The human body has three types of muscle------cardiac, and skeletal. The levator anguli oris is a skeletal muscleof which the body contains more than six hundred-and ithelps with raising the corners of the mouth

[16] Which choice completes the text so that itconforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Alabama resident Benjamin S. Turner, sworn in as amember of the US House of Representatives in 1871, wasone of the nearly two thousand African----------during thedecade following the Civil War.

[17] Which choice completes the text so that itconforms to the conventions of Standard English?

While the greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) can befound in places like Dong Khanthung in Laos and ChitwanNational Park in Nepal, more than 80 percent of thisendangered stork species is found in Assam, India. There, wildlife--------- is on the front lines of conservation effortsto bring adjutants back from near extinction.

[18] Which choice completes the text so that itconforms to the conventions of Standard English?

The programming languages COBOL, developed by GraceHopper in-----developed by Rich Hickey in 2007, are allroutinely translated into executable code by tools knownas compilers.

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

Proto-Kru is a protolanguage, or a hypothesized ancestrallanguage, of all the Kru languages (thirty-eight languagesthat, because--------descendants of Proto-Kru, can provide information about the protolanguage'sstructure).

[20] Which choice completes the text so that itconforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Though Middle English was widely spoken in fourteenth- century England, the English language was rarelyemployed in literature until poet Geoffrey Chaucerpioneered its literary use.-------his manuscripts containthe first documented uses of over 2,000 English wordslike the word "digestion" in his 1395 poem "The Squire'sTale"-which led a contemporary to dub him "the firstfinder of our fair language.

[21] Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical transition?

In skateboarding, the 900-a trick in which theskateboarder spins two and a half times in midair-is sorare that every successful execution of it is a historicoccasion.---------ever since Mitchie Brusco and TasPappas performed their 900s (in 2011 and 2014, respectively), fans have revered them as titans of thesport.

[22] Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical transition?

Visually distinguishing the common raven (Corvus corax)from the Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus) canconfound even seasoned bird watchers.-------the twospecies share similarities that-at times-make the birdsappear virtually identical. Size, though, remains adifferentiating feature: the common raven tends to belarger.

[23] Which choice completes the text with the mostlogical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken thefollowing notes:

- Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) was a celebrated African American artist.

- She is best known for creating sculptures and prints that explore the Black experience.

- Mahalia is a 2002 sculpture by Catlett.

- Paulina is a 2009 print by Catlett. 

[24] The student wants to provide an example of one ofCatlett's sculptures. Which choice most effectively usesrelevant information from the notes to accomplish thisgoal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken thefollowing notes:. Lighthouses send out crucial light signals to help shipsand other watercraft navigate at night.. Before automation, lighthouses were run by lighthousekeepers.. Kate Walker was the lighthouse keeper at Robbins ReefLight in New York.. She held this position from 1894 to 1919.. Georgiana C. Brumfield was the lighthouse keeper atTurkey Point Light in Maryland.. She held this position from 1895 to 1919.

B[25] The student wants to emphasize a similaritybetween Kate Walker and Georgiana C. Brumfield. Which choice most effectively uses relevant informationfrom the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the followingnotes:. The University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway, is home to aFoucault pendulum.. The pendulum consists of a weighted ball that swings at theend of a roughly 14- meter-long cable.. Like all Foucault pendulums, it dangles from a fixed pointthat ensures the swing path of the pendulum doesn't change, . To an observer, the swing path of a Foucault pendulumappears to change over time because Earth rotates beneathit. rotation.

[26] Which choice most effectively uses information fromthe given sentences to specify the length of the Foucaultpendulum's cable?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the followingnotes:. Mauritania is a country in North Africa.. A high percentage of Mauritania's population (39.9 percent)is under fifteen years old.. It has the thirty-fourth-largest under-fifteen population inthe world.. Roughly 40 percent of Africa's population is under fifteenyears old-the highest of any continent.. According to the United Nations (UN), Africa's "high numberof young people is an opportunity for the continent'sgrowth-but only if these new generations are fullyempowered to realise their best potential.

[27] The student wants to emphasize the global rank ofMauritania's youth population. Which choice mosteffectively uses relevant information from the notes toaccomplish this goal?

The National Heritage Fellowship was created to honor exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. One artist who received the fellowshipis Navajo (Dine) basket weaver Mary Holiday Black, Black was chosen for her lifetime ----------the arts.>

[1]Which choice completes the textwith the most logical and precise word or phrase?

<The following text is from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is returning home after a visit to Mr. Badger's house. As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole saw clearly that he was an animal of tilled field and hedge row, linked to the ploughed furrow, the frequented pasture, the lane of evening lingerings, the cultivated garden-plot.

[2] As used in the text, what does the word "anticipating" most nearly mean?

