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To develop a method for measuring snow depth with laser beams, NASA physicist Yongxiang Hu relied on ________; identifying broad similarities between two seemingly different phenomena, Hu used information about how ants move inside colonies to calculate how the particles of light that make up laser beams travel through snow.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
a collaboration
an accessory
a contradiction
an analogy
The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's 1921 short story "John Redding Goes to Sea." John is a child who lives in a town in the woods.
Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams. The St. John River flowed a scarce three hundred feet from his back door. On its banks at this point grow numerous palms, luxurian magnolias and bay trees. On the bosom of the stream float millions of delicately colored hyacinths. [John Redding] loved to wander down to the water's edge, and, casting in dry twigs, watch them sail away down stream to Jacksonville, the sea, the wide world and [he] wanted to follow them.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
It provides an extended description of a location that John likes to visit.
It reveals that some residents of John's town are confused by his behavior.
It illustrates the uniqueness of John's imagination compared to the imaginations of other children.
It suggests that John longs to experience a larger life outside the Florida woods.
The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times. Coketown is a fictional town in England. [Coketown] contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
To emphasize the uniformity of both the town and the people who live there
To explain the limited work opportunities available to the town's residents
To reveal how the predictability of the town makes it easy for people lose track of time
To argue that the simplicity of life in the town makes it a pleasant place to live
Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Hugh Capet or Henry I was historically consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory was shaped by questions of legitimacy and therefore cannot be understood without a corollary, understanding of the factors that allowed the monarch to ______ his right to hold the throne.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
disengage
annotate
buttress
reciprocate
According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best way to predict the amount of time a nonperishable entity (such as a building or a technology) will continue to exist is to examine how long it has survived so far. In this view, an item's age is the strongest ________ how much longer it will last.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
uncertainty about
indicator of
motivation for
criticism of
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