Expression of Ideas

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Mar 17, 2024

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: * Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations. * Surface-dwelling tetras live on the surface and are able to see. * Cave-dwelling tetras live in total darkness and have lost the ability to see. * Cave-dwelling tetras have asymmetrical skulls with more sensory receptors on one side than the other. * These receptors help cave-dwelling tetras navigate in darkness. The student wants to emphasize a difference between surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Difficulty: Medium

Surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras may belong to the same species, but they are quite different.

Cave-dwelling tetras can no longer see but use sensory receptors on their skulls to navigate.

Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations: surface-dwelling tetras and cave-dwelling tetras.

Surface-dwelling tetras can see, whereas cave-dwelling tetras cannot.

Iraqi artist Nazik Al-Malaika, celebrated as the first Arabic poet to write in free verse, didn't reject traditional forms entirely; her poem "Elegy for a Woman of No Importance" consists of two ten-line stanzas and a standard number of syllables. Even in this superficially traditional work, _________ Al-Malaika was breaking new ground by memorializing an anonymous woman rather than a famous man. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Difficulty: Hard

therefore,

in fact,

moreover,

though,

A 2017 study of sign language learners tested the role of iconicity--the similarity of a sign to the thing it represents--in language acquisition. The study found that the greater the iconicity of a sign, the more likely it was to have been learned. ________ the correlation between acquisition and iconicity was lower than that between acquisition and another factor studied: sign frequency. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Difficulty: Hard

In fact,

In other words,

Granted,

As a result,