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San Francisco is known for the colorful murals painted on many of its buildings. The densest collection of murals is found on Balmy Alley in the Mission District neighborhood. In the 1970s, Latina artists painted vivid scenes of community life on walls along this block. As the original murals have faded, later generations of artists have painted new ones over them. As a result, Balmy Alley has become a living showcase of San Francisco's artistic spirit, with its murals reflecting changes in the cultural life of the city.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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The work of Kiowa painter T.C. Cannon derives its power in part from the tension among his influences: classic European portraiture, with its realistic treatment of faces; the American pop art movement, with its vivid colors; and flatstyle, the intertribial painting style that rejects the effect of depth typically achieved through shading and perspective.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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The following text is from Claude McKay's 1922 poem "Morning Joy." The speaker is looking out a window and observing a wold, or large area of land.<br/><br/>At night the wide and level stretch of wold,<br/><br/>Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,<br/><br/>Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;<br/><br/>Dark was the night save for the snow's weird light.<br/><br/>I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;<br/><br/>Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead<br/><br/>Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,<br/><br/>Went sorrowing with it across the plain.<br/><br/>As used in the text, what does the word "drew" most nearly mean?

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Nigerian American author Teju Cole's 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 poetic prose.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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The following text is adapted from Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Joe and some of his family members have recently moved to New York City.<br/><br/>[Joe] was wild with enthusiasm and with a desire to be a part of all that the metropolis meant. In the evening he saw the young fellows passing by dressed in their spruce clothes, and he wondered with a sort of envy where they could be going. Back home there had been no place much worth going to, except church and one or two people's houses.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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A number of Indigenous politicians have been elected to the United States Congress since 2000 as members of the country's two established political parties. In Canada and several Latin American countries, on the other hand, Indigenous people have formed their own political parties to advance candidates who will advocate for the interests of their communities. This movement has been particularly successful in Ecuador, where Guadalupe Llori, a member of the Indigenous party known as Pachakutik, was elected president of the National Assembly in 2021.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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The following text is adapted from Louisa May Alcott's 1869 novel An Old-Fashioned Girl. Polly, a teenager, is visiting her friend Fanny.<br/><br/>Fanny's friends did not interest Polly much; she was rather afraid of them [because] they seemed so much older and wiser than herself, even those younger in years. They talked about things of which she knew nothing and when Fanny tried to explain, she didn't find them interesting; indeed, some of them rather shocked and puzzled her.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion rarely in a world where artists create timeless works for exhibition and designers periodically produce new styles for the public to buy. Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock beadwork artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges this view: her work can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and purchased through her online boutique.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Artificially delivering biomolecules to plant cells is an important component of protecting plants from pathogens, but it is difficult to transmit biomolecules through the layers of the plant cell wall. Markita del Carpio Landry and her colleagues have shown that it may be possible to this problem by transmitting molecules through carbon nanotubes, which can cross cell walls.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A journalist and well-respected art critic of nineteenth-century Britain, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastake did not hesitate to publish reviews that went against popular opinion. One of her most divisive works was an essay questioning the idea of photography as an emerging medium for fine art: in the essay, Eastlake that the value of photographs was informational rather than creative.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Like other tribal nations, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is self-governing; its National Council generates laws regulating aspects of community life such as land use and healthcare, while the principal chief and cabinet officials -- those laws by devising policies and administering services in accordance with them.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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In the mid-nineteenth century, some abolitionist newspapers westward migration in the United States; by printing a letter that described the easy fortunes and high salaries miners could make in California during the Gold Rush, Frederick Douglass's newspaper North Star was one such publication that inspired readers to relocate.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Text 1<br/><br/>The live music festival business is growing in event size and genre variety. With so many consumer options, organizers are finding ways to cement festival attendance as a special experience worth sharing. This phenomenon is linked to the growing "experiential economy," where many find it gratifying to purchase lived experiences. To ensure a profitable event, venues need to consider the overall consumer experience, not just the band lineup.<br/><br/>Text 2<br/><br/>Music festival appearances are becoming a more important part of musicians' careers. One factor in this shift is the rising use of streaming services that allow access to huge numbers of songs for a monthly fee, subsequently reducing sales of full-length albums. With this shift in consumer behavior, musicians are increasingly dependent on revenue from live performances.<br/><br/>Based on the texts, both authors would most likely agree with which statement?

