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Indigenous Photograph is an organization whose mission is to ensure that images of indigenous people in the media are presented from Indigenous perspectives. The organization _____ this commitment by promoting the works of artist Geremew Tigabu (Ethiopian, Amhara, and Tigre) 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?
A. concludes
B. explains
C. precedes
D. shows
commitment : images are presented from indigenous perspective
organition ___ this commitment
=> ___ is synonysm of “present” or “show”
“The Monster” is an 1898 story by Stephen Crane. In the story, the character of Jim, a young boy, accidentally damages a peony (a flower) in the yard while his father is tending to the lawn. Crane depicts the dedication and care with which his father typically cares for his lawn, writing, _______
Which quotation from “The Monster” most effectively illustrates the claim?
A. “After some trouble [Jim’s father] found the subject of the incident, the broken flower. Turning then, he saw the child lurking at the rear and scanning his countenance.”
B. “[Jim’s father] was shaving this lawn as if it were a priest’s chin. All during the season he had worked at it in the coolness and peace of the evenings after supper. Even in the shadow of the cherry trees the grass was strong and healthy.”
C. “[Jim’s father] paused, and with the howl of the machine no longer occupying the sense, one could hear the robins in the cherry trees arranging their affairs.”
D. “[Jim] went on to the lawn, very slowly, and kicking wretchedly at the turf. Presently his father came along with the whirring machine, while the sweet, new grass blades spun from the knives.”
dedication and care as for lawn
=> B
A century in certain ways is like a life, and as the end of a century approaches, people behave toward that century much as someone who is nearing the end of life does toward that life. So just as people in their last years spend much time looking back on the events of their life, people at a century’s end _______.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. reminisce about their own lives
B. become very interested in the history of the century just ending
C. focus on what the next century will bring
D. reflect on how certain unfortunate events of the century could have been avoided
B
Previous research has shown that plant species with a narrow geographical range tend to be more genetically homogenous than plant species with extensive ranges are. Based on these findings, researchers recently ran simulations to predict how the genetic variation of several species of Mammillaria, a genus of cactus found throughout the Americas, might change in different distribution conditions. One of these species, M. anniana, is found only in the state of Tamaulipas. The researchers simulated what would happen if M. anniana spread to new habitats outside Tamaulipas, and, consistent with previous findings, the results showed that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. there was a gradual increase in the genetic homogeneity of Mammilaria species in states neighboring Tamaulipas.
B. Mammillaria species other than M. anniana would become more common in Tamaulipas.
C. several other Mammillaria species could survive in Tamaulipas in the future.
D. the genetic homogeneity of M. anniana decreased over time.
những con có narrow geo range thì sẽ có gene homogenous
=> range càng rộng thì càng ko homogenous
=> D
Theater industry veteran Robert Tang admits that his ambitions weren’t very lofty where he created the Asian American Theater Revue, a website that documents information about Asian American theaters like Second Generation Productions in New York City, New York: “Everyone had a site, so I had to have one, too.” _______ his site has become an essential resource for industry professionals looking to learn more about Asian American plays, playwrights, theater festivals, and more.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Nevertheless,
B. Therefore,
C. Furthermore,
D. Next,
A
Though many ______ studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry focus on people who live above sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj recently chose the novel path of focusing on people who live below sea level, in location such as the California towns of Salton City and Coachella.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. eccentric
B. meager
C. conventional
D. random
C
Though its onboard laboratory allowed it to analyze rock samples on-site, the 2011 Mars Curiosity rover was unable to preserve samples for future analysis. _____ when creating the 2020 Mars Perseverance rover, robotics mechanical engineer Arash Kalantari and other members of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sought to implement a mechanism that could do exactly that.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Previously,
B. Specifically,
C. Likewise,
D. Thus,
D
Though the musical groups Los Palominos and Banda Los Recoditos are often categorized under the catchall “regional Mexican music” label, they each adhere to distinct musical traditions. The former works within the Tejano tradition, which originated in mid-twentieth-century Texas and northern Mexico. The latter, ______ follows the banda tradition, with roots in mid-nineteenth-century southern and central Mexico.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. therefore,
B. to this end,
C. however,
D. in other words,
C
In 2020, rap artist and professor A.D. Carson published the first peer-reviewed rap album about his experiences with Black masculinity called “i used to love to dream.” Typically in peer review, experts evaluate scholarly articles prior to publication. For Carson’a album, dubbed a “mixtap/e/ssay,” peer review involved both scholars and rap artists. In combining elements of a mixtape album with scholarly essays that connect Carson’s lyrics to historical and contemporary contexts for listeners both inside and outside academia, Carson’s album helped redefine how scholarship is created and shared.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A. To compare the relative public impact of scholarly articles and albums
B. To describe how each step of the peer review process unfolds
C. To capture one scholar’s opinion of a new rap album
D. To explain why a certain rap album is particularly innovative
D
Text 1 is adapted from E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End. Text 2 discusses Howards End. King’s Cross and St. Pancras are adjacent railway terminals in London from which trains travel to the countryside.
