Reading Quizzizz

During the English neoclassical period (1660–1789), many writers imitated the epic poetry and satires of ancient Greece and Rome. They were not the first in England to adopt the literary modes of classical ______ some of the most prominent figures of the earlier Renaissance period were also influenced by ancient Greek and Roman literature.

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

• antiquity, however

• antiquity, however,

• antiquity, however;

• antiquity; however,

“Praise Song for the Day,” Elizabeth Alexander’s 2009 inaugural poem, asserts that “We cross dirt roads and highways…to see what’s on the other side.” Alexander’s use of “we” ______ Americans’ collective efforts and shared desire to seek new opportunity.

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

• evokes

• are evoking

• have evoked

• evoke

Stomata, tiny pore structures in a leaf that absorb gases needed for plant growth, open when guard cells surrounding each pore swell with water. In a pivotal 2007 article, plant cell ______ showed that lipid molecules called phosphatidylinositol phosphates are responsible for signaling guard cells to open stomata.

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

• biologist, Yuree Lee

• biologist Yuree Lee,

• biologist Yuree Lee

• biologist, Yuree Lee,

By the time Hawaiian king Kamehameha III ______ the throne, the number of longhorn cattle, first introduced to the islands in 1793, had drastically increased, and so too had the need for paniolo (Hawaiian cowboys) to manage the wild herds that then roamed throughout the volcanic terrain.

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

• ascended

• will ascend

• ascends

• is ascending

The following text is adapted from Gwendolyn Bennett’s 1926 poem “Street Lamps in Early Spring.”

Night wears a garment

All velvet soft, all violet blue... 

And over her face she draws a veil

As shimmering fine as floating dew... 

And here and there

In the black of her hair

The subtle hands of Night Move slowly with their gem-starred light.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

• It presents alternating descriptions of night in a rural area and in a city.

• It sketches an image of nightfall, then an image of sunrise.

• It makes an extended comparison of night to a human being.

• It portrays how night changes from one season of the year to the next.

Rydra Wong, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany’s 1966 novel Babel-17, is a poet, an occupation which, in Delany’s work, is not ______: nearly a dozen of the characters that populate his novels are poets or writers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• infallible

• atypical

• lucrative

• tedious

Text 1

Dominique Potvin and colleagues captured five Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) to test a new design for attaching tracking devices to birds. As the researchers fitted each magpie with a tracker attached by a small harness, they noticed some magpies without trackers pecking at another magpie’s tracker until it broke off. The researchers suggest that this behavior could be evidence of magpies attempting to help another magpie without benefiting themselves.

Text 2

It can be tempting to think that animals are deliberately providing help when we see them removing trackers and other equipment from one another, especially when a species is known to exhibit other cooperative behaviors. At the same time, it can be difficult to exclude the possibility that individuals are simply interested in the equipment because of its novelty, curiously pawing or pecking at it until it detaches.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the researchers’ perspective in Text 1 on the behavior of the magpies without trackers?

• That behavior might have been due to the novelty of the magpies’ captive setting rather than to the novelty of the tracker.

• That behavior likely indicates that the magpies were deliberately attempting to benefit themselves by obtaining the tracker.

• That behavior may not be evidence of selflessness in Gymnorhina tibicen because not all the captured magpies demonstrated it.

• That behavior might be adequately explained without suggesting that the magpies were attempting to assist the other magpie.

Text 1

An excavation in Chiquihuite Cave in central Mexico has upended the belief that approximately 13,000 years ago, a group known as the Clovis people were the first human inhabitants of North America. More than 200 crude stone tools were found embedded in a layer of earth that is up to 33,150 years old, revealing that humans occupied the cave thousands of years before the Clovis people reached the continent.

Text 2

The objects uncovered in Chiquihuite Cave are intriguing, but it is premature to characterize them as tools. The stone pieces are so roughly shaped that they may have simply fractured from rocks during natural geological activity in the cave. Moreover, their unearthing has thus far not been accompanied by discoveries of other signs of human activity or even traces of human DNA from surfaces.

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

• By suggesting that it draws a plausible connection between two groups of people but will need to be confirmed with further study

• By asserting that it rests on an assumption about the stone pieces that is not sufficiently supported by available evidence

• By acknowledging that it will most likely be proved correct when the stone pieces undergo more detailed analysis

• By pointing out that it fails to account for evidence that the Clovis people were active on the continent as early as is commonly thought

Although most songbirds build open, cupped nests, some species build domed nests with roofs that provide much more protection. Many ecologists have assumed that domed nests would provide protection from weather conditions and thus would allow species that build them to have larger geographic ranges than species that build open nests do. To evaluate this assumption, a research team led by evolutionary biologist Iliana Medina analyzed data for over 3,000 species of songbirds.

Which finding from Medina and her colleagues’ study, if true, would most directly challenge the assumption in the underlined sentence?

• Species that build open nests tend to have higher extinction rates than species that build domed nests.

• Species that build open nests tend to be smaller in size than species that build domed nests.

• Species that build open nests tend to use fewer materials to build their nests than species that build domed nests do.

• Species that build open nests tend to have larger ranges than species that build domed nests.

In a study of new technology adoption, Davit Marikyan et al. examined negative disconfirmation (which occurs when experiences fall short of one’s expectations) to determine whether it could lead to positive outcomes for users. The team focused on established users of  “smart home” technology, which presents inherent utilization challenges but tends to attract users with high expectations, often leading to feelings of dissonance. The researchers found that many users employed cognitive mechanisms to mitigate those feelings, ultimately reversing their initial sense of disappointment.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

• Research suggests that most users of smart home technology will not achieve a feeling of satisfaction given the utilization challenges of such technology.

• Although most smart home technology is aimed at meeting or exceeding users’ high expectations, those expectations in general remain poorly understood.

• Research suggests that users with high expectations for a new technology can feel content with that technology even after experiencing negative disconfirmation.

• Although negative disconfirmation has often been studied, little is known about the cognitive mechanisms shaping users’ reactions to it in the context of new technology adoption.