Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

To indicate why astrobiologists choose to conduct research in the Atacama Desert

To contrast the conditions in the Atacama Desert with those on Mars

To explain why many life-forms cannot survive in the Atacama Desert

To describe certain limitations to conducting scientific study in the Atacama Desert

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

It explains why it is challenging to influence transit ridership solely by altering characteristics of a transit system.

It presents an objection to the argument of Guerra et al. about transportation mode choice in urban areas of Mexico.

It illustrates the claim that a characteristic associated with high transit ridership in Mexico City is not associated with high transit ridership elsewhere.

It substantiates the assertion that population density, the spatial distribution of jobs, and demographic characteristics are important factors in transportation mode choice.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

It describes a phenomenon that scientists do not fully understand, explains a research team’s hypothesis about that phenomenon, and then describes a finding that led the team to refine the hypothesis.

It introduces an unresolved scientific question, presents a research team’s hypothesis pertaining to that question, and then describes an observation made by the team that conflicts with that hypothesis.

It discusses a process that scientists are somewhat unclear about, introduces competing hypotheses about that process, and then explains how a research team concluded that one of those hypotheses is likely correct.

It explains a hypothesis that has been the subject of scientific debate, discusses how a research team tested that hypothesis, and then presents data the team collected that validate the hypothesis.

According to the text, what was surprising to scientists studying the seismic activity data from NASA’s InSight lander?

All the marsquakes started from the same location on the planet.

The surface temperature of Mars has been rising.

There were different types of seismic waves causing marsquakes.

NASA’s InSight lander collected less data than scientists had expected.

According to the text, what do some historians suggest about Maya civilization?

Maya civilization acquired the use of zero from the Olmec civilization.

Maya civilization respected its historians more than it respected its mathematicians.

Maya civilization was highly secretive about its intellectual achievements.

Maya civilization tried to introduce its writing system to other civilizations.

“The Bet” is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov. In the story, a banker is described as being very upset about something: _______ Which quotation from “The Bet” most effectively illustrates the claim?

“When [the banker] got home he lay on his bed, but his tears and emotion kept him for hours from sleeping.”

“Then the banker cautiously broke the seals off the door and put the key in the keyhole.”

“It struck three o’clock, the banker listened; everyone was asleep in the house and nothing could be heard outside but the rustling of the chilled trees.”

“The banker, spoilt and frivolous, with millions beyond his reckoning, was delighted at the bet.”

Among candidate species for de-extinction, this problem would be especially concerning for the _______ Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?

saber-toothed cat (Smilodon), which became extinct 11,000 years ago.

passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), which became extinct only a few years after the huia (Heteralocha acutirostris).

woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), which became extinct several thousand years before the saber-toothed cat (Smilodon).

Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), which became extinct in 1952.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is an 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the story, the narrator expresses mixed feelings about her surroundings: _______ Which quotation from “The Yellow Wallpaper” most effectively illustrates the claim?

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”

“This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.”

“By moonlight—the moon shines in all night when there is a moon—I wouldn’t know it was the same paper.”

“I’m really getting quite fond of the big room, all but that horrid [wall]paper.”

Using the ratio of manganese to calcium, which inversely correlates with ocean oxygenation levels, marine scientist Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos and colleagues evaluated whether oxygenation played a role in the declines of L. pertusa. The researchers concluded that oxygenation may have been important in the Alboran Sea but not near the Mauritanian coast, since _______ Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the statement?

a substantial increase in oxygenation in the Alboran Sea corresponded with the local decline in L. pertusa, but the opposite relationship between oxygenation and L. pertusa was found near the Mauritanian coast.

L. pertusa declined in the Alboran Sea during a period of substantial local decline in oxygenation, but L. pertusa declined near the Mauritanian coast during a period of little local change in oxygenation.

oxygenation in the Alboran Sea was higher before the decline in L. pertusa than after the decline, whereas oxygenation near the Mauritanian coast was relatively low both before and after the decline in L. pertusa.

oxygenation in the Alboran Sea tended to be substantially higher than oxygenation near the Mauritanian coast during the peri

The Younger Dryas was a period of extreme cooling from 11,700 to 12,900 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere. Some scientists argue that a comet fragment hitting Earth brought about the cooling. Others disagree, partly because there is no known crater from such an impact that dates to the beginning of the period. In 2015, a team led by Kurt Kjær detected a 19-mile-wide crater beneath a glacier in Greenland. The scientists who believe an impact caused the Younger Dryas claim that this discovery supports their view. However, Kjær’s team hasn’t yet been able to determine the age of the crater. Therefore, the team suggests that _______

it can’t be concluded that the impact that made the crater was connected to the beginning of the Younger Dryas.

it can’t be determined whether a comet fragment could make a crater as large as 19 miles wide.

scientists have ignored the possibility that something other than a comet fragment could have made the crater.

the scientists who believe an impact caused the Younger Dryas have made incorrect assumptions about when the period began.

