English Convention Practice

Using satellite remote sensing, Dr. Catherine Nakalembe, director of NASA’s Harvest Africa initiative, gathers important data on crop health. Nakalembe doesn’t just compile the ______ she also shares her findings with African farmers, enabling them to make data-driven decisions about managing critical food crops.

• A. information, though;

• B. information, though,

• C. information; though

• D. information though,

When viewed up close, however, the portraits reveal themselves to be ______ stitching barely visible among the thousands of pieces of printed, microcut fabric

• A. quilts, and the

• B. quilts, the

• C. quilts; the

• D. quilts. The

In paleontology, the term “Elvis taxon” gets applied to a newly identified living species that was once presumed to be extinct. Like an Elvis impersonator who might bear a striking resemblance to the late musical icon Elvis Presley himself, an Elvis taxon is not the real thing, ______ is a misidentified look-alike.

• A. however but it

• B. however it

• C. however, it

• D. however. It

After the printing press was introduced in 1440, handwritten manuscripts from Europe’s medieval period were often destroyed and the paper used for other purposes. In one instance, pages ______ a collection of Norse tales dating to 1270 were discovered lining a bishop’s miter (hat).

• A. from:

• A. from: B. from,

• C. from

• D. from—

Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell’s sculpture Mud Woman Rolls On consists of five human figures made of clay and plant fiber and arranged in descending size; each figure holds the smaller one in front of it. The arrangement of the figures, according to ______ represents her idea that “we all come from the Earth, generation after generation.”

• C. Swentzell:

• B. Swentzell,

• C. Swentzell:

• D. Swentzell—

It is generally true that technological change is a linear process, in which once-useful technologies are replaced by new and better ______ the reawakening of interest in the steam engine (from advocates of carbon-neutral rail travel) reminds us that ostensibly obsolete technologies may be brought back into service to address society’s changing needs.

• A. ones, even so; 

• B. ones even so, 

•   C. ones; even so, 

• D. ones, even so, 

In 2017, artists Isabel and Ruben Toledo redesigned the costumes and sets for The Miami City Ballet’s production of The ______ to reviewers, the Toledos’ designs helped infuse the production with elements of Miami’s Latin American culture.

• A. Nutcracker according, 

• B. Nutcracker, according 

• C. Nutcracker according 

• D. Nutcracker. According 

The Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden in Norway and the Jardim Botânico of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are two of many botanical gardens around the world dedicated to growing diverse plant ______ fostering scientific research; and educating the public about plant conservation.

• A. species, both native and nonnative,

• B. species, both native and nonnative;

• C. species; both native and nonnative,

• D. species both native and nonnative,

In 1955, Indian Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray released his first movie, Pather ______ quiet black-and-white drama about a family in rural India, Ray’s film was quite different from the loud, colorful action-romance movies that were popular at the time.

• A. Panchali a

• B. Panchali, which was a

• C. Panchali, a

• D. Panchali. A

A study published by Rice University geoscientist Ming Tang in 2019 offers a new explanation for the origin of Earth’s ______ structures called arcs, towering ridges that form when a dense oceanic plate subducts under a less dense continental plate, melts in the mantle below, and then rises and bursts through the continental crust above.

• A. continents geological

• B. continents: geological

• C. continents; geological

• D. continents. Geological