Although our knowledge of the Pleistocene epoch and the lives of hominids during this time was once ______, recent analyses of fossils like that of the individual known as Petralona 1, discovered in Greece in 1960, have sharpened our picture of what a day in the life of Petralona 1 may have looked like.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
unprecedented
nebulous
intricate
concrete
내 답: A (오답)
Text corpora such as the American National Corpus are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding how ______ a word is in spoken and written English. For instance, one might have a guess about the incidence of the word "long," but only an analysis of a corpus can prove that "long" is the fifth most commonly used adjective.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
credible
pervasive
profound
assertive
내 답: D (오답)
Authors like Laura Esquivel contributed to the outpouring of Mexican literature in the years following the Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910–1920. Works from this period make up an ______ proportion of what is considered the canon of Mexican literature, but nineteenth-century writers like Justo Sierra O'Reilly should be considered just as integral to the Mexican literary canon.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
overlooked
outsized
unspecified
erratic
내 답: C (오답)
Kelp forests grow underwater along the eastern Pacific Coast. These underwater forests are important to fish and other marine animals. Ocean currents can be powerful and rough, making it difficult for animals to find safe places to hide from predators. The underwater forests slow down the currents. This creates a more _____ environment with calmer waters where animals can take shelter.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
surprising
tranquil
dangerous
imaginative
내 답: B (정답)
Pteropods are small swimming snails with thin, delicate calcium carbonate shells. These animals are thought to be especially vulnerable to ocean acidification due to calcium carbonate’s susceptibility to dissolution at lower pH values. Victoria L. Peck and colleagues recently found that the periostracum (a protective coating on pteropods’ outer shells) prevents this dissolution when intact. Moreover, the team was surprised to discover that even when the periostracum is breached, pteropods can still mitigate damage by rebuilding the inner shell wall.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
To call for additional research on biological mechanisms that improve pteropod survival rates
To address some of the ways ocean acidification has altered pteropod behavior over time
To discuss a conclusion drawn in a study of calcium carbonate’s role in protecting the periostracum of pteropods
To present findings that suggest a concern about the effects of ocean acidification on pteropod shells may be unwarranted
내 답: D (정답)
Guojun He and colleagues studied a food-delivery phone app that is popular in China. The researchers found that having “no cutlery” automatically selected influences whether customers request disposable plastic utensils with their food orders. Based on their results, the researchers concluded that this and other small changes to the app could reduce plastic waste in China by as much as 3.26 million metric tons per year.
According to the text, which choice best describes a conclusion He and colleagues drew from their study?
Production of plastic waste in China is likely to increase in the near future.
Food-delivery apps that prevent customers from requesting cutlery are becoming more popular.
Small changes to how a food-delivery app works can greatly lower plastic waste.
Customers who understand how food-delivery apps work make more environmentally friendly choices.
내 답: C (정답)
"Tomato" is an example of a loanword—that is, a word that originated in one language and was later adopted by another. The word came to English indirectly from tomate, the Spanish word for the widely cultivated plant. Spanish had borrowed it from Nahuatl, an Indigenous language of Central Mexico, in which the word’s original form is tomatl. "Maize" also has an Indigenous origin and entered English through Spanish. But in this case, the original source was Taíno, a language of the Caribbean islands, in which the word for the corn plant is mahís.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Many Spanish words with Indigenous origins first passed through English before entering Spanish.
When borrowing from Indigenous languages, Spanish adopted roughly as many words from Nahuatl as from Taíno.
When non-Indigenous languages borrowed from Indigenous languages, the words often underwent a significant change in meaning.
The English words "tomato" and "maize" are both examples of loanwords from Indigenous languages.
내 답: D (정답)
The food industry has long used thermal technologies to preserve food in large batches. Recent advancements in radiofrequency heating were made through research in Mexico on the preservation of wheat flour. Radiofrequency heating is generally considered to be an improvement over more conventional thermal preservation methods: whereas conventional methods transfer energy from the surface of a food to its interior, radiofrequency heating uses precisely controlled radio waves to generate heat within the food itself, thus reducing industrial cooking times.
Based on the text, what is one disadvantage of some conventional thermal preservation methods?
They require more energy than other methods do.
Their cooking times are longer than those of other methods.
They are only effective in heating foods that are lightweight and small in size.
They are especially vulnerable to technological breakdowns.
내 답: A (오답)
Yingguang Frank Chan and colleagues have explored how convergent evolution—a phenomenon that occurs when the same trait evolves independently in two reproductively separate lineages—can result from a genetic mechanism shared by both lineages. Meanwhile, Patricia J. Wittkopp and colleagues have investigated how convergence occurs through different genetic mechanisms. However, the relative prevalence of convergence through shared and different genetic processes is still poorly understood. This motivated biologists Delbert A. Green II and Cassandra G. Extavour to evaluate both types of convergence in a single study for their 2012 paper.
Which choice best states the main topic of the text?
Whether studies of convergent evolution should focus on lineages that share the same underlying genetic mechanism
How a particular study of convergent evolution relates to some other studies in the field
What kinds of traits are most likely to arise convergently in several lineages
Why convergent evolution is particularly difficult for biologists to study
내 답: B (정답)
The following text is from Mick Herron’s 2023 novel The Secret Hours. The narrator is describing members of a government committee.
Finally, and adding much-needed gravitas, was Sir Winston Day, whose features seemed moulded to adorn a bust, or possibly a stamp, and whose forehead was so evidently bulging with grey matter that it would have been impertinent to inquire too closely into the actual achievements his half century of public service had produced. His recently published memoirs possibly cast light on this enigma, but given that such details were not provided until after the thirty-page mark, they might as well have remained state secrets.
Based on the text, which choice best describes Sir Winston Day?
He looks like a person worthy of respect, but his memoirs reveal that some of his actions were dishonorable.
He has maintained a modest profile even though he has served the public capably for many years.
He has the appearance of a distinguished figure, but it is uncertain whether he has accomplished anything to earn distinction.
He would be a celebrated public figure if his achievements did not have to be kept secret.
내 답: B (오답)

