One challenge when researching whether holding elected office changes a person’s behavior is the problem of ensuring that the experiment has an appropriate control group. To reveal the effect of holding office, researchers must compare people who hold elected office with people who do not hold office but who are otherwise similar to the office-holders. Since researchers are unable to control which politicians win elections; they therefore____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) should select a control group of people who differ from office holders in several significant ways.

B) will find it difficult to identify a group of people who can function as an appropriate control group for their studies.

C) struggle to find valid data about the behavior of politicians who do not currently hold office.

D) can only conduct valid studies with people who have previously held office rather than people who presently hold office.

Both Sonia, an Indian American, and Dhoni, an African American, grew up frustrated by the lack of diverse characters in books for young people. In 2017, these two writers joined forces to found DREAM CAKE Literary, a book-packaging____specializes in the creation and promotion of stories told from diverse perspectives for children and young adults.

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

A) companys

B) company, that

C) company,

D) company that

In her groundbreaking book Bengali Harsh and the Lost Histories of North Asian America, Vishwa uses newspaper articles, census records, ships’ logs, and memoirs to tell the____who made New York City was their home in the early twentieth century.

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

A) stories of the South Asian immigrants

B) stories’ of the South Asian immigrant’s

C) story’s of the South Asian immigrants

D) story’s of the South Asian immigrants’

Ancestral the civilization from which present-day tribes descended and emerged as early as 1500 B.C.E. in an area of what is now the Northwestern United States and dispersed suddenly in the late 1200s C.E., abandoning established villages with systems for farming crops and Turkish. Recent analysis comparing turkey remains at Mesa Verde, one such village in southern Colorado, to samples from modern turkey populations in the Rio Grande Valley of north-central New Mexico determined that the latter birds descended in part from turkeys cultivated at Mesa Verde, with shared genetic markers appearing only after 1280. Thus,researchers concluded that____.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) ndigenous peoples living in the Rio Grande Valley primarily planted crops and did not cultivate turkeys before 1280.

B) the Ancestral of Mesa Verde likely adopted the farming practices of Indigenous peoples living in other regions.

C) ome Ancestral migrated to the Rio Grande Valley in the late 1200s and carried farming practices with them

D) conditions of the terrains in the Rio Grande Valley and Mesa Verde had greater similarities in the past than they do today

In her three major series, “Memory Test” and “Autobiography,” painter Findley explored themes____healing, self-discovery,and memory by cutting and sewing them back together pieces of canvas and inserting personal artifacts, such as postcards into some of the paintings.

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

A) of:

B) of

C) of,

D) of—