In 2016 biological anthropologist Heather F. Smith and her team investigated the evolution of the appendix, an intestinal organ that is present in some mammals, including humans, but is generally thought to have no function. Studying 533 mammal species, the team found that the appendix has emerged independently across multiple lineages in separate instances and, significantly, hasn’t disappeared after emerging in specific lineages. Moreover, the team determined that species with the organ tend to have higher concentrations of lymphoid tissue, which supports immune responses, in the cecum, the organ the appendix is attached to. Therefore, the team hypothesized that the appendix likely _______

has been preserved in certain mammal species because it benefits their immune systems.

was once present in many nonmammal species but has since disappeared from those lineages.

will emerge in a greater number of mammal species because it may serve a necessary function in the immune system.

produced higher concentrations of lymphoid tissue in mammals in the past than it does currently.

Some ethicists hold that the moral goodness of an individual’s actions depends solely on whether the actions themselves are good, irrespective of the context in which they are carried out. Philosopher L. Sebastian Purcell has shown that surviving works of Aztec (Nahua) philosophy express a very different view. Purcell reveals that these works posit an ethical system in which an individual’s actions are judged in light of how well they accord with the individual’s role in society and how well they contribute to the community. To the extent that these works are representative of Aztec thought, Purcell’s analysis suggests that _______

the Aztecs would have disputed the idea that the morality of an individual’s actions can be assessed by appealing to standards of behavior that are independent of the individual’s social circumstances.

the Aztecs would not have accepted the notion that the morality of an individual’s actions can be fairly evaluated by people who do not live in the same society as that individual.

actions by members of Aztec society who contributed a great deal to their community could be judged as morally good even if those actions were inconsistent with behaviors the Aztecs regarded as good in all contexts.

similar actions performed by people in different social roles in Aztec society would have been regarded as morally equivalent unless those actions led to different outcomes for the community.

What makes the theremin a unique musical instrument? You play it without touching it. When you place your _______ the pitch will shift as your hands move through the air.

hands between the two antennas,

hand’s between the two antenna’s,

hands’ between the two antennas’,

hands’ between the two antennas,

Calle paired excerpts of these conversations with photographs—both of interviewees and the items they _______ to powerful effect in her exhibition The Blind.

described, from hair to grass to sculptures

described, from hair to grass to sculptures—

described—from hair to grass to sculptures,

described: from hair to grass to sculptures

The student wants to identify the real author of Adam Bede. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

The real author of Adam Bede was Mary Ann Evans, who published the novel using the pseudonym George Eliot.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Evidence

Blemish

Amount

Sketch

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30 sec • 1 pt

Many ancient sculptures of people’s heads are missing their noses. This is because the nose is the most _______ 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

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30 sec • 1 pt

K.D. Leka and colleagues found that the Sun’s corona provides an advance indication of solar flares—intense eruptions of electromagnetic radiation that emanate from active regions in the Sun’s photosphere and can interfere with telecommunications on Earth. Preceding a flare, the corona temporarily exhibits increased brightness above the region where the flare is _______. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

antecedent

impending

innocuous

perpetual

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30 sec • 1 pt

To demonstrate that the integrity of underground metal pipes can be assessed without unearthing the pipes, engineer Aroba Saleem and colleagues _______ the tendency of some metals’ internal magnetic fields to alter under stress: the team showed that such alterations can be measured from a distance and can reveal concentrations of stress in the pipes. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

hypothesized

discounted

redefined

exploited

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30 sec • 1 pt

Despite the generalizations about human behavior they have produced, many studies of behavioral psychology have used highly unrepresentative subject pools: students at the colleges and universities where the researchers are employed. To _______ this situation, it is necessary to actively recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds and locations. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

sanction

ameliorate

rationalize

postulate

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

To compare basketball with other sports

To provide details of how to play basketball

To state how players will be chosen for the basketball team

To explain why the narrator thinks she might make the basketball team

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

To compare Spanish-language newspapers published in Texas today with ones published there during the late 1800s

To explain that Spanish-language newspapers thrived in Texas and especially in El Paso during the late 1800s

To argue that Spanish-language newspapers published in El Paso influenced the ones published in San Antonio during the late 1800s

To explain why Spanish-language newspapers published in Texas were so popular in Mexico during the late 1800s

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