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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Although the literary works of David Malo and Lee Cataluna have universal appeal , they are also __ the Hawaiian literary tradition in which both authors work and that stretches back to the traditional stories of the Knaka Maoli, the Native Hawaiian people.

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

inextricable from

Bsubverted byC

presaged by

incongruous with

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

The following text is from Anne Spencer's 1922 poem"Translation."

We trekked into a far country,

My friend and I.

Our deeper content was never spoken,

But each knew all the other said.

He told me how calm his soul was laid

By the lack of anvil and strife.

"The wooing kestrel," I said, "mutes his mating-note

To please the harmony of this sweet silence."

Which choice best describes the function of the reference to "anvil and strife"in the text as a whole?

It emphasizes an opposition between nature and the relationship of the speaker and her friend.

lt illustrates how the speaker and her friend can feel a close connection even though they do not talk about their feelings

lt represents a strong contrast to the speakers friend's current experience of tranquility

lt symbolizes the speaker's friend's view that meaningful work and social engagement are core components of a fulfilling life

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Like all species of baleen whales, the common minke whale feeds on tiny creatures known as krill by filtering water through bristlelike keratin structures called baleen plates. In this way, baleen whales can eat up to 30 percent of their total mass per day. And while no one would call the common minke whale small---it can have a mass as high as 4,000 kg---it is one of the smaller baleen whales and is much smaller than the blue whale, which can weigh a whopping 150,000 kg and consume as much as 45,000 kg of krill per day.

Based on the text, what can most reasonably be concluded about krill consumption among common minke and blue whales?

Most baleen whales include krill in their diets, but the common minke whale is less likely than the blue whale to do so

The quantities of krill consumed by blue whales has made it difficult for common minke whales to find sufficient food

The blue whale is able to eat more krill per day than the common minke whale Is

Both the common minke whale and the blue whale can eat as much as 45,000 kg of krill per day

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

It is common for freshwater lakes near or above a latitude of 45° north of the equator, like Opeongo Lake in Canada, 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 the higher a lake's latitude, the more days per winter it will typically have measurable amounts of surface ice.

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

Oulujarvi is at a higher latitude than Mirror Lake and typically had fewer days of ice per winter than Mirror Lake did

Oulujarvi had 194 days of ice in the winter of 1980-81 and 155 days of ice in the winter of 2005-06

Oulujarvi is at a higher latitude than Mirror Lake and typically had more days of ice per winter than Mirror Lake did

Lake Neusiedl had 77 days of ice in the winter of 1980-81 and 104 days of ice in the winter of 2005-06.

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Callie W.Babbitt, Hema Madaka, and colleagues assembled a database of materials used in consumer electronics by studying products in the lab and by gathering data from similar product studies. The team gave each of these studies a rating for level of detail (with a higher rating for reported data with more detail) and for level of traceability (with a higher rating for clearer descriptions of procedures). Based on these ratings, a second research team concluded that the methodology was better explained in a study by Oguchi Masahiro and colleagues than it was in a study by Timothy G. Townsend and
colleagues.

Which finding, if true, would most directly challenge the second research team's conclusion?

The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a low detail rating and a low traceability rating

The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a lower detail rating than the study by Townsend and colleagues did

The study by Townsend and colleagues had a low detail rating and a low traceability rating

The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a lower traceability rating than the study by Townsend and colleagues did

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Scholars cite One Hundred Years of Solitude, the 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as a foundational text of magical realism, the Latin American style of fiction in which antirealistic plot devices---often borrowed from the spiritual and narrative traditions of Indigenous and colonial societies in the Americas---are deployed in an otherwise realistic mode of representation typical of the modern novel. This style has exerted a decisive influence on authors around the world, including Keri Hulme, (whose 1984 novel The Bone People resembles classic magical realist novels in its juxtaposition of literary realism with cultural traditions---namely,
those of the Maori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand.)

Which quotation from a literary scholar would most directly support the claim in the enclosed in parentheses portion of the text?

"While The Bone People alternates between realistic and antirealistic modes of representation, details suggesting the influence of Maori cultural traditions nevertheless occur throughout the novel."

"Although Maori cultural traditions clearly inform the style and occasionally antirealistic plot of The Bone People, the novel also shows the inarguable influence of the magical realist tradition of Latin America."

"The logic of the realistic plot of The Bone People is repeatedly and productively disrupted by the presence of imagery and situations drawn from Maori cultural traditions."

"Like many works in the Latin American magical realist tradition, The Bone People is indebted to antirealistic elements in the cultural traditions of the Maori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand."

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Nella Larsen's 1928 novel Quicksand is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt---there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel's protagonist, Helga Crane, and those of Larsen---but it should not be taken to mean that all the people and events depicted in Quicksand are based on actual people and events. The novel is largely pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead try to identify more and more real-life analogues thus risk（ `_` .

Which choice most logically completes the text?

positing unsupportable connections between Quicksand and Larsen's life

misrepresenting Quicksand as being more widely read than it actually is

minimizing the fact that Larsen drew on real-world material when writing Quicksand

overemphasizing the extent to which Larsen took inspiration from earlier writers

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Many contemporary indigenous painters practice a specifically Indigenous mode of abstraction; for example, Linda Lomahaftewa often assembles compositions out of motifs common in the ceramics and other traditional arts of the Hopi Tribe. In contrast, the prominent indigenous practitioners of abstract painting during the mid-twentieth century, such as the Kiowa artist T.C. Cannon, typically aligned their compositional strategies with Abstract Expressionism---a school of painting dominated by European American artists---instead of with traditionally nonrepresentational forms of indigenous art. Thus, in the case of Cannon's generation, the identification of an abstract painting as Indigenous art tends to_________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

depend not on stylistic details but instead on an awareness of the artist's identity.

place a greater emphasis on the artist's biography than on the aesthetic merit of the painting.

obscure the Indigenous origins of certain motifs associated with Abstract Expressionism.

deny the extent to which cultural identity influences an artist's work.

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Chapter 97 · 2024.05 : America (analysis included） · Reading Module 1

Included in Graphic Witness, a 2017 group exhibition at the Drawing Room in London, United Kingdom, was the work of multimedia artist Lorna Simpson. The impact of Simpson's work is（ _____ ） the horizons of conceptual photographic art, challenging conventional notions of race, gender, history, and memory, and shedding light on the experience of African American women in contemporary society

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

Athreefold. Expanding
Bthreefold: expanding
Cthreefold; expanding
Dthreefold expanding

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