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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Whether or not a woman was promoted, if she was given a raise, if she had access to the smoky sessions where the future was being conceived and built, had much to do with the prejudices and predilections of the men she worked for.

A
Decisions about whether a woman was promoted, paid more money, or allowed access to important meetings were based mostly on the prejudices and whims of her male managers.
B
Whether or not a woman got a better position, was paid more money, or had access to the smoky sessions where important decisions were made about the future depended on the prejudices and opinions of the men she worked for.
C
Regardless of whether or not a woman was promoted, paid more money, or allowed to attend important meetings, she still faced discrimination from the men she worked for.
D
Promotions, raises, and access to important meetings were granted to women only if the men in charge were able to overcome their own biases.
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Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Crime has increased so that we are told one of every three Americans is afraid to walk in his own neighborhood after dark.

A
He uses a statistic to strengthen an emotional appeal.
B
He uses a current event to develop an appeal to timeliness.
C
He makes a purely logical appeal by citing a statistic.
D
He appeals to authority by demonstrating his knowledge of current events.
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. English is now the second language of at least one-sixth of the nation’s restaurant workers, and about one-third of that group speaks no English at all. The proportion of fast food workers who cannot speak English is even higher.Which type of evidence does the author use in this excerpt?

A
anecdotal
B
statistical
C
testimonial
D
analogical
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Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.She toasts them right on the open flame in our kitchen. I know that everyone’s mother makes them this way, but I still cannot imagine doing it myself one day.It seems so bold. So brave. It is playing with fire.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

A
modest
B
familiar
C
admiring
D
worried
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Which of the following excerpts from Fast Food Nation best provides evidence that fast food restaurants are designed for using unskilled labor?

A
Her family’s modest townhouse sits beside a busy highway on the south side of Colorado Springs, in a largely poor and working-class neighborhood.
B
The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino’s also use conveyor belts to ensure standardized cooking times.
C
The restaurant opens for business at seven o’clock, and for the next hour or so, Elisa and the manager hold down the fort, handling all the orders.
D
Throughput is all about increasing the speed of assembly, about doing things faster in order to make more.
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Read the passage.Along with zebras, horses and donkeys are members of the Equus genus. Donkeys, however, tend to be smaller than horses and zebras, although a donkey is stronger than a horse of the same size. They make great packing animals and can handle tougher terrain than horses. Donkeys also need less care. Their hooves do not need to be shoed, and they require a less-delicate diet, making them superior work animals in many instances.

A
Donkeys are related to zebras as well as other types of horses.
B
Horses are much larger animals than donkeys.
C
Horses are easier to care for than donkeys.
D
Donkeys are better suited for certain types of work than horses.
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Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Death by Black Hole.”If you stumbled upon a black hole and found yourself falling feet-first toward its center, then as you got closer, the black hole’s force of gravity would grow astronomically. Curiously, you would not feel this force at all because, like anything in free fall, you are weightless. What you do feel, however, is something far more sinister. While you fall, the black hole’s force of gravity at your two feet, they being closer to the black hole’s center, accelerates them faster than does the weaker force of gravity at your head. Read the excerpt from Billy Collins’s “Man Listening to Disc.”the only true point of view,is full of the hope that he,the hub of the cosmoswith his hair blown sideways,will eventually make it all the way downtown.Which choice best describes the differing views Tyson and Collins present of humanity?

A
Tyson describes a sinister universe where men are eaten by black holes, while Collins describes a cosmos full of hope for a better future.
B
Tyson writes about a scientific fact of life, while Collins writes about an emotionally charged event in his life.
C
Tyson presents humans as powerless against the forces of nature, while Collins presents an individual creating his own destiny.
D
Tyson suggests that people have no control of their lives in a dangerous world, while Collins reminds people to take control and be focused.
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Read the passage.Oil stains can be the most stubborn to remove from clothing. It is important to get the stain out, though, as remnants of the grease or oil could actually start a fire when the clothing is put in the dryer. The first thing to do is to put a few drops of dish soap on the stain. Dish soap is made to cut through grease. Next, rub in the soap with your fingers, a clean cloth, or a sponge. Let the soap sit on the stain for at least five minutes. You can then wash it as you normally would, in hot water with detergent. It is best to air-dry the clothing to make sure that the stain did, in fact, come out.

A
to emphasize that grease stains are nearly impossible to remove
B
to emphasize the danger of putting grease-stained clothes in the dryer
C
to explain why dish soap is the best treatment for grease stains
D
to explain the process of removing grease stains from clothing
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Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.Today the air is so soupy that it feels like I am living inside someone else’s mouth. I wake up at the sound of the first adhan, the muezzin’s voice echoing through my room. But I do not get up to pray. Instead I roll over and press my face into my pillow and pray for cool air and sleep.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

A
a bedroom on a muggy summer day
B
a lively mosque in the morning
C
a warm bed during a cool winter
D
a humid outdoor public square
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Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" includes an example of an allusion?

A
"The issue before us in such a time is how shall we discharge, how shall we honor our citizenship."
B
"Others of the student revolution have publicly burned draft cards and even the American flag."
C
"Perhaps by the time my 4-year-old son is grown, men will have learned to live by the Ten Commandments."
D
"Is it less immoral now to take the easier course and gamble the lives of our sons and grandsons on the outcome?"
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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Men gave the orders and women took notes. Unless an engineer was given a compelling reason to evaluate a woman as a peer, she remained in his blind spot, her usefulness measured against the limited task at hand, any additional talents undiscovered.Read Cameron’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Women completed the tasks assigned to them. Unless an engineer was forced to consider a woman his peer, he never paid attention to her. Men were only concerned with completing the tasks that were right in front of them.

