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Reading and Writing

33 QUESTIONS

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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The following text is adapted from Anton Chekhov's Indigenous Photograph is an organization whose
1904 play The Cherry Orchard (translated by Julius mission is to ensure that images of indigenous
West in 1916). peoples in the media are presented from
indigenous perspectives. The organization _ this
TROFIMOV: Believe me, Anya, believe me! I'm commitment by promoting the works of artist
not thirty yet, I'm young. I'm still a student, but I Geremew Tigabu (Ethiopian, Amhara, and Tigre)
have undergone a great deal! I'm as hungry as the and other prominent indigenous photographers
winter, I'm ill, I'm shaken....and where haven't I who document and reflect Indigenous lives and
been-fate has tossed me everywhere! experiences.

As used in the text, what does the word "undergone"

most nearly mean? Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) Neglected
A) concludes
B) Enjoyed
B) explains
C) Conveyed
C) precedes
D) Endured
D) shows

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Although fewer companies trade their stocks on the The swordfish can swim very fast-up to 97
Cambodia Securities Exchange in Phnom Penh, kilometers per hour (km/hr) —but it is
Cambodia, than on the stock exchanges in London, significantly slower than the frigatebird, which
Mumbai, or Tokyo, the Cambodia Securities can fly at speeds up to 153 km/hr. The difference
Exchange has the advantage of being able to __ between these speeds is largely__ of the fact that
relatively small companies in Cambodia: by the features that make flight possible do less to
connecting those companies to investors with limit top speeds than the features suitable for
expertise about the country's economic conditions, swimming through water.
the Cambodia Securities Exchange can help those
Which choice completes the text with the most
companies thrive.
logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most
A) a consequence
logical and precise word or phrase?
B) an explanation
A) designate
C) a repudiation
B) nurture
D) an objective
C) preclude
D) assess
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The emphasis on accurately representing the President Richard Nixon is most famous for his
experiences of average working people that is participation in the 1970s Watergate political
characteristic of the realist style can be seen in The scandal, a convoluted tale of criminality and eroded
Gleaners, painted by Jean-Francois Millet, which ethics involving a constellation of associates such as
depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field security operative Jack Caulfield and Attorney
after the harvest. This style can thus be seen as an General John Mitchell. But Nixon's legacy is
effort to _ what were regarded as the excesses of complex: he has been praised for his role in
the romantic style evident in many paintings by affirming the sovereignty of tribal nations, and he
Horace Vernet, which instead exaggerated their once made an attempt at reforming United States
subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all health care policy that is arguably a precursor to the
imperfection. Affordable Care Act, which became law during the
Barack Obama administration.
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase? Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A) understand
B) advance A) It presents an accomplishment of a historical
figure whose significance is detailed later in the
C) counteract
text.
D) accentuate
B) It describes a common perception of a historical
figure that is challenged by information
presented later in the text.
C) It states a claim about a historical figure that is
supported by evidence later in the text.
D) It compares the achievements of three historical
figures to a fourth that is mentioned later in the
text.

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In what is now Washington state, the Tulalip The museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York
Tribes operate the Hibulb Cultural Center. Relying City has an exhibition of video games that includes
on traditional knowledge to guide the design of Pac-Man from 1980, which museum visitors can
exhibits, this institution persents Tulalip history play on site, and SimCity 2000 from 1994, which
and culture to the tribes' citizens. The Comanche visitors can see only in a video presentation. MOMA
Nation, a tribe in Oklahoma, employs a similar claims the video presentations are only for games
strategy in its own cultural center. Both centers that would be impractical to display in a playable
contrast with museums that aren't Indigenous-led; form, but video games are an inherently interactive
when displaying Indigenous artifacts, such medium, a feature that is grossly absent in a video­
museums tend to anticipate mainly non­ only presentation.
Indigenous audiences and rely on Euro-centric
Which choice best describes the function of the
strategies for designing exhibits.
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Which choice best describes the function of the A) It identifies a feature of many video games that is
underlined sentence in the text as a whole? not shared by some of the games included in
MOMA's exhibition.
A) It suggests improvements to a particular tribal
B) It provides a claim about video games as art that
cultural center. both MOMA and the author accept as true.
B) It encourages tribal citizens to attend their local C) It describes a misconception about video games
cultural center. that the author believer is evident in MOMA's
C) It explains how one tribal cultural center differs choice about which video games to exhibit.
from other tribal cultural centers. D) It presents a consideration that the author thinks
partly undermines MOMA's approach to
D) It provides a basic description of a particular
exhibiting video games.
tribal cultural center.

