Module I: Reading and Writing

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Scientists have used machine learning tools to study elephant sounds, uncovering a sophisticated communication system. The tools ______ unique patterns in the rumbling sounds elephants make. The scientists claim that these patterns are specific calls the elephants use for individuals, similar to names.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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created
corrected
detected
scattered
The following text is from Chinua Achebe’s 1964 novel Arrow of God. The novel is set in Nigeria in the 1920s. Ezeulu, who is the religious leader for several villages, announces when the annual yam harvest can begin.
Whenever Ezeulu considered the immensity of his power over the year and the crops and, therefore, over the people he wondered if it was real. It was true he named the day for the feast of the Pumpkin Leaves and for the New Yam feast; but he did not choose it. He was merely a watchman. His power was no more than the power of a child over a goat that was said to be his.
As used in the text, what does the word “considered” most nearly mean?
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Pondered
Anticipated
Allowed
Respected
The following text is adapted from John Matheus’s 1925 short story Fog.
The fog extended its tentacles over city and river, gradually obliterating traces of familiar landscapes. At five-thirty the old Panhandle bridge, supported by massive sandstone pillars, stalwart, as when erected fifty years before to serve a generation now passed behind the portals of life, had become a spectral outline against the sky.
As used in the text, what does the word “traces” most nearly mean?
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Debris
Copies
Indications
Remembrances
Microplastics are a common pollutant in large masses of water like glaciers. High concentrations and ______ among particles—variations in size, shape, and material—make it onerous to comprehensively classify the microplastics in a water sample, so Ojeda–Benitez et al. are exploring a device to help quickly and accurately identify certain characteristics.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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restraints
inconsistencies
incompatibilities
disruptions
The following text is adapted from Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady.
Everything Osmond did was pose—pose so subtly considered that if one were not on the lookout one mistook it for impulse. Ralph had never met a man who lived so much in the land of consideration. His tastes, his studies, his accomplishments, his collections, were all for a purpose.
As used in the text, what does the word “consideration” most nearly mean?
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Deference
Calculation
Indecision
Courtesy
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