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Reading & Writing · Standard English Conventions · 107 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.

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  1. 1Generations of mystery and horror ______ have been influenced by the dark, gothic stories of celebrated American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849).Easy · Standard English Conventions
  2. 2While one requires oxygen and one does ______ and anaerobic respiration are both forms of cellular respiration—that is, they are processes by which cells break down glucose to use Easy · Standard English Conventions
  3. 3Human-made (synthetic) fibers used in clothes and many other consumer products are more durable than most natural plant ______ the manufacture of synthetic fibers requires toxic chEasy · Standard English Conventions
  4. 4Emperor penguins don't waddle out of the ocean. They launch themselves at such a high speed that they travel up to two meters before landing. How ______ A layer of microbubbles on Easy · Standard English Conventions
  5. 5Emperor Ashoka ruled the Maurya Empire in South Asia from roughly 270 to 232 BCE. He is known for enforcing a moral code called the Law of Piety, which established the sanctity of Easy · Standard English Conventions
  6. 6A subseasonal weather forecast attempts to predict weather conditions three to four weeks in ______ its predictions are therefore more short-term than those of the seasonal forecasEasy · Standard English Conventions
  7. 7In her book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, author Maxine Hong Kingston examines themes ______ childhood, womanhood, and Chinese American identity by intertwEasy · Standard English Conventions
  8. 8The fine, powdery substance that covers the Moon's surface is called regolith. Because regolith is both readily available and high in oxygen ______ scientists have wondered whetherEasy · Standard English Conventions
  9. 9Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz was hired by a soda company to determine how much artificial sweetener ______ After conducting consumer taste tests, he found that no such ideal exEasy · Standard English Conventions
  10. 10Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book's ______ when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, knoEasy · Standard English Conventions
  11. 11After the United Kingdom began rolling out taxes equivalent to a few cents on single-use plastic grocery bags in 2011, plastic-bag consumption decreased by up to ninety ______ taxeEasy · Standard English Conventions
  12. 12In her two major series "Memory Test" and "Autobiography," painter Howardena Pindell explored themes ______ healing, self-discovery, and memory by cutting and sewing back together Easy · Standard English Conventions
  13. 13About 70,000 meteorites have been found on Earth. Although most meteorites are fragments of ______ hundred have been identified as being from the Moon or Mars.Easy · Standard English Conventions
  14. 14Polyphenols are organic compounds ______ among their many roles, provide pigment that helps protect plants against ultraviolet radiation from sunlight.Easy · Standard English Conventions
  15. 15After the printing press was introduced in 1440, handwritten manuscripts from Europe's medieval period were often destroyed and the paper used for other purposes. In one instance, Easy · Standard English Conventions
  16. 16The life spans of rockfish vary greatly by species. For instance, the colorful calico rockfish (Sebastes dalli) can survive for a little over a ______ the rougheye rockfish (SebastEasy · Standard English Conventions
  17. 17The intense pressure found in the deep ocean can affect the structure of proteins in fish's cells, distorting the proteins' shape. The chemical trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) counteEasy · Standard English Conventions
  18. 18When particles are suspended in liquid (like pollen in a water glass), they will zigzag randomly through the liquid and collide with one another in perpetuity. This type of random,Easy · Standard English Conventions
  19. 19In 1959, the film industry debuted Smell-O-Vision. Theaters were fitted with specialized vents that emitted odors at specific points in a ______ as the scent of roses when roses apEasy · Standard English Conventions
  20. 20Robin Wall Kimmerer of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a bryologist, a plant scientist who specializes in mosses. To Kimmerer, mosses are Earth's most adaptable plants: they can cEasy · Standard English Conventions
  21. 21In 1976, the Inuit rock group Sikumiut recorded the album People of the Ice. Though only their first record, it shows a band already skilled at the difficult task of making music tEasy · Standard English Conventions
  22. 22Both Sona Charaipotra, an Indian American, and Dhonielle Clayton, an African American, grew up frustrated by the lack of diverse characters in books for young people. In 2011, thesEasy · Standard English Conventions
  23. 23In 2000, Nora de Hoyos Comstock, herself an owner of a successful consulting firm, sought to increase Latina representation in corporate ______ founded Las Comadres para las AmericEasy · Standard English Conventions
  24. 24A standard Argo float, a type of autonomous robot, measures temperature and salinity in the upper regions of ice-free oceans. More advanced floats can measure a wider range of ____Easy · Standard English Conventions
  25. 25Fans of science fiction will ______ multiple references to classic sci-fi stories in Janelle Monáe's song lyrics, including her recurring nods to the plot of the 1927 sci-fi film MEasy · Standard English Conventions
  26. 26Lucía Michel of the University of Chile observed that alkaline soils contain an insoluble form of iron that blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry growth. If theEasy · Standard English Conventions
  27. 27Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe was known for his innovative filming techniques. While filming a boxing match for the movie Body and Soul ______ Howe had a handheld cEasy · Standard English Conventions
  28. 28Winding through the ice atop Norway's Jotunheim Mountains is the Lendbreen pass, an ancient route that was used by hunters, farmers, traders, and travelers in the Middle Ages beforEasy · Standard English Conventions
  29. 29Before the Erie Canal was completed in 1825, transporting goods by wagon between New York City and the Midwest took up to forty-five days and cost one hundred dollars per ton. By lEasy · Standard English Conventions
  30. 30In 1959, marine biologist Dr. Albert Jones founded the Underwater Adventure Seekers, a scuba diving ______ that is the oldest club for Black divers in the United States and that haEasy · Standard English Conventions
  31. 31In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a leader of Umuofia (a fictional Nigerian clan) and takes pride in his culture's traditions. However, when the arrival oEasy · Standard English Conventions
  32. 32At eight paragraphs long, the preamble to the constitution of ______ country in Western Asia—is much longer than the one-paragraph preamble to the United States Constitution.Easy · Standard English Conventions
  33. 33While 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 andEasy · Standard English Conventions
  34. 34The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of an asteroid impact caused manyEasy · Standard English Conventions