A
He adds his personal opinions.
B
He includes information that is not found in the original text.
C
He includes wording that is too close to the original text.
D
He misrepresents the author’s ideas.
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Which text structure should be used to show the order of events?

A
chronological order
B
description
C
problem/solution
D
sequence
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. Up and down Academy Boulevard, along South Nevada, Circle Drive, and Woodman Road, teenagers like Elisa run the fast food restaurants of Colorado Springs. Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Malone, a film in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults. No other industry in the United States has a workforce so dominated by adolescents.How does Schlosser effectively build his argument in this excerpt?

A
He uses anecdotal evidence to share a personal experience of eating fast food.
B
He uses analogical evidence to help the reader visualize his point about the workers.
C
He uses testimonial evidence to explain the health risks of eating fast food.
D
He uses statistical evidence to prove that adults make better employees than teens.
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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.By the measure of the rest of the country, she was an insider’s insider. She enjoyed a front-row seat at a spectacle that the rest of the citizenry learned about in the daily newspaper and on the nightly news. But however close she sat to the room where the meetings took place, she was still an outsider if she couldn't get in the door.

A
Even though many would have considered Katherine Goble an insider because she was close to the meetings, she still felt like an outsider because she was not actually part of the meetings.
B
Even though Katherine Goble was an insider by the measure of the rest of the country, she was still an outsider because she could not get in the door to actually attend the meetings.
C
Katherine Goble was so close to the meetings, yet she still felt far away, and she only knew what went on in the meetings based on what she learned about in the news.
D
Katherine Goble had a unique and interesting opportunity to learn about what was happening in the meetings that took place behind closed doors, but she still felt like an outsider.
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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Katherine listened carefully to everything the engineers said, strained for snippets of conversation, and devoured Aviation Week like a kid reading the funny papers. The real action, she knew, was taking place there in the lectures and editorial meetings, those closed-door sessions where engineers subjected preliminary research reports to the same relentless scrutiny and stress testing that they applied to the aircraft they engineered.

A
Katherine Goble’s close attention to things that could help her learn about engineering
B
the comparison of Katherine Goble to a child reading comics
C
Katherine Goble’s understanding of the fact that research reports were carefully evaluated
D
the idea that aircraft are stress-tested before operation
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Read the sentence from an argumentative essay about chemical waste. The chemical waste produced by factories is out of hand, and factory owners should get in trouble.Which revision offers the most improvement in word choice?

A
The chemical waste produced by factories is insane, and factory owners should be punished.
B
The chemical waste produced by factories is dangerous, and factory owners should be held accountable.
C
The chemical waste produced by factories is huge, and factory owners should get it under control.
D
The chemical waste produced by factories is manageable, and factory owners deserve blame.
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Read the passage.Along with zebras, horses and donkeys are members of the Equus genus. Donkeys, however, tend to be smaller than horses and zebras, although a donkey is stronger than a horse of the same size. They make great packing animals and can handle tougher terrain than horses. Donkeys also need less care. Their hooves do not need to be shoed, and they require a less-delicate diet, making them superior work animals in many instances.

A
Donkeys are related to zebras as well as other types of horses.
B
Horses are much larger animals than donkeys.
C
Horses are easier to care for than donkeys.
D
Donkeys are better suited for certain types of work than horses.
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Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.Today the air is so soupy that it feels like I am living inside someone else’s mouth. I wake up at the sound of the first adhan, the muezzin’s voice echoing through my room. But I do not get up to pray. Instead I roll over and press my face into my pillow and pray for cool air and sleep.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

A
a bedroom on a muggy summer day
B
a lively mosque in the morning
C
a warm bed during a cool winter
D
a humid outdoor public square
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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Whether or not a woman was promoted, if she was given a raise, if she had access to the smoky sessions where the future was being conceived and built, had much to do with the prejudices and predilections of the men she worked for.

A
Decisions about whether a woman was promoted, paid more money, or allowed access to important meetings were based mostly on the prejudices and whims of her male managers.
B
Whether or not a woman got a better position, was paid more money, or had access to the smoky sessions where important decisions were made about the future depended on the prejudices and opinions of the men she worked for.
C
Regardless of whether or not a woman was promoted, paid more money, or allowed to attend important meetings, she still faced discrimination from the men she worked for.
D
Promotions, raises, and access to important meetings were granted to women only if the men in charge were able to overcome their own biases.
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Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures.Katherine listened carefully to everything the engineers said, strained for snippets of conversation, and devoured Aviation Week like a kid reading the funny papers. The real action, she knew, was taking place there in the lectures and editorial meetings, those closed-door sessions where engineers subjected preliminary research reports to the same relentless scrutiny and stress testing that they applied to the aircraft they engineered.

A
Katherine Goble’s close attention to things that could help her learn about engineering
B
the comparison of Katherine Goble to a child reading comics
C
Katherine Goble’s understanding of the fact that research reports were carefully evaluated
D
the idea that aircraft are stress-tested before operation

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