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

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 9Far from being modern inventions, ______ more than 5,000 years ago.Medium · Standard English Conventions
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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