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RW Question 14 RW Question 15
Euphorbia esula (leafy spurge) is a Eurasian plant that has Both Sona Charaipotra, an Indian American, and
become invasive in North America, where it displaces Dhonielle Clayton, an African American, grew up
native vegetation and sickens cattle. E. esula can be frustrated by the lack of diverse characters in books for
controlled with chemical herbicides, but that approach young people. In 2011, these two writers joined forces
can also kill harmless plants nearby. Recent research on to found CAKE Literary, a book packaging ______
introducing engineered DNA into plant species to inhibit specializes in the creation and promotion of stories told
their reproduction may offer a path toward exclusively from diverse perspectives for children and young adults.
targeting E. esula, consequently ______
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
Which choice most logically completes the text? the conventions of Standard English?
A) making individual E. esula plants more susceptible to A) company,
existing chemical herbicides. B) company that
B) enhancing the ecological benefits of E. esula in North C) company
America.
D) company, that
C) enabling cattle to consume E. esula without becoming
sick.
D) reducing invasive E. esula numbers without harming
other organisms.

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RW Question 16 RW Question 18
In 1930, Japanese American artist Chiura Obata depicted In 1966, Emmett Ashford became the first African
the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park in two American to umpire a Major League Baseball game. His
memorable woodcuts: Evening at Carl Inn and Lake Basin energetic gestures announcing when a player had struck
in the High Sierra. In 2019, ______ exhibited alongside out and his habit of barreling after a hit ball to see if it
150 of Obata’s other works in a single-artist show at the would land out of ______ transform the traditionally
Smithsonian American Art Museum. solemn umpire role into a dynamic one.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? the conventions of Standard English?
A) it was A) bounds helped
B) they were B) bounds, helping
C) this was C) bounds that helped
D) some were D) bounds to help

RW Question 17 RW Question 19
American writer Edwidge Danticat, who emigrated from In crafting her fantasy fiction, Nigerian-born British
Haiti in 1981, has won acclaim for her powerful short author Helen Oyeyemi has drawn inspiration from the
stories, novels, and ______ her lyrical yet unflinching classic nineteenth-century fairy tales of the Brothers
depictions of her native country’s turbulent history, Grimm. Her 2014 novel Boy, Snow, Bird, for instance, is a
writer Robert Antoni has compared Danticat to Nobel complex retelling of the story of Snow White, while her
Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison. 2019 novel ______ offers a delicious twist on the classic
tale of Hansel and Gretel.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
A) essays, praising
B) essays and praising A) Gingerbread—
C) essays praising B) Gingerbread,
D) essays. Praising C) Gingerbread
D) Gingerbread:

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RW Question 20 RW Question 22
The violins handmade in the seventeenth century One poll taken after the first 1960 presidential debate
by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari have been suggested that John Kennedy lost badly: only 21 percent
celebrated as some of the finest in the world. In close of those who listened on the radio rated him the winner.
collaboration with musicians, Stradivari introduced ______ the debate was ultimately considered a victory for
changes to the shape of a traditional violin, flattening the telegenic young senator, who rated higher than his
some of the instrument’s curves and making ______ opponent, Vice President Richard Nixon, among those
lighter overall. watching on the new medium of television.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to Which choice completes the text with the most logical
the conventions of Standard English transition?
A) those A) In other words,
B) one B) Therefore,
C) them C) Likewise,
D) it D) Nevertheless,

RW Question 21 RW Question 23
During the English neoclassical period (1660–1789), In November 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil was living in what
many writers imitated the epic poetry and satires of must have seemed like the ideal city for a young artist:
ancient Greece and Rome. They were not the first in Paris. She was studying firsthand the color-saturated
England to adopt the literary modes of classical ______ style of France’s modernist masters and beginning to
some of the most prominent figures of the earlier make a name for herself as a painter. ______ Sher-Gil
Renaissance period were also influenced by ancient longed to return to her childhood home of India; only
Greek and Roman literature. there, she believed, could her art truly flourish.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to Which choice completes the text with the most logical
the conventions of Standard English? transition?
A) antiquity, however A) Still,
B) antiquity, however, B) Therefore,
C) antiquity, however; C) Indeed,
D) antiquity; however, D) Furthermore,

