine of tEie work's patrons.) If the wi'ilLI' were to add this sentence, it would most logically be placed Iqt: C, Point C in Para(Yrap,4 2.

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Suppose the writer's ijiimai-y iJui.-po,%e liad beeii to describe how one cll'tist iises (1 work (If <ll-t to educ¢lte people about tTrn issue tlie artist feels iq iniportcint. Would. Ihis essiiy aLcoiiiplisli tliat pui])ose? forests wei'e be.iiig destioyed and tlien decided to ma<e a SCLilptuie OUL OF a fcilleii Il'ee. installaLion aiid explains the niLS.%age Dioii hopes to coiivey thi-ougli NÉ ukoi71 VivariLIIII. looks likc aiid Iiow it contributes to the Olyllipic Sculpture Plc Ik, Vivarii,Ini's viewers actiially learii from the installation. ACT-A11 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. PASSAGE111 Interiiet Gaiii.. Andreessen's hlosaic Before Moscllc-tlie web brows￿ widely credited with popularizing the Woi'ld Wide Web-was invented. tb Inlernet wasn, t usei-fiieiidly. Inteillet navigation required kiiowledge of specitic typed conimands: online documents, consi&ting alinost eiitiiely of. text, were hard to locate and download. Givcii these obstructive hindrances, many 32 people asquiiied ihe web would reillain the. domaiD of . tcclinology expei.ts and ne!ei- ljave mass appeal. Nlarc

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Source question 31. llaN-igation, Ivliicli i'equired . naN'igation that reqiiired na￿.]g.atioll iequiiing

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Source question 32. Andreessen belieiied the opposite, every.one would 33

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Source question 33. opp.osite. because wan,t the Internet.

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IlThich of-the followiijg statenients, if added here, would proiide the best tTaiisition to tlie discussion of ArJdreessen'"s broivtitr? crease.

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.&. NO CIL4NGE. W￿ker, for the Natioll￿ Center foi Supercomput- in8-.Applicatsoi!s. (NCSA), . worker for tlie Ntitioiial Center foi" Supei"comput- ing Applications, (NCSA), worker for. the NaÈior]al Cenler foL Supercomput- ing Applications (NCSA)

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Which choice most slrongly conveys that Andi"eeq4en developed-a strong &ffinity for the Iiiternet? As a Studeiit woi"Icer, t.or Ihc National Center for 35 Supercompuiing 'ApplicatlOn8, (NCSA) at the Lniver8lty of Illinois, Andi"ees's¢ii became enthralled by thu Internet. In 1992, he conceived of a biowsei" tliat would sin]plifv web navigation. Rather than typiiig specific cornmand6. people would be able to access dil:terent web pages by cliclciiig on icoiis, He showed his idea to fellow studcnt Eiic Bina, who Iielped refiiie the piogram. The two theii woi.ked with the NCSA to develop Mosaic, which became available in 1993, Free to anyone with 37 an Internet connection, MD,saic quickly became popular. spei)t many houi's on savi the utility of

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Source question 37. it became ACT-AI 1 GO QN.TO, THE NEXT PAGE. Appi"oxiinatcly 60,000 copies of tlie browser were

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Source question 38. browser (ltrlos&ic) th= browser downlooded in itB first yeai. Mosaic was soon not the first web browser,"but 39

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Th= best placcmcnt for the iinderlined portion would it SLirpassed all rivals. Unlike other browsers, Mosaic was easy to ingtElll, and it worked on every opeTatillo system. It was the first browsei. to display pictures eaturing hyper]illks, where it is now. aftvr the word it. and iexL on the same page AO

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At Ihis point, the Writ￿ is consideriiig <iddiDg the fol- loiving phrase (adjusting the punctuation as needed),. adding much-needed visual appeal Should the writer make this addition? browstsi to displ¢Qy Plctiires alongside text, made web browsing more enjoyable. ments on the Internet weLen't usefLII. similar to other vieb bi owsers, the Lisei. of ihe program W2£ s able to visit other web P2£ gcs with one cliclc, "With Mosaic,, said one writer, "the online world appe<irs to be a vast, iuteTconnected

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Source question 41. il was easj for the llser uniyerse of infoimation., 42

