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Sample of Food Items from Gemini Mission
Menus
Food item Day Meal

Sugar cookie cubes 1 B

Chicken and vegetables 2 B

Shrimp cocktail 4 C

Hot cocoa 3 A
To make sure they got the nutrition they needed while in space, the astronauts of NASA’s Gemini missions were given menus
for three meals a day (meals A, B, and C) on a four-day rotating schedule. Looking at the sample of food items from these
menus, a student notes that on day 1, the menu included ______

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

A. shrimp cocktail for meal B.

B. hot cocoa for meal C.

C. sugar cookie cubes for meal B.

D. chicken and vegetables for meal A.

Question ID 0770b53d
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O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather. In the novel, Cather portrays Alexandra Bergson as having a deep emotional
connection to her natural surroundings: ______

Which quotation from O Pioneers! most effectively illustrates the claim?

A. “She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass
had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the
plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future
stirring.”

B. “Alexandra talked to the men about their crops and to the women about their poultry. She spent a whole day with one
young farmer who had been away at school, and who was experimenting with a new kind of clover hay. She learned a
great deal.”

C. “Alexandra drove off alone. The rattle of her wagon was lost in the howling of the wind, but her lantern, held firmly
between her feet, made a moving point of light along the highway, going deeper and deeper into the dark country.”

D. “It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets, and who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. It
was Alexandra who could always tell about what it had cost to fatten each steer, and who could guess the weight of a
hog before it went on the scales closer than John Bergson [her father] himself.”
Question ID 6f626ae5
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“To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have
not fully understood themselves, writing, ______

Which quotation from “To You” most effectively illustrates the claim?

A. “You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as
closed most of the time.”

B. “These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they.”

C. “I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted
nothing / but you.”

D. “I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you.”
Question ID 85439572
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Roasted green chiles are a popular ingredient in Southwestern cuisine, but the traditional roasting method of burning
propane is not environmentally friendly. To see if solar power could provide a better alternative, engineer Kenneth Armijo
and his team roasted batches of green chiles using between 38 and 42 heliostats, which are devices that concentrate
sunlight. The team was successful in reaching the same roasting temperature used in traditional propane roasting, but they
found that propane yielded faster results. While the fastest solar-roasted green chiles took six minutes, batches using
propane took only four. Armijo hypothesizes that they can reduce the roasting time for solar-roasted green chiles by using
more heliostats.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Armijo’s hypothesis?

A. The temperature inside the roasting drum is distributed more evenly when roasting green chiles with solar power than
with propane.

B. Attempts to roast green chiles using 50 heliostats yields results in fewer than six minutes.

C. Green chile connoisseurs prefer the flavor of solar-roasted green chiles over the flavor of propane-roasted green chiles.

D. The skins of solar-roasted green chiles are easier to peel than the skins of propane-roasted green chiles.
Question ID a9040290
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Amount of Additional Electricity Wind

Turbines Could Generate When
Winds Were Stronger Than Forecast
Electricity (in thousands of MWh)

200
175
150
125
100
75
50
25
0

West Midwest
Electric companies that use wind turbines rely on weather forecasts to predict the maximum amount of power, in megawatt-
hours (MWh), they can generate using wind so that they can determine how much they’ll need to generate from other
sources. When winds are stronger than they were forecast to be, however, the predicted maximum amount of electricity wind
turbines could generate will be too low. For example, the graph shows that for the West region, the winds were ______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

A. strong enough to generate about 150 thousand more MWh of electricity from wind turbines.

B. so weak that the electricity from wind turbines was about 175 thousand MWh less than predicted.

C. so weak that the electricity from wind turbines was about 150 thousand MWh less than predicted.

D. strong enough to generate about 175 thousand more MWh of electricity from wind turbines.
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Results of Footprint Analysis for Two Sets of Theropod Tracks
Estimated footprint length Average stride length Estimated mean speed (meters
Tracks (centimeters) (meters) per second)

