WRITING AND LANGUAGE REVISION

In 1953, a fellow performer tripped on legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet, bending its bell upward. When Gillespie tested the damaged instrument, he realized that he _______ sound of a bent bell over that of a straight one.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) preferred; the

• B) preferred the

• C) preferred, the

• D) preferred. The

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CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

To illustrate Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity, picture two jugglers: one juggling on a steadily moving parade float, the other juggling while standing still on a sidewalk. The laws of physics are identical for both _______ motion relative to each other. But what, Einstein wondered, about the speed of light?

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) jugglers’, regardless of they’re

• B) jugglers, regardless of there

• C) juggler’s, regardless of their

• D) jugglers, regardless of their

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Horsepower is a unit of measurement used to determine how much power a vehicle produces. The measurement is based on how much and how quickly weight can be _______ one unit of mechanical horsepower is equivalent to the amount of power it takes to lift 550 pounds one foot off the ground in one second.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. moved, for example,

• B. moved,

• C. moved; for example,

• D. moved

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Butterfly is a 1988 painting by the Japanese artist Ay-O. Like many of Ay-O’s paintings, Butterfly, which portrays a swimmer performing the butterfly stroke, attempts to make use of the entire visual light _______ sporting rainbow-striped goggles, the rainbow-hued swimmer splashes through a wavy rainbow of water.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. spectrum

• B. spectrum:

• C. spectrum while

• D. spectrum, while

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

The relationship between genomes and epigenomes reveals how cells with identical DNA develop different _______ whereas the genome in each cell contains a complete DNA sequence, the epigenome consists of chemical compounds that determine which traits in the sequence will be expressed.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A. functions

• B. functions,

• C. functions and,

• D. functions:

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

The short story “Rogue Enchantments” by Isabel Iban ez appears in Reclaim the _______ anthology of fantasy and science fiction written by authors of Latin American descent.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) Stars. An

• B) Stars, while an

• C) Stars an

• D) Stars, an

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Novelist Jane Austen greatly admired the work of Fanny Burney, a popular English author. In fact, scholars believe that a passage from the last chapter of Cecilia, a 1782 novel by Burney, likely inspired the title of one of _______ Pride and Prejudice.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) Austen’s most famous novels,

• B) Austens’ most famous novels’,

• C) Austens most famous novels,

• D) Austen’s most famous novel’s,

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Customers who are satisfied with how a company resolves a service issue may regard that company more positively than they would if no such issue had occurred. This idea is known as the service recovery _______ research suggests that it has important implications for customer loyalty and retention.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) paradox,

• B) paradox

• C) paradox, and

• D) paradox and,

By analyzing the level of radioactive decay within a fossil specimen, scientists can establish the age of that fossil with a high degree of precision. When radioactive elements aren’t present, scientists turn to _______ analysis of Earth’s sediment layers (strata)—to estimate how old a fossil is based on the age of the strata in which the fossil is found.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) stratigraphy—the

• B) stratigraphy (the

• C) stratigraphy: the

• D) stratigraphy, the

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

When sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was designing the Statue of Liberty, he sought the advice of engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel suggested that he make the statue’s arm thick and position it straight above the figure’s head. _______ Bartholdi decided to slim the arm and tilt it out at an angle.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

• A) Additionally,

• B) Instead,

• C) Thus,

• D) For example,

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E