Honors - Boundaries

The first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc, improved financial recordkeeping not only by providing users with an easy means of adjusting data in spreadsheets but also by automatically updating all calculations that were dependent on these _____ to VisiCalc’s release, changing a paper spreadsheet often required redoing the entire sheet by hand, a process that could take days.

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

• A. adjustments prior

• B. adjustments, prior

• C. adjustments. Prior

• D. adjustments and prior

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

In 2000, Nora de Hoyos Comstock, herself an owner of a successful consulting firm, sought to increase Latina representation in corporate _____ founded Las Comadres para las Americas, an international community that for over two decades has served as a resource and information network for Latina business professionals.

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

• settings she

• settings, she

• settings and she

• settings. She

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

About 70,000 meteorites have been found on Earth. Although most meteorites are fragments of _____ hundred have been identified as being from the Moon or Mars.

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

• A. asteroids. Several

• B. asteroids, several

• C. asteroids; several

• D. asteroids: several

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Where _____. Interestingly, it was invented by an author. It first appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass by English author Lewis Carroll.

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

• A. did the word “chortle” come from.

• B. the word “chortle” did come from?

• C. did the word “chortle” come from?

• D. the word “chortle” come from.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In 2021, Mexican biologist Martha Lydia Macías-Rubalcava led a review of the scientific literature related to endophytic fungi (i.e., fungi that live inside a host _____ researching 120 endophytic fungi–produced compounds, she found that their phytotoxicity can make them viable alternatives to chemical herbicides for controlling weeds.

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

• A. plant). By

• B. plant), by

• C. plant) and by

• D. plant) by

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

In early 1700s England, it was legal for shops to sell prints of artists’ engravings without the artists’ permission. This changed in 1735 with the passage of the Engravers’ Copyright _____ gave engravers control over the distribution and sale of all prints made from their designs.

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

• A. Act, which

• B. Act; which

• C. Act. Which

• D. Act

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A