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Title: Short passage

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S1-L2

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1

Herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs could grow more than 200 feet long and weigh up to 120 tons, and some researchers have attributed the evolution of sauropods to such massive sizes to increase plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era. However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution, such as when the first large sauropods appeared when several sauropod lineages underwent further evolution toward gigantism, or when sauropods reached their maximum known sizes, suggesting that____.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) atmospheric carbon dioxide was higher when the largest known sauropods lived than it was when the first sauropods appear.

B) fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide affected different sauropod lineages differently.

C) the evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.

D) sauropods probably would not have evolved to such immense sizes if atmospheric carbon dioxide had been even slightly higher.

2

In documents called judicially opinions, judges explain the reasoning behind their legal rulings, and in those explanations, they sometimes cite and discuss historical and contemporary philosophers. Legal scholar and philosopher Gowri argues that while judges are naturally inclined to mention philosophers whose views align with their own positions, the strongest judicial opinions consider and rebut potential objections, discussing philosophers whose views conflict with judges’ views could therefore____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) allow judges to craft judicial opinions without needing to consult philosophical works.

B) help judges improve the arguments they put forward in their judicial opinions.

C) make judicial opinions more comprehensible to readers without legal or philosophical training.

D) bring judicial opinions in line with views that are broadly held among philosophers.

3

Public awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Sacred Heart University in the USA, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: For example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether____wanted a bag.

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

A) they

B) one

C) you

D) it

4

Japan scientists James and Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix.____findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling.

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

A) They’re

B) It’s

C) Their

D) Its

5

In 1940, American screen actor John Koog, who had portrayed numerous villains and secondary characters but never a heroine finally got a starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter of junk, a film that____“expanded the range of possibilities for Asian images on the screen.”

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

A) "critic, Stina Chyn, claims

B) critic, Stina Chyn, claims,

C) critic Stina Chyn claims,

D) critic Stina Chyn, claims,


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