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Reading & Writing · Standard English Conventions · 104 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.

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  1. 1Despite being cheap, versatile, and easy to produce, ______ they are made from nonrenewable petroleum, and most do not biodegrade in landfills.Hard · Standard English Conventions
  2. 2Rabinal Achí is a precolonial Maya dance drama performed annually in Rabinal, a town in the Guatemalan highlands. Based on events that occurred when Rabinal was a city-state ruled Hard · Standard English Conventions
  3. 3During the American Civil War, Thomas Morris Chester braved the front lines as a war correspondent for the Philadelphia Press. Amplifying the voices and experiences of Black soldieHard · Standard English Conventions
  4. 4In the 1970s, Janaki Ammal, a prominent botanist, emerged as a powerful voice in India's environmental conservation movement. Her exhaustive chromosomal survey of plants in Silent Hard · Standard English Conventions
  5. 5The artistic talents of Barbara Chase-Riboud, most known for her 1979 historical novel Sally Hemings and the conversation it inspired, ______ limited to the realm of prose: she firHard · Standard English Conventions
  6. 6Working from an earlier discovery of Charpentier's, chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna—winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—re-created and then reprogrammeHard · Standard English Conventions
  7. 7In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ______ have missed his equally deep engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh theater.Hard · Standard English Conventions
  8. 8When they were first discovered in Australia in 1798, duck-billed, beaver-tailed platypuses so defied categorization that one scientist assigned them the name Ornithorhynchus paradHard · Standard English Conventions
  9. 9Known as Earth's "living skin," biocrusts are thin layers of soil held together by surface-dwelling microorganisms such as fungi, lichens, and cyanobacteria. Fortifying soil in ariHard · Standard English Conventions
  10. 10Ten of William Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories. Although each one of these plays, which include Henry V and Richard III, ______ on a single historical figure (speciHard · Standard English Conventions
  11. 11In the canon of North African literature, Moroccan author Driss Chraïbi's 1954 novel The Simple Past (Le Passé simple) looms large. A coming-of-age story, a social meditation, and Hard · Standard English Conventions
  12. 12Planetary scientist Briony Horgan and her colleagues have determined that as much as 25 percent of the sand on Mars is composed of impact spherules. These spherical bits of glass fHard · Standard English Conventions
  13. 13Compared to that of alumina glass, ______ silica glass atoms are so far apart that they are unable to re-form bonds after being separated.Hard · Standard English Conventions
  14. 14In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By rHard · Standard English Conventions
  15. 15Author Madeline L'Engle, ______ to create a suspenseful tone that draws the reader in, begins her novel A Wrinkle in Time with descriptions of "wraithlike shadows" and "the frenzieHard · Standard English Conventions
  16. 16A second-generation Japanese American, Wataru Misaka ______ in World War II (1941-45) and won two amateur national basketball championships at the University of Utah when he joinedHard · Standard English Conventions
  17. 17Bengali author Toru Dutt's A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876), a volume of English translations of French poems, ______ scholars' understanding of the transnational and multilHard · Standard English Conventions
  18. 18In 1994, almost 200 years after the death of Wang Zhenyi, the International Astronomical ______ the contributions of the barrier-breaking 18th-century astronomer and author of "DisHard · Standard English Conventions
  19. 19In 2015, a team led by materials scientists Anirudha Sumant and Diana Berman succeeded in reducing the coefficient of friction (COF) between two surfaces to the lowest possible levHard · Standard English Conventions
  20. 20Researchers studying the "terra-cotta army," the thousands of life-size statues of warriors found interred near the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China, were shocked to realize Hard · Standard English Conventions
  21. 21In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English Hard · Standard English Conventions
  22. 22A model created by biologist Luis Valente predicts that the rate of speciation—the rate at which new species form—on an isolated island located approximately 5,000 kilometers from Hard · Standard English Conventions