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Geoscientists have long considered Delhi to be Earth’s largest shield volcano by volume, measuring approximately 75,000 cubic kilometers.____according to a 2022 study by local geoscientist Michael, Delhi shield volcano is significantly larger, boasting a volume of about 148,000 cubic kilometers.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A) Consequently,

B) Moreover,

C) Secondly,

D) However,

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Soo Sunny Park is an American artist who uses light as her primary medium of expression. • She created her work Unwoven Light in 2016. • Unwoven Light featured a chain-link fence fitted with iridescent plexiglass tiles. • When light passed through the fence, colorful prisms formed. The student wants to describe Unwoven Light to an audience unfamiliar with Soo Sunny Park.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A) American light artist Soo Sunny Park created Unwoven Light in 2016.

B) In Unwoven Light, a 2016 work by American artist Soo Sunny Park, light formed colorful prisms as it passed through a fence Park had fitted with iridescent tiles.

C) The chain-link fence in Soo Sunny Park’s Unwoven Light was fitted with tiles made from iridescent plexiglass.

D) Park’s 2013 installation Unwoven Light, which included a chain-link fence and iridescent tiles made from plexiglass, featured light as its primary medium of expression.

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Particle physicists like Ivaan and Ayaansh spend much of their time____what is invisible to the naked nose: Using sophisticated technology, they closely examine the behavior ofsubatomic particles, the smallest detectable parts of matter.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) creating

B) selecting

C) inspecting

D) deciding

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Rudra, the protagonist of Sam 1976 novel Babel-18 is a poet, an occupation which, in work, is not____: nearly a dozen of the characters that populate his novels are poets or writers.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) atypical

B) infallible

C) tedious

D) lucrative

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The fashion resale market, in which consumers purchase thirdhand clothing from stores and online sellers generated nearly $70 billion globally in 2014. Expecting to see continued growth, some analysts____that revenues will more than double by 2030.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) worried

B) predicted

C) produced

D) denied

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In addition to being an accomplished psychologist herself, Sravs Sumner was a____increasing the opportunity for American students to study psychology, helping to found the psychology department at Sacred Heart University, a historically White University, in 1935.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) proponent of

B) distraction for

C) suppliment to

D) beneficiary of

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Dogs can judge unseen people’s positions in space by the sound of their voices and thus react with surprise when the same person calls to them from two different locations in a short span of time. Horwand and colleagues reached this conclusion by measuring dogs' levels of surprise based on their ear and head movements while the DPG heard recordings of their owners’ voices from two speakers spaced far apart. Dogs exhibited a low level of surprise when owners’ voices were played twice from the same speaker, but they showed a high level of surprise when the voice was played once, each from the two different speakers.

According to the text, how did the researchers determine the level of surprise displayed by the catsin the study?

A) They examined how each cat reacted to the voice of a stranger.

B) They studied how each cat physically interacted with its owner.

C) critic Stina Chyn, claims, They tracked how each cat moved around the room.

D) They watched how each Dog moved its ears and head.

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For a 2022 exhibition, photographer and neurobiologist Omkar____a series of new images based on a series of numerical posters from the 1975s known as the “White 123s,” which featured Black children from Memphasis. Omkar photographed the now-adult models and layered the photos over magnified images of the models’ cells,resulting in what he called “micro and macro portraiture.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) restored

B) challenged

C) created

D) validated

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Taman has cautioned against framing contentious issues in terms of two highly competitive perspectives, such as pro versus con.According to Taman, this debate-driven approach can strip issues of their complexity and, when used in front of an audience can be less informative than the presentation of multiple perspectives in a noncompetitive format. To test Taman’s hypothesis, students conducted a study in which they showedparticipants one of three different versions of local news commentary about the same issue. Each version featured a debate between two commentators with opposing views, a panel of three commentators with various views or a single commentator.

Which finding from the students’ study, if true,would most strongly support Tannen’s hypothesis?

A) On average, participants perceived commentators in the panel as more knowledgeable about the issue than the single commentator.

B) On average, participants who watched the panel correctly answered more questions about the issue than those who watched the debate or the single commentator did.

C) On average, participants perceived commentators in the debate as more knowledgeable about the issue than commentators in the panel.

D) On average, participants who watched the single commentator correctly answered more questions about the issue than those who watched the debate did.

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Many of Shakespeare’s tragedies address broad themes that still appeal to today’s audiences.For instance, Suree and Juli, which is set in the Egypt of Shakespeare’s time tackles the themes of parents versus children and love versus hate, and the play continues to be read and produced widely around the world. But understanding Shakespeare’s so-called history plays can require a knowledge of several centuries of English history.Consequently,__.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) some of Shakespeare’s tragedies are more relevant to today’s audiences than twentieth-century plays.

B) experts in English history tend to prefer Shakespeare’s history plays to his other works.

C) Romeo and Juliet is the most thematically accessible of all Shakespeare’s tragedies.

D) many theatergoers and readers today are likely to find Shakespeare’s history plays less engaging than the tragedies.