Module I: Reading and Writing

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Dragon against Tiger is an important work of Nihonga, or classical Japanese painting. Unlike Wada Eisaku, who adopted traditional European methods such as painting with oil on canvas, Hashimoto Gahō ______ traditional Japanese approaches. For instance, Hashimoto produced Dragon against Tiger by applying color pigments to a silk surface.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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overlooked
distrusted
embraced
released
The following text is from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is returning home after a visit to Mr. Badger’s house.
As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole saw clearly that he was an animal of tilled field and hedge-row, linked to the ploughed furrow, the frequented pasture, the lane of evening lingerings, the cultivated garden-plot.
As used in the text, what does the word “anticipating” most nearly mean?
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Describing
Getting ahead of
Looking forward to
Instructing
The human body has three types of muscle ______ cardiac, and skeletal. The levator anguli oris is a skeletal muscle—of which the body contains more than six hundred—and it helps with raising the corners of the mouth.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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tissue and smooth,
tissue: smooth,
tissue smooth,
tissue. Smooth
The Fly River delta is a remarkably _______ landscape: it is a constantly evolving network of channels and strips of land that change in size and shape as the river deposits new sedimentary particles where the river meets the waters of the Gulf of Papua.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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mutable
habitable
secluded
homogeneous
Benjamin Prud'homme and colleagues have explored how convergent evolution—a phenomenon that occurs when the same trait evolves independently in two reproductively separate lineages—can result from a genetic mechanism shared by both lineages. Meanwhile, Patricia J. Wittkopp and colleagues have investigated how convergence occurs through different genetic mechanisms, but the relative prevalence of convergence through shared and different genetic processes is still poorly understood. This motivated biologists Delbert A. Green II and Cassandra G. Extavour to evaluate both types of convergence in a single study for their 2012 paper.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
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It provides examples of how a phenomenon was studied by scientists in the field before Green and Extavour's study.
It gives a basic description of a phenomenon that is central to the discussion that follows.
It clarifies a concept that the author implies was unclear in the studies mentioned in the text.
It introduces a method of scientific analysis that is discussed in greater detail later in the text.
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