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The following text is from Darcie Litue Badger's 2021 novelA 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.

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

• Approved

• Displayed

• Ignored

• Questioned

The following text is from Mark Twain 's 1876 novel The Adventuresof Tom Sauyer .Tom.a child, has been told by his aunt to paint their house 's fence.

Tom appeared  on thesidewalk   witha  bucket of whitewash  and a long-handled brush . He surveyed the fence , and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon

his spirit .Thirty yards  of board fence nine feet high.

As used in the text ,what does the word  "surveyed  "most nearly mean?

 

• Praised

• Organized

• Examined

• Coverted

Politicians routinely claim that journalists are _____ .but  while it 's true that some

journalists allow their own views to creep into their reporting more than others do. most journalists make a good-faith effort to be neutral in their reporting.

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

• sensitive

• biased

• misinformed

• irrelevant

The Nile River delta system is located in Northern Egypt, where the river drains into the Mediterranean Sea .and is shaped  by _____factors: for example.the geography of the

coastline influences sedimentary deposition , which over time alters coastal geography.

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

• comprehensive

• interdependent

• tenuous

• unyielding

Few religious buildings  can be said to _______the astonishing size of Djamaa el Djazair  in

Algeria, which. with the capacity to accommodate  approximately  120.000 people at  once,is one of the largest mosques in the world.

• conceal

• symbolize

• minimize

• match

The following text is adapted from Jason Reynolds's 2016 novel Ghost. Thenarrator , who is in middleschool . isata  bus stop.

ljust  go there ltothe   bus stopl to look at the people workingout  .See . the gym across

the street  has this big window — likethe whole  wallis a window —and they have those   machines that  make you fecl like you walking up steps and so everybody just be facing the bus stop . looking all crazy like they 're about to pass out . And trust  me ,there  ain't

nothing funnier  than that .So I check that out for a little while like it' s some kind  of movie:The About to Pass Out Show , starring  stair -stepper  person one through  ten.

C2016 by Jascn Reynolds

Which choice best states the main purpose of  the  text?

• To explain a problem that the narrator has overcome

• To give a reason why the narrator is excited to start middle school

• To discuss a movie that the narrator saw in a theater

• To describe an activity that the narrator finds amusing

In 1827.Rev.[ohn Wilk and other freeBlack men in New York City founded Freedoms

]ournal.America's  first  Black-owned-and-operated newspaper.Wlk's  accomplishment  is

justone example of the rich history of Black journalism in the United States. That history is preserved by the National Association of Black Journalists,which was founded in

Washington,DC,in 1975 to support Black media professionals and honor people like Wilk

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence?

 

• It highlights several important members of the National Association of Black [ournalists.

•  It emphasizes  the  challenges  that  the  National  Association  ofBlack  Journalists has overcome.

• It lists the achievements of the Nauonal Assocation  of Black Journalists.

• It summarizes the purpose of founding theNatuonal Assocration of Black Fournalists.

Sheep and barn owls see in three dimensions(3D)by combining two images in their

brains,one fromeach eye.This produces a sense of depth,hetping the animals judge how   close ar far away an object is.Researchers have investigated 3D vision in praying mantises as well.In one study.Vivck Nityananda and his team fitted mantises'faceswith two

dilferent color flters,one covering cach eye,much like the filters in 3D glasses once worn at movies.By observing the mantises'reaction to projected images,the team confirmed

that mantises do indeed have 3D vision, but its unlike that of other animals

Which choice best describes the overal structure of the text?

• The text explains the general differences between the vision of sheep and barn owls.then introduces a study of praying mantises 'vision.

• The text discusses3D vision in sheep and barn owls, then introduces a study about this kind of vision in praying mantises.

• The text describes how sheep and barn owls see.then presents astudy about praying mantses that challenges the accuracy of that description.

• The text revicws the similarities in how shcep and barn owls sec.then provides details of a study about praying mantises to confirm these similarities.

"Cuyote"is one example of an English word that has an Indigenous origin.The word came ta English indirecuy from coyote.the Spanish wordfor the wild carine species.Spanish

had borrowed it from Nahuatl,an Indigenous language of Central Mexico.in which the

ward's original form is coyorf."Iguana"also has an Indigenous origin and entered English

through Spanish.But in this case,the original source was Taino.a language of the

Caribbean islands,in which the word for the group of related lizard species is iwana.

 According to the text.what is one difference between theEnglish words -coyote"and "iguana"?

• Coyote"is  known  for  being Indigenous  in origin. while  "iguana"is mistakenly

  regarded as Spanish in origin.

• "Coyote"changed in meaning significantly when English borrowed the word from   Spanish.whereas"iguana"retained its original meaning.

• "Coyote"can be uraced to the Nahuatl language.while "iguana"can bc traced to the Taino language.

• "Coyote"entered  English  recenuy.but  "iguana"entered  English  many  centuries

  ago.

   

In presen1-day Chiapas.Mexico. archacologist Robert Rosenswig.remote-sensing specialist Ricardo Lopez-Torrijus,and colleagues have located 41 smalter setulements surrounding    the ancient Mesoamerican city of lzapa.The researchers have cuncluded that these

settlements were culturally linked to [zapa because each of the setlements isthe same age and configured in the same manner as lzapa,with a pyramid to the north and a plaza to

the south.Their shared structural orientatian suggests that residentsof the settlements likety performed some of the same cultural ceremones as residents in lzapadid.

Which choice best states the man idea of the text?

• Although archacologists have learned much about Lzapa over years of research. they have only recently found the smaller settlements that surrounded it.

• )Culural ceremonies in Izapa seem to have played a more important role for its residents than those in smaller surrounding settlements did.

• Researchers have inferred that Izapa was rclated to the smaller settlements that surrounded it based in parton the simularity of their construction.

• Researchers have determined that the arrangement of Lzapa's structures was based on those of other nearby settlements.