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RW Question 24 RW Question 26
In his 1925 book The Morphology of Landscape, US While researching a topic, a student has taken the
geographer Carl Sauer challenged prevailing views about following notes:
how natural landscapes influence human cultures. ______ • In 2013, archaeologists studied cat bone fragments
Sauer argued that instead of being shaped entirely by they had found in the ruins of Quanhucun, a Chinese
their natural surroundings, cultures play an active role farming village.
in their own development by virtue of their interactions
with the environment. • The fragments were estimated to be 5,300 years old.
• A chemical analysis of the fragments revealed that the
Which choice completes the text with the most logical cats had consumed large amounts of grain.
transition?
• The grain consumption is evidence that the
A) Similarly, Quanhucun cats may have been domesticated.
B) Finally,
C) Therefore, The student wants to present the Quanhucun study
D) Specifically, and its conclusions. Which choice most effectively uses
relevant information from the notes to accomplish this
goal?
A) As part of a 2013 study of cat domestication, a
chemical analysis was conducted on cat bone
fragments found in Quanhucun, China.
B) A 2013 analysis of cat bone fragments found in
RW Question 25 Quanhucun, China, suggests that cats there may have
been domesticated 5,300 years ago.
Although those who migrated to California in 1849
dreamed of finding gold nuggets in streambeds, the C) In 2013, archaeologists studied what cats in
state’s richest deposits were buried deeply in rock, Quanhucun, China, had eaten more than 5,000 years
beyond the reach of individual prospectors. ______ by ago.
1852, many had given up their fortune-hunting dreams D) Cat bone fragments estimated to be 5,300 years old
and gone to work for one of the large companies capable were found in Quanhucun, China, in 2013.
of managing California’s complex mining operations.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical

transition?
A) Furthermore,
B) Still,
C) Consequently,
D) Next,

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RW Question 27
While researching a topic, a student has taken the The student wants to emphasize a difference in the
following notes: origins of the two words. Which choice most effectively
• Started in 1925, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is a uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish
US-based spelling competition. this goal?

• The words used in the competition have diverse A) “Guerdon,” the final word of the 2008 Scripps
linguistic origins. National Spelling Bee, is of Anglo-French origin,
while the following year’s final word, “Laodicean,”
• In 2008, Sameer Mishra won by correctly spelling the derives from ancient Greek.
word “guerdon.”
B) In 2008, Sameer Mishra won the Scripps National
• “Guerdon” derives from the Anglo-French word Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word
“guerdun.” “guerdon”; however, the following year, Kavya
• In 2009, Kavya Shivashankar won by correctly spelling Shivashankar won based on spelling the word
the word “Laodicean.” “Laodicean.”
C) Kavya Shivashankar won the 2009 Scripps National
• “Laodicean” derives from the ancient Greek word Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “Laodicean,” which
“Laodíkeia.” derives from the ancient Greek word “Laodíkeia.”
D) The Scripps National Spelling Bee uses words from
diverse linguistic origins, such as “guerdon” and
“Laodicean.”

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RW Question 1 RW Question 3
In habitats with limited nutrients, certain fungus In Nature Poem (2017), Kumeyaay poet Tommy Pico
species grow on the roots of trees, engaging in mutually portrays his ______ the natural world by honoring the
beneficial relationships known as ectomycorrhizae: in centrality of nature within his tribe’s traditional beliefs
this symbiotic exchange, the tree provides the fungus while simultaneously expressing his distaste for being in
with carbon, a nutrient necessary for both species, and wilderness settings himself.
the fungus ______ by enhancing the tree’s ability to
absorb nitrogen, another key nutrient, from the soil. Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) responsiveness to
and precise word or phrase?
B) ambivalence toward
A) overreacts
C) renunciation of
B) reciprocates
D) mastery over
C) retaliates
D) deviates

RW Question 2 RW Question 4
Handedness, a preferential use of either the right or left Some scientists have suggested that mammals in
hand, typically is easy to observe in humans. Because this the Mesozoic era were not a very ______ group, but
trait is present but less ______ in many other animals, paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo’s research suggests that early
animal-behavior researchers often employ tasks specially mammals living in the shadow of dinosaurs weren’t all
designed to reveal individual animals’ preferences for a ground-dwelling insectivores. Fossils of various plant-
certain hand or paw. eating mammals have been found in China, including
species like Vilevolodon diplomylos, which Luo says could
glide like a flying squirrel.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase? Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) recognizable and precise word or phrase?
B) intriguing A) predatory
C) significant B) obscure
D) useful C) diverse
D) localized