La Torre
32.8 5.23 6.5–10.3
6A

La Torre
28.9 5.57 8.8–12.4
6B
The table shows data from paleontologist Angélica Torices and colleagues’ 2021 study of two sets of dinosaur tracks
preserved in a fossilized lake bed in Spain. The tracks, referred to as La Torre 6A and La Torre 6B, were left by two individual
theropods (dinosaurs that walked on two legs). The team’s findings suggest that of the two theropods, the one that left the
La Torre 6B tracks had a higher maximum mean speed, ______

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

A. a longer footprint, and a longer average stride.

B. a longer footprint, and a shorter average stride.

C. a shorter footprint, and a longer average stride.

D. a shorter footprint, and a shorter average stride.

Question ID 9debe79a
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Average Temperatures in July in Four Locations in the Navajo Nation
Location Average highest temperature (Fahrenheit) Average lowest temperature (Fahrenheit)

Teec Nos Pos 94° 65°

Cameron 99° 65°

Ramah 83° 50°

Tuba City 83° 50°

The Navajo Nation has the largest land area of any tribal nation in the United States: over 27,000 square miles in the
Southwest. Because this area is so huge and its communities are located at various elevations, the people of the Navajo
Nation can experience different climate conditions depending on where they live. For example, in July, ______

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

A. the lowest temperature for both Cameron and Teec Nos Pos was 65°.

B. Tuba City’s average highest temperature was 94°, while Teec Nos Pos’s was 93°.

C. Ramah’s average highest temperature was 83°, while Cameron’s was 99°.

D. the lowest temperature for both Ramah and Tuba City was 50°.
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As a monthly newsletter formed in 1969 by a group of Asian American students at the University of California, Los Angeles,
Gidra helped raise awareness about social and political issues concerning the Asian American community on campus and at
large. The newsletter had an expansive reach for a publication of its kind: around 4,000 copies were published each month. A
student writing a history paper, however, hypothesizes that Gidra’s influence cannot be measured by the number of
newsletters published monthly alone.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s hypothesis?

A. The students who initially formed Gidra each contributed financially to its creation.

B. In addition to covering current events, Gidra also featured works of art and literature.

C. Gidra was initially based out of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA.

D. People would often give their copies of Gidra to others once they had finished reading an issue.
Question ID 30c3aa98
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Copper Production for

Three States, 1889-1909
400
Yearly copper production
(in millions of pounds)

300

200

100

0
1889 1902 1909
Year

Montana
Arizona
Michigan

Copper had been mined in the US for thousands of years, but large-scale commercial mining of copper took off starting in
the late 1800s. This was due to several factors. Technological advancements in the mining industry led to improvements in
the production of copper. This helped the country keep up with the growing number of people wanting to buy copper
starting in the 1890s. At the same time, the growth of the railroad system made the transportation of copper in large batches
much easier. Several states saw rapid growth in the production of this resource, for example: ______

Which choice most effectively uses the data in the graph to complete the example?

A. The rise in copper production in Michigan slowed from 1902 to 1909.

B. Montana and Arizona produced more copper than Michigan did in 1909.

C. Fewer than 100 million pounds of copper were produced in Arizona in 1889.

D. Copper production rose significantly from 1889 to 1909 for Arizona, Michigan, and Montana.
Question ID 40578580
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Many scientists have believed that giraffes are solitary creatures, preferring to spend their time alone instead of with others.
But observations of giraffes and their behavior in recent years has suggested that these animals may be more social than we
once thought. For example, scientists Zoe Muller and Stephen Harris claim that giraffes may even help each other care for
one another’s newborns.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Muller and Harris’s conclusion?

