Project SCORE was the first communications satellite ever put into Earth's orbit, and it will be launched on December 18, 1958.

Despite the group's many musical successes, they are struggling to afford new instruments and gas money for the van.

An ocean mammal, such as the blue whale, behaves quite differently than mammals that live on land.

The "desert rally," an endurance race by dune buggies across hostile terrain, that only the fiercest competitors qualify for.

While it panted and strained at its leash, the dog's owner attempted to restrain the puppy when it saw a squirrel at the dog park.

The small house built in the field used the average building materials that were available in the region: wood, stone, brick, and glass.

Beethoven's music is known for being logical, yet emotive; challenging, yet occasionally simple; and unique, yet derived from previous styles.

The intrepid explorers of the wilderness discovered a new river, they also found a pair of mountains they named "Dipyramid."

Cyclone Althea devastated portions of northern Australia in December 1971; the strong winds ripped roofs off houses, hail damaged vehicles and windows, and it cost the Australian federal government close to a billion dollars in modern-day adjusted values.

There are several activities that I like to practice every day; motorcycling, running, and songwriting.

During his college interview, Jose was confused by several questions, including one about his favorite types of animals, and another that asked, "if you were a flavor of ice cream, what flavor would you be?"

Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she

doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen,

she _______ that humans will someday need to be

able to live in other environments than those found

on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in

future research missions to the moon.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator

Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to

promote public health; this _______ effort involved

traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland

and writing a medical dictionary for speakers of

Diné bizaad, the Navajo language.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

Given that the conditions in binary star systems

should make planetary formation nearly impossible,

it’s not surprising that the existence of planets in

such systems has lacked _______ explanation.

Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light on

the subject when they used modeling to determine

a complex set of factors that could support

planets’ development.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

Following the principles of community-based

participatory research, tribal nations and research

institutions are equal partners in health studies

conducted on reservations. A collaboration between

the Crow Tribe and Montana State University _______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside

scientists to design the methodology and continue to

assist in data collection.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive

success by flowering at the same time as the host

plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and

his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder

achieves this _______ with its host by absorbing and

utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about

to flower.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo _______ television’s tendency to situate Native

characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident

in his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around

teenagers who dress in contemporary styles and

whose dialogue is laced with current slang.

Which choice completes the text with the most

logical and precise word or phrase?

In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was

working on converting printed books into a digital

format. He found that some words were distorted

enough that digital scanners couldn’t recognize

them, but most humans could easily read them.

Based on that finding, von Ahn invented a simple

security test to keep automated “bots” out of

websites. The first version of the reCAPTCHA test

asked users to type one known word and one of the

many words scanners couldn’t recognize. Correct

answers proved the users were humans and added

data to the book-digitizing project.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the

text?

The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit’s

1906 novel The Railway Children. Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull

[visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home

waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She

was almost always there, ready to play with the

children, and read to them, and help them to do

their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write

stories for them while they were at school, and

read them aloud after tea, and she always made

up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and

for other great occasions.

According to the text, what is true about Mother?