Text 1
To Margaret the station of King’s Cross had always suggested Infinity. Its very situation withdrawn a little behind the facile splendours of St. Pancras-Implied a comment on the materialism of life. Those two great arches, colourless, indifferent, shouldering between them an unlovely clock, were fit portals for some eternal adventure,whose issue might be prosperous, but would certainly not be expressed in the ordinary language of prosperity.
Text 2
The interplay between opposing ideological positions in Howards End is broadly articulated in the novel’s organization of geographic space. On the one hand, the modern metropolis of London represents capitalism’s emphasis on pragmatism and the accumulation of material wealth; on the other, the English countryside, accessible via King’s Cross, fosters an idealism that values tradition, authentic personal connection, and the aesthetic-what the novel calls “the infinite.”
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely agree with which statement about King’s Cross, as it is depicted in Text 1?
A. Because it is situated at the beginning of Margaret’s journey from the city to the country, King’s Cross emblematizes the intrusion of the forces of materialism and modernity into the rural spaces that the novel associates with idealism and tradition.
B. The austerity conveyed by King’s Cross’s appearance mirrors Margaret’s disillusionment with the prospect of having authentic connections with other people in a world that chiefly values more conventional forms of prosperity.
C. As a point of connection between London and the countryside, King’s Cross suggests to Margaret the possibility of acquiring the intangible abundance promised by the kinds of authentic engagements that the novel’s rural spaces seem to offer.
D. King’s Cross has a relatively unassuming appearance whose sharp contrast with the more aesthetically pleasing appearance of St. Pancras suggests to Margaret the ascendancy of the pragmatic capitalistic outlook among London’s inhabitants.
Text 1 (trích từ tiểu thuyết Howards End):
Nhân vật Margaret cảm thấy ga King’s Cross tượng trưng cho Vô Cùng (Infinity).
Nó không lộng lẫy như ga St. Pancras, mà có vẻ ngoài lạnh lùng, không màu sắc, đơn giản.
Nhưng chính sự giản dị này lại khiến Margaret nghĩ đến một “cuộc phiêu lưu vĩnh cửu”, không gắn với sự thành công vật chất thông thường, mà là điều gì đó sâu xa và ý nghĩa hơn.
Text 2 (phân tích về Howards End):
Văn bản nói đến sự đối lập giữa thành phố London hiện đại (biểu tượng của chủ nghĩa vật chất, thực dụng) và vùng quê Anh (biểu tượng của truyền thống, kết nối chân thật, và giá trị thẩm mỹ).
King’s Cross là nơi trung gian, nơi bắt đầu cho hành trình từ thành phố đến vùng quê.
Tại đây, ý tưởng về “vô hạn” (Infinity) được kết nối với những giá trị phi vật chất như tình cảm chân thành và nghệ thuật.
Phân tích các lựa chọn:
A. “King’s Cross biểu tượng cho sự xâm nhập của chủ nghĩa vật chất vào vùng quê.”
→ Sai. Văn bản không nói King’s Cross mang tính chất xâm lấn hay tiêu cực. Ngược lại, đây là nơi bắt đầu rời bỏ vật chất để đến với điều lý tưởng hơn.
B. “Sự giản dị của King’s Cross phản ánh sự vỡ mộng của Margaret.”
→ Sai. Margaret không vỡ mộng mà ngược lại, cảm thấy King’s Cross mang ý nghĩa sâu sắc, mở ra hành trình đầy hứa hẹn (một “eternal adventure”).
C. ✅ “King’s Cross là điểm kết nối giữa London và vùng quê, gợi cho Margaret khả năng đạt được những giá trị phi vật chất thông qua các mối quan hệ chân thành.”
→ Đúng. Đây là lựa chọn phù hợp nhất với cả hai văn bản. King’s Cross tượng trưng cho sự chuyển tiếp từ chủ nghĩa vật chất sang lý tưởng, mở ra cơ hội cho “cuộc phiêu lưu” tinh thần, đúng như Margaret cảm nhận.