In the mid-1980s, the price of vintage and even new baseball cards rose dramatically, which had the counterintuitive effect of -----demand: buyers who  hadn't previously wanted to purchase baseball cards thronged the market, believing prices would continue to rise and the cards could be resold later at a profit. 

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

The Fly River delta is a remarkably ---- landscape: it is a constantly evolving network of channels and strips of land that change in size and shape as the river deposits new sedimentary particles where the river meets the waters of the Gulf of Papua.

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

A microgenre is a specialized genre consisting of a comparatively small numher of stylistically similar artists. The microgenre of electronic music known as hyperpop emerged in the 2010s, with American singer Dorian Electra as an early exponent. Their combination of lush synthesizer arrangements and propulsive beats with vocals electronically shifted in pitch below their natural range exemplifies the hyperpop sound. More recently, Japanese-British recording artist Rina Sawayama has contributed to the microgenre by incorporating pop melodies into hyperpop songs.

[5]Which choice best describes the functionof the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

Cuttlefish and toads see in three dimensions (3D) by combining two images in their brains, one from each eye. This produces a sense of depth, helping the animals judge how close or far away an object is. Researchers have investigated 3D vision in praying mantises as well. In one study, Vivek Nityananda and his team fitted mantises' faces with two different color filters, one covering each eye, much like the filters in 3D glasses once worn at movies. By observing the mantises' reaction to projected images, the team confirmed that mantises do indeed have 3D vision, but it's unlike that of other animals.

[6] Which choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Text 1

The island of Grande Terre split from the former supercontinent Gondwana around 80 million years ago, carrying Condwanan species from a variety of clades with it. The island was periodically submerged until 37 million years ago, but some researchers suggest that its current biota includes species from clades predating the split that took refuge on islands near Grande Terre during submergence events and then returned.

Text 2

Thomas R. Buckley et al. found that the crown age-the age of the most recent common ancestor of all species in the clade (i.e., the clade's founder)-of Grande Terre's clade of stick insects is 41.1 million years, which is among the oldest clade crown ages of species inhabiting the island today. Nearly all of Grande Terre's living species belong to clades that originated much more recently: for example, the crown age of the island's clade of Goodeniaceae plants is 2.0 million vears.

[7] Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely agree with which statement  about the "Gondwanan species" discussed in Text 1?

Text 1

According to a study by a conservation group representing 11 tribal nations in the Great Lakes region, the northern wild rice (manoomin in the Ojibwe language) will have significantly worse outcomes over the next 50 years if temperatures increase as much as some models suggest.By contrast, the white-tailed deerthe (waawaashkeshi in Ojibwe) should be able to withstand the highest predicted warming without much harm and so likely won't require the conservation efforts that the northern wild rice will. 

Text 2

US government agencies involved in conservation are unfortunately not able to address every possible threat to natural resources. They must use the best information available to decide which species are most threatened and therefore most in need of conservation efforts.

[8] Based on the texts, both authors would most likely agree with which statement? 

The following text is from Julia Alvarez's 2000 novel In the Name of Salome. Salome, a poet, is hosting guests in the front parlor of her family home, and Ramona is her sister. A salon is a social gathering for the exploration of intellectual ideas. It was evening when the two men got up to leave. Tia Ana had already come into the room several times to see if these guests had departed yet. The front parlor had always been her special province, as she used it for her little school. Now, every evening, it turned into Salome's salon, as Ramena called it, and it was never in order for its transformation back to a classroom the following morning.

[9] Basedon the text, what most likely motivates Tia Ana's behavior during Salome's salon?

A Pair of Silk Stockings" is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin. In the story, Mrs. Sommers attends a play, which she experiences as a temporary escape from the circumstances of her daily life :--------

[12] Which quotation from "A Pair of Silk Stockings" most effectively illustrates the claim? </P>

Hypothesizing that lullabies, characterized by their slow tempos, are universally calming to infants, Constance M. Bainbridge and colleagues played a lullaby sung in the Western Nahuatl language and a non-lullaby sung in the Serbian language to a group of infants. The team found that the infants' heart rates and pupil size both decreased more during the lullaby than during the non- lullaby. Since a decrease in heart rate is associated with relaxation, the team concluded that the lullaby relaxed the infants. However, noting that reduced heart rate can also be associated with increased attention, one critic argues that instead, the lullaby simply attracted the infants' attention.

[13] Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the critic's claim?  .

The olona shrub is one of many forest plant species native to Oahu (a Hawaiian island) that are at risk of extinction. The survival of most of these species in the wild largely depends on birds eating their fruits and then dropping the seeds in different locations. Although Oahu's native fruit-eating birds have all gone extinct, the common waxbill and other fruit- eating bird species have heen brought to the island and are now common there. Studies confirm that these non-native birds are spreading plant seeds on Oahu, suggesting that the birds------------

>[15] Which choice most logically completes the text?