Steps-1

Shaun Tan is an Australian author. In 2008, he published Tales from Outer Suburbia, a book of fifteen short stories. The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhoods. In 2018, he published Tales from the Inner City, a book of twenty-five short stories. The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary urban settings.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two books by Shaun Tan. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A) Tales from Outer Suburbia was published in 2008, and Tales from the Inner City was published in 2018.

B) Unlike Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan’s book Tales from Outer Suburbia is set in suburban neighborhoods.

C) Shaun Tan’s book Tales from Outer Suburbia, which describes surreal events occurring in otherwise, ordinary places contains fewer short stories than Tales from the Inner City does.

D) Shaun Tan’s book Tales from Outer Suburbia and Tales from the Inner City both describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary places.

Steps-2

In 1965, farm workers participated in a labor strike against grape growers to protest the exploitation of farm workers. The five-year strike was the first time many common strike tactics were used-boycotts, community organization, nonviolent resistance, and____and ultimately resulted in a victory for the farm workers.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) marches-

B) marches,

C) marches.

D) marches

Steps-3

Throat singing is a technique that uses a guttural (as opposed to the more common chest or head) voice and produces a sound that is often perceived as including multiple pitches from one person. Throat singing is a feature of many musical traditions, including Canto, a_Buddhist chant practiced in some monasteries in India and Tibet; and Inuit throat singing, used as a contest between two people in Northern Canada.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) teno`re, a style of quartet singing from Sardinia, Italy,

B) teno`re, a style of quartet singing from Sardinia Italy,

C) teno`re, a style of quartet singing from Sardinia, Italy;

D) teno`re; a style of quartet singing from Sardinia. Italy;

Steps-4

Stephen Pile’s The Book of Heroic Failures describes a variety of instances of individual and group deficiency. For example, the chapter "Off work" describes English as She is spoken, a guide to English conversation for Portuguese speakers. However, the phrases included in this book are typically inaccurate or____its author, Pedro Carolino, did not speak English and instead relied on two translation books: a Portuguese-to-French and a French-to-English.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) unidiomatic; because

B) unidiomatic. because

C) unidiomatic because

D) unidiomatic: because

Steps-5

The chemical composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere is relatively well-known due to the observations made by the Galileo atmospheric probe in 1995. The ratios of helium to hydrogen and phosphorus to hydrogen in Jupiter’s atmosphere are relatively close to the same ratios for the Sun. However, for other elements, Jupiter’s atmosphere has a much greater abundance: the ratio of nitrogen to hydrogen in Jupiter is about 3.5 times as great as that of the Sun; carbon to____and krypton to hydrogen, 2.7 times as great.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) hydrogen 2.9 times as great;

B) hydrogen, 2.9 times as great,

C) hydrogen 2.9 times as great,

D) hydrogen, 2.9 times as great;