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In 1966, Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire a Major League Baseball game. His energetic gestures announcing when a player had struck out and his habit of barreling after a hit ball to see if it would land out of _______ transform the traditionally solemn umpire role into a dynamic one. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

The forty-seven geothermal springs of Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park are sourced via a process known as natural groundwater recharge, in which rainwater percolates downward through the earth—in this case, the porous rocks of the hills around Hot ______ collect in a subterranean basin. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Over twenty years ago, in a landmark experiment in the psychology of choice, professor Sheena Iyengar set up a jam-tasting booth at a grocery store. The number of jams available for tasting ______ some shoppers had twenty-four different options, others only six. Interestingly, the shoppers with fewer jams to choose from purchased more jam. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta’s celebrated literary oeuvre includes The Joys of Motherhood, a novel about the changing roles of women in 1950s ______ a television play about the private struggles of a newlywed couple in Nigeria; and Head Above Water, her autobiography. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Jetties—long, narrow structures that extend from a landmass into the water—are often constructed to protect coastlines from erosion. Jetties can sometimes have the opposite _______ obstructing the natural flow of sand along the shore can lead to increased erosion in some areas. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

The Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) is known for its impressive audio collection. _______ the ANLA has more than 5,000 audio recordings of Native Alaskan languages dating as far back as 1943. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Etched into Peru’s Nazca Desert are line drawings so large that they can only be fully seen from high above. Archaeologists have known of the lines since the 1920s, when a researcher spotted some from a nearby foothill, and they have been studying the markings ever since. ______ archaeologists’ efforts are aided by drones that capture high-resolution aerial photographs of the lines. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or hear. Domesticated dogs, _______can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

The process of mechanically recycling plastics is often considered ______ because of the environmental impact and the loss of material quality that often occurs. But chemist Takunda Chazovachii has helped develop a cleaner process of chemical recycling that converts superabsorbent polymers from diapers into a desirable reusable adhesive. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Upon first approaching artist Kurt Wenner’s Dies Irae, a colorful scene painted on the surface of a cobblestone street in Mantua, Italy, one might assume a deep hole filled with life-sized, classically styled sculptures had opened up in the street. _______ by expertly applying the principles of perspective, Wenner created merely the illusion of depth. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Economist Elinor Ostrom’s studies of communities around the world have empirically demonstrated that common pool resources, such as grazing lands, can be sustainably managed by the people who use them (rather than through private entities or centralized governments). _______ Ostrom’s work is a repudiation of the “tragedy of the commons,” the view that individuals will inevitably overexploit a finite shared resource if given unfettered access to it. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Some sandstone arches in Utah’s Arches National Park have been defaced by tourists’ carvings. • Park rangers can smooth away some carvings using power grinders. • For deep carvings, power grinding is not always feasible because it can greatly alter or damage the rock. • Park rangers can use an infilling technique, which involves filling in carvings with ground sandstone and a bonding agent. • This technique is minimally invasive. The student wants to explain an advantage of the infilling technique. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Las sergas de Esplandiánwas a novel popular in sixteenth-century Spain. • The novel featured a fictional island inhabited solely by Black women and known as California. • That same century, Spanish explorers learned of an “island” off the west coast of Mexico. • They called it California after the island in the novel. • The “island” was actually the peninsula now known as Baja California (“Lower California”), which lies to the south of the US state of California. The student wants to emphasize the role a misconception played in the naming of a place. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

In the Indigenous intercropping system known as the Three Sisters, maize, squash, and beans form an _______web of relations: maize provides the structure on which the bean vines grow; the squash vines cover the soil, discouraging competition from weeds; and the beans aid their two “sisters” by enriching the soil with essential nitrogen. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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 to make deeper dives, some researchers hypothesize that its role isn’t ______; rather, the accessory spleen may actively support diving mechanisms. 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 Gwendolyn Bennett’s 1926 poem “Street Lamps in Early Spring.” Night wears a garment All velvet soft, all violet blue... And over her face she draws a veil As shimmering fine as floating dew... And here and there In the black of her hair The subtle hands of Night Move slowly with their gem-starred light. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

The following text is adapted from Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park. The speaker, Tom, is considering staging a play at home with a group of his friends and family. We mean nothing but a little amusement among ourselves, just to vary the scene, and exercise our powers in something new. We want no audience, no publicity. We may be trusted, I think, in choosing some play most perfectly unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or danger to any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of some respectable author than in chattering in words of our own. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

Text1 Ecologists have long wondered how thousands of microscopic phytoplankton species can live together near ocean surfaces resources. According to conventional wisdom, one species should emerge (competing for the same)/(after outcompeting the) rest. So why do so many species remain? Ecologists’ many efforts to explain this phenomenon still haven’t uncovered a satisfactory explanation. Text 2 Ecologist Michael Behrenfeld and colleagues have connected phytoplankton’s diversity to their microscopic size. Because these organisms are so tiny, they are spaced relatively far apart from each other in ocean water and, moreover, experience that water as a relatively dense substance. This in turn makes it hard for them to move around and interact with one another. Therefore, says Behrenfeld’s team, direct competition among phytoplankton probably happens much less than previously thought. Based on the texts, how would Behrenfeld and colleagues (Text 2) most likely respond to the “conventional wisdom” discussed in Text 1?

- - - - - - - - -_straight ~ A bus is traveling at a constant speed along a d = 30t portion of road. The equation gives the distance d, in feet from a road marker, that the bus will be t seconds after passing the marker. How many feet from the marker will the bus be 2 seconds after passing the marker?

What is the equation of the line that passes through (0,5) the point and is parallel to the graph of y = 7x+4 in the xy-plane? y = 5x

- y 10 • 9 • 8 • 7 t - 6 5 4 • 3 "' 2 • 1 • u X 12345678910 Which of the following equations is the most appropriate linear model for the data shown in the scatterplot? y = −1.9x−10.1

A model predicts that the population of Bergen was 15,000 in 2005. The model also predicts that each year for the next 5 years, the population p increased 4% by of the previous year’s population. Which equation best represents this model, where x is the x ≤ 5 number of years after 2005, for?

- - - - - -_=_198 - - - ~ 2a+8b 2a+4b = 98 The solution to the given system of equations is (a,b). What is the value of b?

- - - - - -_is_equivalent_to - - - ~ 90y^5 −54y^4 The expression ry^4 15y−9 (), where r is a constant. What is the value of r?