The following text is from David Barclay Moore’s2022 novel Holler of the Fireflies. The narrator hasjust arrived at summer camp, which is far away from his home.

This place was different than I thought it would be. I’d never been somewhere like this before. I did feel scared, but also excited.

[1] According to the text, how does the narrator feelabout being at summer camp?

The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicistLuis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son WalterAlvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of anasteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and otheranimals to die _______it left unexplored thequestion of whether unrelated volcanic activity might have also contributed to the mass extinctions.

[2] Which choice completes the text so that it conformsto the conventions of Standard English?

ypically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book’s_______when the former owner is a famous poetlike Walt Whitman, such markings, known asmarginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars.

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

In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, alsoknown as snow monkeys, are influenced moreby food availability than by food preference.Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation andland-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may become unavailable because of extensive snow andice cover, _______the monkeys to hunt for marine animals in any streams that have not frozen over.

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

While many video game creators strive to make their graphics ever more ______ others look to the past,developing titles with visuals inspired by the “8-bit”games of the 1980s and 1990s. (The term “8-bit”refers to a console whose processor could onlyhandle eight bits of data at once.)

[5] Which choice completes the text so that it conformsto the conventions of Standard English?

Food and the sensation of taste are central toMonique Truong’s novels. In The Book of Salt, forexample, the exiled character of Bình connects to his native Saigon through the food he prepares, while in Bitter in the Mouth, the character of Linda ______ a form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears evoke tastes.

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

n Marisol’s 1968 sculpture Mi Mama y Yo, gone are the types of pop culture references that made theParisian-born Venezuelan American artist a star atthe height of the pop art movement. In _______place is a far more personal subject: a sculpturaldepiction of the artist as a young girl with hermother.

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

Thetwentieth‑century Kashmiri Americanpoet Agha Shahid Ali explains that each one of aghazal’s couplets, while adhering to the patterns ofrhyme (qafia) and refrain (radif) established in thepoem’s opening lines (matla), _______thematically and logically autonomous, resulting in a poem with “a stringently formal disunity.”

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

When Chinese director Chloé Zhao accepted the Oscar in 2021 for her film Nomadland, she made Academy Award history. _______only one other woman, Kathryn Bigelow of the United States, had been named best director at the Oscars, making Zhao the second woman and the first Asian woman to win the award.

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