Studied by 2 people
B
Although fewer companies trade their stocks on the Cambodia Securities Exchange in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, than on the stock exchanges in London, Mumbal, or Tokyo, the Cambodia Securities Exchange has the advantage of being able to __________ relatively small companies in Cambodia: by connecting those companies to investors with expertise about the country's economic conditions, the Cambadia Securities Exchange can help those companies thrive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. designate
B. nurture
C. preclude
D. assess
C
The emphasis on accurately representing the experiences of average working people that is characteristic of the realist style can be seen in The Gleaners, painted by Jean-Trancois Millet, which depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field after the harvest. This style can thus be seen as an effort to _________ what were regarded as the excesses of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Horace Vernet, which instead exaggerated their subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. understand
B. advance
C. counteract
D. accentuate
D
In what is now Washington state, the Tulalip Tribes operate the Hibulb Cultural Center. Relying on traditional knowledge to guide the design of exhibits, this institution presents Tulalip history and culture to the tribes' citizens. The Comanche Nation, a tribe in Oklahoma, employs a similar strategy in its own cultural center. Both centers contrast with museums that aren't indigenous-led; when displaying indigenous artifacts, such museums tend to anticipate mainly non-Indigenous audiences and rely on Euro-centric strategies for designing exhibits.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A. It suggests improvements to a particular tribal cultural center.
B. It encourages tribal citizens to attend their local cultural center.
C. It explains how one tribal cultural center differs from other tribal cultural
centers.
D. It provides a basic description of a particular tribal cultural center.
D
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City has an exhibition of video games that includes Pac-Man from 1980, which museum visitors can play on site, and SimCity 2000 from 1994, which visitors can see only in a video presentation. MOMA claims the video presentations are only for games that would be impractical to display in a playable form, but video games are an inherently interactive medium, a feature that is grossly absent in a video-only presentation.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A. It identifies a feature of many video games that is not shared by some of the games included in MOMA's exhibition.
B. It provides a claim about video games as art that both MOMA and the author accept as true.
C. It describes a misconception about video games that the author believes is evident in MOMA's choice about which video games to exhibit.
D. It presents a consideration that the author thinks partly undermines MOMA's approach to exhibiting video games.
D
Previous research has shown that plant species with a narrow geographical range tend to be more genetically homogeneous than plant species with extensive ranges are. Based on these findings, researchers recently ran simulations to predict how the genetic variation of several species of Mammillaria, a genus of cactus found throughout the Americas, might change in different distribution conditions. One of these species, M. anniana, is found only in the state of Tamaulipas. The researchers stimulated what would happen if M. anniana spread to new habitats outside Tamaulipas, and, consistent with previous findings, the results showed that ___________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. there was a gradual increase in the genetic homogeneity of Mammillaria species in states neighboring Tamaulipas.
B. Mammillaria species other than M. anniana would become more common in Tamaulipas.
C. several other Mammillaria species could survive in Tamaulipas in the future.
D. the genetic homogeneity of M. anniana decreased over time.
D
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a ten-point scale that orders minerals byhardness based on their ability to to scratch other minerals.
Minerals with larger numbers are harder than minerals with smaller numbersand can leave visible scratches on them.
Minerals with smaller numbers are softer than minerals with larger numbersand cannot leave visible scratches on them.
The mineral calcite has a Mohs scale number of 3.
The mineral apatite has a Mohs scale number of 5.
The mineral topaz has a Mohs scale number of 8.
The student wants to explain how hard apatite is in relation to other minerals. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. In the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, topaz (8) is ranked higher than calcite (3).
B. Calcite, topaz, and apatite can be ordered by their ability to leave visible scratches on other minerals.
C. Topaz has a Mohs scale number of 8, which means that it can scratch not only calcite but also apatite.
D Apatite has a Mohs scale number of 5, which means that it is harder than calcite (3) but softer than topaz (8).
B
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Epistolary novels are novels written primarily as a series of fictional documents, typically letters.
Sometimes, the documents are journal entries, newspaper clippings, and more.
Julie, or The New Heloise (1761) is an epistolary novel by French author Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
It consists primarily of letters sent between a man and a woman living in a small
French town.
Absolutely Normal Chaos (1990) is an epistolary novel by American author
Sharon Creech.
It consists primarily of journal entries written by a student during her summer vacation.
