The following text is from Rudolfo Anaya' s 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultimo. The young narrator and his friend Cico are staring into the water of a stream in rural New Mexico.

The golden fish swam by gracefully, cautiously, as if tasting the water after a long sleep in his subterranean waters. His powerful tail moved in slow strokes as he slid through the water towards us.
As used in the text, what does the word “tasting” most nearly mean?

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? A number of recording artists____ Indigenous music with other musical styles. For example, Wolastoq musician Jeremy Dutcher incorporated traditional Wolastoq songs into experimental pop on his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, and Tuscarora/Taino singer-songwriter Pura Fe combined Indigenous rhythms and vocals with R&B on her album Socred Seed.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? While modern composers may often get inspiration from past greats like Ludwig van Beethoven, the extent of their influences is broad. The music of Ernesto Lecuona, for example, can be said to ____ clements of both the dassical European tradition and the social, political, and cultural landscape of his native Cuba.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? Though most hoaxes perpetrated as jokes by mischievous users of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that almost anyone can freely edit, have quickly been detected and removed, a few invented entries, such as those for the town of Stone Ridge, Maryland, and the Civil War general George K. Broomhall, persisted on the site for many years before they were finally recognized as ____ and deleted.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? In a garden, ____ the spread of unwelcome weeds such as chickweed can be difficult because weeds usually spread easily and quickly become unmanageable, making it hard to remove them completely.