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If the writer V¥ere to delete the PTec¢ding qentence, the essa)i K.'ould primarily lose a stateillellt that: aroues that, before Mos<1 Ic, few people searched thc Interllet for informatioii. specifies some of the featiires that made Mosaic popular among its users. credits Mosaic with mal<ing the Interiiet feel mole coherent to users. compares the design,8 of later web browsers to Mosaic's design. Even thoLigLI i( gc2ve way to othcr. more sophisticated browseis within a few years, fvIosaic showed average usel"% the signilicance of the Internet. CoMp￿ative1y, its siinplicity encouraged people to 43 cre&Èe and upload their own content. In the yeat

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Source question 43. Mosaic Wcls disGhargcd, 623 websites existed. 44

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Source question 44. relinquished, released. emitted, ACT-A11 GOONT THE NEXT PA FoLir yeaLS Iclter, there wei'e inore than 600,000.

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Given that all (he choices are triie, which one best con- cl￿deS the eisav by Lisifig specific inform¢ltion to com- plete the contrasi begLllI in the pievioiis senteiice? the ivay peoplc iised the Iiiternet. successful web browser, tial rate. PASSAGE IV A Poetic OlympiGS [1] Dliiiiig athletic festlV£q ks in ancient Greecc. great poets were i)14Trced iilongsid¢ champion athletes. This 40 has never been true ol the modern Olympic Gan]es. [A] The Olynipic literaiy competition, reintroduced in 1912 in Stoclcholm ic nd inclLided iii the Games for decad-s,

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Which choice most clearly eiiiphasixes the overwlielm- inglv positiN-e recepiion gre&t poets enjoyecl duiing athletic festivals in ancient Greece,? celebrated accepted 1,% pool'ly Temellibeled Lqnd I'aiely missed. The only genuine 47

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Given that all the choices (ire ¢QCCIII'¢lte, wliich one best connebts this sentenLe to the infoTmatioii th<il follows in the next sentence? was featured along with competitioiis in n]usic coInposltion, arcliitcctiire, sculpture, cqnd painting. is sometirnes commented upon when tlie OlympiL Games are held todcly. was an homage to the trcidilions ot the people of ancient Greece. PLiblic excitement foi" even the very first modern. OlympL liteidry contest W£lS focused on tlie scandal surrounding

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Source question 48. ver):, first, tnodern Olynipic ver>: firsL moderii Olyrnpic, very first rnoderll Olyinpi c the wiiiiiing poem. [B] [2] French ai'.isÈocTat Baron PieLTe de Coubertin, who in 1896 fouiided the inodern Olympic Games. he insisted

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-d. NO CHANGE insistent in his belief insisting insisted 49 Ihat talenL iii the tllle &Tt8 was a% iMport￿t as skill in atliletics. After years of opposition from officials whom felt Lh£2t ihe modei"Ii GLime8 should focus solely on O. F. NO CHANGE vilio which athlctics, CoLibeELin iinpleinented fine ￿"tS competitioiis: known as the PenLilthlon ot Miises, in 19] 2. [C] GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT.A11 Foi the liteiai'y coiitcst, it would siibrnit an unpublisned 51

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Source question 50. Refer to the source image.

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Source question 51. compeutOTS woi-k. Coiibertin did not estLlbLish a length requirement. 32 After long delibeiation duiing the literaTy event.) fiTSt

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GI￿en that all thc choices arc acciiratc, which one pro- 'ides information abolit the Olympic literciry contest thai is most cleatly relevant at tliis point iii the esscqy. worK. At the Olympic G2¢ mes in Paris in 1924, poem a'ooiit fencing callcd Sword Songs was the vinning piece. work, though critics rnocked some of the liinita- tions placed on wi"itei's. iork, prefei-ably a poem, thq¢ t was "iiispired by tlie idea of spoit." year; finally jiidges named duo George Hohrod and Martin S3 EschbaclTr as bJold medcilists ('"oi their poem "Ode to Sport."

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Source question 53. vear, judges vear, theii judges [3] Tlie jiidges, so i]npLessed by "Ode to Sport" that

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Source question 54. they call ed it the pei'fecL poein." rcfuscd to ard eitber silver or bi.onze medal,8 to <lny other literary competiiors. Wecks, alLLI the G1{ tnes h1cd coine to &n end. the judges 55 atte.mpted ta contact Flohrod and Eschbach given that the LWO liad iiol come toiward to receive their medals.

