Form, Structure, and Sense
Reading & Writing · Standard English Conventions · 104 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.
- 1On April 5, 1977, Kitty Cone and 150 other disability rights activists entered a San Francisco federal building. After pleading for years—to no effect—for the passage of key antidiMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 2Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ______ data about Saturn's rings collected by the Cassini spacecraft when she made an interesting discovery: the tiny moons embedMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 3Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world's most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which ______ of the hardMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 4Classical composer Florence Price's 1927 move to Chicago marked a turning point in her career. It was there that Price premiered her First Symphony—a piece that was praised for bleMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 5In the 1950s, a man named Joseph McVicker was struggling to keep his business afloat when his sister-in-law Kay Zufall advised him to repurpose the company's product, a nontoxic, cMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 6In 1966, Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire a Major League Baseball game. His energetic gestures announcing when a player had struck out and his habit of baMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 7Based on genetic evidence, archaeologists have generally agreed that reindeer domestication began in the eleventh century CE. However, since uncovering fragments of a 2,000-year-olMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 8African American Percy Julian was a scientist and entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to see. Named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist iMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 9Far from being modern inventions, ______ more than 5,000 years ago.Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 10Cheng Dang and her colleagues at the University of Washington recently ran simulations to determine the extent to which individual snow ______ affect the amount of light reflectingMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 11In Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, are 162 rocks—some weighing less than a pound but others almost 700 pounds—that move periodically from place tMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 12The human brain is primed to recognize faces—so much so that, due to a perceptual tendency called pareidolia, ______ will even find faces in clouds, wooden doors, pieces of fruit, Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 13Official measurements of the Mississippi River's length vary: according to the US Geologic Survey, the river is 2,300 miles long, whereas the Environmental Protection Agency recordMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 14Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo's debut novel The Poet X, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is composed of ______ protagonist, fifteen-year-old XiomMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 15The Progressive Era in the United States witnessed the rise of numerous Black women's clubs, local organizations that advocated for racial and gender equality. Among the clubs' leaMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 16In many of her landscape paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, Lebanese American artist Etel Adnan worked to capture the essence of California's fog-shrouded Mount Tamalpais region tMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 17In 1930, Japanese American artist Chiura Obata depicted the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park in two memorable woodcuts: Evening at Carl Inn and Lake Basin in the High SierrMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 18Inventor John Friedman created a prototype of the first flexible straw by inserting a screw into a paper straw and, using dental floss, binding the straw tightly around the ______ Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 19Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier's star quilt poems offer an unusually open-ended reading experience. With ______ eight panels of text stitched together in the shape of a tradMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 20"Praise Song for the Day," Elizabeth Alexander's 2009 inaugural poem, asserts that "We cross dirt roads and highways…to see what's on the other side." Alexander's use of "we" _____Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 21By the time Hawaiian king Kamehameha III ______ the throne, the number of longhorn cattle, first introduced to the islands in 1793, had drastically increased, and so too had the neMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 22Nuhād al-Ḥaddād, known as Fairuz, was one of the most beloved Lebanese singers of the twentieth century. Her broad singing repertoire—which included traditional forms, such as the Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 23The violins handmade in the seventeeth century by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari have been celebrated as some of the finest in the world. In close collaboration with musicianMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 24Known for her massive photorealistic paintings of African American figures floating or swimming in pools, Calida Garcia ______ was the logical choice to design the book cover for TMedium · Standard English Conventions
- 25A pioneer in the field of taphonomy (the study of how organic remains become fossils), ______ may be just as prevalent in the fossil record as those of thick-shelled organisms.Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 26Because a cycle of lunar phases ______ 29.5 days to complete, it's possible to observe two full moons in a single month, one at the beginning and one at the end.Medium · Standard English Conventions
- 27After winning the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln appointed Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and William H. Seward to his cabinet. Lincoln's decision was surprising, sincMedium · Standard English Conventions