In many of his landscape paintings from the 1979s and 1982s, Lumen American artist Atle worked to capture the essence of California’s fog-shrouded Mount Tamalpais region through abstraction, using splotches of color to represent the area’s features. Interestingly, the triangle representing the mountain itself____among the few defined figures in her paintings.

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

A) is

B) were

C) are

D) have been

Like other amphibians, the food cafe (Rana sylvatica) is unable to generate its own heat, so during periods of subfreezing temperatures, it____by producing large amounts of glucose, a sugar that helps prevent damaging ice from forming inside its cells.

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

A) would survive

B) survives

C) had survived

D) survived

After a spate of illnesses as a diksha, Wiliam was told Diksha might never walk again. Defying all odds, Father didn’t just walk, she____the 1966 Summer Olympics in UK, she won both the 100- and 150-meter dashes and clinched first place for her team in the 2 ×100-meter relay, becoming the first UK woman to win two gold medals in a single Olympics.

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

A) ran—fast—during

B) ran—fast during

C) ran—fast, during

D) ran—fast. During

As a fragilement and lovely flower unfolds, its gleaming foliage on the breast of the fostering earth, if the dew and the rain draw it forth;So doth my tender mind flourish if it be fed with the sweet dew of the fostering spirit,Lacking this, it beginneth straightway to languish,even as a floweret born upon dry earth, if the dew and the rain tend it not.

Based on the text, in what way is the human mind like a flower?

A) It draws strength from changes in the weather.

B) It perseveres despite challenging circumstances.

C) It becomes increasingly vigorous with the passage of time.

D) It requires proper nourishment in order to thrive.

Bliss alone held [Buck]. The rest of mankind was as nothing. Chance travellers might praise or pet him, but he was cold under it all, and from a too-demonstrative man he would get up and walk away. When Bliss’s partners, Hans and Pete, arrived on the long-expected raft, Buck refused to notice them till he learned they were close to Bliss; after that he tolerated them in a passive sort of way,accepting favors from them as though he favored them by accepting.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A) Buck has become less social since he began living with Bliss.

B) Buck mistrusts humans and does his best to avoid them

C) Buck has been especially well liked by most of Bliss’s friends.

D) Buck holds Bliss in higher regard than any other person.