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InO'odham, an Indigenous language from the Master and Commander, first published in 1969, is
Southwest region of what is now the United States, a novel in PatrickO'Brian's Aubrey Maturin series,
gogs means "a dog", whereas gogogs is used to refer which includes twenty completed books. Some
to several dogs. This phenomenon, in which an critics have found fault with the abrupt endings of
element of a root word is repeated, sometimes with Master and Commander and other books in the
modification, within another word that is related to series, saying that they do not finish conclusively
the root word, is called reduplication. In this case,the but arbitrarily stop. Other critics, however, argue
element "go" in gogs gets repeated in gogogs. There that the books should not be thought of as discrete
are many examples of this type of reduplication in texts with traditional beginnings and endings but as
O'odham. a single incredibly long work, similar to other
multivolume stories, such as John Galsworthy's The
The text makes which point about theO'odham
Forsyte Saga.
word gogogs?

A) It contains a repetition of the element "go" in Which choice best states the main purpose of the
gogs. text?
B) It doesn't have a clear equivalent in English.
C) It is the only word inO'odham that uses A) The unusual structure thatO'Brian uses for
reduplication. Master and Commander makes it one of his
most intricate books.
D) It is identical in meaning to several other words
inO'odham. B) Critics have differing views regarding the
efficacy of the structures of the novels in the
Aubrey Maturin series.
C) Some critics think the Aubrey/Maturin series
should have the literary
renown of The Forsyte Saga, while others
disagree.
D) Many critics judge the Aubrey/Maturin novels
to be remarkably
entertaining despite flaws in the novels'
structures.

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"The monster" is an 1898 story by Stephen Crane.
In the story, the character of Jim, a young boy,
accidentally damages a peony (a flower) in the yard
while his father is tending to the lawn. Crane
depicts the dedication and care with which his
father typically cares for his lawn, writing, __
Which quotation from "The Monster" most
effectively illustrates the claim?

A) "After some trouble [Jim's father] found the

subject of the incident, the broken flower.
Turning then,he saw the child lurking at the rear
and scanning his countenance."
B) "[Jim's father] was shaving this lawn as if it were
a priest's chin. All during the season he had In a college course on urban affairs, a student asserts
worked at it in the coolness and peace of the that increased traffic congestion in the 1990s in the
evenings after supper. Even in the shadow of the United States was present both in very large cities
cherry-trees the grass was strong and healthy." such as New York City, New York, and smaller areas
C) "[Jim's father] paused, and with the howl of the such as Allentown-Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and
machine no longer occupying the sense, one Beaumont, Texas; though those smaller areas may
could hear the robins in the cherry trees have been less affected by traffic congestion than
arranging their affairs." very large cities, this congestion also worsened in
them over time.
D) "[Jim] went on to the lawn, very slowly, and
kicking wretchedly at the turf. Presently his Which choice best describes data from the graph that
father came along with the whirring machine, support the student's claim?
while the sweet, new grass blades spun from the
knives." A) While the number of hours of traffic delay per
commuter per year was always lower in the
Allentown-Bethlehem, Pennsylvania area than in
the New York City, New York area for each year
between 1990 and 2000, the amount of traffic
delay rose in both areas during this period.
B) In at least one of the three urban areas shown,
the amount of traffic delay was less than 20 hours
per person per year at one point between 1990
and 2000.
C) In 1992, the amount of traffic delay in the New
York City, New York area was less than 20 hours
per commuter per year.
D) Throughout the period between 1990 and 200,
the annual amount of traffic delay per commuter
was greater in the Allentown-Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania area than in the New York City,
New York area.

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Biologist Rosanna Alegado believes that we might Missing the question
learn how multicellular organisms developed from
single-celled ones if we understand why the single­
celled organism Salpingoeca rosetta, the oldest living
relative of animals, sometimes forms colonies of
cells. Alegado and colleagues reviewed data from
many studies of how S, rosetta responds when
exposed to another type of single-celled organism,
bacteria, including John P. Bowman's work with
Algoriphagus ratkowskyi bacteria and Iftikhar
Ahmed's work with Algoriphagus boritolerans
bacteria. Alegado and colleagues concluded that
both A, ratkowskyi and A, boritolerans might have
played a role in the development of multicellular
organisms.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support

Alegado and colleagues' conclusion?

A) Bowman and Ahmed found that S. rosetta

tended to form colonies after bacterial
exposure.
B) Bowman found that S. rosetta tended to form
colonies after bacterial exposure,but Ahmed did
not.
C) Ahmed found that S rosetta tended to form
colonies after bacterial exposure, but Bowman
did not.
D) Neither Bowman nor Ahmed found that s
rosetta tended to form colonies after bacterial
exposure.