A marine biologist is researching four stony coral species in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific waters, focusing on sightings of these species in the shallow zone (less than 30 meters below the surface) and the mesophotic zone (30 to 150 meters below the surface). Consulting the table, she notes that the smallest maximum depth is located in _____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
Indo-Pacific waters in the shallow zone.
Caribbean waters in the shallow zone.
Indo-Pacific waters in the mesophotic zone.
Caribbean waters in the mesophotic zone.
내 답: A (정답)
Past research suggests that pollination by honeybees is responsible for up to 10 percent of total Chinese cabbage crop production. Now researchers are trying to determine how dependent cucumber crop production is on honeybees. The first phase of their study involved shielding some cucumber plants to prevent insects from pollinating them, resulting in those plants having 40 to 90 percent lower crop production than plants that were pollinated normally. However, the researchers claim that the first-phase experiment alone didn’t tell them how much of that difference in crop production is due specifically to excluding honeybees.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
Other insects like squash bees also pollinate cucumber plants, and the shielding in the first phase of the study blocked them as well.
The shielding used in the first phase of the study did not affect the amount of sunlight the cucumber plants received.
Other insects like solitary bees also pollinate Chinese cabbage plants, and some studies have allowed them to pollinate normally while excluding honeybees.
Honeybees are more commonly used to pollinate cucumber plants than Chinese cabbage plants.
내 답: C (오답)
Many Indian snack foods, such as bhatoora and paneer pakora, acquire their flavor from being fried in oil; some are also coated in batter beforehand. Chemists Marc A. Meyers and Andrew Grazela studied the mass and heat transfer processes that occur when foods are fried in batters containing hydrocolloids, polymers that become viscous or gel-like in water. During frying, water in the food evaporates, leaving voids that oil (a pure fat) can fill. As the process continues, water from the food’s center moves to the crust as long as the crust remains permeable. However, hydrocolloids can create structures in the crust that reduce the transfer of moisture out of the food’s core during frying. Therefore, a food fried without a hydrocolloid batter coating will likely ___
Which choice most logically completes the text?
have a more viscous crust when frying is completed than it would have if it were fried with a coating of hydrocolloid batter.
have a higher fat content than it would have if it were fried with a coating of hydrocolloid batter.
need to be cooked more quickly at a higher temperature than it would need to be cooked if it were fried with a coating of hydrocolloid batter.
need to be cooked in a different oil than it would need to be cooked in if it were fried with a coating of hydrocolloid batter.
내 답: B (정답)
Zooarchaeologist Ophélie Lebrasseur and her team examined a fox skeleton discovered in 1991 at an archaeological site alongside artifacts of human habitation (like spear points) in central Argentina. Lebrasseur et al. determined that the fox was Dusicyon avus, an extinct species resembling a jackal, and radiocarbon dating placed the fox at the site at the same time as human inhabitants. (Indeed, the inhabitants may have deliberately buried the fox.) In addition, while wild foxes have a diet entirely made of meat, isotopic signatures of the skeleton’s teeth indicated that the fox’s diet, like that of the humans, was partly composed of plant material. Lebrasseur et al. therefore concluded that ___.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the humans who were alive at the same time as the fox most likely ate more meat than the fox did.
the fox had a diet more similar to that of jackals than to that of wild foxes.
the humans who were alive at the same time as the fox hunted using the spears whose points were also found at the site.
the fox may have been a companion animal of the humans who inhabited the site at the same time.
내 답: B (오답)
Prolonged exposure to anthropogenic noise (sounds from human sources like traffic or mining) can affect animals, as Graeme Shannon and colleagues found in a 2014 study of black-tailed prairie dogs. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of studies of how such noise affects animals and found that, for every study, relevant traits or behaviors of the animals were observably different between the exposed group and the otherwise similar but unexposed group. Although, on average, studies of mammals showed larger differences than studies of fish did, for every class of animals examined, there were individual studies showing differences well above the average for mammals. Therefore, the results of the meta-analysis suggest that ___
Which choice most logically completes the text?
some studies of fish found larger effects of exposure to anthropogenic noise than some studies of mammals did.
the differences that studies attribute to exposure to anthropogenic noise are likely to be more pronounced for fish than they are for mammals.
the difference found in the study conducted by Graeme Shannon and colleagues was likely larger than the average difference for studies of black-tailed prairie dogs included in the meta-analysis.
the studies in the meta-analysis that examined mammals were more likely than those that examined fish to specify whether the observed effects were detrimental.
내 답: B (오답)
The Michelin Guide is a prestigious restaurant rating system that awards stars to exceptional dining establishments worldwide. It originated in France in 1900 as a guide for motorists and ______ it now serves as a global benchmark for culinary excellence. Chefs and restaurateurs strive for Michelin stars, symbolizing quality and innovation.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
travelers and
travelers,
travelers, and
travelers
내 답: C (정답)
Each year, the Nobel Prize in Literature is given to an author who has, in the words of its founder Alfred Nobel, “produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic _____ in 1947, for instance, judges recognized André Paul Guillaume Gide “for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight.”
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
direction,"
direction” and,
direction";
direction”
내 답: A (오답)
After finding information about Benjamin Sterling Turner, who represented Alabama in the United States House of Representatives, the student discovered biographical sketches of two other Black Americans who served in _____ Robert Brown Elliott of South Carolina and Ronald V. Dellums of California.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Congress
Congress.
Congress;
Congress:
내 답: D (정답)
Joy Williams's essay on "cenote," a term referring to a deep sinkhole containing a pool of water, is just one of many essays included in Home Ground: A Guide to the American _____ by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, the book celebrates the rich language used to describe the landscape of North America.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Landscape, edited
Landscape edited
Landscape. Edited
Landscape and edited
내 답: A (오답)
Most US states and territories have had at least one woman serve as governor. In Nebraska, for example, Governor Kay A. Orr took office on January 9, 1987. In fact, the number of states and territories that have had only male governors _____ almost every year.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
shrinks
shrink
are shrinking
have been shrinking
내 답: A (정답)
In Argentina, the Chamber of Deputies is elected via a proportional representation (PR) system. In PR elections, votes are cast (not for specific candidates, as they are in single-member plurality systems, but for political parties) and then tabulated; _____ each qualifying party is awarded a number of seats proportional to the number of votes it received.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
second of all,
in fact,
by contrast,
accordingly,
내 답: D (정답)