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RW Question 5 RW Question 7
Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion rarely The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific
______ in a world where artists create timeless works coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan,
for exhibition and designers periodically produce new the capital of the Aztec Empire. Because Xoconochco’s
styles for the public to buy. Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock location within the empire was so ______, cacao and
beadwork artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges other trade goods produced there could reach the capital
this view: her work can be seen in the Metropolitan only after a long overland journey.
Museum of Art and purchased through her online
boutique. Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) unobtrusive
and precise word or phrase?
B) concealed
A) prevail
C) approximate
B) succumb
D) peripheral
C) diverge
D) intersect

RW Question 6 RW Question 8 (Pretest Question)

The author’s claim about the relationship between Ofelia Zepeda’s contributions to the field of linguistics
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is ______, as it fails to are ______: her many accomplishments include working
account for several recent archaeological discoveries. as a linguistics professor and bilingual poet, authoring
To be convincing, his argument would need to address the first Tohono O’odham grammar book, and co-
recent finds of additional hominid fossils, such as the founding the American Indian Language Development
latest Denisovan specimens and Homo longi. Institute.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase? and precise word or phrase?
A) disorienting A) pragmatic
B) tenuous B) controversial
C) nuanced C) extensive
D) unoriginal D) universal

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RW Question 9 RW Question 10
The following text is adapted from Lewis Carroll’s 1889 Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the
satirical novel Sylvie and Bruno. A crowd has gathered Andes Mountains of Peru, Martín Chambi is today
outside a room belonging to the Warden, an official who considered to be one of the most renowned figures
reports to the Lord Chancellor. of Latin American photography. In a paper for an art
history class, a student claims that Chambi’s photographs
One man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his have considerable ethnographic value—in his work,
hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make Chambi was able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian
out) “Who roar for the Sub-Warden?” Everybody roared, society, representing his subjects with both dignity and
but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not authenticity.
clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some
“Taxes!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they Which finding, if true, would most directly support the
really wanted. student’s claim?
All this I saw from the open window of the Warden’s A) Chambi took many commissioned portraits of
breakfast-saloon, looking across the shoulder of the Lord wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of
Chancellor. images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and
“What can it all mean?” he kept repeating to himself. “I customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.
never heard such shouting before—and at this time of the B) Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high level
morning, too! And with such unanimity!” of technical skill, as seen in his strategic use of
illumination to create dramatic light and shadow
Based on the text, how does the Lord Chancellor respond contrasts.
to the crowd? C) During his lifetime, Chambi was known and
A) He asks about the meaning of the crowd’s shouting, celebrated both within and outside his native Peru,
even though he claims to know what the crowd as his work was published in places like Argentina,
wants. Spain, and Mexico.
B) He indicates a desire to speak to the crowd, even D) Some of the peoples and places Chambi
though the crowd has asked to speak to the Sub- photographed had long been popular subjects for
Warden. Peruvian photographers.
C) He expresses sympathy for the crowd’s demands,
even though the crowd’s shouting annoys him.
D) He describes the crowd as being united, even though
the crowd clearly appears otherwise.