D. “Ngoại hình khiêm tốn của King’s Cross khiến Margaret cảm thấy người London ngày càng thực dụng.”
→ Sai. Margaret không chê bai King’s Cross mà còn đánh giá cao ý nghĩa tinh thần của nó. Ga này gợi cảm hứng, chứ không phải là biểu tượng của sự sa sút tinh thần.
Mexican architect Luis Barragán’s prolific career, which spanned the 1920s to the 1980s, evolved through distinct phases. After traveling to the United States and Europe in the early 1930s and immersing himself in a broader architectural discourse, Barragán began incorporating principles derived from functionalism and modernism in his work, as seen in the apartment building at 14 Parque Melchor Ocampo, whose unadorned geometric forms contrast with his earlier projects in Guadalajara, such as the Carmen Orozco House, which evince the aesthetics of traditional Mediterranean and Mexican styles.
Information in the text best supports which statement about the design of the Carmen Orozco House?
A. It represents a transitional moment between the early and late phases of Barragán’s development.
B. It displays the effects of Barragán’s exposure to international architectural trends in the 1930s
C. It is characteristic of the Guadalajaran architecture that influenced Barragán throughout his career
D. It reflects an approach to ornamentation and shape that Barragán later stopped using.
D
For its 2022 exhibition Guarding the Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art cast the security personnel typically responsible for safeguarding the institution’s collections as the curators, whose individual selections from the museum’s holdings culminated in a show amplifying a distinct perspective not typically given a formal platform.
Which quote from one of the personnel who curated the exhibition would best support the underlined claim?
A. “The most enjoyable part of curating this show has been seeing the outcome of our efforts: a unique show that spans genres, mediums, cultures, and eras. We hope visitors will sense our genuine affinity for the pieces we are charged with protecting.-“
B. “My selections for the show were motivated byan interest in bringing publicity to lesser-known artifacts in the museum’s collection, many of which tend to be overlooked or even dismissed as uninteresting by most visitors to the museum.”
C. “The piece I chose is accompaniedby a statement of the personal interpretation I’ve developed over countless hours overseeing the work and interacting with its visitors-an interpretation that I’ve previously shared only in small impromptu conversations with those visitors who are interested in discussing their reflections on the piece with me.”
D. “Throughout the exhibition’s development, my colleagues and I partnered closely with other museum staff whose areas of expertise lie in curation and conservation, and whose insights enriched our understandings of the pieces we selected for the exhibition.”
C vì underlined nói rằng
dẫn đến một buổi triển lãm làm nổi bật một góc nhìn độc đáo mà bình thường không có cơ hội được thể hiện chính thứ
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires US federal agencies to assess environmental effects of potential actions, such as building highways. While many NEPА reviews require public comment, categorical exclusions (CEs) allow quick reviews with no public comment for actions that will minimally affect the environment. In 2020 the rule governing CEs was revised: before, CEs could be granted for actions that “do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment,” but the revised rule allowed CEs if actions “normally do not have a significant effect on the human environment.” Environmentalists found this revision to be potentially detrimental because
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A.the increasing need to build new highways and rehabilitate older highways in the US incentivizes agencies to grant CEs after 2020 for reasons that would not have been considered valid prior to 2020.
B.the 2020 relaxation of the rule regarding CEs would permit more exclusions. resulting in more reviews of actions by federal agencies and a paradoxically slower review process.
C. the rule that governed CEs before 2020 allowed expedited reviews of actions that might have significant effects on the environment if those effects were believed to be rare, while the 2020 revision of the rule subjected such actions to slower reviews.
D. the 2020 revision of the rule governing CEs would allow expedited reviews of actions that had a minimal environmental effect when considered on their own but a significant effect when considered together
D
Firefly luciferase (Fluc) is a distinctly evolved enzyme that can oxidize a substrate called Dluciferin to induce bioluminescence and can act as a fatty acyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) enzyme, a class of enzyme present in all insects. Fluc is a bifunctional enzyme whose presence indicates an insect is capable of emitting light; in contrast, the presence of ACS alone would be insufficient for determining bioluminescence.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A Nevertheless,
(B) In fact.
c Moreover,
(D Thatis,
D
In an ekphrastic poem,apoet explores a work ofvisual art, such as a drawing, sculpture,
or painting. Robert Hayden’s 1994 poem “Monet’s Waterlilies,” for example, meditates on
Claude Monet’s 1899 painting Water Lilies; Saad Ali’s 2020 poem “This Town.” takes a
painting as its subject: Ivan Alvazovsky’s 1859 work Lunar Night on the Black Sea.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A nevertheless,
B conversely.
C likewise,
D hence,