Before the first railroads were built in Australia, engineers warned against using multiple track widths across the continent. _____ regional officials couldn’t agree on a single-width system. Thus, railways in Queensland, like the Durundur Railway, were made using narrow tracks, while those in Victoria were built with wide tracks.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For this reason,
In other words,
Similarly,
Nevertheless,
내 답: A (오답)
Joseph Goodrich was an outspoken abolitionist whose Wisconsin home was a stop on the Underground Railroad (the network of people and places that some enslaved people used to escape to freedom). _____ supporters of the railroad were secretive about their antislavery views. By and large, they were vocal abolitionists like Goodrich.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Occasionally,
For example,
Accordingly,
However,
내 답: A (정답)
The work of contemporary Asian American poet John Yau often incorporates references to other poems and works of visual art. Typically, these allusive gestures are subtle, recognized by only the most attentive of Yau’s readers. In his 2013 poem “Further Adventures in Monochrome,” _____ Yau explicitly identifies a particular artwork—Yves Klein’s 1960 painting Silence is Golden—as the poem’s inspiration.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
though,
fittingly,
similarly,
for example,
내 답: D (오답)
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to specify how many chromosomes the American paddlefish has. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
The American paddlefish’s chromosomes contain genes, which are critical to determining an organism’s physical traits.
The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) and the crucian carp (Carassius carassius) both have chromosomes, but the American paddlefish has more than the crucian carp does.
The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) has 120 chromosomes.
The crucian carp, a species of fish, has one hundred structures called chromosomes.
내 답: C (정답)
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to emphasize the difference between the two compositions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Katcina Dances and Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 are two compositions written by Ballard, a classical music composer.
In his two compositions Katcina Dances and Fantasy Aborigine No. 3, Ballard blends elements of various Native musical traditions, such as Indigenous songs or instruments, with Western classical music.
Ballard has different approaches to blending Western classical music with elements of various Native musical traditions, such as using Indigenous songs and instruments in his compositions.
While both compositions integrate various Native musical traditions, Katcina Dances does so by featuring traditional Hopi songs and Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 does so by incorporating a Tewa seashell rattle.
내 답: C (오답)
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to explain the implications of the discovery at the Saltville site. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
It is the contention of the Clovis First hypothesis that the Clovis, an ancient human population, were the first to inhabit North America, arriving around 13,000 years ago.
Located in Virginia, Saltville is one of more than a dozen North American sites where pre-Clovis items have been discovered.
The approximately 16,000-year-old stone tools found at Saltville, a site in Virginia, should not be overlooked: they have important implications for the Clovis First hypothesis.
Contrary to the Clovis First hypothesis, the approximately 16,000-year-old stone tools found at Saltville suggest that humans were in North America before the Clovis arrived.
내 답: D (정답)
The National Heritage Fellowship was created to honor exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. One artist who received the fellowship is taiko drummer Seiichi Tanaka. Tanaka was chosen for his lifetime _____ the arts.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
contributions to
imitations of
doubts about
misunderstandings of
내 답: A (정답)
The following text is adapted from Mary Seacole’s 1857 autobiography Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.
That journey across the Isthmus [of Panama], insignificant in distance as it was, was by no means an easy one. It seemed as if nature had determined to throw every conceivable obstacle in the way of those who should seek to join the two great oceans of the world.
As used in the text, what does the word “conceivable” most nearly mean?
Imaginable
Obvious
Dependable
Straightforward
내 답: B (오답)
One way to _____ the importance of a scholar's research is to track how often other scholars refer to that research. For example, Yale University economist Xiaohong Chen, who studies statistical methods in economics, is among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in her field, indicating that her work has been quite significant.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
increase
measure
diminish
vary
내 답: D (오답)
The discoverers of the minor planet 1227 Geranium named it after the plant genus that includes cranesbills. Most of the recently discovered minor planets, however, are given only an identification number, largely due to there being over 500,000 such bodies known at present, which makes the already challenging task of finding a unique name for each nearly _____.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
feasible
unnecessary
substantial
insurmountable
내 답: C (오답)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a 2001 novel by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. It explores how historical events affect families on a reservation in rural North Dakota. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is typical of Erdrich’s work. Her writing usually focuses on portrayals of everyday life in Ojibwe communities. Yet some of her novels have fantastical plots and take place outside Ojibwe communities. For example, her 1991 novel The Crown of Columbus is essentially adventure fiction, and the thrilling events in its plot are set largely on a Caribbean island.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
It recommends that readers avoid a particular novel by Erdrich.
It lists the many similarities between two novels by Erdrich.
It offers an example of a novel that differs from most of Erdrich’s work.
It discusses what inspired Erdrich to write one of her novels.
내 답: C (정답)
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City has an exhibition of video games that includes Snake from 1997, which museum visitors can play on-site, and SimCity 2000 from 1994, which visitors can see only in a video presentation. MOMA claims the video presentations are only for games that would be impractical to display in a playable form, but video games are an inherently interactive medium, a feature that is grossly absent in a video-only presentation.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It identifies a feature of video games that is central to the author’s criticism of MOMA’s decision to use video-only presentations for some games.
It provides a claim about video games as art that both MOMA and the author accept as true.
It describes a characteristic shared by many video games but not by some of the games in MOMA’s exhibition.
It presents a view about treating video games as art that the author criticizes in the remainder of the sentence.
내 답: A (정답)
The Far Side of the World, first published in 1984, is a novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, which includes twenty books plus an unfinished fragment of a twenty-first. Like the rest of the books in the series, The Far Side of the World has a rather abrupt ending, but the following book, The Reverse of the Medal, picks up neatly where The Far Side of the World leaves off. Thus, the sudden ending is only an issue if one considers the books as independent texts—the Aubrey/Maturin series is best thought of as a single incredibly long work, similar to other multivolume stories, such as John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It offers a detail that helps explain why it is not necessarily the case that a certain characteristic of The Far Side of the World should be considered a flaw.
It presents a reason The Far Side of the World and The Reverse of the Medal are considered to be two of O’Brian’s most engaging novels.