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RW Question 11 RW Question 12
Art collectives, like the United States- and Vietnam- Researchers hypothesized that a decline in the population
based collective The Propeller Group or Cuba’s Los of dusky sharks near the mid-Atlantic coast of North
Carpinteros, are groups of artists who agree to work America led to a decline in the population of eastern
together: perhaps for stylistic reasons, or to advance oysters in the region. Dusky sharks do not typically
certain shared political ideals, or to help mitigate the consume eastern oysters but do consume cownose rays,
costs of supplies and studio space. Regardless of the which are the main predators of the oysters.
reasons, art collectives usually involve some collaboration
among the artists. Based on a recent series of interviews Which finding, if true, would most directly support the
with various art collectives, an arts journalist claims researchers’ hypothesis?
that this can be difficult for artists who are often used to A) Declines in the regional abundance of dusky sharks’
having sole control over their work. prey other than cownose rays are associated with
regional declines in dusky shark abundance.
Which quotation from the interviews best illustrates the
journalist’s claim? B) Eastern oyster abundance tends to be greater in areas
with both dusky sharks and cownose rays than in
A) “The first collective I joined included many areas with only dusky sharks.
amazingly talented artists, and we enjoyed each
C) Consumption of eastern oysters by cownose rays in
other’s company, but because we had a hard time
the region substantially increased before the regional
sharing credit and responsibility for our work, the
decline in dusky shark abundance began.
collective didn’t last.”
D) Cownose rays have increased in regional abundance
B) “We work together, but that doesn’t mean that
as dusky sharks have decreased in regional
individual projects are equally the work of all of us.
abundance.
Many of our projects are primarily the responsibility
of whoever originally proposed the work to the
group.”
C) “Having worked as a member of a collective for
several years, it’s sometimes hard to recall what
it was like to work alone without the collective’s
support. But that support encourages my individual
expression rather than limits it.”
D) “Sometimes an artist from outside the collective will
choose to collaborate with us on a project, but all
of those projects fit within the larger themes of the
work the collective does on its own.”

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RW Question 15 RW Question 16 (Pretest Question)

Among social animals that care for their young, such as The increased integration of digital technologies
chickens, macaque monkeys, and humans, newborns throughout the process of book creation in the late
appear to show an innate attraction to faces and face-like 20th and early 21st centuries lowered the costs of book
stimuli. Elisabetta Versace and her colleagues used an production, but those decreased costs have been most
image of three black dots arranged in the shape of eyes significant in the manufacturing and distribution process,
and a nose or mouth to test whether this trait also occurs which occurs after the authoring, editing, and design of
in Testudo tortoises, which live alone and do not engage the book are complete. This suggests that in the late 20th
in parental care. They found that tortoise hatchlings and early 21st centuries, ______
showed a significant preference for the image, suggesting
that ______ Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) digital technologies made it easier than it had been
Which choice most logically completes the text?
previously for authors to write very long works and
A) face-like stimuli are likely perceived as harmless by get them published.
newborns of social species that practice parental care B) customers generally expected the cost of books to
but as threatening by newborns of solitary species decline relative to the cost of other consumer goods.
without parental care.
C) publishers increased the variety of their offerings by
B) researchers should not assume that an innate printing more unique titles but also printed fewer
attraction to face-like stimuli is necessarily an copies of each title.
adaptation related to social interaction or parental
D) the costs of writing, editing, and designing a book
care.
were less affected by the technologies used than were
C) researchers can assume that the attraction to face- the costs of manufacturing and distributing a book.
like stimuli that is seen in social species that practice
parental care is learned rather than innate.
D) newly hatched Testudo tortoises show a stronger
preference for face-like stimuli than adult Testudo
tortoises do.

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RW Question 17 RW Question 19
When external forces are applied to common glass made Stomata, tiny pore structures in a leaf that absorb
from silicates, energy builds up around minuscule defects gases needed for plant growth, open when guard cells
in the material, resulting in fractures. Recently, engineer surrounding each pore swell with water. In a pivotal
Erkka Frankberg of Tampere University in Finland 2007 article, plant cell ______ showed that lipid
used the chemical ______ to make a glassy solid that can molecules called phosphatidylinositol phosphates are
withstand higher strain than silicate glass can before responsible for signaling guard cells to open stomata.
fracturing.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
the conventions of Standard English?
A) biologist, Yuree Lee
A) compound, aluminum oxide B) biologist Yuree Lee,
B) compound aluminum oxide, C) biologist Yuree Lee
C) compound, aluminum oxide, D) biologist, Yuree Lee,
D) compound aluminum oxide

RW Question 18 RW Question 20
In many of her landscape paintings from the 1970s and Researchers studying magnetosensation have
1980s, Lebanese American artist Etel Adnan worked to determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the
capture the essence of California’s fog-shrouded Mount Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction
Tamalpais region through abstraction, using splotches of of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for ______ in
color to represent the area’s features. Interestingly, the the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points
triangle representing the mountain itself ______ among down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere,
the few defined figures in her paintings. it points up, toward the surface and away from worms’
food sources.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
A) are
B) have been A) food:
C) were B) food,
D) is C) food while
D) food

