Module

Reading and Writing

The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).
All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.

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The fashion resale market, in which consumers Artificially delivering biomolecules to plant cells is
purchase secondhand clothing from stores and an important component of protecting plants from
online sellers, generated nearly $30 billion globally pathogens, but it is difficult to transmit biomolecules
in 2019. Expecting to see continued growth, some through the layers of the plant cell wall. Markita del
analysts _______ that revenues will more than Carpio Landry and her colleagues have shown that
double by 2028. it may be possible to _______ this problem by
transmitting molecules through carbon nanotubes,
Which choice completes the text with the most
which can cross cell walls.
logical and precise word or phrase?
Which choice completes the text with the most
A) produced
logical and precise word or phrase?
B) denied
A) conceptualize
C) worried
B) neglect
D) predicted
C) illustrate
D) overcome

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Particle physicists like Ayana Holloway Arce and Rydra Wong, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany’s
Aida El-Khadra spend much of their time _______ 1966 novel Babel-17, is a poet, an occupation which,
what is invisible to the naked eye: using sophisticated in Delany’s work, is not _______: nearly a dozen of
technology, they closely examine the behavior of the characters that populate his novels are poets or
subatomic particles, the smallest detectable parts of writers.
matter.
Which choice completes the text with the most
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) infallible
A) selecting B) atypical
B) inspecting C) lucrative

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C) creating D) tedious

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D) deciding

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For a 2020 exhibition, photographer and
Anthropologist Kristian J. Carlson and colleagues neurobiologist Okunola Jeyifous _______ a series of
examined the fossilized clavicle and shoulder bones new images based on a series of alphabet posters
of a 3.6-million-year-old early hominin known as from the 1970s known as the “Black ABCs,” which
“Little Foot.” They found that these bones were featured Black children from Chicago. Jeyifous
_______ the clavicle and shoulder bones of modern photographed the now-adult models and layered the
apes that are frequent climbers, such as gorillas and photos over magnified images of the models’ cells,
chimpanzees, suggesting that Little Foot had adapted resulting in what he called “micro and macro
to life in the trees. portraiture.”
Which choice completes the text with the most Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase? logical and precise word or phrase?
A) surpassed by A) validated
B) comparable to B) created
C) independent of C) challenged
D) obtained from D) restored

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In addition to being an accomplished psychologist Whether the reign of a French monarch such
himself, Francis Cecil Sumner was a _______ as Hugh Capet or Henry I was historically
increasing the opportunity for Black students to consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory
study psychology, helping to found the psychology was shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore
department at Howard University, a historically cannot be understood without a corollary
Black university, in 1930. understanding of the factors that allowed the
monarch to _______ his right to hold the throne.
Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase? Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) proponent of
B) supplement to A) reciprocate
C) beneficiary of B) annotate
D) distraction for C) buttress
D) disengage

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