The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two novels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. The French author Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the American author Sharon Creech have written epistolary novels.
B. While Julie, or The New heloise and Absolutely Normal Chaos are both epistolary novels, the former is composed primarily of letters and the latter of journal entries.
C. Some epistolary novels consist primarily of journal entries, but most, like Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie, or The New Heloise, consist primarily of letters.
D. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie, or The New Heloise and Sharon Creech's Absolutely Normal Chaos demonstrate the variety of documents that can be used in epistolary novels.
C
Though many _________ studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry focus on people who live above sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj recently chose the novel path of focusing on people who live below sea level, in locations such as the California towns of Salton City and Coachella.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. eccentric
B. meager
C. conventional
D. random
D
The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, originally written in Spanish. In the novel, a group of soldiers travel through a canyon, where their collective mood becomes strongly affected by the strenuous conditions of their journey:________
Which quotation from a translation of The Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim?
A. "The sierra is clad in gala colors. Over its inaccessible peaks the opalescent fog settles like a snowy veil on the forehead of a bride."
B. “All day long [the soldiers] rode through the canyon, up and down the steep, round hills, dirty and bald as a man's head, hill after hill in endless succession."
C. “Then hurriedly, [the soldiers] took the juchipila canyon northward, without halting to rest until nightfall."
D "The sun, beating down upon [the soldiers], dulled their minds and bodies and presently they were silent."
D
The 2000 production of The Green Bird was the first Broadway show for which Constance Hoffman was credited as a costume designer. Hoffman was among the Broadway costume designers interviewed by Sara Jablon-Roberts and Eulanda A Sanders for their study of historical accuracy in costume design for shows with a historical setting. They found that even designers who value historical accuracy will often include contemporary design elements that don't fit with the historical period. In a research paper about theatrical costume design, a student argues that costume designers for modern productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (set in ancient Greece sometimes include such elements unintentionally.
Which quotation from an interview with a costume designer would most effectively support the student's claim?
A. “I tend to pay careful attention to a character's accessories like gloves, hats and jackets. These elements help communicate information about how this person would have fit into society at the time."
B. “I aim to create a clear sense of the character and the world they inhabit. Sometimes this means adhering to the historical period's style, but frequently, as in stagings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, some flexibility is required to communicate an idea to the audience."
C. “Costumes must always reflect the correct historical period. Too often, l've seen costumes that borrow from a wide span of periods, resulting in a production with a confusing visual style."
D. “In the 1980s I was costuming for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Even though I focused on using the correct materials and techniques for the play's period in history, when I look back I can clearly see the influence of 1980s fashion in my designs."
C
In order to identify research trends, Shirley Ann Williams et al. reviewed a collection of studies of the social media website Twitter, such as the 2011 paper by Celik et al. titled "Learning Semantic Relationships between Entities in Twitter." Williams's team searched for the term "Twitter" on the Scopus and Web of Science databases and found that though most papers returned by the search did in fact focus on the social media platform, a few discussed unrelated subjects such as sounds made by tractor engines. One reasonable explanation for this result is that it occurred because_____________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. a group of researchers had an extensive discussion on Twitter about the design of tractor engines.
B. most of the papers in the Scopus and Web of Science databases do not discuss automotive engines or social media websites.
C. the word "twitter" may not always refer to a social media website, but to other subjects such as noises made by machines.
D. academics who are active on social networks are likely to announce their recent publications on Twitter.
Reciprocate
Trả, đền đáp lại; đáp lại (tình cảm). Cho nhau, trao đổi lẫn nhau
annotate
Chú giải, chú thích
Molecular
Eccentric
Hideous
Gớm guốc (hình thù); ghê tởm (tinh thần đạo đức).
Stencils
Imperative
Self-contradictory
Không nhất quán hoặc trái ngược với chính nó
Collective
Strenuous
Theatrical
(thuộc) sân khấu; về sân khấu, cho sân khấu
Adhere to
Stagings
Tractor engines
động cơ máy kéo.
Mercury
Precede
designate
Chỉ rõ, định rõ. Chọn lựa, chỉ định, bổ nhiệm.
preclude
Loại trừ, trừ bỏ; ngăn ngừa; đẩy xa.
counteract
Chống lại, kháng cự lại. Trung hoà, làm mất tác dụng.
accentuate
Nhấn mạnh, làm nổi bật, nêu bật.
Note 
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