Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is dazed after briefly meeting a stranger while traveling with a friend.
[The] Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn.
As used in the text, what does the word “suddenly” most nearly mean?
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Abruptly
Repeatedly
Voluntarily
Tenderly
Over the past decade, the coastal city’s fishing industry has faced numerous environmental challenges, including rising ocean temperatures and decreasing fish populations. As a result, the city’s economy, once largely dependent on fishing, has been steadily _______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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diminishing
expanding
fluctuating
correlating
From sculptures like Miró's Chicago by Joan Miró, found at Brunswick Plaza, to street art like Justus Roe's mural South Shore on South Exchange Avenue, Chicago offers an array of works to _____ the tastes of art lovers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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supplant
mitigate
venerate
satiate
Writer Lydia Davis observed that while traditional literary forms, such as the novel, are recognizable as such even as they evolve, there are rarer “intergeneric” forms that might, for example, use elements of both fiction and essays to create something _____. The late-period pieces of James Tate arguably fit this description, since they straddle the line between prose and poetry.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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orthodox
unequivocal
recurrent
unclassifiable
Alfred Nobel intended for the Nobel Prize to be an award honoring those who have contributed “the greatest benefit to mankind.” Indeed, the work of Richard Laurence Millington Synge represented a significant _____ the field of chemistry, and in 1952 he was among those awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “their invention of partition chromatography.”
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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exposure to
advancement in
dependence on
controversy in
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