It argues that the Aubrey/Maturin series deserves the critical renown of works like The Forsyte Saga.
It demonstrates that those readers who most enjoy reading The Reverse of the Medal will be those who have just finished reading The Far Side of the World.
내 답: D (오답)
The following text is adapted from Guy de Maupassant’s 1884 short story “A Recollection,” from the collection Guy de Maupassant Short Stories (translated by Albert M.C. McMaster et al. in 1903). The narrator is taking a boat down the Seine river from Paris, France, to the surrounding countryside.
I took up a position in the bows [front of the boat], standing up and looking at the quays, the trees, the houses and the bridges disappearing behind us. And suddenly I perceived the great viaduct of Point du Jour which blocked the river. It was the end of Paris, the beginning of the country, and behind the double row of arches the Seine, suddenly spreading out as though it had regained space and liberty, became all at once the peaceful river which flows through the plains, alongside the wooded hills, amid the meadows, along the edge of the forests.
Based on the text, which choice best expresses the narrator’s characterization of the Seine?
As the journey progressed from Paris to the countryside, the waters of the Seine gradually cleared.
The waters of the Seine are more confined and rough in Paris than they are in the countryside.
The Seine is similar to Paris in that it is beautiful and slow to change.
The current under the arches of the Point du Jour contrasts starkly with the otherwise calm flow of the Seine throughout the journey.
내 답: A (오답)
Poems is an 1895 collection of poetry by Frances E.W. Harper. In one of Harper’s poems, the speaker declares her intention to create art that has a universal appeal across generations, saying, ______
Which quotation from Poems most effectively illustrates the claim?
“Our world, so worn and weary, / Needs music, pure and strong, / To hush the jangle and discords / Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.” (from “Songs for the People”)
“Let me make the songs for the people, / Songs for the old and young; / Songs to stir like a battle-cry / Wherever they are sung.” (from “Songs for the People”)
“God bless our native land, / Land of the newly free, / Oh may she ever stand / For truth and liberty.” (from “God Bless Our Native Land”)
“My mother’s kiss, my mother’s kiss, / I feel its impress now; / As in the bright and happy days / She pressed it on my brow.” (from “My Mother’s Kiss”)
내 답: B (정답)
A film studies student is researching early 20th-century film serials, which consisted of individual episodes of a single long story that were shown weekly in theaters. Clancy of the Mounted is a 1933 serial that, over its 12 episodes, kept its audience interested with the suspense and drama that are typical of the northern adventure genre. The student, however, claims that ultimately audiences of the time preferred resolution and closure over ongoing tension.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim?
The 12th episode of Clancy of the Mounted was the most expensive episode of the series to produce.
Modern critics generally regard the first episode as the best installment of Clancy of the Mounted.
The 12th episode of Clancy of the Mounted was viewed by more people than was any previous episode in the series.
Audiences of the time considered Clancy of the Mounted to belong to a genre other than the Northern adventure genre.
내 답: C (정답)
The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, originally written in Spanish. In the novel, Azuela depicts a traveling group of soldiers as having a renewed sense of agency and authority as they set off on a new stage of their journey: ______
Which quotation from a translation of The Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim?
“The sonorous, joyful bells rang again. From within the church, the honeyed voices of a female chorus rose melancholy and grave.”
“All day long [the soldiers] rode through the canyon, up and down the steep, round hills, dirty and bald as a man’s head, hill after hill in endless succession. At last, late in the afternoon, they descried several stone church towers in the heart of a bluish ridge, and, beyond, the white road with its curling spirals of dust and its gray telegraph poles.
“The men threw out their chests as if to breathe the widening horizon, the immensity of the sky, the blue from the mountains and the fresh air, redolent with the various odors of the sierra. They spurred their horses to a gallop as if in that mad race they laid claims of possession to the earth.”
“Before Juchipila was lost from sight, Valderrama got off his horse, bent down, kneeled, and gravely kissed the ground.”
내 답: C (정답)
Neuroscience is increasingly probing the brain's role in creativity, focusing notably on the Default Mode Network (DMN), which activates during mind wandering and self-referential thoughts. Researchers are investigating whether stimulating the DMN can enhance creative problem-solving abilities. Techniques like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are employed to elevate activity within the DMN. This involves delivering magnetic pulses to the scalp, affecting neuronal activity. Participants undergo creative tasks, such as the 'Alternative Uses Task,' to measure divergent thinking before and after TMS. The expected outcome is that DMN stimulation will improve task performance, indicating a potential non-invasive method to boost creativity. However, as TMS is still relatively new, its long-term effects and ethical implications warrant further scrutiny.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
Techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation are utilized to activate the Default Mode Network (DMN).
Although stimulating the DMN to enhance creativity offers numerous advantages, the ethical implications prevent its implementation.
Stimulating the Default Mode Network results in sending magnetic pulses to the scalp, which influences neuronal activity.
Neuroscience is looking into ways to improve creativity by targeting specific brain networks with advanced techniques.
내 답: C (오답)
An analysis by Alain Elayi and colleagues of coins minted in Sidon in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE reveals a change in their composition over time: while a coin from circa 450 BCE contains about 98% silver and 1% copper, a coin from 367 BCE (the end of Ba’alšillem II’s reign) contains 74.2% silver and 24.7% copper, giving it a relatively yellowish appearance that traders would have noticed. Because coins with a silver content below 80% were widely considered unsuitable for trade, Elayi et al. speculate that a crisis in confidence in the currency occurred in Sidon around 367 BCE, which was likely relieved—despite Sidon’s persistent oppressive financial obligations—as a result of Ba’alšillem II’s successor Abd’aštart I’s decision to ________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
keep the amount of silver in Sidonian coins consistent with that in coins minted in 367 BCE but decrease their weight.
proclaim that the percentage of silver in coins suitable for trade would be raised to a threshold higher than 80%.
fund the mining of some copper deposits that were not available to Ba’alšillem II.
begin minting heavier coins with a proportion of silver to copper similar to that in coins minted in 367 BCE.
내 답: B (오답)
Students in a biology class investigated why individual house mice (Mus musculus) can differ from one another in their susceptibility to cataracts in old age. The students compared wild-type mice and knockout mice, which are mice with specific genes deactivated, when mice of each type were raised in similar naturalistic environments and periodically tested for cataracts. Finding that knockout mice with the gene Aasdh deactivated tended to develop cataracts more frequently than did wild-type mice, the students concluded that differences in cataract frequency among house mice in nature are solely attributable to variations in the level of expression of Aasdh.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the students’ conclusion?
The level of expression of Aasdh does not appear to affect the functioning of any other genes in house mice.
Some wild-type mice were very similar to the knockout mice with regard to cataract frequency but showed a wide variety of levels of expression of Aasdh.
