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The invention in 1958 of the integrated circuit (or microchip) radically altered the semiconductor
industry. In fact, some historians argue that it fundamentally ______blank the industry by enabling it to
take advantage of mass production methods for the first time.

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

overwhelmed

bypassed

obstructed

transformed

Question ID 84b5125b

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Artist Marilyn Dingle’s intricate, coiled baskets are ______blank sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Following
a Gullah technique that originated in West Africa, Dingle skillfully winds a thin palm frond around a
bunch of sweetgrass with the help of a “sewing bone” to create the basket’s signature look that no
factory can reproduce.

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

indicated by

handmade from

represented by
 collected with

Question ID 45a109a3

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The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The narrator is being driven in a carriage
through a remote region at night.

The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on
us from every side. I grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear. The driver,
however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could
not see anything through the darkness.

As used in the text, what does the word “disturbed” most nearly mean?

Disorganized

Alarmed

Offended

Interrupted

Question ID d4a8f7cb

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Dance choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar aims to give people the opportunity to be ______blank her
creative process. For example, live performances of her dance HairStories, which debuted in 2001,
featured videos of people across the United States talking about their hair and audience members
sharing pictures of their interesting hairstyles.

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

nervous about
 completed by

delayed by

involved in

Question ID 95f037ad

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The works of Chicana artist Ester Hernandez are now ______blank in museums both in the United States
and abroad, but the murals she contributed to as a member of Las Mujeres Muralistas early in her
artistic career were displayed in outdoor public spaces across San Francisco.

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

invented

adjusted

featured

recommended

Question ID 97ab5669

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Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might
happen, she ______blank that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than
those found on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions to the moon.

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

demands
 speculates

doubts

establishes

Question ID 06b96bfc

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A musician and member of the Quechua of Peru, Renata Flores Rivera was eager to promote the
Quechua language in her music, but she was ______blank speaking it. She met this challenge by asking
her grandmother, a native speaker of Quechua, to help her pronounce words in her song lyrics and also
by taking classes in the language.

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

prepared for

inexperienced with

skilled in

excited about

Question ID 0f040c50

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The following text is from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi. The narrator’s family owned a zoo when
he was a child.

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it,
though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included.

©2001 by Yann Martel

Hidden

Discussed

Extended

Coated

Question ID e1d5d5df

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According to botanists, a viburnum plant experiencing insect damage may develop erineum—a
discolored, felty growth—on its leaf blades. A ______blank viburnum plant, on the other hand, will have
leaves with smooth surfaces and uniformly green coloration.

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

struggling

beneficial

simple

healthy

Question ID 9e501aaf

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Research conducted by planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic suggests that the Moon’s surface may not
accurately ______blank early impact events. When the Moon was still forming, its surface was softer, and
asteroid or meteoroid impacts would have left less of an impression; thus, evidence of early impacts may
no longer be present.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

reflect

receive

evaluate

mimic

Question ID 9cdcd902

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Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1975. During his
career he took over 70,000 photographs documenting everyday life in Pittsburgh’s Black communities.
The Carnegie Museum of Art maintains thousands of his photographs, carefully ______blank them so that
audiences can continue to view them well into the future.

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

replacing

inventing

preserving

counting

Question ID 3ec184af

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Many ancient sculptures of people’s heads are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most
______blank part of a sculpture of a person’s head. It is delicate and sticks out from the rest of the
sculpture, making it especially easy to break.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

recognizable

fragile

common

sophisticated

Question ID e3f05561

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In the 1970s, video cameras became increasingly affordable for ordinary consumers and gave Ulysses
Jenkins and other artists capabilities that were previously unavailable except to television broadcasters.
Jenkins recognized and took full advantage of this ______blank access to powerful technology to create
groundbreaking works of video art, such as Mass of Images (1978).

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

newfound

delicate

inevitable

habitual

Question ID 4a2b2535

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A brief book review cannot fully convey the ______blank of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel The Books of Jacob,
with its enormous cast of characters, its complicated, wandering plot, and its page numbers that count
backward (beginning at 965 and ending at 1).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

accuracy

inactivity

complexity

restraint

Question ID 9ccf463e

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The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.

The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp thrill of pleasure.
Seductive, charming, and beckoning as cities were, they had not this easy unhuman
loveliness.

As used in the text, what does the word “beckoning” most nearly mean?

