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$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* In 1851, German American artist Emanuel Leutze painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.<br/>* His huge painting (149 x 255 inches) depicts the first US president crossing a river with soldiers in the Revolutionary War.<br/>* In 2019, Cree artist Kent Monkman painted mistikosiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People.<br/>* Monkman's huge painting (132 x 264 inches) was inspired by Leutze's.<br/>* It portrays Indigenous people in a boat rescuing refugees.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two paintings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia.<br/>* The city's population is 907,802.<br/>* Ulaanbaatar contains 31.98 percent of Mongolia's population.<br/>* Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam.<br/>* The city's population is 7,781,631.<br/>* Hanoi contains 8.14 percent of Vietnam's population.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the relative sizes of the two capitals' populations. Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the relative sizes of the two capitals' populations?$
$In his 1925 book _________ The Morphology of Landscape, US geographer Carl Sauer challenged prevailing views about how natural landscapes influence human cultures. Sauer argued that instead of being shaped entirely by their natural surroundings, cultures play an active role in their own development by virtue of their interactions with the environment.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* In the early 1960s, the US had a strict national-origins quota system for immigrants.<br/>* The number of new immigrants allowed from a country each year was based on how many people from that country lived in the US in 1890.<br/>* This system favored immigrants from northern Europe.<br/>* Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.<br/>* The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system.<br/><br/>The student wants to present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Roughly 96% of Australia's estimated 200,000 animal species are invertebrates.<br/>* Invertebrates of the order Hymenoptera, which consists of sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants, are estimated to total 14,800 species in Australia.<br/>* Invertebrates of the order Coleoptera, which consists of beetles and weevils, are estimated to total 28,200 species in Australia.<br/>* Some of these invertebrates' populations are threatened by invasive bird and fish species.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the different orders in which Australia's invertebrate animals are classified. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* A wok is a cooking pan that originated in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE).<br/>* The wok's round, wide base helps to cook food evenly.<br/>* The wok's high, angled sides help to contain oil splatters.<br/>* Grace Young is a cook and culinary historian.<br/>* Her book The Breath of a Wok (2004) traces the history of the wok.<br/><br/>The student wants to describe the wok's shape. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Gaspar Enriquez is an artist.<br/>* He specializes in portraits of Mexican Americans.<br/>* A portrait is an artistic representation of a person.<br/>* Enriquez completed a painting of the sculptor Luis Jimenez in 2003.<br/>* He completed a drawing of the writer Rudolfo Anaya in 2016.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two portraits. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* The popular wood-wide web theory posits that trees can communicate and exchange resources with one another via common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) of fungi.<br/>* Ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard first suggested this theory in 1997.<br/>* She described trees as "super-cooperators."<br/>* In the 2022 study "The Decay of the Wood-Wide Web?," mycologist Dr. Justine Karst and colleagues evaluated dozens of CMN studies.<br/>* They write that CMNs "have captured the interest of broad audiences. We are concerned, however, that recent claims about CMNs in forests are disconnected from evidence."<br/><br/>The student wants to use a quotation to emphasize a potential problem with the wood-wide web theory. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?<br/><br/>* Describing trees as "super-cooperators," Simard first suggested that trees can exchange resources with one another in 1997.<br/>* In "The Decay of the Wood-Wide Web?," Karst and colleagues note that common mycorrhizal networks "have captured the interest of broad audiences."<br/>* After evaluating dozens of CMN studies, Karst and colleagues expressed concern that recent claims about common mycorrhizal networks are "disconnected from evidence."<br/>* Despite the concerns expressed in the 2022 study "The Decay of the Wood-Wide Web?," the wood-wide web theory remains popular.$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Wool is a natural--and economically important--fiber that is obtained from animals like sheep.<br/>* Australia is a leading producer of wool.<br/>* The thickness of wool fibers varies across sheep breeds.<br/>* Merino sheep produce fine wool that is used for apparel.<br/>* Rambouillet sheep produce fine wool that is used for apparel.<br/>* Romney sheep produce thick wool that is used for rugs and blankets.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize how Romney wool differs from Merino and Rambouillet wool. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Shaun Tan is an Australian author.<br/>* In 2008, he published Tales from Outer Suburbia, a book of fifteen short stories.<br/>* The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhoods.<br/>* In 2018, he published Tales from the Inner City, a book of twenty-five short stories.<br/>* The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary urban settings.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two books by Shaun Tan. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* The Gullah are a group of African Americans who have lived in parts of the southeastern United States since the 18th century.<br/>* Gullah culture is influenced by West African and Central African traditions.<br/>* Louise Miller Cohen is a Gullah historian, storyteller, and preservationist.<br/>* She founded the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in 2003.<br/>* Vermelle Rodrigues is a Gullah historian, artist, and preservationist.<br/>* She founded the Gullah Museum of Georgetown, South Carolina, in 2003.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the duration and purpose of Cohen's and Rodrigues's work. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$Magnetic levitation (maglev) trains are suspended above a track by powerful electromagnets, reducing friction and thus allowing for much faster speeds. Though maglev advocates in the US have long imagined these trains crisscrossing the country, their dream remains unrealized. In fact, of the handful of maglev trains currently in operation, all are in Asia.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: * In 1851, German American artist Emanuel Leutze painted Washington Crossing the Delaware. * His huge painting (149 x 255 inches) depicts the first US president crossing a river with soldiers in the Revolutionary War. * In 2019, Cree artist Kent Monkman painted mistikosiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People. * Monkman's huge painting (132 x 264 inches) was inspired by Leutze's. * It portrays Indigenous people in a boat rescuing refugees. The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two paintings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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A:

Monkman, a Cree artist, finished his painting in 2019; Leutze, a German American artist, completed his in 1851.

B:

Although Monkman's painting was inspired by Leutze's, the people and actions the two paintings portray are very different.

C:

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia.<br/>* The city's population is 907,802.<br/>* Ulaanbaatar contains 31.98 percent of Mongolia's population.<br/>* Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam.<br/>* The city's population is 7,781,631.<br/>* Hanoi contains 8.14 percent of Vietnam's population.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the relative sizes of the two capitals' populations. Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the relative sizes of the two capitals' populations?

D:

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* In the early 1960s, the US had a strict national-origins quota system for immigrants.<br/>* The number of new immigrants allowed from a country each year was based on how many people from that country lived in the US in 1890.<br/>* This system favored immigrants from northern Europe.<br/>* Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.<br/>* The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system.<br/><br/>The student wants to present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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