A sampling of house mice captured in natural settings shows that individual mice can differ from one another in the level of expression of Aasdh.
The mice with Aasdh deactivated were identical to the wild-type mice except with regard to cataract frequency.
내 답: B (정답)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel This Side of Paradise contains elements drawn from Fitzgerald’s own life—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s protagonist, Amory Blaine, and those of Fitzgerald—and as a result This Side of Paradise is regularly described as an autobiographical novel. This characterization can be useful, but it also presents drawbacks in terms of how the work is perceived, as it may lead readers to believe that Fitzgerald merely fictionalized true events, which, in an artistic field where creativity and inventiveness are prized, can suggest that _____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
This Side of Paradise is less of an imaginative achievement than it actually is.
Fitzgerald should not have claimed that This Side of Paradise is based on real events.
critics disagree about whether This Side of Paradise shows greater originality than works without autobiographical elements.
the real-world counterparts of other characters in This Side of Paradise are hard to identify.
내 답: B (오답)
Trade with other societies was vital to the Byzantine Empire, which reigned in the Mediterranean from around 330 CE to 1453 CE. Its people profited by selling salt, textiles, and iron, items that ______ greatly in demand.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
has been
were
was
is
내 답: B (정답)
In her work as a socio-cultural anthropologist, Livia Barbosa studies food and sociability in contemporary Brazil—namely, how common Brazilian foods like tareco (a disk-shaped biscuit) and coxinha (a stuffed fried dough) ______ as central mechanisms in building social relationships, values, and identities.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
is functioning
functions
has functioned
function
내 답: D (정답)
As a behavioral economist, Ai Hisano of Kyoto University recognizes that people sometimes make irrational economic decisions. Hisano’s research can thus address anomalies that neoclassical economic _____ assume that people are consistently rational decision-makers—cannot explain.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
models which—
models which
models—which
models, which
내 답: C (정답)
During the decades-long movement to codify the rights of Latinos in the US, certain events were pivotal: the founding of labor rights group El Teatro Campesino in _____ Serna v. Portales Schools court decision in 1974, which affirmed the rights of Latino students, is another such event.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
1965, for one, the
1965, for one. The
1965 for one, the
1965. For one, the
내 답: D (오답)
A lady-in-waiting's account of Japanese courtly life in the tenth century, Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book is filled with daily observations and musings. Some of these appear as _____ "Splendid Things," Shōnagon catalogs her appreciation for a snow-covered garden, Chinese brocade fabric, and grape-colored fabric.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
lists in
lists, in
lists in:
lists: in
내 답: C (오답)
The Austronesian language family comprises some 1,200 languages, including Minangkabau and Ilokano, which are spoken primarily in Indonesia and the Philippines, _____ accounting for one-fifth of the world's languages, the Austronesian family is of keen interest to linguists like Sandra Chung.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
respectively and
respectively,
respectively;
respectively
내 답: C (정답)
With some elements, like selenium, scientists were able to isolate a relatively pure sample of the substance shortly after discovering its existence—but this wasn’t the case with all elements. _____ the isolation process took a few years. The element molybdenum, for instance, was discovered in 1778 but not isolated until 1781.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Often,
Even so,
Similarly,
Furthermore,
내 답: A (정답)
Firefly luciferase (Fluc) is a distinctly evolved enzyme that can oxidize a substrate called D-luciferin to induce bioluminescence and can act as a fatty acyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) enzyme, a class of enzyme present in all insects. _____ Fluc is a bifunctional enzyme whose presence indicates an insect is capable of emitting light; in contrast, the presence of ACS alone would be insufficient for determining bioluminescence.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
In fact,
Moreover,
That is,
Nevertheless,
내 답: B (오답)
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two locations. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Sandvikens Gymnasieskola in Sandviken, Sweden, and the University of Oradea in Oradea, Romania, both house Foucault pendulums.
Sandvikens Gymnasieskola, which is home to a Foucault pendulum, is in Sweden, not Romania.
One Foucault pendulum is in Sweden, and the other is in Romania.
Because Earth rotates beneath it, the swing path of the Foucault pendulum at Sandvikens Gymnasieskola appears to change over time.
내 답: C (오답)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the number of medals won by Kenny?
An accomplished Paralympian with multiple gold medal wins, Mike Kenny competed as a swimmer from 1976 to 1988.
During his career as a Paralympic swimmer, Mike Kenny earned a total of eighteen medals, sixteen of which were gold.
Swimming, a sport in which Mike Kenny took home sixteen gold medals, has been an event at the Paralympic Games since 1960.
Mike Kenny competed at the Paralympic Games, a series of international sporting events.
내 답: B (정답)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize how the two works are similar?
Between artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works Mater and Flash in Naples, the former is the larger of the two.
Composed by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982 and 1983, respectively, both Mater and Flash in Naples use acrylic paint as a medium.
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat completed Mater in 1982, and Flash in Naples followed in 1983.
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work Mater is composed of acrylic and oil stick, while Flash in Naples is composed of acrylic, oil stick, and oil.
내 답: D (오답)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to set up a discussion of Arnold’s career for an audience already familiar with the MBC project?
While Maurice Arnold is considered a great composer, there are many more such composers included in the MBC Historic Composers Directory.
Among the many talented figures included in the MBC project is classical music composer Maurice Arnold.
Born in 1865, Maurice Arnold passed away in 1937, according to the MBC project.
The MBC project’s Historic Composers Directory highlights Black classical composers of the past, such as Maurice Arnold (1865–1937), in order to inspire music students to become the classical composers of the future.
내 답: D (오답)
The National Heritage Fellowship was created to honor exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. One artist who received the fellowship is taiko drummer Seiichi Tanaka. Tanaka was chosen for his lifetime _____ the arts.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
contributions to
imitations of
doubts about
misunderstandings of
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The following text is adapted from Mary Seacole’s 1857 autobiography Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.
That journey across the Isthmus [of Panama], insignificant in distance as it was, was by no means an easy one. It seemed as if nature had determined to throw every conceivable obstacle in the way of those who should seek to join the two great oceans of the world.
As used in the text, what does the word “conceivable” most nearly mean?
Imaginable
Obvious
Dependable
Straightforward
미응시 (보너스 문제)
One way to _____ the importance of a scholar's research is to track how often other scholars refer to that research. For example, Yale University economist Xiaohong Chen, who studies statistical methods in economics, is among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in her field, indicating that her work has been quite significant.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
