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$The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare's 1609 poem "Sonnet 27." The poem is addressed to a close friend as if he were physically present.<br/><br/>Weary with toil, I [hurry] to my bed,<br/><br/>The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;<br/><br/>But then begins a journey in my head<br/><br/>To work my mind, when body's work's expired:<br/><br/>For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--<br/><br/>[Begin] a zealous pilgrimage to thee,<br/><br/>And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,<br/><br/>What is the main idea of the text?$
$\({}^{a}\)The Poet Walt Whitman\({}^{a}\) is an 1887 essay by Jose Marti, a Cuban author and political activist, originally written in Spanish. In the essay, Marti explores the value of literature, arguing that a society's spiritual well-being depends on the character of its literary culture:<br/><br/>Which quotation from a translation of "The Poet Walt Whitman" most effectively illustrates the claim?$
$The following text is adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. Bill is a sailor staying at the Admiral Benbow, an inn run by the narrator's parents.<br/><br/>Every day when [Bill] came back from his stroll he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the road. At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question, but at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did [stay] at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.<br/><br/>According to the text, why does Bill regularly ask about "seafaring men"?$
$in 2019, 20 previously unknown moons were confirmed to be orbiting Saturn. Three of the moons have prograde orbits (orbiting in the direction the planet spins), and the other 17 have retrograde orbits (orbiting in the opposite direction of the planet's spin). All but one of the 20 moons are thought to be remnants of bodies that orbited Saturn until they broke apart in collisions. Although the one exceptional moon orbits in the same direction as the planet's spin, its orbit is highly eccentric compared to the rest, which may suggest that it has a different origin than the other 19 moons.<br/><br/>Based on the text, which choice best describes the moon with the eccentric orbit?$
$_The Post Office is a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore, originally written in Bengali. The character Amal is a young boy who imagines that the people he sees passing the window of his home are carefree even when engaged in work or chores, as is evident when he says to the daughter of a flower seller,<br/><br/>Which quotation from The Post Office most effectively illustrates the claim?$
$The following text is adapted from Guy de Maupassant's nineteenth-century short story "The Trip of Le Horla" (translated by Albert M. C. McMaster,$
$Which choice best describes data from the table that support Rodriguez and colleagues' assertion?$
$Jan Gimsa, Robert Sleigh, and Ulrike Gimsa have hypothesized that the sail-like structure running down the back of the dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus improved the animal's success in underwater pursuits of prey species capable of making quick, evasive movements. To evaluate their hypothesis, a second team of researchers constructed two battery-powered mechanical models of S. aegyptiacus, one with a sail and one without, and subjected the models to a series of identical tests in a water-filled tank.<br/><br/>Which finding from the model tests, if true, would most strongly support Gimsa and colleagues' hypothesis?$
$The following text is from Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel Funny Boy. The seven-year-old narrator lives with his family in Sri Lanka. Radha Aunty is the narrator's aunt.<br/><br/>Radha Aunty, who was the youngest in my father's family, had left for America four years ago when \(|\) was three, and \(|\) could not remember what she looked like. \(|\) went into the corridor to look at the family photographs that were hung there. But all the pictures were old ones, taken when Radha Aunty was a baby or young girl. Try as \(|\) might, \(|\) couldn't get an idea of what she looked like now. My imagination, however, was quick to fill in this void.<br/><br/>@1994 by Shyam Selvadurai.<br/><br/>According to the text, why does the narrator consult some family photographs?$
$Henry Ossawa Tanner's 1893 painting The Banjo Lesson, which depicts an elderly man teaching a boy to play the banjo, is regarded as a landmark in the history of works by Black artists in the United States. Scholars should be cautious when ascribing political or ideological values to the painting, however: beliefs and assumptions that are commonly held now may have been unfamiliar to Tanner and his contemporaries, and vice versa. Scholars who forget this fact when discussing The Banjo Lesson therefore<br/><br/>Which choice most logically completes the text?$
$"The Young Girl" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. In the story, the narrator takes an unnamed seventeen-year-old girl and her younger brother out for a meal. In describing the teenager, Mansfield frequently contrasts the character's pleasant appearance with her unpleasant attitude, as when Mansfield writes of the teenager,<br/><br/>Which quotation from "The Young Girl" most effectively illustrates the claim?$
$A student is writing a paper about One Night in Miami..., a 2020 film directed by Regina King and written by Kemp Powers. Powers adapted the film's screenplay from his 2013 play, which he wrote after learning about a 1964 meeting that took place in Miami, Florida, between four prominent figures of the Civil Rights movement: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke. The student claims that although Powers was inspired by this meeting, the film is best understood not as a precise retelling of historical events but rather as a largely imagined but informed representation of them.<br/><br/>Which quotation from an article about One Night in Miami... would be the most effective evidence for the student to include in support of this claim?$
$In many cultures, a handshake can create trust between people. Engineer Joao Avelino and his team are designing a robot to shake hands with a human in order to improve human-robot interactions. The robot hand adjusts its movements and pressure to better imitate the feel of a human hand. The researchers want the robot's handshake to feel realistic because<br/><br/>Which choice most logically completes the text?$
$In a study of the cognitive abilities of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator), researchers neglected to control for the physical difficulty of the tasks they used to evaluate the monkeys. The cognitive abilities of monkeys given problems requiring little dexterity, such as sliding a panel to retrieve food, were judged by the same criteria as were those of monkeys given physically demanding problems, such as unscrewing a bottle and inserting a straw. The results of the study, therefore,<br/><br/>Which choice most logically completes the text?$
$"To You" is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that he deeply understands the reader, whom he addresses directly, writing, ______ Which quotation from "To You" most effectively illustrates the claim?$

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The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare's 1609 poem "Sonnet 27." The poem is addressed to a close friend as if he were physically present. Weary with toil, I [hurry] to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expired: For then my thoughts--from far where I abide-- [Begin] a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, What is the main idea of the text?

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The speaker is asleep and dreaming about traveling to see the friend.

B:

The speaker is planning an upcoming trip to the friend's house.

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The speaker is too fatigued to continue a discussion with the friend.

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The speaker is thinking about the friend instead of immediately falling asleep.

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