Module I: Reading and Writing

timer
The following text is adapted from Anton Chekhov’s 1904 play The Cherry Orchard (translated by Julius West in 1916).
TROFIMOV: Believe me, Anya, believe me! I’m not thirty yet, I’m young, I’m still a student, but I have undergone a great deal! I’m as hungry as the winter, I’m ill, I’m shaken...and where haven’t I been—fate has tossed me everywhere!
As used in the text, what does the word “undergone” most nearly mean?
1
Mark for Review
Neglected
Enjoyed
Conveyed
Endured
Indigenous Photography is an organization whose mission is to ensure that images of indigenous peoples in the media are presented from Indigenous perspectives. The organization ______ this commitment by promoting the works of artist Geremew Tigabu Ethiopian, Amhara, and Tigerd and other prominent Indigenous photographers who document and reflect Indigenous lives and experiences.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
2
Mark for Review
concludes
explains
precedes
shows
Although fewer companies trade their stocks on the Cambodia Securities Exchange in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, than on the stock exchanges in London, Mumbai, or Tokyo, the Cambodia Securities Exchange has the advantage of being able to ______ relatively small companies in Cambodia: by connecting those companies to investors with expertise about the country’s economic conditions, the Cambodia Securities Exchange can help those companies thrive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
3
Mark for Review
designate
nurture
preclude
assess
The emphasis on accurately representing the experiences of average working people that is characteristic of the realist style can be seen in The Cleaners, painted by Jean-François Millet, which depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field after the harvest. This style can thus be seen as an effort to ______ what were regarded as the excesses of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Horace Vêrure, which instead exaggerated their subjects’ beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
4
Mark for Review
understand
advance
counteract
accentuate
The swordfish can swim very fast—up to 97 kilometers per hour (km/hr)—but it is significantly slower than the frigatebird, which can fly at speeds up to 153 km/hr. The difference between these speeds is largely ______ of the fact that the features that make flight possible do less to limit top speeds than the features suitable for swimming through water.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
5
Mark for Review
a consequence
an explanation
a repudiation
no objective
logo

Guest

-->