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Some pieces of music might have many meanings-the compositions of Alberthre Caron-Legris can _____ as many different interpretations as there are people to listen to them-and so as long as a listener's interpretation isn't willfully absurd or the result of inattention, it is difficult to justify the claim that the listener has misunderstood the piece.

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

The following text is from Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel Night and Day.The text describes a gathering of aspiring young artists and intellectuals.

One person after another rose, and, as with an ll balanced axe,attempted to hew out his conception of art a little more clearly, and sat down with the feeling that, for some reason which he could not grasp, his strokes had gone awry. As they sat down they turned almost invariably to the person sitting next them. and rectified and continued what they had just said in public.

As used in the text, what does the figurative phrase "hew our"most nearly mean?

The following text is from Betty Smith's 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Francie, a young girl, visits the library often.

Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. She was reading a book a day in alphabetical order and not skipping the dry ones.She remembered that the first author had been Abbott. She had been reading a book a day for a long time now and she was still in the B's. Already she had read about bees and buffaloes, Bermuda vacations and Byzantine architecture. For all her enthusiasm, she had to admit that some of the B's had been hard going. But Francie was a reader.

1947 by Betty smith

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

The following text is adapted from Adib Khorram's 2018 novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay. Darius, a teenager from the United States, is visiting his grandparents, Mamou and Babou, and other family members in Iran.

I was too tired to fall all the way asleep, and even though Mamou was soft and warm. leaning up against her wasn't a terribly comfortable position to sleep in. So I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that blew my way from the front seat of Dayi [Unclel Jamsheed's SUV

It reminded me of when I was little, and Mom chanted to me in Farsi every night before bedtime. It's hard to describe Farsi chanting; the way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez. I didn't know what they meant, but that didn't matter. It was quiet and soothing.

2018 by Adib khorram

Which choice best describes the main purpose of the text?

The Paul Laurence Dunbar House in Dayton, Ohio, is the house where Paul Laurence Dunbar lived for two years and wrote his later poetry collections. Now the house is a museum dedicated to Dunbar's life and writings. Visitors travel to this museum to feel more connected to an author they admire. To encourage that sense of connection, the museum's curators have set up exhibits with furnishings owned by Dunbar.Such exhibits help visitors understand day to day life in the house where Dunbar felt inspired.

Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

On painter William H. Johnson's return to the United States in 1938 after a decade in Europe, his style underwent an abrupt transformation. Turning away from landscapes painted in an expressionist style-a style that often involves using fluid. distorted shape sand thick. textured brushstrokes to express the artist's subjective experience of reality-Johnson began painting portraits of Black Americans in a bold new way. Evocative of African sculpture and American and Scandinavian folk art, these portraits feature flat. deliberately oversimplified figures in a vibrant but limited color palette.

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

The following text is from Lady Gregory's 1904 play Spreading the News.Mrs. Tarpey. Bartley, and Mrs.Fallon have been buying and selling goods at the local fair

MRS.TARPEY: Good morrow. Bartley Fallon; good morrow, Mrs.Fallon.Well. Bartley, you'll find no cause for complaining today; they are all saying it was a good fair

BARTLEY:(Raising his voice.) It was not a good fair, Mrs.Tarpey. It was a scattered sort of a fair If we didn't expect more, we got less. That's the way with me always; whatever I have to sell goes down and whatever I have to buy goes up. If there's ever any misfortune coming to this world, it's on myself it pitches, like a flock of crows on seed potatoes.

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

In a study by Mika R.Moran, Daniel A.Rodriguez, and colleagues, residents of Mexico City. Mexico, and La Paz, Bolivia, were surveyed about parks in their cities. Of the 562 respondents from Mexico City. 77.6%indicated that they use the city's parks, and of the 528 respondents from La Paz,67.5%indicated using city parks. Given that the percentage of Mexico City respondents who reported living within a 10-minute walk of a park was much lower than that reported by La Paz respondents,greater proximity alone can't explain the difference in park use.

The text makes which point about the difference between the proportions of Mexico City residents and La Paz residents using parks?

External shopping cues are a type of marketing that uses obvious messaging-a display featuring a new product. for example, or a "buy one, get one free" offer-to entice consumers to make spontaneous purchases. In a study, data scientist Sam K Hui and colleagues found that this effect can also be achieved with a less obvious cue: rearranging a store's layout. The researchers explain that trying to find items in new locations causes shoppers to move through more of the store,exposing therm to more products and increasing the likelihood that they ll buy an item they hadn't planned on purchasing.

Which response from a survey given to shoppers who made a purchase at a retail store best supports the researchers' explanation?

The Cherokee Nation, the Quapaw Tribe, and the more than thirty other tribes in oklahoma operate numerous businesses and generate billions of dollars in revenue. An economics student is researching the tribes' collective activity as a single industry. The student wants to compare the average amount that industry contributed per employee to oklahoma's economy with the average amount contributed per employee by three other industries. Looking at the table, the student finds that tribal economic activity contributed over $141.000 per employee, on average, ranking it____

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the comparison?

