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Chapter 66

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Chapter 66 · 2024.12 : A-C (analysis included) · READING 1

A speaker at a recent children's book publishing conference noted that, while many illustrators do excellent work, in her mind, no one has ever________Jerry Pinkney's work as the illustrator of The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South: there is no better example of the form, according to the speaker
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

AcitedBeclipsedCaugmentedDconvened

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Chapter 66 · 2024.12 : A-C (analysis included) · READING 1

Among the most visited art museums in the world, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid had approximately 4.4 million visitors in 2019. The Museo Reina Sofia also offers virtual tours that art lovers can view online for free. Although there were initial concerns that people who viewed the virtual tours would then consider an in-person visit unnecessary, museum administrators claim that their surveys of in-person visitors show that those concerns were unjustified.
Which statement, if true, would most directly support the administrators' claim?

AMost surveyed visitors to the Museo Reina Sofia indicated that they lived somewhere other than Madrid.BMany surveyed visitors to the Museo Reina Sofia indicated that the virtual tours convinced them to plan an in-person visit.CMany surveyed visitors to the Museo Reina Sofia indicated that they would likely view the virtual tours in order to reminisce about their in-person visit.DMost surveyed visitors to the Museo Reina Sofia indicated that they were unaware of the virtual tours before their first in-person visit.

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Chapter 66 · 2024.12 : A-C (analysis included) · READING 1

Biochemists I. Sam Saguy and Eli J. Pinthus studied the mass and heat transfer processes that occur when foods, such as the Indian snacks makka poha and shankarpali, are fried in oil. During frying, water in the crust evaporates, leaving voids that oil can fill, thereby increasing the food's fat content. As the process continues, water from the food's center moves to the crust as long as the crust remains permeable. Therefore, the less moisture a food loses during frying,______.
Which choice most logically completes the text?

Athe less the fat content is increased through frying.
Bthe higher the temperature must be to fry the food.
Cthe slower the crust will lose its permeability.
Dthe crispier the crust will be when frying is completed.

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Biologists Christina Zdenek, Damian Candusso, and their team exposed various snakes to airborne sound and recorded whether they moved toward or away from the sound. The table shows the results for three of the snakes observed in the study. Based on the table, a student concludes that Glory and Boss behaved similarly in the sound trials.
Which choice best describes data from the table that support the student's conclusion?

ABoss moved toward the sound, while Bitey Boy moved away from it.BBitey Boy and Glory both moved toward the sound.CGlory and Boss both moved away from the sound.DBoss moved toward the sound, while Glory moved away from it.

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Community science involves professional scientists collaborating with members of the public to study a topic. This approach to research can promote community engagement by offering insight into the daily life of a scientist. It's also very effective because it greatly increases the amount of data that can be collected, such as when biologist Abbigail Merrill and colleagues studied butterfly size and its relation to behavior and used findings reported by hundreds of students and community members in northwestern Arkansas.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

AAbbigail Merrill and colleagues used a community science approach in their butterfly research and were surprised at the effect this had on public understanding of the nature of scientists' work.
BA community science approach can increase public understanding of the nature of scientists' work and generate large amounts of data, benefiting both communities and researchers.
CA community science approach can benefit communities by increasing public understanding of the nature of scientists' work, but it's less likely to help researchers obtain accurate data.
DA community science approach allows researchers to collect significantly more data even though it's unlikely to have much of an effect on public understanding of the nature of scientists' work.

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Dubautia raillardioides is a species in a family of plants known collectively as the silversword alliance, all of which grow only on the Hawaiian Islands. Members of this alliance exhibit an extraordinary range of phenotypes, with some species maturing into vines and others into shrubs and trees. All species in the alliance descended from a single ancestral tarweed plant that arrived on the islands around 5 million years ago. The tarweed's descendants diversified into distinct species as they adapted to live in the wide variety of habitats found on the Hawaiian Islands.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined phrase in the text as a whole?

AIt lists species from a family of plants found only on the Hawaiian Islands.BIt explains why Dubautia raillardioides is unique among members of the silversword alliance.CIt supplies the name used to refer to a group of related plant species.DIt provides the common name for the Dubautia raillardioides plant.

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Chapter 66 · 2024.12 : A-C (analysis included) · READING 1

Elara, one of the eighty known moons of Jupiter, is designated as Jupiter VII ("VII" means "7"). Roman numerals typically indicate the order in which the moons were named rather than the order of their proximity to Jupiter. It is incorrect to assume,______that Elara is the seventh moon from Jupiter in terms of proximity.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Ahowever,
Bthen,
Cmoreover,
Dfinally,

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Guard cells are specialized cells that are part of a plant's pores. These cells help regulate the amount of carbon dioxide a plant takes in.______they help regulate a plant's water loss.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

AIn conclusion,
BAdditionally,CInstead,DPreviously,

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In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was working on converting printed books into a digital format. He found that some words were distorted enough that digital scanners couldn't recognize them, but most humans could easily read them. Based on that finding, von Ahn invented a simple security test to keep automated "bots" out of websites. The first version of the reCAPTCHA test asked users to type one known word and one of the many words scanners couldn't recognize. Correct answers proved the users were humans and added data to the book-digitizing project.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

