Module

Reading and Writing

33 Q U E S T I O N S

DIRECTIONS

The questions in this section address a number of important reading and writing skills. Each
question includes one or more passages, which may include a table or graph. Read each passage
and question carefully, and then choose the best answer to the question based on the passage(s).
All questions in this section are multiple-choice with four answer choices. Each question has a
single best answer.

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Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator
doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to
she _______ that humans will someday need to be promote public health; this _______ effort involved
able to live in other environments than those found traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland
on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in and writing a medical dictionary for speakers of
future research missions to the moon. Diné bizaad, the Navajo language.
Which choice completes the text with the most Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase? logical and precise word or phrase?
A) demands A) impartial
B) speculates B) offhand
C) doubts C) persistent
D) establishes D) mandatory

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Following the principles of community-based Given that the conditions in binary star systems
participatory research, tribal nations and research should make planetary formation nearly impossible,
institutions are equal partners in health studies it’s not surprising that the existence of planets in
conducted on reservations. A collaboration between such systems has lacked _______ explanation.
the Crow Tribe and Montana State University Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light on
_______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside the subject when they used modeling to determine
scientists to design the methodology and continue to a complex set of factors that could support
assist in data collection. planets’ development.
Which choice completes the text with the most Which choice completes the text with the most
logical and precise word or phrase? logical and precise word or phrase?
A) circumvents A) a discernible
B) eclipses B) a straightforward
C) fabricates C) an inconclusive
D) exemplifies D) an unbiased

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The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo
success by flowering at the same time as the host _______ television’s tendency to situate Native
plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident
his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder in his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around
achieves this _______ with its host by absorbing and teenagers who dress in contemporary styles and
utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about whose dialogue is laced with current slang.
to flower.
Which choice completes the text with the most
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
logical and precise word or phrase?
A) repudiates
A) synchronization B) proclaims
B) hibernation C) foretells
C) prediction D) recants
D) moderation

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