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 Reading and Writing (Test RT.10.23.V1)
27 QUESTIONS

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DIRECTIONS

The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).

All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.

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British painter Peter Edwards has a _____ painting Ji-JI Jiang’s book Red Kite, Blue Kite has earned a lot of
portraits of notable figures from a variety of different praise. In fact, the book _____ the Asian/Pacific
fields. These characteristic works includes his esteemed American Award for Literature.
portraits of poet Seamus Heaney and casting director
Ruth Lambert. Which choice completes the text with the most logical
and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
A) guessed
precise word or phrase?
B) blamed
A) reputation for
C) received
B) requirement for
D) forgot
C) complaint about
D) question about

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The equipment from the Apollo Moon landings (1969- One way to ____ the importance of a scholar’s research
1972), such as solar-wind sensors and seismic sensors, is to track how often other scholars refer to that
remains there to this day, but the data from these research. For example, University of California-
missions were mostly inaccessible until a recent data- Berkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier, who studies
transfer project made them _____. This project has allowed behavioral economics, is among the world’s most
researcher Renee Weber to make use of the information frequently cited researchers in her field, indicating that
in investigating tectonic activity on the Moon. her work has been quite significant.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and Which choice completes the text with the most logical
precise word or phrase? and precise word or phrase?
A) complicated A) assess
B) representative B) utilize
C) available C) influence
D) predictable D) undermine

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Horizontal gene transfer involves the exchange of genetic Text 1

material between organisms not in a parent-offspring In 2019 Bergamo, Italy, was named a city of
relationship. It is commong among prokaryotes (single- Gastronomy by UNESCO in recognition of the city’s
celled organisms, such as the bacteria Carnobacterium unique food culture. The honor is well known among
viridans and Lactococcus lactis). The process can have the both residents of the city and tourists who visit. It’s
effect of increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics; as obvious that the selection of Bergamo by UNESCO has
such, an understanding of how to prevent horizontal gene brought awareness to the local recipes, cooking
transfer might result in the mitigation of dangerous practices, and chefs and has provided a boost to the
pathogens (organisms that cause disease). city’s tourism industry.

Which choice best states the overall structure of the text? Text 2
Many residents of Bergano hoped that food tourism
A) It provides a history of research into a biological
would increase after the city was chosen as a City of
process and suggests a direction for further
Gastronomy in 2019. However, as researcher Eerang
investigation.
Park and colleagues argue, cities must still create
B) It explains why an organism poses a threat and then
effective marketing strategies to benefit fully from
suggests how that threat might be avoided.
being named a City of Gastronomy. Without an
C) It depicts two organisms and presents their
intentional effort to promote the city’s food scene,
similarities and differences.
many current and potential visitors to Bergano may not
D) It describes a biological process and explains why
even be aware that it’s home to uniquely delicious food.
researching it is important.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2
most likely respond to the underlined claim in Text 1?
A) By arguing that UNECO’s recognition of Bergamo
was well deserved because of the city’s delicious
food
B) By suggesting that Bergamo’s status as a City of
Gastronomy may not be well known outside of Italy
C) By noting that there are other benefits to being
named a City of Gastronomy besides increased
tourism
D) By claiming that Bergamo’s chefs were mainly
responsible for the city’s recognition by UNESCO

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Known for the albums Quiet Nights and Milestones, jazz The following text is adapted from Daniel Defoe’s 1704
trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated several times with nonfiction book The Storm.
pianist Gil Evans. Their 1958 adaptation of George
Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess bears little resemblance The sermon is a sound of words spoken to the ear, and
to the 1935 original. Davis and Evans felt no desire to prepared only for present meditation, and extends no
please listeners expecting an exact duplication of the farther than the strength of memory can can convey it;
opera. They omitted parts, such as the aria “I Got Plenty of a book printed is a record, remaining in every man’s
Nuthin’,” and sometimes made only brief gestures toward possesion, always ready to renew its acquaintance with
Gershwin’s melodies. But Davis and Evan’s willingness to his memory, and always ready to be produced as an
recompose Gershwin’s work led to one of the most authority or voucher to any reports he makes out of it,
enduring albums in Davis’ s catalog. and conveys its contents for ages to come, to the
eternity of mortal time, when the author is forgotten in
According to the text, what is true about the aria “I Got his grave.
Plenty of Nuthin’”?
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A) It appears in the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess but
not in the adaptation by Davis and Evans. A) Words committed to print have a greater
B) A brief quotation from it appears in Davis and Evan’s permanence than messages that are merely spoken
adaptation of Porgy and Bess. aloud.
C) Listeners familiar with Gershwin’s body of work B) People are less likely to forget a message when they
generally disliked it. hear it spoken aloud than they are when they read it
D) It was adapted by Davis in a recording that appears in print.
on his album Milestones. C) Unless a spoken message is delivered by an expert,
it can be safely ignored.
D) Most authors have little hope of being remembered
well past their lifetimes.

