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Standard English Conventions

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$Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world's most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which ________ of the harder and heavier regulation football.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$Formed in 1967 to foster political and economic stability within the Asia-Pacific region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was originally made up of five members: Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. By the end of the 1990s, the organization ________ its initial membership.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$Atoms in a synchrotron, a type of circular particle accelerator, travel faster and faster until they ________ a desired energy level, at which point they are diverted to collide with a target, smashing the atoms.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$the Sherpas pack up their telescopes and ________ ready.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$Emperor penguins don't waddle out of the ocean. They launch themselves at such a high speed that they travel up to two meters before landing. How ________ A layer of microbubbles on their plumage reduces friction as the penguins speed to the surface.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$Beatrix Potter is perhaps best known for writing and illustrating children's books such as _The Tale of Peter Rabbit_ (1902), but she also dedicated herself to mycology, the study of ________ more than 350 paintings of the fungal species she observed in nature and submitting her research on spore germination to the Linnean Society of London.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$Farouk El-Baz, a geologist and space scientist, ________ part of the team that selected the lunar landing sites for the Apollo program during the 1960s and 1970s.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$In the 1970s, Janaki Ammal, a prominent botanist, emerged as a powerful voice in India's environmental conservation movement. Her exhaustive chromosomal survey of plants in Silent Valley, a pristine tropical forest in Kerala, India, that is home to nearly 1,000 species of native flora (many of which are endangered), ________ instrumental in the government's decision to preserve the forest.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$In addition to advocating for South America's independence in two political treatises, the _Cartagena Manifesto_ and the _Letter from Jamaica_, Simon Bolivar personally led armies against the Spanish, liberating three South American territories--New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Quito (present-day ________ from colonial rule.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$In a 2016 study, Eastern Washington University psychologist Amani El-Alayli found that, among the study participants who experienced frisson (a physiological response akin to goosebumps or getting the chills) while listening to music, there was one personality trait that they scored particularly high on - openness to experience.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$You ________ more about obsidian's structure, which is classified as amorphous, in a later chapter.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$The artistic talents of Barbara Chase-Riboud, most known for her 1979 historical novel _Sally Hemings_ and the conversation it inspired, ________ limited to the realm of prose: she first excelled in sculpture, where her affinity for bronze--a material she described as "timeless" due to its use across eras and cultures--became part of her artistic identity.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$He is known for enforcing a moral code called the Law of Piety, which established the sanctity of animal ________ the just treatment of the elderly, and the abolition of the slave trade.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$
$On July 23, 1854, a clipper ship called the _Flying Cloud_ left New York Harbor under the guidance of Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy and his wife, navigator Eleanor Creesy. Having entered San Francisco Bay a mere 89 days and 8 hours earlier, the celebrated ship set a record that would stand for 135 years.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?$

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Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world's most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which ________ of the harder and heavier regulation football. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world's most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which ________ of the harder and heavier regulation football.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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