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RW Question 21 RW Question 23
Researchers studying the “terra-cotta army,” the Earth’s auroras—colorful displays of light seen above the
thousands of life-size statues of warriors found interred northern and southern poles—result, broadly speaking,
near the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China, were from the Sun’s activity. ______ the Sun releases charged
shocked to realize that the shape of each statue’s ears, like particles that are captured by Earth’s magnetic field and
the shape of each person’s ears, ______ unique. channeled toward the poles. These particles then collide
with atoms in the atmosphere, causing the atoms to emit
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to auroral light.
the conventions of Standard English?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
A) are
transition?
B) is
A) Specifically,
C) were
B) Similarly,
D) have been
C) Nevertheless,
D) Hence,

RW Question 22 RW Question 24
In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics Some members of the US Supreme Court have resisted
professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the US military calls to televise the court’s oral arguments, concerned
to help the war effort by solving complex equations. that the participants would be tempted to perform for
Hopper’s subsequent career would involve more than just the cameras (and thus lower the quality of the discourse).
______ as a pioneering computer programmer, Hopper ______ the justices worry that most viewers would not
would help usher in the digital age. even watch the full deliberations, only short clips that
could be misinterpreted and mischaracterized.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A) equations, though:
B) equations, though, A) However,
C) equations. Though, B) Additionally,
D) equations though C) In comparison,
D) For example,

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RW Question 25 RW Question 26
The more diverse and wide ranging an animal’s While researching a topic, a student has taken the
behaviors, the larger and more energy demanding the following notes:
animal’s brain tends to be. ______ from an evolutionary
perspective, animals that perform only basic actions • The Gullah are a group of African Americans who
should allocate fewer resources to growing and have lived in parts of the southeastern United States
maintaining brain tissue. The specialized subtypes of ants since the 18th century.
within colonies provide an opportunity to explore this • Gullah culture is influenced by West African and
hypothesis. Central African traditions.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical • Louise Miller Cohen is a Gullah historian, storyteller,
transition? and preservationist.
A) Subsequently, • She founded the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head
B) Besides, Island, South Carolina, in 2003.
C) Nevertheless, • Vermelle Rodrigues is a Gullah historian, artist, and
D) Thus, preservationist.
• She founded the Gullah Museum of Georgetown,
South Carolina, in 2003.

The student wants to emphasize the duration and

purpose of Cohen’s and Rodrigues’s work. Which choice
most effectively uses relevant information from the notes
to accomplish this goal?
A) At the Gullah Museums in Hilton Head Island and
Georgetown, South Carolina, visitors can learn more
about the Gullah people who have lived in the region
for centuries.
B) Louise Miller Cohen and Vermelle Rodrigues have
worked to preserve the culture of the Gullah people,
who have lived in the United States since the 18th
century.
C) Since 2003, Louise Miller Cohen and Vermelle
Rodrigues have worked to preserve Gullah culture
through their museums.
D) Influenced by the traditions of West and Central
Africa, Gullah culture developed in parts of the
southeastern United States in the 18th century.

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RW Question 27
While researching a topic, a student has taken the The student wants to emphasize the aim of the research
following notes: study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant
information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
• The factors that affect clutch size (the number of eggs
A) Researchers wanted to know which factors influence
laid at one time) have been well studied in birds but
lizard egg clutch size because such factors have been
not in lizards.
well studied in birds but not in lizards.
• A team led by Shai Meiri of Tel Aviv University B) After they obtained data for over 3,900 lizard species,
investigated which factors influence lizard clutch size. researchers determined that larger clutch size was
• Meiri’s team obtained clutch-size and habitat data for associated with environments in higher latitudes that
over 3,900 lizard species and analyzed the data with have more seasonal change.
statistical models. C) We now know that lizards in higher-latitude
• Larger clutch size was associated with environments environments may lay larger clutches to take
in higher latitudes that have more seasonal change. advantage of shorter windows of favorable
conditions.
• Lizards in higher-latitude environments may lay D) Researchers obtained clutch-size and habitat data for
larger clutches to take advantage of shorter windows over 3,900 lizard species and analyzed the data with
of favorable conditions. statistical models.