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Scientists collected information about brown bears in Katmal National Park in Alaska. This information included each bear’s
sex, age, and approximate weight. The bear with the lowest approximate weight shown in the table was a _______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?

A) female that was 13 years old.

B) female that was 6 years old.
C) male that was 10 years old.
D) male that was 3 years old.

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Lin-Tai Ho and colleagues tracked fish populations in three tide pool-monitoring stations in Taiwan from 1999 to 2018. The
streaky rockshipper was especially common at station 3: there, the researchers counted ____________

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the assertion?

A) 90 streaky rockshippers.
B) 610 streaky rockshippers.
C) 125 streaky rockshippers.
D) 249 streaky rockshippers.

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Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer. In one portion of A student is writing a research paper on the history of
the novel, Toomer uses figurative language to connect the irrigation in the southwestern United States, situating
narrator’s urban environment of Washington, DC, and the the development of Lake Sabrina (a man-made body of
rural South of the narrator’s past, writing, ______ water created in Inyo County, California, in 1908) in a
larger historical context. In order to emphasize
Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrates irrigation’s importance, the student claims that
the claim? irrigation is humanity’s principal use of water.
A) “And when the wind is from the South, soil of my
Which quotation from a study of irrigation best
homeland falls like a fertile shower upon the lean
supports the student’s claim?
streets of [Washington, DC].”
B) “The young trees had not outgrown their [planter] A) “The first known irrigation system was built in the
boxes then. V Street [in Washington, DC] was lined 7th century CE by the Hohokam people, a Native
with them.” population in the American Southwest that
C) “The Capitol dome looked like a gray ghost ship inhabited centra Arizona.”
drifting in from sea.” B) “Roughly 70% of the world’s water withdrawals
D) “The [train] engines of this valley have a whistle, the from sources such as rivers, lakes, and aquifers, is
echoes of which sound like iterated gasps and sobs. I for irrigation water used to meet various
always think of them as crude music.” agricultural demands.”
C) “Today, many areas of the southwestern United
States utilize sprinkler irrigation systems, which
require machinery that can spray water in all
directions.”
D) “The irrigation system developed by the Hohokam
people in the 7th century CE in what is now known
as central Arizona was simple but applied hydraulic
engineering design features that are still used
today.”

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Buried The Arapaho langauge of the Plains region in the MISSING

United States has 16 vowel and consonant sounds. In
contrast, the Hadza language of eatern Africa has 70. Which choice most logically completes the text?
Why would languages differ in this way? One researcher
A) MISSING
has hypothesized that when modern humans arose in
Africa, they spoke a single language, but as humans B) MISSING
gradually spread throughout Africa and then around the C) MISSING
globe, that language developed into new languages. D) MISSING
Those developed into still more languages as small
bands spread even farther, with each new language
retaining fewer sounds from humanity’s original
language.

Which finding, if true, would best support the

researcher’s hypothesis?
A) Languages that emerged in northwestern North
America tend to have more sounds than languages
that emerged in East Asia do, even though
northwestern North America is farther away from
Africa than East Asia is.
B) Languages that emerged in Eastern Europe tend to
have more sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, and Eastern Europe is closer to Africa
than East Asia is.
C) Languages that emerged in Western Europe tend to
have fewer sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, and Western Europe is closer to Africa
than East Asia is.
D) Languages that emerged in Southeast Asia tend to
have more sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, even though the two regions are
roughly the same distance from Africa.

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MISSING In 2014, actor Keith David voiced the character Old

Buzzard in the film Birds of Paradise. David has acted
Which choice most logically completes the text? in everything from commercials to Broadway musicals,
but his voice acting work is why ______
A) MISSING
B) MISSING Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
C) MISSING the conventions of Standard English?
D) MISSING A) has he become such a celebrated talent?
B) has he become such a celebrated talent.
C) he has become such a celebrated talent?
D) he has become such a celebrated talent.

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Ann Greely of Maine ______ a fierce advocate of women’s The city of Quito in Ecuador _____ one of the rare places
voting rights in the late 1800s. The dedication of Greely in the world located almost directly on the equator.
and her fellow activists was rewarded in 1920, when the
Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guaranteed Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
American women the right to vote. the conventions of Standard English?
A) is
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
B) have been
conventions of Standard English?
C) are
A) was
D) are being
B) were
C) have been
D) were

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On February 1, 2018, Florida-based researchers Martha To study the ultrafast movements of atoms, chemist
A.Scholl, Maoya Bassiouni, and Angel J. Torres-Sanchez Ahmed Zewail had to devise a novel spectroscopy
compiled climate data from several sites in Puerto Rico’s technique capable of measuring chemical reactions
Luquillo Mountains. At CC1, the site with the highest _____ within molecules at a quadrillionth of a second.
elevation, the air temperature fluctuated slightly Ultimately, Zewail succeeded and was eventually
throughout the day, _____ 11:00 a.m. to 16.2 degree Celsius honored with the Robert A. Welch Award and the
at 7:00 p.m. Albert Einstein World Award of Science for this
groundbreaking achievement.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to
the conventions of Standard English?
A) from, 18.4 degree Celsius at
A) occurred
B) from, 18.4 degree Celsius at,
B) occurring
C) from 18.4 degree Celsius at
C) occur
D) from: 18.4 degree Celsius at,
D) will occur