Demanding

Signaling

Inviting

Shifting

Question ID ca47273b

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Biologist Jane Edgeloe and colleagues have located what is believed to be the largest individual plant in
the world in the Shark Bay area of Australia. The plant is a type of seagrass called Posidonia australis,
and it ______blank approximately 200 square kilometers.

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

acknowledges

produces

spans

advances

Question ID 69a6d050

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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an
Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so
accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved ______blank use: by 1830, over 90
percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.

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

widespread

careful

unintended

infrequent

Question ID e41dfaab

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In 1929 the Atlantic Monthly published several articles based on newly discovered letters allegedly
exchanged between President Abraham Lincoln and a woman named Ann Rutledge. Historians were
unable to ______blank the authenticity of the letters, however, and quickly dismissed them as a hoax.

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

validate

interpret

relate

accommodate

Question ID 4d1a9c0d

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Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research
institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the
Crow Tribe and Montana State University ­______blank this model: tribal citizens worked alongside
scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection.

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

circumvents

eclipses

fabricates

exemplifies

Question ID 5effa190

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The process of mechanically recycling plastics is often considered ______blank because of the
environmental impact and the loss of material quality that often occurs. But chemist Takunda
Chazovachii has helped develop a cleaner process of chemical recycling that converts superabsorbent
polymers from diapers into a desirable reusable adhesive.

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

resilient

inadequate

dynamic

satisfactory

Question ID f3fac04f

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Bioluminescent beetles called fireflies may seem to create flashes of light randomly, but each species of
firefly actually has its own special series of repeated flashes and pauses. These unique ______blank allow
fireflies of the same species to find each other.

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

quantities

decorations

patterns

agreements

Question ID 6d5ddea4

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According to Potawatomi ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, the Indigenous method of harvesting
Hierochloe odorata, or sweetgrass, by snapping the plant off at the root actually ______blank wild
populations: it may seem counterintuitive, she says, but this method of removal allows new sweetgrass
plants to repopulate the space, with an overall increase in number and vigor.

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

selects

originates

conditions

replenishes

Question ID a2835734

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Visual artist Gabriela Alemán states that the bold colors of comics, pop art, and Latinx culture have
always fascinated her. This passion for the rich history and colors of her Latinx community translates
into the ______blank artworks she produces.

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

vivid

unknown

definite

reserved

Question ID d91e5499

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A team of paleontologists has found a rich fossil deposit near Gulgong, Australia. The fossils are so well
preserved that the team has been able to ______blank detailed information about the life forms that left
them behind, such as color patterns and how they interacted with other species.

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

occupy

hoard

reserve

obtain

Question ID a4ca92fd

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Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to promote
public health; this ______blank effort involved traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland and
writing a medical dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad, the Navajo language.

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

impartial

offhand

persistent

mandatory

Question ID 7d84fe2b

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Particle physicists like Ayana Holloway Arce and Aida El-Khadra spend much of their time ______blank
what is invisible to the naked eye: using sophisticated technology, they closely examine the behavior of
subatomic particles, the smallest detectable parts of matter.

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

selecting

inspecting

creating

deciding

Question ID d2eb1df1

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In recommending Bao Phi’s collection Sông I Sing, a librarian noted that pieces by the spoken-word poet
don’t lose their ______blank nature when printed: the language has the same pleasant musical quality on
the page as it does when performed by Phi.

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

scholarly

melodic

jarring

personal

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Due to their often strange images, highly experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, many of John
Ashbery’s poems can be quite difficult to ______blank and thus are the object of heated debate among
scholars.

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

delegate

compose

interpret

renounce

Question ID cb526866

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The recent discovery of a carved wooden figure dating to around 2,000 years ago in a ditch in England
was truly surprising. Wooden objects ______blank survive for so long due to their high susceptibility to
rot, but archaeologists suspect layers of sediment in the ditch preserved the figure by creating an
oxygen-free environment.

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

sturdily

carelessly

rarely

simply

Question ID 637d0878

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The Appalachian Trail is a hiking path in the eastern United States. Much of the 2,000 mile trail passes
through wilderness areas. In order to ______blank those areas, the United States Congress passed the
National Trails System Act in 1968, ensuring that the trail would not be sold or commercially developed.