A. Female giraffes have been observed feeding young giraffes that aren’t their direct offspring.

B. Confrontations between a younger and an older male giraffe are frequently observed.

C. Some female giraffes have been observed sniffing and licking their newborn offspring.

D. Giraffes are able to make sounds but are rarely observed communicating with others.
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Area of Three Glaciers in the

2016 Swiss Glacier Inventory
50

40
Area (square km)

30

20

10

0
Glacier

Gorner
Fiescher
Unteraar

To monitor changes to glaciers in Switzerland, the government periodically measures them for features like total area of ice
and mean ice thickness, which are then reported in the Swiss Glacier Inventory. These measurements can be used to compare
the glaciers. For example, the Gorner glacier had ______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

A. a larger area than either the Fiescher glacier or the Unteraar glacier.

B. a smaller area than the Fiescher glacier but a larger area than the Unteraar glacier.

C. a smaller area than either the Fiescher glacier or the Unteraar glacier.

D. a larger area than the Fiescher glacier but a smaller area than the Unteraar glacier.
Question ID df34b586
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Singer Sewing Machine Sales

in Four Countries, 1903–1918
60,000
50,000
Machines sold

40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
03 08 13 18
19 19 19 19
Year

New Zealand
Australia
the Philippines
Turkey

By the early 1900s, the Singer Corporation, a US sewing machine manufacturer founded in 1851, began to see rapidly
increasing sales abroad, particularly in Russia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These markets were responsible for the
bulk of Singer’s overseas sales, but demand for the company’s machines in other countries also grew significantly in the early
twentieth century. For instance, sales of their sewing machines in ______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

A. the Philippines increased dramatically from 1908 to 1918.

B. New Zealand were largely consistent from 1903 to 1918.

C. Australia increased steadily from 1903 to 1918.

D. Turkey declined substantially from 1913 to 1918.

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“Valia” is a 1907 short story by Leonid Andreyev. In the story, the author emphasizes that the setting where the character
Valia is reading is nearly silent: ______

Which quotation from “Valia” most effectively illustrates the claim?

A. “The hand in which he carried his book was getting stiff with cold, but he would not ask his mother to take the book from
him.”

B. “Valia was reading a huge, very huge book, almost half as large as himself.”

C. “Valia approached the window and examined the toys.”

D. “Everything in the room was quiet, so quiet that the only thing to be heard was the rustling of the pages he turned.”
Question ID 38e79659
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Attendance and Cost of Hosting for Past Four US World’s Fairs
World’s fairs held in the US Cost (in US dollars) Number of visitors

Century 21 Exposition (1962) $47 million 9.60 million

HemisFair ’68 $156 million 6.40 million

1984 World’s Fair $350 million 7.35 million

Expo ’74 $78 million 5.60 million

Huge international exhibitions known as world’s fairs have been held since 1851, but the United States hasn’t hosted one
since 1984. Architecture expert Mina Chow argues that this is because some people think the events are too expensive and
not popular enough. For example, the 1984 World’s Fair cost $350 million and had only ______

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

A. 7.35 million visitors.

B. 9.60 million visitors.

C. 6.40 million visitors.

D. 5.60 million visitors.

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Average Monthly Rainfall in

Select Puerto Rican Cities
from 1981 to 2010
14
Average rainfall (inches)

12
10
8
6
4
2
0
ay ne ly t er
M Ju Ju gus b
Au ptem
Se
Month

Rincón
Isabela
San Sebastián
Ponce

A student is presenting average monthly rainfall totals in various Puerto Rican cities for a science class. During the
presentation, the student notes that in September ______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the statement?

A. Rincón’s average rainfall is greater than that of Isabela, San Sebastián, and Ponce.

B. Rincón and Ponce have an average rainfall of about 5 inches, and Isabela and San Sebastián have an average rainfall of
about 10 inches.

C. Rincón, Ponce, and Isabela each have an average rainfall below 8 inches, but San Sebastián’s average rainfall that month
is greater than 8 inches.

D. Rincón has a similar average rainfall to Isabela, and Ponce has a similar average rainfall to San Sebastián.