EC FINAL REVISION

Writing in hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptians recorded measurements using units such as the sa, a unit of __________and the khar, a unit of volume. The sa, for instance, is written as a hieroglyph that looks like a duck or goose.

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

• A. area; the shesep; a unit of length;

• B. area the shesep, a unit of length

• C. area; the shesep, a unit of length;

• area, the shesep; a unit of length,

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Included in Serial Intent, a 2017 group exhibition at Akron Art Museum in Ohio, was the work of artist Lorna Simpson, who is the best known for her multimedia artworks. Her work is credited with expanding the horizons of conceptual photographic art, and it challenges conventional notions of race, gender, history, and memory.

Which choice completes the text?

• A. juxtapose -

• B. juxtopose,

• C. juxtapose:

• D. juxtapose

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Contrasting a high saturation color palette against dark paper and stoneware, Atlanta-based artist Jiha Moon creates fused pieces, wherein Korean folk art, Western contemporary art, and global popular culture mix. New York's Derek Eller Gallery_________her work in a solo exhibition that ran in early 2022.

Which choice completes the text?

• A. features

• B. has been featured

• C. featured

• D. will feature

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The human shoulder contains the infraspinatus, a skeletal muscle that is attached to the_______this muscle plays a role in rotating the upper arm.

Which choice completes the text?

• A. scapula,

• B. scapula;

• C. scapula

• D. scapula that

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The unconventional literary philosophy with which Fernando Pessoa approached his writing is manifested in the Portuguese poet's "heteronyms," his term for the dozens of fictional personas in whose voices he authored many of his________among these personas was Ricardo Reis, author of classical odes in a Horatian style.

Which choice completes the text?

• A. works: and

• B. works;

• C. works and

• D. works,

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Soil polluted with cadmium (a heavy metal) is harmful to many plants and animals, but the plant species Elodea canadensis, or Canadian waterweed, not only thrives in such conditions but also helps remediate them. As a metal hyperaccumulator, Elodea canadensis absorbs a large a mount of cadimium and stores it safely in its roots and shoots; ______acdmium concentrations in the soil decrease.

• A. specifically,

• B. nevertheless,

• C. in addition,

• D. accordingly,

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

In the list "Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past" from Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the author delights in pressed silk, a moonlit night, and dried hollyhock. So shrewd an observer in Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book's musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life_______readers a thousand years later.

• A. has fascinated

• B. fascinates

• C. fascinate

• is fascinating

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Nadifa Mohamed is a novelist from Hargeisa, Somalia, who has earned international acclaim in recent years. Writers of other literary forms, such as poetry and drama, are less likely to be recognized beyond their nations' borders, but many are still well_______Koulsy Lamko, for example, is a celebrated playwright from Chad.

• A. known

• B. known:

• C. known and

• D. known,

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A