Biologist Rosanna Alegado believes that we might learn how multicellular organisms developed from single-celled ones if we understand why the single-celled organism Salpingoeca rosetta. the oldest living relative of animals, sometimes forms colonies of cells. Alegado and colleagues reviewed data from many studies about how S.rosetta responds when exposed to another type of single-celled organism, bacteria, including David C Ldman's work with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria and Jang-Cheon Cho's work with Croceibacter atlanticus bacteria. Alegado and colleagues concluded that neither L.monocytogenes nor C atlanticus are likely to have played a significant role in the development of multicellular organisms.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Alegado and colleagues' conclusion?

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It is common for freshwater lakes near or above a latitude of 45"north of the equator like Lake Mjosa in Norway, to accumulate surface ice in winter. The amount and duration of ice depends on many factors,including local weather conditions as well as the lake's depth.volume, and surface area, but a climate researcher claims that some lakes in these latitudes have seen a decline in the duration of ice between the early 1980s and the mid-2000s

Which choice best describes data in the table that support the researcher's claim?

Architects looking for inspiration may examine photographs of iconic buildings such as the Leaning Tower in Pisa. A two-dimensional photograph, however. cannot capture how a building interacts with its surroundings. whether by complementing, blending in with, or perhaps even clashing with sights and activities nearby. An image of the Leaning Tower thus

Which choice most logically completes the test?

The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)seeks to discover long-term trends related to childhood development by compiling and analyzing evidence from approximately 12.000 participants in Germany. As with most longitudinal studies, extensive funding support is needed for SOUP to collect the relevant data over timescales and at intervals that will support robust conclusions.But the quality of a more constrained investigation, such as a transportation study seeking only to yield the average number of people per day who use a city's public transportation system. is much less dependent on high levels of funding because_

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Anthropologist Livia Barbosa, of the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil, _____ food and sociability in contemporary Brazil-specifically, how foods such as carne-de-sol (a cured meat dish)and pe-de-moleque (a traditional peanut brittle candy) function as central mechanisms in building social relationships, values, and identities.

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

On Guadalupe Peak, which_____an elevation of 8,751 feet, one can find the highest point in Texas.

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

At 3,020 years old, Patriarca da Floresta, a jequitiba-rosa (Cariniana legalis) located in Brazil, is one of the oldest known trees in the world. With over three millennia of climate data in its tree rings, a single tree like this, claims ______ Valerie Trouet, can tell the history of the world.

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

Julia Alvarez's 1994 novel In the Time of the Butterfties, a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal_____ can serve as a starting point for those wanting to explore how the rule of dictator Rafael Trujillo has been represented in Dominican American literature.

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

Scholars have praised Gwendolyn Brooks's 1945 poem "Ballad of Pearl May Lee" for its nuanced portrayal of life in Brooks's South Side Chicago neighborhood. The poem shouldn't be regarded as being simply a product of Brooks's____the breadth of the poet's influences, which range from medieval English ballads to the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes.

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

Sociologist Alton Okinaka sits on the review board tasked with adding new sites to the Hawaii Register of Historic Places, which includes Lo 'alo' a Heiau, a Hawaiian temple built around 1730 and the Bishop National Bank of Hawaii, built in 1929. Okinaka doesn't make such decisions single-handedly,___________ historical designations must be approved by a group of nine other experts.

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

After appropriate permissions are granted, a typical archaeological dig begins with a surveyor making a detailed grid of the excavation site. Then, the site is carefully dug. and any artifacts found are recorded and mapped onto the site grid. _____ the artifacts are removed, cataloged, and analyzed in a laboratory.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

To guarantee the validity of experimental results, scientists rely on precise, unchanging standards of measurement. ______metrologists (scientists who study measurement) developed the SL. or International System of Units. The SI, s units of measurement are based on unchanging values in nature, such as the mass of an electron or the speed of light.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Soil polluted with chromium ta heavy metal) is harmful to many plants and animals, but the plant species Ludwigia prostrata,or creeping water primrose, not only thrives in such conditions but also helps remediate them. As a metal hyperaccumulator, Ludwigia prostrata absorbs a large amount of chromium and stores it safely in ts roots and shoots; ___ chromium concentrations in the soil decrease.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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

·Iranian scholar Abu Rayhan al-Biruni studied Earth's physical features.

·He theorized that a large landmass existed west of Europe and east of Asia.

·Al-Biruni published his landmass theory in 1037 CL.

The student wants to specify when al-Biruni published his landmass theory. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

·Birds of Northern South America is an identification guidebook by ornithologists Robin Restall. Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lentino.

·It lists the thirty-five hummingbird species found in Suriname.

·The sooty-capped hermit is a large hummingbird found in Suriname.

·It is identifiable by its distinctive facial markings and its long black, curved bill.

·The fiery-tailed awlbill is a small hummingbird found in Suriname.

·It is identifiable by its mostly dark green color and its short, black, upturned bill

Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a difference between the two birds?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
·The University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway, is home to a Foucault pendulum.
·The pendulum consists of a weighted ball that swings at the end of a roughly 14-meter-long cable.
·Like all Foucault pendulums, it dangles from a fixed point that ensures the swing path of the pendulum doesn't change.
·To an observer, the swing path of a Foucault pendulum appears to change over time because Earth rotates beneath it.
·Foucault pendulums are used as a simple way to provide evidence of Earth's rotation.

The student wants to explain how a Foucault pendulum provides evidence of Earth's rotation. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?