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Source question 55. The judges discovercd that iieilher author existed. 56 >6. Given that all the choices are trLie, which oiie most effectiiely leads the reic der frotn the itLfoi'mation £lbout Hohrod and Eschbach in the precediiig sentence to the information about Coiibertin in the next sentence? NO CHAl%GE claimed that the contesL, with ILS thellli< Lic focus on sport. lacked purpose, nexr Olympic liteiary competition. Sport,. aloud to spectL1tors, ACT-AI 1 10 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. A few yeai-s latei, Coubeitii) adinitted that-he himsel Iiad subinitted "the perfect poem" pseudonymously.

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Source question 56. Refer to the source image.

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At this point, the writer is consideiing adding the fol- lowing sentence: The founder of t.he moderii Olynipic Games, Coubertin was. also tEie person who biouglit about th- fine arts L()iiipetitlOllS. Given tliat the infoi"rntition is true, slioulcl the writer make this addition Iiere? include his real ntilTAe oil his poeti"y subiiiission. the poem he subinitted was particularly. well written. Coubei-tiii that Is piovided eELiliei iii tlie essay. Coubertin. had discussed "Ode to Sport" willi Ihe judges of the liieiary coii!petition.

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V. NO CHANGE [4] Tlie judges argued Lliut tEiey did not know that Coiibei'tin had wi'ittei) 'Ode to Sport." But once Couberliii',s ruse was uncovered. distrust for the alr￿dY iinpopular coinpetitioii expcinded as a result-and the SEI feeli ng eiidui"ed. [D] The Ii.tei"aiy coinpetiiion was dropped after the 1948 London Gaiiies. Maiiy of 'the winning poems have since V¢iiiishod, willi only their tides remaining. .Few lit.er&ry Iiistoiiuns think. LhLIt muLh has beer] lost. incrca6¢d even thoiigh dislilcc ot it WÉq.8 Ilot new- Questions 59 and 60 aqk about the preceding pass&ge as a whola.

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Tlie wi.itei is considering add.ing the following sen- tence to Ihe essay: Ovei the, years, tlie contest attracted many people who wanted to be poels but few tal- enLed poet8, and eveii contest oroani7£rs began to doubt the qiiaIity of Ilie subn]issions. If tlie wi'itei were to add ihi8 sentence, it would most logically be placed at:

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Suppose the writer's iJi-im*iry puipoge had. been to explain a lesser-kiiowii aspect of a widely knowii eNenL WouId this ess&y acconiplisli that puipose? iant accomptishEllents aq tlie foLiiider of tlie modern Olympic Ga￿es. Olympic Games that was relatively short lived and is not Very Wbll I'einembeied. artb competitions being a P￿'t of popular atliletic evcntJ. Spoit" and explains why the poein influciiced Coubertin to coiiipete In litei'ary compeLition.s. PASSAGE V CapL'uring the Arctic San Francisco iiative, Loluse Arner Boyd, 61 rirst saw the blue glaciers aiid glittering fjords

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Source question 61. native Louise Arner Boyd native Louis= Ai"nei Boyd, native, Louise Arner Boyd of the Arctic ice Lcip duiiiig a 1924 photography 62 expedition LO Spitsbergen, a Noiwegian island.

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Source question 62. cap, whic.h she had never before Seen, cap-both glacieis aiid tjoids- cap initially ACT-A11 GO ON.TOTHE NEXT PAGE. In tlie United St¢Trtes, little was known about the .4rctic'. its 63

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Source question 63. it's nearly frozen seas, packed with icebergs, mdde boat travel 64 to the aiea treacherous. Biit Boyd. an amateur naturalist

