During his career, Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona produced hundreds of compositions. Especially impressive is how _______ his body of work is: Lecuona showcased a diverse range of musical talents in different areas, from orchestral pieces and operas to popular film scores.

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

The following text is from Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The narrator describes practicing the piano when she was a child.

For the talent show, I was to play a piece called "Pleading Child" from Schumann's Scenes from Childhood. It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. I was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. I never really listened to what I was playing. I daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.

Based on the text, when the narrator describes herself as "cheating," what does she most likely mean?

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction is a crowdsourced project started in 2001 by lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower to record terms that originated in science fiction. Volunteers share digitized excerpts from personal collections of sci-fi magazines not typically preserved in libraries—_______ that allow the earliest uses of phrases such as "warp speed" (1952) to be identified and added to the dictionary.

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

Agglomeration economies arise when multiple firms in related industries _______ an area, as with iron and steel production firms and cutlery and hardware manufacturers in Wolverhampton, UK. Economists have assumed that companies cluster for the same reasons, but Giulia Faggio et al. found that factors driving agglomeration in some cases are only weakly correlated with agglomeration in others.

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

The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm.

Adam is meeting his great-uncle Richard at a port.

The meeting so auspiciously begun proceeded well. Adam, seeing that the old man was interested in the novelty of the ship, suggested that he should stay the night on board, and that he would himself be ready to start at any hour and go anywhere that the other suggested. This affectionate willingness to fall in with his own plans quite won the old man’s heart. He warmly accepted the invitation, and at once they became not only on terms of affectionate relationship, but almost like old friends.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?