Final Mock Test 1 Verbal Module 2

Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Louis VII or Henry V was historically consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory was shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore cannot be understood without a corollary understanding of the characteristics without which the monarch would have been forced to _____ the throne.

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

• 
  reciprocate

• 
  annotate

• 
  abandon

• 
  equalize

With his widely celebrated portraits of poet Seamus Heaney, molecular biologist Struther Arnott, and other prominent figures in different fields, British painter Peter Edward has _____ substantial prestige as an artist.

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

• 
  required

• 
  remembered

• 
  achieved

• avoided

Though many ______ studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry focus on people who live above sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj recently chose the novel path of focusing on people who live below sea level, in location such as the California towns of Salton City and Coachella.

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

• eccentric

• 
  meager

• conventional

• 
  random

The following text is adapted from William Wordsworth’s 1798 poem “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.”

Once again

Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs.
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.

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

• Tough

• 
  Hideous

• Complicated

• 
  Intense

The Caves of Gargas paintings—stencils of human hands found in what is now France and dating from around 27,000 years ago—are thought of as art today, but the question of whether the people of the time understood the paintings as something akin to art in our modern sense or in some other way entirely is ____: we will never be able to answer it.

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

• 
  irresolvable

• 
  self-contradictory

• 
  imperative

• 
  unavoidable

Eden Robinson is a novelist and a member of the Haisla Nation in western Canada. Critics and fellow writers have praised her work for combining traditional Haisla stories with popular genres of literature, such as fantasy and mystery fiction. But Robinson is not the only Indigenous writer to blend traditional stories with popular literature. In the 2019 novel Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline successfully blended the oral storytelling tradition of her people, the Métis, with horror fiction.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

• To discuss two writers who blend traditional Indigenous stories with popular genres.

• 
  To urge younger Indigenous authors to avoid writing in popular genres.

• 
  To argue that traditional Indigenous stories are more memorable than most novels are

• 
  To explain why one Indigenous author has achieved more success than another has

Text 1
Attempts to automate classification of music into genres have not been very successful, and we may be at the limit of what is technologically possible. But it’s not clear that this is a worthwhile pursuit in any case—as Jin Ha Lee and Anh Thu Nguyen argue in their study of the South Korean band BTS, relationship between pieces of music may be best understood with concepts other than genre.


Text 2
Tango is a genre of music originally from Argentina and Uruguay that shares some harmonic and rhythmic similarities with the pagode genre. Automated genre classification systems typically struggle to draw distinctions in situations like this, but Yandre Cossa and colleagues solved that problem by converting sound to images and having computers compare features of those images, an approach that demonstrates how much innovation is possible in this field.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the claim in the underlined sentence of Text 1?

• 
  By arguing that people tend to disagree when identifying genre classifications for music

• 
  By suggesting that the concept of genre may become more useful for music listeners

• By criticizing previous research into automated music genre classification for favoring specific genre categories

• 
  By asserting that it may be possible to improve automated classification systems

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 family members in Iran.

I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that blew my way from the front seat of Dayi [Uncle] 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

Based on the text, what does the narrator mainly remember about the times when his mother chanted to him?

• 
  That he liked the characters in the stories his mother made up while chanting

• 
  That his mother had music playing in the background while she chanted

• That his mother didn’t usually chant at night

• That he found the sound of his mother’s chanting to be calming

Horses and barn owls can see in three dimensions (3D), which helps them perceive distance and depth. Octopuses and squid are thought to lack 3D vision. Many researchers once thought the same about cuttlefish, but Trevor Wardill and his team wanted to test whether this assumption was true. The team studied how cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses reacted to 3D images of shrimp (a favorite prey) projected on a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed their striking position to match the 3D images, suggesting that their vision is more like that of horses and barn owls than that of octopuses or squid.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

• 
  Researchers have long known that horses and barn owls can see in 3D.

• Cuttlefish are surprisingly similar in structure to octopuses and squid.

• 
  Contrary to what many researchers had assumed, cuttlefish may be able to see in 3D.

• 
  The ability to see in 3D allows many animals to interact with one another.

Minimum and Maximum Depths of Stony Coral Species in Caribben and Indo-Pacific Waters

The table is from a 2018 study in which Luiz Rocha and colleagues examined the ranges of depths at which certain stony coral species have been found in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific waters. Among the corals in the table, the species with the greatest range between minimum and maximum depths is _____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?

• 
  Acropora anthocercis.

• Cyphastrea hexasepta.

• 
  Agaricia fragilis.

• 
  Heliofungia fralinae.