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

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  1. 1The Mission 66 initiative, which was approved by Congress in 1956, represented a major investment in the infrastructure of overburdened national ______ it prioritized physical imprMedium · Standard English Conventions
  2. 2A study led by scientist Rebecca Kirby at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that black bears that eat human food before hibernation have increased levels of a rare carbon iMedium · Standard English Conventions
  3. 3Photosynthesis, the mechanism by which plants use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into ______ is fueled in part by an enzyme called Photosystem II that harvests energy-giMedium · Standard English Conventions
  4. 4After a spate of illnesses as a child, Wilma Rudolph was told she might never walk again. Defying all odds, Rudolph didn't just walk, she ______ the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, sMedium · Standard English Conventions
  5. 5Beatrix Potter is perhaps best known for writing and illustrating children's books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she also dedicated herself to mycology, the study ofMedium · Standard English Conventions
  6. 6As British scientist Peter Whibberley has observed, "the Earth is not a very good timekeeper." Earth's slightly irregular rotation rate means that measurements of time must be periMedium · Standard English Conventions
  7. 7Po'Pay was a Tewa leader from Ohkay Owingeh, a pueblo located about twenty-five miles north of present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was instrumental in organizing the Pueblo RevoltMedium · Standard English Conventions
  8. 8Gathering accurate data on water flow in the United States is challenging because of the country's millions of miles of ______ the volume and speed of water at any given location cMedium · Standard English Conventions
  9. 9In 2008, two years after the death of science fiction writer Octavia Butler, the Huntington Library in ______ received a collection of more than 8,000 items, including Butler's priMedium · Standard English Conventions
  10. 10Archaeologists have estimated that the pre-Columbian Native American city of Cahokia, located across the Mississippi River from modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, had as many as 20,00Medium · Standard English Conventions
  11. 11Eli Eisenberg, a genetics expert at Tel Aviv University in Israel, recently discovered that ______ have a special genetic ability called RNA editing that confers evolutionary advanMedium · Standard English Conventions
  12. 12Detroit natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey have combined their two passions, Detroit and beekeeping, to improve the health of their city's flowers and other vegetation. In 20Medium · Standard English Conventions
  13. 13The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, continues to be studied by archaeologists. Unfortunately, as ______ attest, archaeolMedium · Standard English Conventions
  14. 14Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell's sculpture Mud Woman Rolls On consists of five human figures made of clay and plant fiber and arranged in descending size; each figure Medium · Standard English Conventions
  15. 15Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to comply with the segregated seating policy on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, a fifteen-year-old Montgomery girl named ClaudettMedium · Standard English Conventions
  16. 16The first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc, improved financial recordkeeping not only by providing users with an easy means of adjusting data in spreadsheets but aMedium · Standard English Conventions
  17. 17It is generally true that technological change is a linear process, in which once-useful technologies are replaced by new and better ______ the reawakening of interest in the steamMedium · Standard English Conventions
  18. 18In 2017, artists Isabel and Ruben Toledo redesigned the costumes and sets for The Miami City Ballet's production of The ______ to reviewers, the Toledos' designs helped infuse the Medium · Standard English Conventions
  19. 19Seneca sculptor Marie Watt's blanket art comes in a range of shapes and sizes. In 2004, Watt sewed strips of blankets together to craft a 10-by-13-inch ______ in 2014, she arrangedMedium · Standard English Conventions
  20. 20Humans were long thought to have begun occupying the Peruvian settlement of Machu Picchu between 1440 and 1450 CE. However, a team led by anthropologist Dr. Richard Burger used accMedium · Standard English Conventions
  21. 21Materials scientist Marie-Agathe Charpagne and her colleagues believed they could improve on the multicomponent alloy NiCoCr, an equal-proportions mixture of nickel (Ni), cobalt (CMedium · Standard English Conventions
  22. 22The forty-seven geothermal springs of Arkansas' Hot Springs National Park are sourced via a process known as natural groundwater recharge, in which rainwater percolates downward thMedium · Standard English Conventions
  23. 23In 2010, archaeologist Noel Hidalgo Tan was visiting the twelfth-century temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia when he noticed markings of red paint on the temple ______ the help of digMedium · Standard English Conventions
  24. 24According to Naomi Nakayama of the University of Edinburgh, the reason seeds from a dying dandelion appear to float in the air while ______ is that their porous plumes enhance dragMedium · Standard English Conventions
  25. 25In 1727, dramatist Lewis Theobald presented a new play, Double Falsehood, at a London theater. Theobald claimed that his drama was based on a little-known play by William ShakespeaMedium · Standard English Conventions
  26. 26A conceptual artist and designer embraced by both the art world and the fashion ______ Mary Ping was chosen to curate the exhibition Front Row: Chinese American Designers for the MMedium · Standard English Conventions
  27. 27Luci Tapahonso is the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. Her book Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing—a combination of fiction and memoir, poetry and ______ serves as Medium · Standard English Conventions
  28. 28Swedish scientists Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann developed a method for measuring the concentration of different proteins in a biological sample. Their ______ ELISA (enzyme-linkedMedium · Standard English Conventions
  29. 29How do scientists determine what foods were eaten by extinct hominins such as Neanderthals? In the past, researchers were limited to studying the marks found on the fossilized teetMedium · Standard English Conventions
  30. 30To humans, it does not appear that the golden orb-weaver spider uses camouflage to capture its ______ the brightly colored arachnid seems to wait conspicuously in the center of itsMedium · Standard English Conventions
  31. 31The Lion Light system, developed by Kenyan inventor Richard Turere, consists of LED lights installed around the perimeter of livestock pastures. Powered with ______ the blinking LEMedium · Standard English Conventions
  32. 32The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three pioneers in the field of click chemistry: two-time Nobel laureate Barry Sharpless, who coined the term "click chemistry" in 1Medium · Standard English Conventions
  33. 33In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as "the absence of pain iMedium · Standard English Conventions
  34. 34In her analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905), scholar Candace Waid observes that the novel depicts the upper classes of New York society as "consumed by the appetitMedium · Standard English Conventions