ATo discuss von Ahn's invention of reCAPTCHA
BTo explain how digital scanners work
CTo call attention to von Ahn's book-digitizing project
DTo indicate how popular reCAPTCHA is

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In the early days of television in the 1940 s, many people thought that US television programs would rely on the financial support of ad agencies and commercial sponsors, much like radio did. But advertisers hesitated to jump into a new space, particularly at a time when the manufacturing of new television sets was stalled due to the US's involvement in World War II. Broadcasters, like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), needed to persuade advertisers to support their programming despite not knowing whether there would be a robust television audience to begin with.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined phrase in the text as a whole?

AIt describes how broadcasters attempted to convince advertisers to support television.BIt explains why a type of television programming was popular at the time.CIt identifies a specific reason behind some advertisers' hesitance to support television.DIt compares the beginnings of radio programming with the beginnings of television programming in the United States.

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Jetties—long, narrow structures that extend from a landmass into the water—are often constructed to protect coastlines from erosion. Jetties can sometimes have the opposite________obstructing the natural flow of sand along the shore can lead to increased erosion in some areas.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Aeffect, though,Beffect, though;Ceffect, thoughDeffect; though

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Just as the Arrhenius equation in chemistry is named not after its first discoverer but after the physicist who further developed the equation, so too does the Cavendish balance in physics take its name from a______who was not the first to construct the device.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Anatural philosopher: in this case, Henry Cavendish,
Bnatural philosopher-in this case, Henry Cavendish,
Cnatural philosopher in this case, Henry Cavendish,
Dnatural philosopher-in this case, Henry Cavendish-

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Many Farms Chapter is one of the 110 chapters of the Navajo Nation (Naabeeho Bináhásdzo). The chapter, known as Dä'äk'eh Haláni in the Navajo language (Diné bizaad), was the subject of a profile_________in the Navajo Times on August 22, 2013.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

AappearingBhas appearedCappearedDappears

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Chapter 66 · 2024.12 : A-C (analysis included) · READING 1

Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana weaves stories of triumph, using her unique method of applying colorful yarn to photographs of people. In some works, Villasana focuses on celebrating cultural icons who are people of color, as she does in her depiction of artist Frida Kahlo. However, in other works, Villasana honors ordinary people, as she does in her captivating portrayal of a woman holding a baby. Villasana sees both of these approaches as ways of depicting the power and interconnectedness of all people.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

AVillasana's works focus on recognizing both famous and everyday examples of human strength and connection.
BVillasana began her artistic career by painting portraits of famous people and then transitioned to depicting everyday people instead.
CVillasana's portrayal of a woman holding a baby focuses more on human connection than it does on human resilience.
DVillasana's depiction of Frida Kahlo receives more attention from scholars than her depiction of a woman holding a baby does.

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Some social scientists argue that while a belief in the importance of reason and progress is key to democracy, the public's understanding of history is also central to its subsequent comprehension of a state's politics, and if an electorate is to function, historical issues cannot remain the dominion only of academics. History is too______to leave to historians alone.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Arespectable
Bcomplex
Caccessible
Dcritical

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The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking, along with providing instruction in other subjects. In the play, Aristophanes satirizes sophists as teaching people to speak dishonestly, as seen when the character______.
Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of The Clouds to illustrate the claim?

AStrepsiades encourages his son to learn to be a sophist, saying, "If you have any concern for your father's patrimony, become one of them."
BPheidippides says, after taking lessons from a sophist, "How pleasant it is to be acquainted with new and clever things, and to be able to despise the established laws!"
CStrepsiades, taking lessons from a sophist, says he wants to become "a fabricator of falsehoods, inventive of words, a practiced knave in lawsuits,... a fox, a sharper, a slippery knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an impostor:"
DSocrates, a sophist, says to a potential customer, "I wish to briefly learn from you if you are possessed of a good memory."

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The editors of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape turned to Arturo Longoria, a nonfiction writer, to craft the entry for "arroyo," a term referring to the bed of an intermittently dry stream or creek. For "lek," however, the editors chose the______author of The Very Rich Hours.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Apoet, Emily Hiestand,
Bpoet, Emily Hiestand
Cpoet Emily Hiestand
Dpoet Emily Hiestand,

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The following text is adapted from Yone Noguchi's 1914 memoir The Story of Yone Noguchi. Noguchi is returning home after eleven years abroad.
I reached Tsushima, my native town, at evening.
I frightened my old father at the station, who was actually trying to find me among some other people. There is no wonder that he could not recognise me; I must have changed a great deal.
As used in the text, what does the word "find" most nearly mean?

ALocateBRevealCPersuadeDEmbarrass

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The musical Hadestown was produced off-Broadway in New York in 2016. A revised version of the musical premiered on Broadway in 2019, in a larger production. In a review of the Broadway production, theater critic Jesse Green enthusiastically praised the musical's storytelling. However, Green also explained that he had seen the earlier version of Hadestown in 2016 and had found the storytelling to be very confusing. This suggests that in Green's view,______.
Which choice most logically completes the text?

