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The Reading and Writing Section
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$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations.<br/>* Surface-dwelling tetras live on the surface and are able to see.<br/>* Cave-dwelling tetras live in total darkness and have lost the ability to see.<br/>* Cave-dwelling tetras have asymmetrical skulls with more sensory receptors on one side than the other.<br/>* These receptors help cave-dwelling tetras navigate in darkness.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize a difference between surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first Arabic poet to write in free verse, didn't reject traditional forms entirely; ________ her poem "Elegy for a Woman of No Importance" consists of two ten-line stanzas and a standard number of syllables. Even in this superficially traditional work, Al-Malaika was breaking new ground by memorializing an anonymous woman rather than a famous man.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$A 2017 study of sign language learners tested the role of iconicity--the similarity of a sign to the thing it represents--in language acquisition. The study found that the greater the iconicity of a sign, the more likely it was to have been learned. ________, the correlation between acquisition and iconicity was lower than that between acquisition and another factor studied: sign frequency.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* A thermal inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of atmosphere is warmer than the layer beneath it.<br/>* In 2022, a team of researchers studied the presence of thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants.<br/>* Gas giants are planets largely composed of helium and hydrogen.<br/>* The team found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals.<br/>* One explanation for this relationship is that these metals may reside in a planet's upper atmosphere, where their absorbed heat causes an increase in temperature.<br/><br/>The student wants to present the study's findings to an audience already familiar with thermal inversions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$Establishing Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is no easy task. Each month, readings of a single second from atomic clocks around the world are taken and sent to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in France.<br/><br/>_________ BIPM metrologists perform the meticulous work of assembling these minutely disparate readings into a globally shared time standard.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* NASA uses rovers, large remote vehicles with wheels, to explore the surface of Mars.<br/>* NASA's rovers can't explore regions inaccessible to wheeled vehicles.<br/>* Rovers are also heavy, making them difficult to land on the planet's surface.<br/>* Microprobes, robotic probes that weigh as little as 50 milligrams, could be deployed virtually anywhere on the surface of Mars.<br/>* Microprobes have been proposed as an alternative to rovers.<br/><br/>The student wants to explain an advantage of microprobes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* When medical students mention their patients on social media, they may violate patient confidentiality.<br/>* Terry Kind led a study to determine how many medical schools have student policies that mention social media use.<br/>* Kind and her team reviewed 132 medical school websites, examining publicly available student policies.<br/>* Only thirteen medical schools had guidelines that explicitly mention social media, and only five defined what constitutes acceptable social media use.<br/><br/>The student wants to emphasize the study's methodology. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* A marathon is a long-distance running race that is 26.2 miles long.<br/>* An ultramarathon is a long-distance running race of more than 26.2 miles.<br/>* The Kepler Challenge is a one-day, 37.3-mile ultramarathon in New Zealand.<br/>* The Spreelauf is a six-day, 261-mile ultramarathon in Germany.<br/><br/>The student wants to make a generalization about ultramarathons. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* A commodity chain is the series of links connecting the production and purchase of a commodity on the world market.<br/>* Chinese American anthropologist Anna Tsing studies the contemporary commodity chain of matsutake mushrooms.<br/>* At one end of the matsutake chain are mushroom pickers in Oregon.<br/>* At the other end are wealthy consumers who buy the costly matsutake in Japan.<br/>* According to Tsing, "Japanese traders began importing matsutake in the 1980s, when the scarcity of matsutake in Japan first became clear."<br/><br/>The student wants to provide an overview of the matsutake commodity chain. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* The Sasanian Empire lasted about 400 years (AD 224 to AD 651).<br/>* The Sasanians controlled an area spanning 1.4 million square miles.<br/>* This area included present-day Iran and Iraq.<br/>* The empire's capital was the ancient city of Ctesiphon.<br/>* Ctesiphon was located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq.<br/><br/>The student wants to specify the location of Ctesiphon. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Archaeologist Jon Erlandson and colleagues argue that humans first arrived in the Americas by sea.<br/>* They propose that humans traveled between Pacific Ocean islands and coastlines from northeast Asia to the Americas.<br/>* Many of these islands and coastal zones were later submerged as glaciers melted and sea levels rose.<br/>* The researchers think that "a coastal route, including kelp forests and estuaries, would have provided a rich mix of marine, estuarine, riverine, and terrestrial resources" such as seaweeds, fish, and birds.<br/>* This proposed scenario is known as the kelp highway hypothesis.<br/><br/>The student wants to summarize the kelp highway hypothesis. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* From Earth, all the meteors in a meteor shower appear to originate from a single spot in the sky.<br/>* This spot is called the meteor shower's radiant.<br/>* The Perseid meteor shower is visible in the northern hemisphere in July and August.<br/>* Like many meteor showers, it is named for the location of its radiant.<br/>* Its radiant is located within the constellation Perseus.<br/><br/>The student wants to explain the origin of the Perseid meteor shower's name. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$
$While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:<br/><br/>* Physicist Muluneh Abebe was working on a garment suited for both warm and cold conditions.<br/>* He analyzed the emissivity, or ability to emit heat, of the materials he planned to use.<br/>* Abebe found that reflective metal fibers emitted almost no heat and had an emissivity of 0.02.<br/>* He found that silicon carbide fibers absorbed large amounts of heat and had an emissivity of 0.74.<br/>* The amount of heat a material absorbs is equal to the amount of heat it emits.<br/><br/>The student wants to contrast the emissivity of reflective metal fibers with that of silicon carbide fibers. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?$

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: * Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations. * Surface-dwelling tetras live on the surface and are able to see. * Cave-dwelling tetras live in total darkness and have lost the ability to see. * Cave-dwelling tetras have asymmetrical skulls with more sensory receptors on one side than the other. * These receptors help cave-dwelling tetras navigate in darkness. The student wants to emphasize a difference between surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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A:

Surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras may belong to the same species, but they are quite different.

B:

Cave-dwelling tetras can no longer see but use sensory receptors on their skulls to navigate.

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Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first Arabic poet to write in free verse, didn't reject traditional forms entirely; ________ her poem "Elegy for a Woman of No Importance" consists of two ten-line stanzas and a standard number of syllables. Even in this superficially traditional work, Al-Malaika was breaking new ground by memorializing an anonymous woman rather than a famous man.<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:<br/><br/>* A thermal inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of atmosphere is warmer than the layer beneath it.<br/>* In 2022, a team of researchers studied the presence of thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants.<br/>* Gas giants are planets largely composed of helium and hydrogen.<br/>* The team found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals.<br/>* One explanation for this relationship is that these metals may reside in a planet's upper atmosphere, where their absorbed heat causes an increase in temperature.<br/><br/>The student wants to present the study's findings to an audience already familiar with thermal inversions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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