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A recent study tracked the number of bee species present in twenty-seven New York apple orchards over a ten-year period. ________ found that when wild growth near an orchard was cleared, the number of different bee species visiting the orchard decreased.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Despite being cheap, versatile, and easy to produce, ________ they are made from nonrenewable petroleum, and most do not biodegrade in landfills.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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On April 5, 1977, Kitty Cone and 150 other disability rights activists entered a San Francisco federal building. After pleading for years--to no effect--for the passage of key antidiscrimination legislation, ________ until their demands were addressed. Finally, on April 28, the legislation was signed.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In recent years, economists around the world have created new tools that quantify the overall well-being of a country's citizens. Economists in India, for example, use an Ease of Living Index. This tool ________ economic potential, sustainability, and citizens' quality of life.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Dr. Rocio Paola Caballero-Gill is a paleoceanographer. This means that Dr. Caballero-Gill doesn't just study oceans as they are today. She uses chemistry and fossil evidence ________ oceans as they were in the past.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Joshua Hinson, director of the language revitalization program of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, helped produce the world's first Indigenous-language instructional app, Chickasaw ________ <br/><br/><br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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After winning the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln appointed Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and William H. Seward to his cabinet. Lincoln's decision was surprising, since each of these men had run against him, but historians have praised it, noting that Lincoln ________ his rivals' diverse talents to strengthen his administration.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In her analysis of Edith Wharton's _The House of Mirth_ (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as "consumed by the appetite of a soulless materialism.”<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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With its towering, six-spired exterior of granitelike quartz monzonite, the Salt Lake Temple is one of the most instantly recognizable structures in the state of Utah. However, many people do not know that ________ built over the course of forty years, with construction beginning in 1853 and ending in 1893.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth's magnetic field when searching for ________ in the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points up, toward the surface and away from worms' food sources.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The alga species _Chorella vulgaris_ is very efficient at making oxygen. For this reason, scientists are currently exploring ways to use this species in space. _C. vulgaris_ might be used, for example, to ________ oxygen for astronauts.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Because a cycle of lunar phases ________ 29.5 days to complete, it's possible to observe two full moons in a single month, one at the beginning and one at the end.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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A pioneer in the field of taphonomy (the study of how organic remains become fossils), ________ may be just as prevalent in the fossil record as those of thick-shelled organisms.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of an asteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and other animals to die ________ it left unexplored the question of whether unrelated volcanic activity might have also contributed to the mass extinctions.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Epicurus defined pleasure as "the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the ________ that all life's virtues derived from this absence.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In 1881, French chemist Camille Faure redesigned the rechargeable lead-acid battery that the French physicist Gaston Plant6 ________. Faure's design greatly increased the amount of electricity that the original battery ________.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The 2________22 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three pioneers in the field of click chemistry: two-time Nobel Laureate Barry Sharpless, who coined the term "click chemistry" in 1998; Carolyn Bertozzi, founder of the Bertozzi Group at California Berkeley.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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For thousands of years, people in the Americas ________ the bottle gourd, a large bitter fruit with a thick find, to make bottles, other types of containers, and even musical instruments. Oddly, there is no evidence that any type of bottle gourd is native to the Western Hemisphere; either the fruit or its seeds must have somehow been carried from Asia on Africa.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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A model created by biologist Luis Valente predicts that the rate of speciation--the rate at which new species form--on an isolated island located approximately 5,000 kilometers from the nearest mainland ________ triple the rate of speciation on an island only 500 kilometers from the mainland.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The Lion Light system, developed by Kenyan inventor Richard Turrere, consists of LED lights installed around the perimeter of livestock pastures. Powered with the ________ the blinking LEDs keep lions away at night, thus protecting the livestock without risking harm to the endangered lions.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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While many video game creators strive to make their graphics ever more ________ others look to the past, developing titles with visuals inspired by the "8-bit" games of the 1980s and 1990s. (The term "8-bit" refers to a console whose processor could only handle eight bits of data at once.)<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Scientists ________ that the secret to Roman concrete's durability was its unique blend of ingredients, which included volcanic ash and seawater.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In 1990, California native and researcher Ellen Ochoa left her position as chief of the Intelligent Systems Technology Branch at a NASA research center ________ the space agency's astronaut training program.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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One species, the silverleaf sunflower, ________ both an early-flowering ecotype that tends to grow in coastal areas and a late-flowering ecotype that grows inland.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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At eight paragraphs long, the preamble to the constitution of ________ country in Western Asia--is much longer than the one-paragraph preamble to the United States Constitution.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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