increase
measure
diminish
vary
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The discoverers of the minor planet 1227 Geranium named it after the plant genus that includes cranesbills. Most of the recently discovered minor planets, however, are given only an identification number, largely due to there being over 500,000 such bodies known at present, which makes the already challenging task of finding a unique name for each nearly _____.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
feasible
unnecessary
substantial
insurmountable
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a 2001 novel by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. It explores how historical events affect families on a reservation in rural North Dakota. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is typical of Erdrich’s work. Her writing usually focuses on portrayals of everyday life in Ojibwe communities. Yet some of her novels have fantastical plots and take place outside Ojibwe communities. For example, her 1991 novel The Crown of Columbus is essentially adventure fiction, and the thrilling events in its plot are set largely on a Caribbean island.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
It recommends that readers avoid a particular novel by Erdrich.
It lists the many similarities between two novels by Erdrich.
It offers an example of a novel that differs from most of Erdrich’s work.
It discusses what inspired Erdrich to write one of her novels.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City has an exhibition of video games that includes Snake from 1997, which museum visitors can play on-site, and SimCity 2000 from 1994, which visitors can see only in a video presentation. MOMA claims the video presentations are only for games that would be impractical to display in a playable form, but video games are an inherently interactive medium, a feature that is grossly absent in a video-only presentation.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It identifies a feature of video games that is central to the author’s criticism of MOMA’s decision to use video-only presentations for some games.
It provides a claim about video games as art that both MOMA and the author accept as true.
It describes a characteristic shared by many video games but not by some of the games in MOMA’s exhibition.
It presents a view about treating video games as art that the author criticizes in the remainder of the sentence.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The Far Side of the World, first published in 1984, is a novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, which includes twenty books plus an unfinished fragment of a twenty-first. Like the rest of the books in the series, The Far Side of the World has a rather abrupt ending, but the following book, The Reverse of the Medal, picks up neatly where The Far Side of the World leaves off. Thus, the sudden ending is only an issue if one considers the books as independent texts—the Aubrey/Maturin series is best thought of as a single incredibly long work, similar to other multivolume stories, such as John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It offers a detail that helps explain why it is not necessarily the case that a certain characteristic of The Far Side of the World should be considered a flaw.
It presents a reason The Far Side of the World and The Reverse of the Medal are considered to be two of O’Brian’s most engaging novels.
It argues that the Aubrey/Maturin series deserves the critical renown of works like The Forsyte Saga.
It demonstrates that those readers who most enjoy reading The Reverse of the Medal will be those who have just finished reading The Far Side of the World.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The following text is adapted from Guy de Maupassant’s 1884 short story “A Recollection,” from the collection Guy de Maupassant Short Stories (translated by Albert M.C. McMaster et al. in 1903). The narrator is taking a boat down the Seine river from Paris, France, to the surrounding countryside.
I took up a position in the bows [front of the boat], standing up and looking at the quays, the trees, the houses and the bridges disappearing behind us. And suddenly I perceived the great viaduct of Point du Jour which blocked the river. It was the end of Paris, the beginning of the country, and behind the double row of arches the Seine, suddenly spreading out as though it had regained space and liberty, became all at once the peaceful river which flows through the plains, alongside the wooded hills, amid the meadows, along the edge of the forests.
Based on the text, which choice best expresses the narrator’s characterization of the Seine?
As the journey progressed from Paris to the countryside, the waters of the Seine gradually cleared.
The waters of the Seine are more confined and rough in Paris than they are in the countryside.
The Seine is similar to Paris in that it is beautiful and slow to change.
The current under the arches of the Point du Jour contrasts starkly with the otherwise calm flow of the Seine throughout the journey.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Poems is an 1895 collection of poetry by Frances E.W. Harper. In one of Harper’s poems, the speaker declares her intention to create art that has a universal appeal across generations, saying, ______
Which quotation from Poems most effectively illustrates the claim?
“Our world, so worn and weary, / Needs music, pure and strong, / To hush the jangle and discords / Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.” (from “Songs for the People”)
“Let me make the songs for the people, / Songs for the old and young; / Songs to stir like a battle-cry / Wherever they are sung.” (from “Songs for the People”)
“God bless our native land, / Land of the newly free, / Oh may she ever stand / For truth and liberty.” (from “God Bless Our Native Land”)
“My mother’s kiss, my mother’s kiss, / I feel its impress now; / As in the bright and happy days / She pressed it on my brow.” (from “My Mother’s Kiss”)
미응시 (보너스 문제)
A film studies student is researching early 20th-century film serials, which consisted of individual episodes of a single long story that were shown weekly in theaters. Clancy of the Mounted is a 1933 serial that, over its 12 episodes, kept its audience interested with the suspense and drama that are typical of the northern adventure genre. The student, however, claims that ultimately audiences of the time preferred resolution and closure over ongoing tension.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim?
The 12th episode of Clancy of the Mounted was the most expensive episode of the series to produce.
Modern critics generally regard the first episode as the best installment of Clancy of the Mounted.
The 12th episode of Clancy of the Mounted was viewed by more people than was any previous episode in the series.
Audiences of the time considered Clancy of the Mounted to belong to a genre other than the Northern adventure genre.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The Underdogs is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela, originally written in Spanish. In the novel, Azuela depicts a traveling group of soldiers as having a renewed sense of agency and authority as they set off on a new stage of their journey: ______
Which quotation from a translation of The Underdogs most effectively illustrates the claim?
“The sonorous, joyful bells rang again. From within the church, the honeyed voices of a female chorus rose melancholy and grave.”
“All day long [the soldiers] rode through the canyon, up and down the steep, round hills, dirty and bald as a man’s head, hill after hill in endless succession. At last, late in the afternoon, they descried several stone church towers in the heart of a bluish ridge, and, beyond, the white road with its curling spirals of dust and its gray telegraph poles.
“The men threw out their chests as if to breathe the widening horizon, the immensity of the sky, the blue from the mountains and the fresh air, redolent with the various odors of the sierra. They spurred their horses to a gallop as if in that mad race they laid claims of possession to the earth.”
“Before Juchipila was lost from sight, Valderrama got off his horse, bent down, kneeled, and gravely kissed the ground.”
미응시 (보너스 문제)

