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$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Annie Wu is a prominent American flutist who graduated from the New England Conservatory.<br/>* She has won multiple national flute competitions.<br/>* She is best known for a 2011 YouTube video that has been viewed over two million times.<br/>* The video shows her performing Three Beats for Beatbox Flute, an original work by composer Greg Pattillo.<br/>* Wu combines flute playing and beatboxing in the video.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize Wu's most well-known achievement. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* In the late 1890s, over 14,000 unique varieties of apples were grown in the US.<br/>* The rise of industrial agriculture in the mid-1900s narrowed the range of commercially grown crops.<br/>* Thousands of apple varieties considered less suitable for commercial growth were lost.<br/>* Today, only 15 apple varieties dominate the market, making up 90% of apples purchased in the US.<br/>* The Lost Apple Project, based in Washington State, attempts to find and grow lost apple varieties.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the decline in unique apple varieties in the US and specify why this decline occurred. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?<br/><br/>* The Lost Apple Project is dedicated to finding some of the apple varieties lost following a shift in agricultural practices in the mid-1900s.<br/>* While over 14,000 apple varieties were grown in the US in the late 1890s, only 15 unique varieties make up most of the apples sold today.<br/>* Since the rise of industrial agriculture, US farmers have mainly grown the same few unique apple varieties, resulting in the loss of thousands of varieties less suitable for commercial growth.<br/>* As industrial agriculture rose to prominence in the mid-1900s, the number of crops selected for cultivation decreased dramatically.$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Started in 1925, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is a US-based spelling competition.<br/>* The words used in the competition have diverse linguistic origins.<br/>* In 2008, Sameer Mishra won by correctly spelling the word "guerdon."<br/>* "Guerdon" derives from the Anglo-French word "guerdon."<br/>* In 2009, Kavya Shivashankar won by correctly spelling the word "Laodicean."<br/>* "Laodicean" derives from the ancient Greek word "Laodikeia."<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize a difference in the origins of the two words. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.<br/>* Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in East Africa and currently lives in the United Kingdom.<br/>* Many readers have singled out Gurnah's 1994 book Paradise for praise.<br/>* Paradise is a historical novel about events that occurred in colonial East Africa.<br/><br/>The student wants to introduce Paradise to an audience unfamiliar with the novel and its author. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$During a 2021 launch, Rocket Labs' Electron rocket experienced an unexpected failure: its second-stage booster shutdown suddenly after ignition. ________, instead of downplaying the incident, Rocket Labs' CEO publicly acknowledged what happened and apologized for the loss of the rocket's payload, which had consisted of two satellites.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Las sergas de Esplandian was a novel popular in sixteenth-century Spain.<br/>* The novel featured a fictional island inhabited solely by Black women and known as California.<br/>* That same century, Spanish explorers learned of an "island" off the west coast of Mexico.<br/>* They called it California after the island in the novel.<br/>* The "island" was actually the peninsula now known as Baja California ("Lower California"), which lies to the south of the US state of California.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the role a misconception played in the naming of a place. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Some sandstone arches in Utah's Arches National Park have been defaced by tourists' carvings.<br/>* Park rangers can smooth away some carvings using power grinders.<br/>* For deep carvings, power grinding is not always feasible because it can greatly alter or damage the rock.<br/>* Park rangers can use an infilling technique, which involves filling in carvings with ground sandstone and a bonding agent.<br/>* This technique is minimally invasive.<br/><br/>The student wants to explain an advantage of the infilling technique. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$In 1891, dancer and choreographer Loie Fuller first performed her celebrated Serpentine Dance, artfully twirling her long, flowing skirt to create striking visual effects. _______, cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumiere made a groundbreaking short film of Fuller's dance.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$Phytoplankton play a crucial role in the ocean's uptake of carbon from the atmosphere. When alive, these tiny marine organisms absorb atmospheric carbon via photosynthesis. _______ after they die, the phytoplankton sink to the seafloor, where the carbon in their cells gets stored in sediment, preventing it from cycling back into the atmosphere.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$Riley Black--the author of critically acclaimed books such as My Beloved Brontosaurus (2013)--is best known for writing about dinosaurs, but she has also conducted hands-on fieldwork. ________ her fieldwork has included paleontological digs in Utah, Montana, and Wyoming, and her dinosaur fossil discoveries can be seen at places such as the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$The Sun and other stars are powered by nuclear fusion reactions, in which two atoms collide to form a single heavier atom, releasing energy. Scientists have long believed _______ fusion has the potential to meet humanity's clean energy needs. \(\underline{\phantom{\rule{0.0pt}{0.8em}}}\)<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$"Wishcycling"--putting nonrecyclable items into recycling bins under the mistaken belief that those items can be recycled--ultimately does more harm than good. Nonrecyclable items, such as greasy pizza boxes, can contaminate recyclable materials, rendering entire batches unusable. ______, nonrecyclable products can damage recycling plants" machinery.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or hear.<br/><br/>Domesticated dogs, can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: * Annie Wu is a prominent American flutist who graduated from the New England Conservatory. * She has won multiple national flute competitions. * She is best known for a 2011 YouTube video that has been viewed over two million times. * The video shows her performing Three Beats for Beatbox Flute, an original work by composer Greg Pattillo. * Wu combines flute playing and beatboxing in the video. The student wants to emphasize Wu's most well-known achievement. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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Annie Wu, who has won multiple national flute competitions, has also combined flute playing and beatboxing.

B:

Among her many achievements, prominent American flutist Annie Wu graduated from the New England Conservatory and has won multiple national flute competitions.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* In the late 1890s, over 14,000 unique varieties of apples were grown in the US.<br/>* The rise of industrial agriculture in the mid-1900s narrowed the range of commercially grown crops.<br/>* Thousands of apple varieties considered less suitable for commercial growth were lost.<br/>* Today, only 15 apple varieties dominate the market, making up 90% of apples purchased in the US.<br/>* The Lost Apple Project, based in Washington State, attempts to find and grow lost apple varieties.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the decline in unique apple varieties in the US and specify why this decline occurred. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?<br/><br/>* The Lost Apple Project is dedicated to finding some of the apple varieties lost following a shift in agricultural practices in the mid-1900s.<br/>* While over 14,000 apple varieties were grown in the US in the late 1890s, only 15 unique varieties make up most of the apples sold today.<br/>* Since the rise of industrial agriculture, US farmers have mainly grown the same few unique apple varieties, resulting in the loss of thousands of varieties less suitable for commercial growth.<br/>* As industrial agriculture rose to prominence in the mid-1900s, the number of crops selected for cultivation decreased dramatically.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.<br/>* Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in East Africa and currently lives in the United Kingdom.<br/>* Many readers have singled out Gurnah's 1994 book Paradise for praise.<br/>* Paradise is a historical novel about events that occurred in colonial East Africa.<br/><br/>The student wants to introduce Paradise to an audience unfamiliar with the novel and its author. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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