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

borrow

postpone

protect

decorate

Question ID 6cf906fc

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The following text is adapted from José Martí’s 1891 poem “At the Salon” (translated by Cecil Charles in
1898). The speaker describes a painting featuring a female figure.

From the sterile soil no ray

Of hope in a blade of green,

Nor sheltering roof is seen—

Though the skies are heavy and gray.

Ah, this is the woman fair

Who stole away my heart

In the splendid halls of art

Yester-e’en as I wandered there!

As used in the text, what does the word “sheltering” most nearly mean?

Protective

Restrictive

Affectionate

Suspicious
Question ID 4480fae9

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The following text is adapted from Sui Sin Far’s 1912 short story “Mrs. Spring Fragrance.” Mr. and Mrs.
Spring Fragrance immigrated to the United States from China.

Mrs. Spring Fragrance was unaware that Mr. Spring Fragrance, tired with the day’s business,
had thrown himself down on the bamboo settee on the veranda, and that although his eyes
were engaged in scanning the pages of the Chinese World, his ears could not help receiving
the words which were borne to him through the open window.

As used in the text, what does the word “receiving” most nearly mean?

Denying

Entering

Carrying

Hearing

Question ID 5d2fd27d

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While we can infer information about climate activity in Earth’s distant past from physical evidence, we
of course cannot observe past climates directly. To study early Earth’s climate in action, we must
______blank that climate using computer models that represent various climate conditions consistent
with the physical evidence.

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

invent

simulate
 exaggerate

preserve

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In 1877, 85% of California’s railways were already controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The
company further solidified its ______blank in rail access to the state’s Pacific coast when it completed the
Sunset Route in 1883: running from Louisiana to Southern California, the route established the first
transcontinental rail line across the southern United States.

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

dominance

creativity

insignificance

neutrality

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Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at Brazil’s Butantan Institute are studying the freshwater stingray
species Potamotrygon rex to determine whether biological characteristics such as the rays’ age and sex
have ______blank effect on the toxicity of their venom—that is, to see if differences in these traits are
associated with considerable variations in venom potency.

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

a disconcerting
 an acceptable

an imperceptible

a substantial

Question ID 5514fd1f

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Archaeologist Erika Karuzas works with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana to
preserve culturally significant sites. In 2015 they decided that creating a new national trail connecting
many of these sites would ______blank their preservation efforts, because the US government provides
some protections to national trails that aren’t given to other areas.

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

inspire

ignore

promote

reduce

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Cucurbits, a group of plants that includes squash and melons, relied on mastodons to spread their seeds
in the Ice Age. When these animals died out, cucurbits faced extinction in turn, having lost their means
of seed dispersal. Around this time, however, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples in North America
began raising cucurbits as crops, thus ______blank the plants’ survival.

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

multiplying

comforting

ensuring

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According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best way to predict the amount of time a
nonperishable entity (such as a building or a technology) will continue to exist is to examine how long it
has survived so far. In this view, an item’s age is the strongest ______blank how much longer it will last.

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

uncertainty about

indicator of

motivation for

criticism of

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Whether Carmen Lomas Garza is creating small paintings and illustrations or large public artworks—
such as Baile, a copper cutout of traditional Mexican dance in the San Francisco International Airport—
she is ______blank direct experience, drawing from memories of her childhood in Texas or details of her
current surroundings in California.

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

uncertain about

unbothered by

inspired by

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In the mid-nineteenth century, some abolitionist newspapers ______blank westward migration in the
United States; by printing a letter that described the easy fortunes and high salaries miners could make
in California during the Gold Rush, Frederick Douglass’s newspaper North Star was one such publication
that inspired readers to relocate.

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

stimulated

assigned

opposed

disregarded

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Like other tribal nations, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is self-governing; its National Council generates
laws regulating aspects of community life such as land use and healthcare, while the principal chief and
cabinet officials ______blank those laws by devising policies and administering services in accordance
with them.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

implement

presume

improvise

mimic

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The following text is adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1905 novel A Little Princess. Sara is a
young student at a school in London.

Sara not only could tell stories, but she adored telling them. When she sat or stood in the
midst of a circle and began to invent wonderful things, her green eyes grew big and shining,
her cheeks flushed, and, without knowing that she was doing it, she began to act and made
what she told lovely or alarming by the raising or dropping of her voice.

As used in the text, what does the word “invent” most nearly mean?

