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The following text is from David Barclay Moore’s Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the
2022 novel Holler of the Fireflies. The narrator has margins by a former owner lower a book’s
just arrived at summer camp, which is far away from _______ when the former owner is a famous poet
his home. like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as
This place was different than I thought it would marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars.
be. I’d never been somewhere like this before. I Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
did feel scared, but also excited. to the conventions of Standard English?
©2022 by David Barclay Moore
A) value, but
According to the text, how does the narrator feel
about being at summer camp? B) value
A) He feels overjoyed. C) value,
B) He feels peaceful. D) value but
C) He feels both scared and excited.
D) He feels both angry and jealous.

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The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, also
Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter known as snow monkeys, are influenced more
Alvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of an by food availability than by food preference.
asteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and other Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation and
animals to die _______ it left unexplored the land-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may
question of whether unrelated volcanic activity might become unavailable because of extensive snow and
have also contributed to the mass extinctions. ice cover, _______ the monkeys to hunt for marine
animals in any streams that have not frozen over.
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) out but
A) forces
B) out, but
B) to force
C) out
C) forcing
D) out,
D) forced
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While many video game creators strive to make their The twentieth‑ century Kashmiri American

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graphics ever more ______ others look to the past, poet Agha Shahid Ali explains that each one of a
developing titles with visuals inspired by the “8-bit” ghazal’s couplets, while adhering to the patterns of
games of the 1980s and 1990s. (The term “8-bit” rhyme (qafia) and refrain (radif) established in the
refers to a console whose processor could only poem’s opening lines (matla), _______ thematically
handle eight bits of data at once.) and logically autonomous, resulting in a poem with
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms “a stringently formal disunity.”
to the conventions of Standard English? Which choice completes the text so that it conforms
A) lifelike but to the conventions of Standard English?
B) lifelike A) is
C) lifelike, B) were
D) lifelike, but C) have been
D) are
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Food and the sensation of taste are central to When Chinese director Chloé Zhao accepted the
Monique Truong’s novels. In The Book of Salt, for Oscar in 2021 for her film Nomadland, she made
example, the exiled character of Bình connects to his Academy Award history. _______ only one other
native Saigon through the food he prepares, while in woman, Kathryn Bigelow of the United States, had
Bitter in the Mouth, the character of Linda ______ a been named best director at the Oscars, making Zhao
form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears the second woman and the first Asian woman to win
evoke tastes. the award.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms Which choice completes the text with the most
to the conventions of Standard English? logical transition?
A) experienced A) As a result,
B) had experienced B) Previously,
C) experiences C) However,
D) will be experiencing D) Likewise,

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In Marisol’s 1968 sculpture Mi Mama y Yo, gone are Maximum Height of Maple Trees
the types of pop culture references that made the When Fully Grown
Parisian-born Venezuelan American artist a star at
the height of the pop art movement. In _______ Maximum Native to
place is a far more personal subject: a sculptural Tree type height (feet) North America
depiction of the artist as a young girl with her Sugar maple 75 yes
mother. Silver maple 70 yes
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms Red maple 60 yes
to the conventions of Standard English? Japanese maple 25 no
Norway maple 50 no
A) its
B) they’re For a school project, a forestry student needs to
recommend a maple tree that is native to
C) their
North America and won’t grow more than 60 feet in
D) it’s height. Based on the characteristics of five common
maple trees, she has decided to select a _______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the
table to complete the text?
A) silver maple.
B) sugar maple.
C) red maple.
D) Norway maple.