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Many experts, like lawyers and cycling advocate Ernesto When using hairy coneflower for dyeing cloth, textile
Hernandez-Lopez, have proposed bike travel as one artists first soak it in water to release its color. Next,
possible way to alleviate congestion on the busy roadways they add the cloth to the dye bath and simmer it for
of Los Angeles County, California. Indeed, local bicycle hours, perhaps even days. ______ they remove the cloth
paths like the Harbor Park bicycle _____ have become an from the dyebath, revealing that the cloth has turned a
increasingly popular means of travel for commuter and vibrant blue color.
recreational trips alike.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the transition?
conventions of Standard English?
A) Finally,
A) path, which is about 0.38 miles long B) However,
B) path which is about 0.38 miles long C) Therefore,
C) path which is about 0.38 miles long, D) Actually,
D) path, which is about 0.38 miles long,

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Though Middle English was widely spoken in While researching a topic, a student has taken the
fourteenth-century England, the English language was following notes:
rarely employed in literature until poet Geoffrey
Chaucer pioneered its literary use. _____ his manuscripts - Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) made about 1,000
contain the first documented uses of over 2,000 English violins in his lifetime.
words – like the word “conspiracy” in his 1386 poem
“The Monk’s Tale” – which led a contemporary to dub - Musicians prize his Stradivarius violins for their
him “the first finder of our fair language.” famed sound quality.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical - Many of the 500 or so that exist today are named
transition? for a previous owner.

A) Besides, - The Leonora Jackson Stradivarius is named for

B) However, Leonora, an American violinist.
C) On the contrary,
Which choice most effectively uses information from
D) In fact, the given sentences to emphasize why Stradivarius
violins are prized by musicians?
A) Many Stradivarius violins, like the Leonora
Jackson, get their name from a former owner.
B) Among musicians, violins made by Antonio
Stradivari are renowned for their sound quality.
C) Antonio Stradivari, a famous violin maker, lived
from 1644 to 1737.
D) Leonora Jackson was an American violinist who
once owned a Stradivarius violin.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes: following notes:

- Gianpaolo Bellini is an Italian particle physicist. - Hina Hanta is an online archive curated by the
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
- Particle physicists study subatomic particles. -
Neutrinos are some of the least understood subatomic - It features images of cultural artifacts relevant to
particles. the history of the Choctaw people.

- Neutrinos were first discovered in the mid-twentieth - It features a spoon (ivpish ishtimpa in Choctaw)
century. made of buffalo horn.

- Bellini is known for his research on solar and - The spoon was made in 1800.
geoneutrinos.
- Hina Hanta features a purse (shukcha in Choctaw)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the made of beaded leather.
given sentences to specify Bellini’s role in neutrino
research? - The purse was made in 1949.

A) Particle physicist Gianpaolo Bellini has worked to The student wants to emphasize a similarity between
advance the scientific understanding of neutrinos the two artifacts. Whice choice most effectively uses
through his research on solar and geoneutrinos. relevant information from the noes to accomplish this
B) Neutrinos are a type of subatomic particle that goal?
particle physicists are still trying to understand.
C) First discovered in the mid-twentieth century, A) The buffalo horn spoon (ivpish ishtimpa in
neutrinos are a type of subatomic particle. Choctaw) is featured in the Hina Hanta archive.
D) Gianpaolo Bellini is recognized for his particle B) Featured in the Hina Hanta archive, the buffalo
physics research. horn spoon and the beaded leather purse are
both cultural artifacts relevant to the history of
the Choctaw people.
C) Not all artifacts in the Hina Hanta archive are
from the 1800s; indeed, the beaded leather purse
is from 1949.
D) There are more recent artifacts in the Hina Hanta
archive than the buffalo horn spoon from 1800.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the

following notes:

- At London and New York Fashion Weeks, fashion

designers debut new clothing collections.

- Color consultants create trend reports on the popular

colors at a given Fashion Week.

- A report on 2018 London Fashion Week noted the

popularity of an imaginative purple shade that was cool
in tone and bright in intensity.

- A report on 2019 New York Fashion Week noted the

popularity of a deep red shade that was warm in tone
and rich in intensity.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the

given sentences to explain the role of color consultants at
Fashion Week?
A) A shade of imaginative purple was an on-trend
addition to one color consultant’s report on 2018
London Fashion Week.
B) A color consultant report on 2019 New York Fashion
Week highlighted the popularity of a deep red shade.
C) At Fashion Weeks in 2018 and 2019, shades favored
by designers included an imaginative purple and a
deep red.
D) Each Fashion Week, color consultants compile
reports on the shades that have proved popular with
fashion designers.

STOP
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