Mislead

Disguise

Create

Discover

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Artificially delivering biomolecules to plant cells is an important component of protecting plants from
pathogens, but it is difficult to transmit biomolecules through the layers of the plant cell wall. Markita
del Carpio Landry and her colleagues have shown that it may be possible to ______blank this problem by
transmitting molecules through carbon nanotubes, which can cross cell walls.

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

conceptualize

neglect

illustrate

overcome

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Manul cats are small, shy felines. They live mostly alone in out-of-the-way parts of Asia, such as on
Mount Everest. These cats have been difficult to research because their habitats are so ______blank large
populations of humans.

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

full of

drawn to

responsible for

distant from

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Radar and sonar can detect objects or people through walls, but they are too costly for consumer use.
Researchers Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi have shown, however, that there may be a comparatively
______blank alternative: small changes to the Wi-Fi technology used in smartphones can give users a
cheap way to count people or even identify their gestures through walls.

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

infrequent

inexpensive

unmistakable

impractical

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When marine biologist Brittany Williams played different ocean recordings to groups of oyster larvae,
groups that heard sounds of a healthy oyster reef were the most ______blank. They were twice as likely
as other groups to show signs of making a permanent home. This suggests that playing recordings of a
healthy ocean reef may encourage oysters to create such a reef.

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

responsive

inactive

liked

distressed

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The following text is adapted from Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 story “The Wife of His Youth.” Mr. Ryder is
hosting a formal gathering where he will propose marriage to the woman he has been courting.

[A] younger and less cautious man would long since have spoken. But he had made up his
mind, and had only to determine the time when he would ask her to be his wife. He decided
to give a ball in her honor, and at some time during the evening of the ball to offer her his
heart and hand.

As used in the text, what does the word “determine” most nearly mean?

Choose

Influence

Demonstrate

Measure

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Nigerian American author Teju Cole’s ______blank his two passions—photography and the written word
—culminates in his 2017 book, Blind Spot, which evocatively combines his original photographs from his
travels with his poetic prose.

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

indifference to

enthusiasm for

concern about

surprise at

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The following text is from Claude McKay’s 1922 poem “Morning Joy.” The speaker is looking out a
window and observing a wold, or large area of land.

At night the wide and level stretch of wold,

Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,

Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;

Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.

I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;

Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead

Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,

Went sorrowing with it across the plain.

As used in the text, what does the word “drew” most nearly mean?

Pulled

Drained

Inspired

Sketched

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The following text is adapted from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There. Alice, a child, is talking to her cat.
 “Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if
someone was kissing the window all over outside.”

As used in the text, what does the word “soft” most nearly mean?

Gentle

Sensitive

Shapeless

Bland

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In habitats with limited nutrients, certain fungus species grow on the roots of trees, engaging in
mutually beneficial relationships known as ectomycorrhizae: in this symbiotic exchange, the tree
provides the fungus with carbon, a nutrient necessary for both species, and the fungus ______blank by
enhancing the tree’s ability to absorb nitrogen, another key nutrient, from the soil.

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

overreacts

reciprocates

retaliates

deviates

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Although critics believed that customers would never agree to pay to pick their own produce on farms,
such concerns didn’t ______blank Booker T. Whatley’s efforts to promote the practice. Thanks in part to
Whatley’s determined advocacy, farms that allow visitors to pick their own apples, pumpkins, and other
produce can be found throughout the United States.

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

enhance

hinder

misrepresent

aggravate

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Researcher Lucy Salazar is using radiocarbon dating to study Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan fortress in
the Andes Mountains. She and her colleagues have found that the site’s age differs from the ______blank
estimate: it is approximately 20 years older than scholars thought when first encountering Machu
Picchu in 1911.

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

genuine

intentional

independent

original

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Novelist Leon Forrest admired William Faulkner’s writing style. Forrest’s novel Divine Days contains a
long passage in tribute to Faulkner that is a perfect ______blank of Faulkner’s style: anyone familiar with
Faulkner’s writing would see the resemblance.

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

forgetting

rejection

imitation

opinion

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Anthropologist Kristian J. Carlson and colleagues examined the fossilized clavicle and shoulder bones of
a 3.6-million-year-old early hominin known as “Little Foot.” They found that these bones were
______blank the clavicle and shoulder bones of modern apes that are frequent climbers, such as gorillas
and chimpanzees, suggesting that Little Foot had adapted to life in the trees.