AHadestown improved greatly between 2016 and its premiere on Broadway.
Bthe 2016 version of Hadestown had fewer storytelling problems than the 2019 version did.
CHadestown should have had a larger production in 2019 than it actually did.
Dthe 2019 version of Hadestown was less enjoyable than the 2016 version.

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The Village Politicians, painted in the realist style by Wilhelm Leibl, depicts a group of peasants clustered together in conversation and emphasizes accuracy in its portrayal of the experiences of ordinary working people. This style largely________the conventions of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Thomas Couture, which instead accentuated their subjects' positive traits by, for example, placing them in staged settings with expensive looking decorations and presenting them with smooth, unblemished skin.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Arejected
BimitatedCepitomized
Dextended

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The______Keshni Kashyap's book Tina's Mouth has been very positive. Many reviewers have praised the book, and it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Ainspiration for
Breception of
Cneglect of
Dconfusion about

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Water boils at around 212°F at sea level, but in Superior, Colorado (elevation: 5,495 feet above sea level), it boils at around 202 °F. Food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, who explores the science behind cooking,______that lower boiling points at higher elevations "can wreak all sorts of havoc on recipes."

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

AexplainBexplainsChave explainedDare explaining

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With the short documentary Rick Bartow: The Man Who Made Marks, Osage and Cherokee director Nanette Kelley joined the growing number of Indigenous women adding their voices to North American______film, a selection of the Native Women in Film Festival, is about the art of painter and musician Rick Bartow.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Acinema, her
Bcinema. Her
Ccinema and her
Dcinema her

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Working with equipment designed for a billionths of a meter scale,______.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Ananoengineers have synthesized silica nanoparticles that are used to administer medicines to specific cells in the body.
Bnanoengineers' synthesized silica nanoparticles are used to administer medicines to specific cells in the body.
Csilica nanoparticles that have been synthesized by nanoengineers are used to administer medicines to specific cells in the body.
Dsynthesized silica nanoparticles used to administer medicines to specific cells in the body have been created by nanoengineers.

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

• Dinosaur fossil specimens can be found at science museums all over the world.

• A dinosaur fossil specimen nicknamed Stan is housed at the Black Hills Institute in Hill City, South Dakota.

• Stan, a Tyrannosaurus, lived in the Late Cretaceous period.

• A dinosaur fossil specimen nicknamed Horridus is housed at the Melbourne Museum in Melbourne, Australia.

• Horridus, a Triceratops, lived in the Late Cretaceous period.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two dinosaur fossil specimens. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ABoth the Tyrannosaurus fossil specimen Stan and the Triceratops fossil specimen Horridus lived in the Late Cretaceous period.BWhile the Tyrannosaurus fossil specimen Stan is in Hill City, South Dakota, the Triceratops fossil specimen Horridus is in Melbourne, Australia.CDinosaur fossil specimens can be found at science museums all over the world, including in Hill City, South Dakota, and Melbourne, Australia.DThe Black Hills Institute is home to Stan, a Tyrannosaurus fossil specimen from the Late Cretaceous period.

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

• Researchers in a 2021 study wanted to determine the rate at which 17 languages conveyed both information and syllables.

• They calculated the bits of information conveyed per second (the IR, or information rate).

• The IR was found to be approximately consistent across the 17 languages (an average of 39 bits per second).

• They calculated the number of syllables spoken per second (the SR, or syllable rate).

• Spanish had the second-fastest SR (7.7 syllables per second).

• Vietnamese had the sixteenth-fastest SR (5.3 syllables per second).

The student wants to present an overview of the study's findings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

AThough some of the languages differed in number of syllables spoken per second, all 17 conveyed information at roughly the same rate.BThe 2021 study determined the information rate (IR) of 17 languages in bits of information conveyed per second.CVietnamese had the sixteenth-fasted syllable rate, lower than that of Spanish, which had the second-fastest; however, Spanish had the lower information rate of the two.DResearchers found that information was conveyed more quickly in Spanish, at 7.7 syllables per second, than in Vietnamese, at 5.3 syllables per second.

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

• Grimanesa Amoros is a Peruvian American artist well known for her LED light sculptures.

• Her sculpture Uros House is made of smooth multicolored LED domes.

• It occupies 250 cubic feet of space.

• Her sculpture Ocupante is made of entangled blue and white LED tubes.

• It occupies 80,000 cubic feet of space.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Uros House and Ocupante. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

AAt 80,000 cubic feet in size, Grimanesa Amoros's Ocupante cuts a larger figure than the 250-cubic-foot Uros House.B

Uros House is an LED light sculpture made by Grimanesa Amoros, as is Ocupante.

The smooth LED domes of Grimanesa Amoros's Uros House stand in contrast to the tangled LED tubes of Ocupante.

DGrimanesa Amoros is the artist behind Uros House-a sculpture made of smooth multicolored LED domes.

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