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$Researchers have struggled to pinpoint specific causes for hiccups, which happen when a person's diaphragm contracts , However, neuroscientist Kimberley Whitehead has found that these uncontrollable contractions may play an important role in helping infants regulate their breathing.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$Streams and rivers carry soil and rocks from one location to another. But there is another way for these geological materials to move. Scientists call this process "aeolian transport." In aeolian transport, winds move small particles of soil or rock over potentially great distances. Geologist Melisa Diaz and her team studied dust in Antarctica to find out if it was moved by aeolian transport. They discovered that the dust matched geological material in Australia. Aeolian transport had carried it from one continent to another, across thousands of miles of open ocean.<br/><br/>Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?$
$The following text is adapted from Mohsin Hamid's 2017 novel Exit West. Saeed lives with his mother and father. On cloudless nights after a daytime rain, Saeed's father would sometimes bring out the telescope, and the family would slip green tea on their balcony, enjoying a breeze, and take turns to look up at objects whose light, often, had been emitted before any of these three viewers had been born--light from other centuries, only now reaching Earth. (c)2017 by Mohsin Hamid<br/><br/>As used in the text, what does the word "reaching" most nearly mean?$
$When Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper on sculptures found at the ancient Indigenous city of Teotihuacan in present-day Mexico, other researchers readily her work as groundbreaking; this recognition stemmed from her convincing demonstration that the sculptures were much older than had previously been thought.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$Some people have speculated that two helmets with attached horns discovered in Denmark in 1942 belonged to Vikings, but scholars have long been skeptical. Archaeologist Helle Vandkilde and colleagues recently provided radiocarbon dates for the helmets, and their findings scholars' skepticism: the helmets date to the Nordic Bronze Age, centuries before the Vikings existed.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's 1921 short story "John Redding Goes to Sea." John wants to travel far beyond the village where he lives near his mother, Matty.<br/><br/>[John] had on several occasions attempted to reconcile his mother to the notion, but found it a difficult task. Matty, always took refuge in self-pity and tears. Her son's desires were incomprehensible to her, that was all.<br/><br/>As used in the text, what does the phrase "reconcile his mother to" most nearly mean?$
$Space scientists Anna-Lisa Paul, Stephen M. Elardo, and Robert Ferl planted seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana in samples of lunar regolith--the surface material of the Moon--and, serving as a control group, in terrestrial soil. They found that while all the seeds germinated, the roots of the regolith-grown plants were stunted compared with those in the control group. Moreover, unlike the plants in the control group, the regolith-grown plants exhibited red pigmentation, reduced leaf size, and inhibited growth rates--indicators of stress that were corroborated by postharvest molecular analysis.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?$
$The following text is adapted from Sadakichi Hartmann's 1894 short story "Magnolia Blossoms." The narrator is standing on the deck of a boat.<br/><br/>What a night it was! My soul had left its body to lose itself in the wild unrestrained beauty around me--from where it came--and only left a trembling suggestion of its existence within me. The other passengers moved around me like shadows, and again and again my eyes drank in all the glory and wealth of that night.<br/><br/>As used in the text, what does the word "suggestion" most nearly mean?$
$Raymond Antrobus, an accomplished poet and writer of prose, recently released his debut spoken word poetry album, The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids, in collaboration with producer lan Brennan. The album contains both autobiographical and reflective pieces combining Antrobus's spoken words with Brennan's fragmented audio elements and pieces of music to convey how people who are deaf may experience sound, both its presence and absence. Some critics suggest that the album questions the function of sound in the world, highlighting that the experience of sound is multifaceted.<br/><br/>Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?$
$Some foraging models predict that the distance bees travel when foraging will decline as floral density increases, but biologists Shalene Jha and Claire Kremen showed that bees' behavior is inconsistent with this prediction if flowers in dense patches are : bees will forage beyond patches of low species richness to acquire multiple resource types. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$Like the 1945 play it reimagines--Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bemarda Alba--Marcus Gardiey's 2014 play The House That Will Not Stand prominently features women. In both plays, the all-female cast an array of female characters, including a strong mother and several daughters dealing with individual struggles.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$Text 1: Despite its beautiful prose, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman's 1962 analysis of the start of World War I, has certain weaknesses as a work of history. It fails to address events in Eastern Europe just before the outbreak of hostilities, thereby giving the impression that Germany was the war's principal instigator. Had Tuchman consulted secondary works available to her by scholars such as Luigi Albertini, she would not have neglected the influence of events in Eastern Europe on Germany's actions.<br/><br/>Text 2: Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is an engrossing if dated introduction to World War I. Tuchman's analysis of primary documents is laudable, but her main thesis that European powers committed themselves to a catastrophic outcome by refusing to deviate from military plans developed prior to the conflict is implausibly reductive.<br/><br/>Which choice best describes a difference in how the authors of Text 1 and Text 2 view Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August?$
$The following text is adapted from Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. Fabry and Busman are telling Miss Glory why their company manufactures robots.<br/><br/>FABRY: One Robot can replace two and a half workmen. The human machine, Miss Glory, was terribly imperfect. It had to be removed sooner or later.<br/><br/>BUSMAN: It was too expensive.<br/><br/>FABRY: It was not effective. It no longer answers the requirements of modern engineering. Nature has no idea of keeping pace with modern labor.<br/><br/>As used in the text, what does the word "answers" most nearly mean?<br/><br/>### Explains<br/><br/>B. Rebuts<br/><br/>C. Defends<br/><br/>D. Fulfills$
$Business researcher Melanie Brucks and colleagues found that remote video conference meetings may be less conducive to brainstorming than in-person meetings are. The researchers suspect that video meeting participants are focused on staring at the speaker on the screen and don't allow their eyes or mind to wander as much, which may ultimately creativity.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?$
$The following text is from Sarah Orne Jewett's 1899 short story "Martha's Lady." Martha is employed by Miss Pyne as a maid.<br/><br/> Miss Pyne sat by the window watching, in her best dress, looking stately and calm; she seldom went out now, and it was almost time for the carriage. Martha was just coming in from the garden with the strawberries, and with more flowers in her apron. It was a bright cool evening in June, the golden robins Sang in the elms, and the sun was going down behind the apple-trees at the foot of the garden. The beautiful old house stood wide open to the long-expected guest.<br/><br/>Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?$
$## Text 1<br/><br/>In 2007, a team led by Alice Storey analyzed a chicken bone found in El Arenal, Chile, dating it to 1321-1407 CE--over a century before Europeans invaded the region, bringing their own chickens. Storey also found that the El Arenal chicken shared a unique genetic mutation with the ancient chicken breeds of the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific. Thus, Polynesian peoples, not later Europeans, probably, first introduced chickens to South America.<br/><br/>## Text 2<br/><br/>An Australian research team weakened the case for a Polynesian origin for the El Arenal chicken by confirming that the mutation identified by Storey has occurred in breeds from around the world. More recently, though, a team led by Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira found that South American chicken breeds and Polynesian breeds share other genetic markers that European breeds lack. Thus, the preponderance of evidence now favors a Polynesian origin.<br/><br/>Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the underlined claim in Text 1?$

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