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

surpassed by

comparable to

independent of

obtained from

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Although the playwrights hoped that their play would be ______blank when performed live, critics
generally agreed that the production and performances had the opposite effect, wearying audiences
instead of energizing them.

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

multifaceted

realistic

rousing

subtle

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The following text is from Darcie Little Badger’s 2021 novel A Snake Falls to Earth. Nina is looking at old
family photographs.

Nina couldn’t stop looking at the sepia-toned photograph in an oak frame. Propped on the
window ledge, it featured a portrait of Great-Great-Grandmother Rosita as a young woman.

©2021 by Darcie Little Badger

As used in the text, what does the word “featured” most nearly mean?

Displayed

Questioned

Approved

Ignored

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Osage Nation citizen Randy Tinker-Smith produced and directed the ballet Wahzhazhe, which vividly
chronicles Osage history and culture. Telling Osage stories through ballet is ______blank choice because
two of the foremost ballet dancers of the twentieth century were Osage: sisters Maria and Marjorie
Tallchief.

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

a suitable

a determined

an arbitrary

an unpredictable

Question ID 8d579825

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The printing of Virginia Woolf’s novels featured a creative ______blank between Woolf and her sister
Vanessa Bell: a talented painter, Bell worked closely with Woolf to create original cover art for most of
the novels.

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

rebellion

partnership

discovery

disagreement

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The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx briefly made contact with the asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2020. NASA scientist
Daniella DellaGiustina reports that despite facing the unexpected obstacle of a surface mostly covered in
boulders, OSIRIS-REx successfully ______blank a sample of the surface, gathering pieces of it to bring
back to Earth.

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

attached

collected

followed

replaced

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The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host
plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder
achieves this ______blank with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is
about to flower.

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

synchronization

hibernation

prediction

moderation

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The following text is adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel The Enchanted April. Mrs. Wilkins
and her friend Rose are traveling in Italy.

“I’m going to have one of these gorgeous oranges,” said Mrs. Wilkins, staying where she was
and reaching across to a black bowl piled with them. “Rose, how can you resist them. Look—
have this one. Do have this beauty—” And she held out a big one.

As used in the text, what does the phrase “reaching across to” most nearly mean?

Joining with

Gaining on

Stretching toward

Arriving at

Question ID 47955354

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Sumerian civilization (which lasted from around 3300 to 2000 BCE) ______blank many concepts that
persist into present-day civilizations: for example, the first description of the seven-day week appears in
the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

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

transformed

introduced

inherited

overlooked

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Physicist Joseph Weber performed ______blank work in gravitational wave research in the 1960s and
1970s, conducting key experiments that scientists later used as the basis for their own investigations
that led to the first verified detection of a gravitational wave in 2015.

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

foundational

supplementary

repetitive

ineffective

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As an architect in Los Angeles in the 1950s, Helen Liu Fong became known for avoiding ______blank
designs in her buildings. Instead of using standard shapes and colors, she typically explored innovative
forms and daring hues.

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

creative

bold

traditional

understandable

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Though not closely related, the hedgehog tenrecs of Madagascar share basic ______blank true hedgehogs,
including protective spines, pointed snouts, and small body size—traits the two groups of mammals
independently developed in response to equivalent roles in their respective habitats.

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

examples of

concerns about

indications of

similarities with

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Sueño de Familia is an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and ceramics that explores the artistic heritage
of US-based artist Yolanda González. The exhibition ______blank five generations, featuring works by
González’s great-grandfather, grandmother, mother, and niece as well as González herself.

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

borrows

spans

judges

neglects

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Scientists previously thought that all electric eels belong to a single species, but a team of researchers
led by zoologist C. David de Santana proved this idea wrong by ______blank that there are in fact three
distinct species of electric eels.

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

pretending

complaining

requiring

demonstrating

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US traffic signals didn’t always contain the familiar three lights (red, yellow, and green). Traffic lights
only ______blank red and green lights until the three-light traffic signal was developed in the 1920s.

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

avoided

featured

appreciated

disregarded

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Studying how workload affects productivity, Maryam Kouchaki and colleagues found that people who
chose to do relatively easy tasks first were less ______blank compared to those who did hard tasks first.
Finishing easy tasks gave participants a sense of accomplishment, but those who tackled hard tasks first
actually became more skilled and productive workers over time.

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

secretive

efficient

outgoing

unsympathetic