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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?

Difficulty: Medium

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

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

Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations: surface-dwelling tetras and cave-dwelling tetras.

Surface-dwelling tetras can see, whereas cave-dwelling tetras cannot.

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. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Difficulty: Hard

therefore,

in fact,

moreover,

though,

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. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Difficulty: Hard

In fact,

In other words,

Granted,

As a result,

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: * A thermal inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of atmosphere is warmer than the layer beneath it. * In 2022, a team of researchers studied the presence of thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants. * Gas giants are planets largely composed of helium and hydrogen. * The team found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals. * 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. 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?

Difficulty: Hard

Heat-absorbing metals may reside in a planet's upper atmosphere.

The team studied thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants, which are largely composed of helium and hydrogen.

Researchers found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were likely to contain heat-absorbing metals, which may reside in the planets' upper atmospheres.

Gas giants were likely to contain heat-absorbing metals when they featured a layer of atmosphere warmer than the layer beneath it, researchers found; this phenomenon is known as a thermal inversion.

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._________ BIPM metrologists perform the meticulous work of assembling these minutely disparate readings into a globally shared time standard. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Difficulty: Medium

There,

In particular,

For example,

Conversely,

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