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RW Question 17 RW Question 19
Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the
single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher margins by a former owner lower a book’s ______ when
Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman,
these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine
Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use to literary scholars.
after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether
______ wanted a bag. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
A) value, but
the conventions of Standard English?
B) value
A) they
C) value,
B) one
D) value but
C) you
D) it

RW Question 18 RW Question 20
A member of the Cherokee Nation, Mary Golda Ross British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won
is renowned for her contributions to NASA’s Planetary the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing
Flight Handbook, which ______ detailed mathematical the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading
guidance for missions to Mars and Venus. to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double
helix. ______ findings were based on a famous X-ray
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray
the conventions of Standard English? crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate
A) provided student Raymond Gosling.
B) having provided Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
C) to provide the conventions of Standard English?
D) providing A) They’re
B) It’s
C) Their
D) Its

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RW Question 21 RW Question 23
In order to prevent nonnative fish species from moving The classic children’s board game Chutes and Ladders
freely between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, marine is a version of an ancient Nepalese game, Paramapada
biologist Bella Galil has proposed that a saline lock Sopanapata. In both games, players encounter “good”
system be installed along the Suez Canal in Egypt’s Great or “bad” spaces while traveling along a path; landing on
Bitter Lakes. The lock would increase the salinity of the one of the good spaces ______ a player to skip ahead and
lakes and ______ a natural barrier of water most marine arrive closer to the end goal.
creatures would be unable to cross.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
the conventions of Standard English?
A) allows
A) creates B) are allowing
B) create C) have allowed
C) creating D) allow
D) created

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Lucía Michel of the University of Chile observed that In 1968, US Congressman John Conyers introduced
alkaline soils contain an insoluble form of iron that a bill to establish a national holiday in honor of Dr.
blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry Martin Luther King Jr. The bill didn’t make it to a
growth. If these plants were grown in alkaline soil vote, but Conyers was determined. He teamed up with
alongside grasses that aid in iron solubilization, ______ Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to be elected to
Michel was determined to find out. Congress, and they resubmitted the bill every session for
the next fifteen years. ______ in 1983, the bill passed.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A) could the blueberries thrive.
B) the blueberries could thrive. A) Instead,
C) the blueberries could thrive? B) Likewise,
D) could the blueberries thrive? C) Finally,
D) Additionally,

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RW Question 25 RW Question 27
Most conifers (trees belonging to the phylum While researching a topic, a student has taken the
Coniferophyta) are evergreen. That is, they keep their following notes:
green leaves or needles year-round. However, not all • British musicians John Lennon and Paul McCartney
conifer species are evergreen. Larch trees, ______ lose shared writing credit for numerous Beatles songs.
their needles every fall.
• Many Lennon-McCartney songs were actually written
Which choice completes the text with the most logical by either Lennon or McCartney, not by both.
transition? • The exact authorship of specific parts of many Beatles
A) for instance, songs, such as the verse for “In My Life,” is disputed.
B) nevertheless, • Mark Glickman, Jason Brown, and Ryan Song used
C) meanwhile, statistical methods to analyze the musical content of
Beatles songs.
D) in addition,
• They concluded that there is 18.9% probability
that McCartney wrote the verse for “In My Life,”
stating that the verse is “consistent with Lennon’s
songwriting style.”

RW Question 26 The student wants to make a generalization about the

kind of study conducted by Glickman, Brown, and Song.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a prominent classical music Which choice most effectively uses relevant information
composer from England who toured the US three times from the notes to accomplish this goal?
in the early 1900s. The child of a West African father
and an English mother, Coleridge-Taylor emphasized his A) Based on statistical analysis, Glickman, Brown, and
mixed-race ancestry. For example, he referred to himself Song claim that John Lennon wrote the verse of “In
as Anglo-African. ______ he incorporated the sounds My Life.”
of traditional African music into his classical music B) There is only an 18.9% probability that Paul
compositions. McCartney wrote the verse for “In My Life”; John
Lennon is the more likely author.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical C) It is likely that John Lennon, not Paul McCartney,
transition? wrote the verse for “In My Life.”
A) In addition, D) Researchers have used statistical methods to address
B) Actually, questions of authorship within the field of music.
C) However,
D) Regardless,

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