1. In many cultures, a handshake can create trust between people. Engineer João 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 ______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

2. Hip-hop pedagogy is a form of teaching that’s gaining popularity across school subjects. It involves incorporating hip-hop and rap music into lessons as well as using hip-hop elements when teaching other subject matters. For example, Quan Neloms’s students look for college-level vocabulary and historical events in rap songs. Researchers claim that in addition to developing students’ social justice awareness, hip-hop pedagogy encourages student success by raising students’ interest and engagement.

Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the underlined claim?

3. To monitor changes to glaciers in Switzerland, the government periodically measures them for features like total area of ice and mean ice thickness, which are then reported in the Swiss Glacier Inventory. These measurements can be used to compare the glaciers. For example, the Gorner glacier had ______

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

4. Scent is tightly interwoven with our daily lives, often evoking significant memories and important social events. This connection is of growing interest to archaeologists who hope to use it to better understand ancient rituals, trade, social hierarchies, and medicine. Although the speed at which odor molecules dissipate makes identifying ancient scents challenging, advancements in biomolecular technologies show promise in unlocking ancient aromas from preserved artifacts. Archaeological studies making use of these advancements may provide new insights into past societies.

According to the text, what is one reason some archaeologists are interested in recovering scents from ancient artifacts?

5.

Text 1
Movies based on books are never as good as the original stories. They often change important details or leave out essential parts of the plot. The directors and actors rarely capture the true spirit of the characters or the themes. Reading a book is a much more immersive and rewarding experience than watching a movie.

Text 2
Movies based on books are a great way to introduce new audiences to the world of literature. They can spark interest in the original source material and encourage people to read more. The directors and actors also bring their own creativity and interpretation to the stories; in the same way that authors use prose, filmmakers use visual and audio elements to express the tone and style of the narratives. So while a movie adaptation may stray from its source material, it often offers a fresh and enriching artistic interpretation of the original narrative.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the claims of the author of Text 1?

6. The following text is from the 1884 poem "Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;
For the brave old earth must borrow its mirth, It has troubles enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes rebound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

7. In the award-winning puzzle game Monument Valley, players navigate the silent princess Ida through a series of puzzles and optical illusions. The game is known for its ______ art design: beautiful, fantastical architecture and calming pastel colors that make the game both challenging and pretty to look at.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

8. Scientists previously thought that all electric eels belong to a single species, but a team of researchers led by zoologist C. David de Santana proved this idea wrong by ______ that there are in fact three distinct species of electric eels.

9. In addition to her technical skill and daring feats, American stunt pilot Bessie Coleman was also known for dazzling the crowds that came to watch her air shows in the 1920s with her exuberant personality. During her career, she was careful and purposeful about how she crafted her public persona. An aviation researcher has claimed that Coleman intentionally defied social norms of the time by how she chose to present herself to the public.

Which quotation from an article about Coleman would most directly support the aviation researcher’s claim?

10. Archaeologists have been debating the origin of a rare form of lead found in Shang dynasty (1766–1046 BCE) bronze artifacts since its presence was discovered in China in the 1990s. Different researchers have proposed theories on which regions of the world would have had the raw materials containing the specific lead in these artifacts, but no conclusive evidence has been presented. What is intriguing is that bronze artifacts from China dated after the Shang dynasty do not contain this form of lead, suggesting that ______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

1. In 1881, French chemist Camille Faure redesigned the rechargeable lead-acid battery. Faure’s design greatly increased the amount of electricity that the original battery, which the French physicist Gaston Planté ______ fifteen years earlier, could hold.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

2. In her book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, author Maxine Hong Kingston examines themes ______ childhood, womanhood, and Chinese American identity by intertwining autobiography and mythology.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

3. It has long been thought that humans first crossed a land bridge into the Americas approximately 13,000 years ago. ______ based on radiocarbon dating of samples uncovered in Mexico, a research team recently suggested that humans may have arrived more than 30,000 years ago—much earlier than previously thought.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

4. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) varied his focus and tone depending on the genre in which he was writing. In his poetry, he used heartfelt language to evoke the beauty and peacefulness of his natural surroundings; in his journalism, ___________ he employed humor and satire to comment on political issues affecting his Muskogee Creek community.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

5. Plato believed material objects to be crude representations of unseen ideal forms. In his view, such abstract, nonmaterial forms are the ultimate source of knowledge. Aristotle disagreed, positing that knowledge is best obtained through direct engagement with the material world; ____________ sensory experience of the material is the ultimate source of knowledge.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

6. The field of geological oceanography owes much to American ______________ Marie Tharp, a pioneering oceanographic cartographer whose detailed topographical maps of the ocean floor and its multiple rift valleys helped garner acceptance for the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

7. Archeologists have estimated that pre-Columbian Native American city of Cahokia, located across the Mississippi River from modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, had as many as 20,000 inhabitants in the year 1150 __________ it one of the largest cities in North America at the time.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

8. Far from being modern inventions, ______________ more than 5,000 years ago.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the convention of Standard English?

9. While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
* Angora wool is a type of fiber that is harvested from rabbits.
* It is known for its long, silky, and soft fibers.
* Angora is often blended with other types of wool to produce warmer and softer clothing.
* China is the world's largest producer of angora wool.
* Angora does not contain lanolin, a natural oil found in sheep's wool that can cause allergic reactions.

The student wants to emphasize the unique advantages of angora wool. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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

* In 1897, African American inventor Andrew Beard invented an automatic coupler.
* It improved on the existing design of train car couplers.
* It made the job of connecting train cars safer.
* In 1938, African American inventor Frederick Jones invented a mobile refrigeration system.
* It improved on the existing design of food transport trucks.
* It enabled trucks to carry perishable foods farther.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Beard’s invention and Jones’s invention. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal

5. What is the equation of a line that passes through the point (–3,1) and has a slope of 2?

6. A cargo helicopter delivers only 100-pound packages and 120-pound packages. For each delivery trip, the helicopter must carry at least 10 packages, and the total weight of the packages can be at most 1,100 pounds. What is the maximum number of 120-pound packages that the helicopter can carry per trip?

7. A system of equations consists of a quadratic equation and a linear equation. The equations in this system are graphed in the xy-plane below. How many solutions does this system have?

8. What is the measure of angle B?

9. The scatterplot shows the relationship between two variables, x and y. A line of best fit is also shown.
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Which of the following is closest to the slope of the line of best fit shown?

10. The table above shows the distribution of ages of the 20 students enrolled in a college class. Which of the following gives the correct order of the mean, median, and mode of the ages?