Module I: Reading and Writing

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Scientists recently created a model to predict how shorter winters will affect future mammal population sizes in US national forests. Unfortunately, when the model is applied to large forests, its predictions for large-mammal populations are too high, and when applied to small forests, its predictions for small-mammal populations are too high. Tuskegee National Forest in Alabama is a small forest, covering less than 100,000 acres. If used to evaluate the effect of shorter winters on this forest in ten years, the model would likely therefore_________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
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exaggerate the effect of shorter winters on large mammals.
reflect factors affecting small mammals other than shorter winters.
overestimate the actual population sizes of small mammals.
ignore the predator-prey relationships between large and small mammals.
Featured among the more than 120 photographs in the 2021 exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera, Rogi André's ______ "Dora Maar" offers a glimpse back in time to 1941.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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photograph
photograph:
photograph,
photograph;
In Puerto Rico, it's not unusual for a city or town to be known by a nickname that corresponds to one of its notable features, like landscape, climate, famous residents, or chief export. For example, the Puerto Rican municipality of Jayuya is well known for Los Tres Picachos, the mountain that towers above __________ this distinction has earned it a fitting nickname: "the Town of the Three Peaks."
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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it, and
it,
it and
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Jean Toomer was an African American poet, novelist, and essayist.
Toomer lived and worked in New York City for many years.
"Banking Coal" is a poem by Toomer.
It was published in 1922.
The student wants to indicate the year "Banking Coal" was published. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
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New York City is where Jean Toomer lived and worked.
"Banking Coal" was published in 1922.
Jean Toomer wrote the poem "Banking Coal."
Jean Toomer was a poet as well as a novelist and essayist.
The following text is from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1830 short story "Sir William Phipps."
The knowledge, communicated by the historian and biographer, is analogous to that which we acquire of a country by the map,—minute, perhaps, and accurate, and available for all necessary purposes, but cold and naked, and wholly destitute of the mimic charm produced by landscape painting. These defects are partly remediable, and even without an absolute violation of literal truth, although by methods rightfully interdicted to professors of biographical exactness.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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Historians do not agree among themselves about the best methods of recording history.
Maps are more practical to own than paintings.
Historians should not worry if their readers believe they are embellishing the truth.
Historians' fidelity to the truth often results in work that is less engaging than it could be.
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