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If Ihe writer were to delete the undei'lined portion {adjustii]g the punctuation as needed), the essay would primarily. lose: an indication that the PLirpose of the 1924 pholog- raphv expeclitioii Boyd P<irticipated iii was to pho- tograph ikneb. an explanation ot a techiiique used by seafareis to makc travcling tlie dangeious seas near SpitsbeLgcLI s&fer. an e.Kample of a particulaL. danger f1( cing people .ho miglit hTr< ve attempted to travel the Arctic by boat. a reasorrt most seafaring boats 'in the 1920s weien't equipped to navigate around icebergs. and piacticed pliotottr¢lphei", made exploring this wid=. frigid terra.in lier life's tOCLlS. She would lead sei'eii Arctic 65 expeditions, six by sca and one by air, mainly to the knast 64 Givell that all the choices are acrurate, which one most strongly suggcsts that Boyd conceived of and rnan2L ged the sei'en Arctic expeditions? coast ot Greenlancl. experience embark Boyd's first two Arctic trips, taken in a small ship with a sjnall crew, were clesigned for photographin(¥ the illagnificent glL2ciers. Sooll Iiei" inteiest in the i-ep.ioR 60 expanded beyond capturing ILB beauty. She secuied a

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Source question 65. Refer to the source image.

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Givell that ¢1ll the clTroices tire triie, which one rnost cfFectiNely leads tlie readei fioin tlie firsL seiitence ol. this paragr{￿ph to tho information that follows in the next two sentences 7 Cp6 l<irgei", sturdiei. %hip, the Vesleliari, and invited several scieiitLSts to triivel witli her, Over thc coursc of thrcc earlv photogiaphs to the king aiid queen of elected 10 tlie board of tlie A￿elIC<￿￿ Geogiai)hiGal Society. group of islpnds called Fr<inz Josef Land. 1930s voyages, she led her teic m to the farthest reaches ot the Aictic, in 1938, the group anchored 67

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Source question 67. Jl. Arctic and clo,4e soiith of the North Pole. Botanists gathered 6X

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Source question 68. nearby about plaiit speciiTJens froin the tiiiidra paleogeologists studied tlie Iicient ice fields, and hydrogcograph-rs

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-4. NO CHANGE tundi-a. iundra: searuhed for mouiitains on the ocean floor. Aryf-Al I 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Boyd took thousallds of photographs. She woi'ked witli thc best equipnient available, including ,1 tr.ipod-iiioiiiiled laLge-foiinat cainera that freed crisp, 7•

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Source question 70. II. i)erfoiined

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Source question 71. .high-resolution iiiiageg of the I￿ldscape. She kne￿ about 71 pliotograminetry, the sLience of making 3-D measurements fioin pliotograi)Ii.ic iniages, B oyd llsed precise toeihods to choose locaiions aiid Laniei"a positions for its shots. Her 72 well-executed pliotos, featui-ed ill her book The Fiord

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Source question 72. Regioii of East Gi'eenluN.d> provided tlie basi8 for the first 73 accuiate large-scale inaps of the east Lo&st of the country.

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.4. NO CHANGE establisIicd the found<ltion tliat was the spiillg- board to

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Which choice proi'ides tlie clearest indication tlial Boyd's chartered flight oyer tlie Noi"th Pole was hei. final Arctic jounie}: evei.. not only her filial Arctic jour- ): in the year 19557 a ch£uteIed fli trht ovei the NoLtlI Pole. ll. A chartued fliglit over tlie NorLh Pole in 1955 Wi2S the polar expeit's final Arct.ic jouiney. polar expert's flllal Ilrctic jouriiey in 19,$5, The polai" expeit's final Ai"ctic journey in 1955 Vtr'as 716 over the North Pole, in a chartered flight. Her aerial 74 pIiotos docuiiiLnt the tL"ip. Today, scientlsts are exploring how Boyd's pliotograplis and writiiig. along with her team's SLudies, ITJight be Lised to inonitor envimnmental cliaiige in th¢ kn'ctic. Question 75 asks about the preceding passag as a whole.

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Suppose the writer's priin&ry pui'pose hiid been to explain the way Boyd's pliotogJ.'aphs wcre used to maLe inaps ol the east coast of Grcenland. Would Iliis essay accomplish that piupose? ,4ad gtudied pliotogrammetiy, she delibci'ately cKe- ated photograplis that could be used to make maps. becauie the ivriteL inakes clear that Boyd had phoÉograplied a region tliat, befoi"e her expeditions, had not been th.oroughly documented. Boyd's photogr1¢ phs were Lised to i]]ake inaps, the 'riteT does llol elaboiate on liow this was doiie. in? howl Boyd positioiied lier catneric to create hiJ-resolution images of glacier,s. END OF TEST 1 STOP! DO NOT TURN THE PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. ACT-A11 .13