Male orangutans typically disperse from the territory in which they were born when they reach maturity, whereas females typically do not. Beatrice Ehmann and her colleagues showed that this difference in life trajectory is reflected in the diets of immature orangutans, with females’ diets overlapping more with their mothers’ diets than males’ diets do. For example, on average, individual 9’s mother shared approximately ______
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?
16% of its diet with individual 9’s diet, whereas individual 12’s mother shared approximately 72% of its diet with individual 12’s diet.
81% of its diet with individual 9’s diet, whereas individual 12’s mother shared approximately 72% of its diet with individual 12’s diet.
81% of its diet with individual 9’s diet, whereas individual 12’s mother shared approximately 20% of its diet with individual 12’s diet.
16% of its diet with individual 9’s diet, whereas individual 12’s mother shared approximately 20% of its diet with individual 12’s diet.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
An analysis by Alain Elayi and colleagues of coins minted in Sidon in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE reveals a change in their composition over time: while a coin from circa 450 BCE contains about 98% silver and 1% copper, a coin from 367 BCE (the end of Ba’alšillem II’s reign) contains 74.2% silver and 24.7% copper, giving it a relatively yellowish appearance that traders would have noticed. Because coins with a silver content below 80% were widely considered unsuitable for trade, Elayi et al. speculate that a crisis in confidence in the currency occurred in Sidon around 367 BCE, which was likely relieved—despite Sidon’s persistent oppressive financial obligations—as a result of Ba’alšillem II’s successor Abd’aštart I’s decision to ________
Which choice most logically completes the text?
keep the amount of silver in Sidonian coins consistent with that in coins minted in 367 BCE but decrease their weight.
proclaim that the percentage of silver in coins suitable for trade would be raised to a threshold higher than 80%.
fund the mining of some copper deposits that were not available to Ba’alšillem II.
begin minting heavier coins with a proportion of silver to copper similar to that in coins minted in 367 BCE.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Students in a biology class investigated why individual house mice (Mus musculus) can differ from one another in their susceptibility to cataracts in old age. The students compared wild-type mice and knockout mice, which are mice with specific genes deactivated, when mice of each type were raised in similar naturalistic environments and periodically tested for cataracts. Finding that knockout mice with the gene Aasdh deactivated tended to develop cataracts more frequently than did wild-type mice, the students concluded that differences in cataract frequency among house mice in nature are solely attributable to variations in the level of expression of Aasdh.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the students’ conclusion?
The level of expression of Aasdh does not appear to affect the functioning of any other genes in house mice.
Some wild-type mice were very similar to the knockout mice with regard to cataract frequency but showed a wide variety of levels of expression of Aasdh.
A sampling of house mice captured in natural settings shows that individual mice can differ from one another in the level of expression of Aasdh.
The mice with Aasdh deactivated were identical to the wild-type mice except with regard to cataract frequency.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel This Side of Paradise contains elements drawn from Fitzgerald’s own life—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s protagonist, Amory Blaine, and those of Fitzgerald—and as a result This Side of Paradise is regularly described as an autobiographical novel. This characterization can be useful, but it also presents drawbacks in terms of how the work is perceived, as it may lead readers to believe that Fitzgerald merely fictionalized true events, which, in an artistic field where creativity and inventiveness are prized, can suggest that _____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
This Side of Paradise is less of an imaginative achievement than it actually is.
Fitzgerald should not have claimed that This Side of Paradise is based on real events.
critics disagree about whether This Side of Paradise shows greater originality than works without autobiographical elements.
the real-world counterparts of other characters in This Side of Paradise are hard to identify.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Trade with other societies was vital to the Byzantine Empire, which reigned in the Mediterranean from around 330 CE to 1453 CE. Its people profited by selling salt, textiles, and iron, items that ______ greatly in demand.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
has been
were
was
is
미응시 (보너스 문제)
In her work as a socio-cultural anthropologist, Livia Barbosa studies food and sociability in contemporary Brazil—namely, how common Brazilian foods like tareco (a disk-shaped biscuit) and coxinha (a stuffed fried dough) ______ as central mechanisms in building social relationships, values, and identities.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
is functioning
functions
has functioned
function
미응시 (보너스 문제)
As a behavioral economist, Ai Hisano of Kyoto University recognizes that people sometimes make irrational economic decisions. Hisano’s research can thus address anomalies that neoclassical economic _____ assume that people are consistently rational decision-makers—cannot explain.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
models which—
models which
models—which
models, which
미응시 (보너스 문제)
During the decades-long movement to codify the rights of Latinos in the US, certain events were pivotal: the founding of labor rights group El Teatro Campesino in _____ Serna v. Portales Schools court decision in 1974, which affirmed the rights of Latino students, is another such event.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
1965, for one, the
1965, for one. The
1965 for one, the
1965. For one, the
미응시 (보너스 문제)
A lady-in-waiting's account of Japanese courtly life in the tenth century, Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book is filled with daily observations and musings. Some of these appear as _____ "Splendid Things," Shōnagon catalogs her appreciation for a snow-covered garden, Chinese brocade fabric, and grape-colored fabric.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
lists in
lists, in
lists in:
lists: in
미응시 (보너스 문제)
The Austronesian language family comprises some 1,200 languages, including Minangkabau and Ilokano, which are spoken primarily in Indonesia and the Philippines, _____ accounting for one-fifth of the world's languages, the Austronesian family is of keen interest to linguists like Sandra Chung.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
respectively and
respectively,
respectively;
respectively
미응시 (보너스 문제)
With some elements, like selenium, scientists were able to isolate a relatively pure sample of the substance shortly after discovering its existence—but this wasn’t the case with all elements. _____ the isolation process took a few years. The element molybdenum, for instance, was discovered in 1778 but not isolated until 1781.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Often,
Even so,
Similarly,
Furthermore,
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Firefly luciferase (Fluc) is a distinctly evolved enzyme that can oxidize a substrate called D-luciferin to induce bioluminescence and can act as a fatty acyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) enzyme, a class of enzyme present in all insects. _____ Fluc is a bifunctional enzyme whose presence indicates an insect is capable of emitting light; in contrast, the presence of ACS alone would be insufficient for determining bioluminescence.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
In fact,
Moreover,
That is,
Nevertheless,
미응시 (보너스 문제)
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two locations. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Sandvikens Gymnasieskola in Sandviken, Sweden, and the University of Oradea in Oradea, Romania, both house Foucault pendulums.
Sandvikens Gymnasieskola, which is home to a Foucault pendulum, is in Sweden, not Romania.
One Foucault pendulum is in Sweden, and the other is in Romania.
Because Earth rotates beneath it, the swing path of the Foucault pendulum at Sandvikens Gymnasieskola appears to change over time.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the number of medals won by Kenny?
An accomplished Paralympian with multiple gold medal wins, Mike Kenny competed as a swimmer from 1976 to 1988.
During his career as a Paralympic swimmer, Mike Kenny earned a total of eighteen medals, sixteen of which were gold.
Swimming, a sport in which Mike Kenny took home sixteen gold medals, has been an event at the Paralympic Games since 1960.
Mike Kenny competed at the Paralympic Games, a series of international sporting events.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize how the two works are similar?
Between artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works Mater and Flash in Naples, the former is the larger of the two.
Composed by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982 and 1983, respectively, both Mater and Flash in Naples use acrylic paint as a medium.
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat completed Mater in 1982, and Flash in Naples followed in 1983.
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work Mater is composed of acrylic and oil stick, while Flash in Naples is composed of acrylic, oil stick, and oil.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to set up a discussion of Arnold’s career for an audience already familiar with the MBC project?
While Maurice Arnold is considered a great composer, there are many more such composers included in the MBC Historic Composers Directory.
Among the many talented figures included in the MBC project is classical music composer Maurice Arnold.
Born in 1865, Maurice Arnold passed away in 1937, according to the MBC project.
The MBC project’s Historic Composers Directory highlights Black classical composers of the past, such as Maurice Arnold (1865–1937), in order to inspire music students to become the classical composers of the future.
미응시 (보너스 문제)
What is the solution to the given system of equations?
내 답: D (정답)
What are all possible solutions to the given equation?
내 답: D (정답)

