Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel The Namesake. Ashima and her husband, Ashoke, are traveling from the United States to India.
Ashoke puts his hand over hers as the plane begins to gather speed. And then Boston tilts away and they ascend effortlessly over a blackened Atlantic.
As used in the text, what does the word 'gather' most nearly mean?
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Gain
Doubt
Welcome
Force
The _____ blank Wendy Wan-Long Shang's book The Great Wall of Lucy Wu has been very positive. Many reviewers have praised the book, and it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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response to
neglect of
confusion about
inspiration for
Microbiologist Radamés Cordero and team investigated surface temperatures of a variety of fungi, including Amanita muscaria and a species from the genus Cantharellus, in a study _____ blank a previous observation: Cordero had taken thermal images of various wild mushrooms while hiking and found that the mushrooms all appeared to be colder than the surrounding environment, raising questions about thermoregulation in fungi.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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released in
acknowledged in
excluded by
prompted by
Research on Chaenocephalus aceratus and other icefishes of the Teleostei class has shown that their hearts are pale due to low levels of myoglobin expression, which was once thought to be related to their polar habitats. Recently, researchers have found that some tropical teleost species (such as Sphaeramia nematoptera) also have pale hearts, raising the possibility that myoglobin deficiency in teleosts could be _____ blank habitat.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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irrespective of
mediated by
predictive of
obscured by
In 2013 Bridie J.M. Allan and colleagues published a study concluding that ocean acidification has a strong effect on the behavior of Pomacentrus amboinensis, a species of fish. However, Allan and colleagues' study relied on a mean sample size of only about 18 fish. In a 2022 review of various scientists' conclusions about the impacts of ocean acidification on fish behavior, Josefin Sundin and colleagues caution that relying on such a relatively small sample size can increase the potential for biased analysis. Such analysis, in turn, can contribute to reports of exaggerated effects.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It introduces a detail about Allan and colleagues' study that is addressed in the sentences that follow.
It offers an alternative explanation for the behavior of Pomacentrus amboinensis that is described in the previous sentence.
It emphasizes the threat of ocean acidification to Pomacentrus amboinensis that is mentioned in the previous sentence.
It states the conclusion reached by Allan and colleagues that is elaborated on in the sentences that follow.
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