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#### Text 1<br/><br/>Films and television shows commonly include a long list of credits naming the people involved in a production. Credit sequences may not be exciting, but they generally ensure that everyone's contributions are duly acknowledged. Because they are highly standardized, film and television credits are also valuable to anyone researching the careers of pioneering cast and crew members who have worked in the mediums.<br/><br/>#### Text 2<br/><br/>Video game scholars face a major challenge in the industry's failure to consistently credit the artists, designers, and other contributors involved in making video games. Without a reliable record of which people worked on which games, questions about the medium's development can be difficult to answer, and the accomplishments of all but its best-known innovators can be difficult to trace.<br/><br/>Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 1 most likely respond to the discussion in Text 2?

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According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best way to predict the amount of time a nonperishable entity (such as a building or a technology) will continue to exist is to examine how long it has survived so far. In this view, an item's age is the strongest how much longer it will last.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Hugh Capet or Henry I was historically consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory was shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore cannot be understood without a corollary, understanding of the factors that allowed the monarch to his right to hold the throne.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times. Coketown is a fictional town in England. [Coketown] contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's 1921 short story "John Redding Goes to Sea." John is a child who lives in a town in the woods.<br/><br/>Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams. The St. John River flowed a scarce three hundred feet from his back door. On its banks at this point grow numerous palms, luxurian magnolias and bay trees. On the bosom of the stream float millions of delicately colored hyacinths. (John Redding) loved to wander down to the water's edge, and, casting in dry twigs.<br/><br/>watch them sail away down stream to Jacksonville, the sea, the wide world and [he] wanted to follow them.<br/><br/>Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

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To develop a method for measuring snow depth with laser beams, NASA physicist Yongxiang Hu relied on , identifying broad similarities between two seemingly different phenomena, Hu used information about how ants move inside colonies to calculate how the particles of light that make up laser beams travel through snow.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Cucurbits, a group of plants that includes squash and melons, relied on mastodons to spread their seeds in the Ice Age. When these animals died out, cucurbits faced extinction in turn, having lost their means of seed dispersal. Around this time, however, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples in North America began raising cucurbits as crops, thus the plants' survival.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Text 1<br/><br/>Fossils of the hominin Australopithecus africanus have been found in the Sterkfontein Caves of South Africa, but assigning an age to the fossils is challenging because of the unreliability of dating methods in this context. The geology of Sterkfontein has caused soil layers from different periods to mix, impeding stratigraphic dating, and dates cannot be reliably imputed from those of nearby animal bones since the bones may have been relocated by flooding.<br/><br/>Text 2<br/><br/>Archaeologists used new cosmogenic nuclide dating techniques to reevaluate the ages of

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A study by a team including finance professor Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to the actual earnings later reported by those companies. The team found that the greater the exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager's forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?

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Monica 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 have effect on the toxicity of their venom--that is, to see if differences in these traits are associated with considerable variations in venom potency.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Text 1<br/><br/>Today the starchy root cassava is found in many dishes across West Africa, but its rise to popularity was slow. Portuguese traders brought cassava from Brazil to the West African coast in the 1500s. But at this time, people living in the capitals further inland had little contact with coastal communities. Thus, cassava remained relatively unknown to most of the region's inhabitants until the 1800s.<br/><br/>Text 2<br/><br/>Cassava's slow adoption into the diet of West Africans is mainly due to the nature of the crop itself. If not cooked properly, cassava can be toxic. Knowledge of how to properly prepare cassava needed to spread before the food could grow in popularity. The arrival of formerly enslaved people from Brazil in the 1800s, who brought their knowledge of cassava and its preparation with them, thus directly fueled the spread of this crop.<br/><br/>Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 and the author of Text 2 would most likely agree with which statement?

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Mathematician Claude Shannon is widely regarded as a foundational figure in information theory. His most important paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," published in 1948 when he was employed at Bell Labs, utilized a concept called a "binary digit" (shortened to "bit") to measure the amount of information in any signal and determine the fastest rate at which information could be transmitted while still being reliably decipherable. Robert Gallagher, one of Shannon's colleagues, said that the bit was "[Shannon's] discovery, and from it the whole communications revolution has sprung."<br/><br/>Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

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