The function is defined by
. What is the value of
when
?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: 520 (정답)

The given equation below defines function . For what value of
does
reach its maximum?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: -8 (정답)

In the figure shown, line is parallel to line
, and line
intersects both lines. Which of the following statements is true?
내 답: C (정답)
The function is defined by
. What is the value of
?
내 답: A (정답)

In the given system of equations, is a positive integer constant. The system has no real solutions. What is the least possible value of
?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: 25 (정답)

The expression is equivalent to
, where
is a constant. What is the value of
?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: 18 (정답)
A teacher is creating an assignment worth 28 points. The assignment will consist of questions worth 1 point and questions worth 2 points. Which equation represents this situation, where represents the number of 1-point questions, and
represents the number of 2-point questions?
내 답: D (정답)
The polynomial above can be written as . What are all the real roots of the equation?
and
,
, and
,
,
, and
내 답: C (정답)

Triangle shown is a right triangle. Which of the following has the same value as
?
내 답: A (정답)

Sam opened a savings account at a bank. The table shows the exponential relationship between the time , in years, since Sam opened the account and the total amount
, in dollars, in the account. If Sam made no additional deposits or withdrawals, which of the following equations best represents the relationship between
and
?
내 답: B (정답)
If , what is the value of
?
내 답: D (정답)

The table shows four values of and their corresponding values of
. There is a linear relationship between x and y. Which of the following equations represents this relationship?
내 답: B (정답)
In the given system of equations, is a constant. The graphs of the equations in the given system intersect at exactly one point,
, in the
-plane. What is the value of
?
내 답: C (정답)

Line in the
-plane is defined by
and passes through the points
and
, where
and
are constants. What is the value of
?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: -5/9 (정답)
The function gives the number of bacteria in a population
minutes after an initial observation. How much time, in minutes, does it take for the number of bacteria in the population to double?
내 답: B (정답)
Square has a side length of
inches. Square
has a perimeter that is 32 inches greater than the perimeter of square
. The function
gives the area of square
, in square inches. Which of the following defines
?
내 답: B (오답)
How many solutions does the given system of equations have?
Exactly one
Exactly two
Infinitely many
Zero
내 답: C (정답)

Circle has a radius of
and circle
has a radius of
. The area of circle
is how many times the area of circle
?
주관식 (Student-Produced Response) — 답을 직접 계산해서 적어보세요.
내 답: 2209 (정답)

The function is defined by
, where
is a constant. In the
-plane, the graph of
passes through the point
. What is the value of
?
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내 답: 391 (정답)
A circle in the xy-plane has a diameter with endpoints and
, where
and
are constants. An equation of this circle is
, where
is a positive constant. What is the value of
?
내 답: D (정답)
An object's average acceleration, in meters per second squared, is the change in the object's speed, in meters per second, divided by the time during which the change occurred, in seconds. A certain object's speed changes by meters per second in
seconds. What is this object's average acceleration, in meters per second squared, during this time period?
내 답: A (오답)
A solution to the given system of equations is . What is a possible value of
?
내 답: D (정답)
The given function estimates the distance a train has traveled, in kilometers, from a station in a certain city
hours after crossing the city border. What is the best interpretation of
in this context?
Between the station and the city border, the train traveled an estimated total distance of kilometers.
Between the station and the city border, the train traveled at an estimated speed of kilometers per hour.
After crossing the city border, the train traveled at an estimated speed of kilometers per hour.
After crossing the city border, the train traveled an estimated total distance of kilometers.
내 답: A (정답)
What value of is the solution to the given equation?
내 답: C (정답)

The function is defined by
. What is the
-coordinate of the
-intercept of the graph of
in the
-plane?
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Thomas recently purchased a new computer for college. Thomas had a coupon for a discount from the original price. All items sold from the computer store also include an
sales tax added at the register. If Thomas paid a final price of
, which included the discount and sales tax, what was the original price of the computer?
내 답: C (정답)

Two students are playing a game. In the first round, Player 1 answers questions. If an answer is correct, Player 1 earns 1 point. If an answer is incorrect, Player 2 will earn 1 point instead. The graph shows
, where y is the number of points Player 2 will earn when
is the number of points Player 1 earns. Which of the following is the best interpretation of the point
in this context?
When Player 1 earns 33 points, Player 2 will earn 33 points.
When Player 1 earns 33 points, Player 2 will earn 0 points.
When Player 1 earns 0 points, Player 2 will earn 33 points.
When Player 1 earns 0 points, Player 2 will earn 0 points.
내 답: B (정답)
Which expression is a factor of ?
내 답: C (정답)


The graph shows the momentum , in newton-seconds, of an object
seconds after the object started moving, for
. What is the average rate of change, in newton-seconds per second, in the momentum of the object from
to
?
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How many distinct real solution or solutions do the given equations have?
Exactly one
Exactly two
Infinitely many
Zero
내 답: D (정답)
What is the sum of the solutions to the given equation?
내 답: B (정답)
The manager of a gym selected a sample of members at random to estimate the percentage of the gym's members that would continue to pay for a membership if the price increased. From the survey, the manager estimates that
of the gym's members would continue to pay for a membership if the price increased, with an associated margin of error of
. If the survey is repeated with a random sample of
members and the results are calculated in the same way, which of the following will be the most likely effect of using the larger random sample compared to the smaller random sample?
The margin of error will be lower.
The margin of error will be higher.
The estimate of the percentage of the gym's members that would continue to pay for a membership if the price increased will be lower.
The estimate of the percentage of the gym's members that would continue to pay for a membership if the price increased will be higher.
내 답: A (정답)

Raheem bought shirts that were each the same price. He used a coupon for
off the entire purchase. The cost for the entire purchase after using the coupon was
. What was the original price, in dollars, for
shirt?
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The maximum temperature on April 1, in degrees Farenheit (), was recorded each year at a certain weather station for 11 years. The histogram summarizes the recorded data set. The temperature of
is removed from this data set to create a new data set of 10 temperatures. Which of the following statements must be true?
I. The mean of the new data set is less than the mean of the original data set.
II. The median of the new data set is less than the median of the original data set.
I only
II only
I and II
Neither I nor II
내 답: A (정답)

For the positive quantities ,
, and
,
of h is equivalent to
of
, and
is equivalent to
of
. What percentage of
is
? (Disregard the % sign when entering your answer. For example, if your answer is 39%, enter 39)
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내 답: 15 (정답)
For the exponential function , the value of
is
, where
is a constant. Which of the following equivalent forms of the function
shows the value of
as the coefficient or the base?
내 답: C (정답)

In triangle , the measure of angle
is
, the measure of angle
is
, and the measure of angle
is
. If side
is extended through point
to point
, and the measure of angle
is
, what is the value of
?
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내 답: 39 (정답)
The triangle inequality theorem states that the sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the length of the third side. If a triangle has side lengths of and
, which inequality represents the possible lengths,
, of the third side of the triangle?
or
내 답: C (정답)
A right circular cone has a volume of cubic centimeters and the area of its base is
square centimeters. What is the slant height, in centimeters, of this cone?
내 답: C (오답)

A quadratic function models the height, in feet, of an object above the ground in terms of the time, in seconds, after the object was launched. According to the model, the object was launched from a height of feet and reached its maximum height of
feet
seconds after it was launched. Based on the model, what was the height, in feet, of the object
seconds after it was launched?
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내 답: 1200 (정답)
The cost of renting a power washer is for the first day and
for each additional day. Which of the following functions gives the cost
, in dollars, of renting the power washer for
days, where
is a positive integer?
내 답: A (정답)
The function is defined by
, where
,
and
are constants. The graph of
in the
-plane passes through the points
and
. If
is an integer greater than 1, which of the following could be the value of
?
내 답: D (정답)