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Text 1 The following text is adapted from Adib Khorram's
2018 novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay. Darius, a
Attempts to automate classification of music into
teenager from the United States, is visiting his family
genres have not been very successful, and we may
members in Iran.
be at the limit of what is technologically possible.
But it's not clear that this is a worthwhile pursuit I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that
in any case--as Jin Ha Lee and Anh Thu Nguyen blew my way from the front seat of Dayi [Uncle]
argue in their study of the South Korean band Jamsheed's SUV.
BTS, relationships between pieces of music may It reminded me of when I was little, and Mom
be best understood with concepts other than chanted to me in Farsi every night before
genre. bedtime. It's hard to describe Farsi chanting: the
way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a
Text2 cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez I
Tango is a genre of music originally from didn't know what they meant, but that didn't
Argentina and Uruguay that shares some matter. It was quiet and soothing.
harmonic and rhythmic similarities with the
pagode genre. Automated genre classification ©2018 by Adib Khorram
systems typically struggle to draw distinctions in
situations like this, but Yandre Costa and Base on the text, what does the narrator mainly
colleagues solved that problem by converting remember about the times when his mother chanted
sound to images and having computers compare to him?
features of those images, an approach that
demonstrates how much innovation is possible in A) That he liked the characters in the stories his
this field. mother made up while chanting
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text B) That his mother had music playing in the
2 most likely respond to the claim in the background while she chanted
underline sentence of Text 1? C) That his mother didn't usually chant at night
D) That he found the sound of his mother's
A) By arguing that people tend to disagree chanting to be calming
when identifying genre classifications for
music
B) By suggesting that the concept of genre may
become more useful for music listeners
C) By criticizing previous research into
automated music genre classification for
favoring specific genre categories
D) By asserting that it may be possible to
improve automated classification systems

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The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, US Hydroelectric Power Plants, 2019
originally written in Spanish. In the novel, a group of Average power
soldiers travel through a canyon, where their Plant State Mode
generation(MWh/yr)
Water source

collective mood becomes strongly affected by the

Scanlon Minnesota run-of-river 7511 St. Louis River
strenuous conditions of their journey: __
Kansas River Kansas run-of-river 15345 Kansas River
Which quotation from a translation of The
Squa Pan Hydro Squa Pan
Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim? Station
Maine peaking 881
Stream
Caney Fork
Great Falls Tennessee peaking 124392
A) "The sierra is clad in gala colors. Over its River

inaccessible peaks the opalescent fog settles like a

snowy veil on the forehead of a bride." A run-of-river hydroelectric power plant, as the
B) "All day long [the soldiers] rode through the name suggests, uses the natural flow of a water
canyon, up and down the steep, round hills, dirty source to generate electricity but is unable to start
and bald as a man's head, hill after hill in endless or stop that flow through its generators. In
succession." contrast, a peaking hydroelectric power plant
C) "Then, hurriedly, [the soldiers] took the Juchipila
(used when demand for electricity peaks) controls
canyon northward, without halting to rest until
the flow of water through its generators: starting
nightfall."
D) "The sun, beating down upon [the soldiers], flow when demand is high enough, stopping it
dulled their minds and bodies and presently they when demand is too low, and otherwise
were silent." regulating it to keep pace with changing
electricity needs. Although peaking plants do not
typically operate continuously as run-of-river
plants do, peaking plants can generate more
megawatt-hours of power per year (MWh/yr)
than some run-of-river plants. For example, the

Which choice most effectively uses data from the

table to complete the example?

A) average power generated annually by the Great

Falls plant is higher than that generated by any of
the run-of-river plants in the table.
B) Scanlon plant, which is a run-of-river plant, has
more generators than any of the other plants in
the table.
C) run-of-river plant with the highest average
annual power generation in the table generates
more electricity than the peaking plant with the
highest annual power generation in the table.
D) average power generated annually by the Kansas
River plant is higher than that generated by the
Scanlon plant.

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The volume of a right rectangular prism with a
• If your answer is a fraction that doesn't fit in the
provided space, enter the decimal equivalent. square base is 2448 cubic centimeters. If the area of
the square base is 144 square centimeters, what is
• If your answer is a decimal that doesn't fit in the
the area, in square centimeters, of one of the four
provided space, enter it by truncating or rounding
at the fourth digit. lateral faces of the prism?

• If your answer is a mixed number (such as 3 2 ), A) 17

enter it as an improper fraction (7/2) or its decimal B) 204
equivalent(3.5). C) 540
• Don't enter symbols such as a percent D) 816
sign,comma, or dollar sign.

Answer Acceptable ways to Unacceptable: will

enter answer OT receive credit
3.5
3.5 3.50 31/2
2 3 1/2

2/3 0.66 m
2 .6666 .66
y= S(x-2)2
3 .6667 0.67
y=I0(x-2)
0.666 .67
0.667
A solution to the given system of equations is (x, y).
-.33 What is one possible value of x + y?
-1/3
3 -.3333 -0.33
-0.333 A) -20
B) 4
C) 20
(x - 3) - 8(y + 9) = 129
D) 24
(x - 3) + 8(y + 9) = 432

The solution to the given system of equations is

(x, y). What is the value of 8(x - 3)?

Answer:

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1 D C B D
2 D C D C
3 B C A B
4 C D A A
5 A A 40 A
6 B A D A
7 C D D A
8 D D A A
9 A C -19 19/4
10 B C 1/3 8
11 B D 21/250 2244
12 A A D B
13 A D D D
14 C D -11
15 D C 343 35
16 B B C 6
17 C A C D
18 A B 50 A
19 D C B A
20 B B D A
21 A C C C
22 A A 21/29 B
23 A C
24 B D
25 D D
26 B C
27 D A