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Words in Context

82 questions from the official practice tests. Page 2 of 3.

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4 — 4 In 1891, design artist William Morris cofounded the Kelmscott Press, which printed editions of books using preindustrial methods. Historians argue that Morris’s repudiation of industrialization is blank the Kelmscott…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5

Practice test 6Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5 — - - - - 5 Mary Engle Pennington, a chemist who helped advance home refrigeration, undoubtedly made a substantial impact on society, but her place in our historical memory is perhaps more blank than that of Stephanie…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1 — 1 On the basis of extensive calculations and models, astronomers in the 1990s predicted that the collision of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole could release a massive burst of gamma rays in an event…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2 — 2 The following text is from John Muir’s 1913 autobiography The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Muir describes being on a boat. The water was so Start referenced Content:clear End referenced Content that it was almost…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3 — 3 At the turn of the twentieth century, Black residents of Richmond, Virginia, had few formal options for banking and other financial services. To blank this situation, Maggie Lena Walker chartered the St. Luke Penny…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4 — 4 The results of randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy of common medical interventions sometimes fail to blank conclusions that practitioners reach based on their real-world observations of patients. While…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5 — 5 Diadromous fish migrate between freshwater and marine biomes during their life cycle. The migration’s obligate nature is why diadromous fish can beblank those that are merely euryhaline (able to tolerate high…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1 — 1 Taking photographs in the mid-1800s was complicated and expensive, but this changed with the 1854 invention of the carte de visite, a small photo that cost little to make. Carte de visite photos helped to blank…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2 — 2 Painter Alma W. Thomas was fascinated by the colors and shapes found in nature. The flowers and trees in the garden at her home in Washington, DC, blank her work. For example, Thomas’s use of broken brushstrokes was…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3 — 3 In the 1990s, conservationists began planting more than 500,000 native trees in the habitat of the Azores bullfinch to boost the bird’s numbers. This approach was apparently blank : the Azores bullfinch’s population…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4 — 4 The recently observed gamma ray burst GRB 230307A lasted for 200 seconds, blank for a burst generated by the merger of neutron stars. Bursts caused by neutron mergers typically last fewer than 2 seconds. Which choice…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5

Practice test 7Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5 — 5 In 1776, the United States sent Benjamin Franklin to France to try to win the country’s support in the United States’ fight for independence from Great Britain. Franklin was very popular in France. This blank surely…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1 — 1 As Mexico’s first president from an Indigenous community, Benito Juarez became one of the most blank figures in his country’s history: among the many significant accomplishments of his long tenure in office…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2 — 2 Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at Brazil’s Butantan Institute are studying the freshwater stingray species Potamotrygon rex to determine whether biological characteristics such as the rays’ age and sex haveblank…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3 — 3 Kelp forests grow underwater along the eastern Pacific Coast. These underwater forests are important to fish and other marine animals. Ocean currents can be powerful and rough, making it difficult for animals to find…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4 — 4 The Mule Bone, a 1930 play written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, is perhaps the best-known of the few examples of blank in literature. Most writers prefer working alone, and given that working together…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5 — 5 Ofelia Zepeda’s contributions to the field of linguistics areblank : her many accomplishments include working as a linguistics professor and bilingual poet, authoring the first Tohono O’odham grammar book, and…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1 — 1 Art scholars have noted that some colors seem to be moreblank viewers than others. For example, people tend to find paintings featuring blues and greens more appealing than paintings featuring yellows and oranges.…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2 — 2 Researchers and conservationists stress that biodiversity loss due to invasive species is blank . For example, people can take simple steps such as washing their footwear after travel to avoid introducing potentially…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3 — 3 The process of mechanically recycling plastics is often considered blank because of the environmental impact and the loss of material quality that often occurs. But chemist Takunda Chazovachii has helped develop a…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 4 — 4 In the Indigenous intercropping system known as the Three Sisters, maize, squash, and beans form an blank web of relations: maize provides the structure on which the bean vines grow; the squash vines cover the soil,…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5

Practice test 8Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 5 — 5 Within baleen whale species, some individuals develop an accessory spleen—a seemingly functionless formation of splenetic tissue outside the normal spleen. Given the formation’s greater prevalence among whales known…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 1 — 1 The following text is adapted from Ida B. Wells’s 1970 autobiography A Crusade for Justice. Mr. Watts is a reference to George Frederic Watts, an English painter. [Manchester’s] art galleries are so Start referenced…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 2 — A) accidental B) confident C) expensive D) consistent 2 . , ________ ____, One challenge of generating electricity from ocean waves is that wave power isn’t blank it varies in unpredictable ways that pose technological…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 3 — 3 Due to their often strange images, highly experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, many of John Ashbery’s poems can be quite difficult to blank and thus are the object of heated debate among scholars. Which…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 4 — 4 Diego Velázquez was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain during the seventeenth century, but his influence was hardly blank Spain: realist and impressionist painters around the world employed his…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 1 · 5 — 5 Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing, she did not view the genre as blank Butler broke into the field with the publication of several…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 1 — . 1 , The following text is from Anita Desai’s 2011 novella Translator Translated. While working on her translation of a novel written in Odia (a language of India) into English, the narrator looks out her window at…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 2 — . 2 , ________ ____, Predatory animals differ widely in how they blank food for their young. Some leave dead prey nearby for their young to consume, some bring live prey to their young, and some feed their young…

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Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3

Practice test 9Multiple choice

Question Reading and Writing, module 2 · 3 — 3 Nigerian American author Teju Cole’s blank his two passions—photography and the written word—culminates in his 2017 book, Blind Spot, which evocatively combines his original photographs from his travels with his…

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