Module I: Reading and Writing

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A study by Augusta D. Gaspar and Joana Carneiro Pinto found that a bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, including environmental and social campaigns, improve its corporate image. When CSR was mentioned in bank marketing strategies, favorability scores assigned by study participants tended to ______ the scores assigned by participants when CSR wasn’t mentioned.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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identify
disturb
replace
exceed
Researchers have long debated the origins of silver used in European coins from the 600s through the early 800s CE. Geochemical analysis by Kershaw et al. of 49 coins dating to 660–820 CE provides concrete evidence that reconciles two competing theories: early coins were made from Byzantine silver, and later coins used Frankish silver, findings that provide firm details in a previously ______ area of study.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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esoteric
authoritative
solitary
speculative
The following text is adapted from Alice Dunbar Nelson’s 1899 short story “The Fisherman of Pass Christian.” Pass Christian is a city in the US state of Mississippi.
The swift breezes on the beach at Pass Christian meet and conflict as though each strove for the mastery of the air. The land-breeze blows down through the pines, resinous, fragrant, cold, bringing breath-like memories of dim, dark woods shaded by myriad pine-needles. The breeze from the Gulf is warm and soft and languorous, blowing up from the south with its suggestion of tropical warmth.
As used in the text, what does the word “mastery” most nearly mean?
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Familiarity
Domination
Comprehension
Skillfulness
Science fiction has long served as a ______ real-world technological advancements. Indeed, from Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon inspiring developments in aerospace engineering to the television show Star Trek sparking the design of the ancestor of today’s smartphones, these narratives have spurred many actual innovations.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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diversion from
catalyst of
constraint to
sponsor of
Any effort to raise the toll that drivers must pay to use the Lewis and Clark Bridge, which spans the Ohio River to connect Indiana and Kentucky, should explain why a higher toll is necessary; no amount of justification, however, is likely to persuade some drivers who believe the current toll is ______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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exorbitant
contentious
equivocal
warranted
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