
7.1 Text Structure and Function -Medium
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1st Grade
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Michelene Pesantubbee,a historian and citizen of the Choctaw Nation,has identified a dilemma inherent to research on the status of women in her tribe during the 1600s and 1700s:the primary sources from that era,travel narratives and other accounts by male European colonizers, underestimate the degree of power conferred on Choctaw women by their traditional roles in political,civic,and ceremonial life.Pesantubbee argues that the Choctaw oral tradition and findings from archaeological sites in the tribe's homeland supplement the written record by providing crucial insights into those roles.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. It details the shortcomings of certain historical sources,then argues that research should avoid those sources altogether.
B. It describes a problem that arises in research on a particular topic,then sketches a historian's approach to addressing that problem.
C. It lists the advantages of a particular research method,then acknowledges a historian's criticism of that method.
D. It characterizes a particular topic as especially challenging to research,then suggests a related topic for historians to pursue instead.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Many archaeologists assume that large-scale engineering projects in ancient societies required an elite class to plan and direct the necessary labor.However,recent discoveries,such as the excavation of an ancient canal near the Gulf Coast of Alabama,have complicated this picture. Using radiocarbon dating,a team of researchers concluded that the 1.39-kilometer-long canal was most likely constructed between 576 and 650 CE by an Indigenous society that was relatively free of social classes.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. t presents contradictory conclusions drawn by archaeologists,then evaluates a study that has apparently resolved that contradiction.
B. It describes a common view among archaeologists,then discusses a recent finding that challenges that view.
C. It outlines a method used in some archaeological fieldwork,then explains why an alternative method is superior to it.
D. It identifies a gap in scientific research,then presents a strategy used by some archaeologists to remedy that gap.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In 1973,poet Miguel Algarín started inviting other writers who,like him,were Nuyorican—a term for New Yorkers of Puerto Rican heritage—to gather in his apartment to present their work.The gatherings were so well attended that Algarin soon had to rent space in a cafe to accommodate them.Thus,the Nuyorican Poets Cafe was born.Moving to a permanent location in 1981,the Nuyorican Poets Cafe expanded its original scope beyond the written word,hosting art exhibitions and musical performances as well.Half a century since its inception,it continues to foster emerging Nuyorican talent.
Which choice best describes the overall purpose of the text?
A. To explain what motivated Algarín to found the Nuyorican Poets Café
B. To situate the Nuyorican Poets Cafe within the cultural life of New York as a whole
C. To discuss why the Nuyorican Poets Cafe expanded its scope to include art and music
D. provide an overview of the founding and mission of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde's 1897 nonfiction work De Profundis.
People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going.They can't know.In one sense of the word it is of course necessary to know oneself:that is the irst achievement of knowledge.But to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable,is the ultimate achievement of wisdom.The final mystery is oneself.When one has weighed the sun in the balance,and measured the steps of the moon,and mapped out the seven heavens star by star,there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined question in the text as a whole?
A. It cautions readers that the text's directions for how to achieve self-knowledge are hard to follow.
B. It concedes that the definition of self-knowledge advanced in the text is unpopular.
C. It reinforces the text's skepticism about the possibility of truly achieving self-knowledge.
D. It speculates that some readers will share the doubts expressed in the text about the value of self-knowledge.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Horizontal gene transfer occurs when an organism of one species acquires genetic material from an organism of another species through nonreproductive means.The genetic material can then be transferred “vertically”in the second species—that is,through reproductive inheritance.Scientist Atma Ivancevic and her team have hypothesized infection by invertebrate parasites as a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer between vertebrate species: while feeding,a parasite could acquire a gene from one host,then relocate to a host from a different vertebrate species and transfer the gene to it in turn.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
A. It explains why parasites are less susceptible to horizontal gene transfer than their hosts are.
B. clarifies why some genes are more likely to be transferred horizontally than others are.
C. contrasts how horizontal gene transfer occurs among vertebrates with how it occurs among Invertebrates.
D.describes a means by which horizontal gene transfer might occur among vertebrates.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope(JWST),Mercedes López-Morales and colleagues measured the wavelengths of light traveling through the atmosphere of WASP-39b,an exoplanet,or planet outside our solar system.Different molecules absorb different wavelengths of light,and the wavelength measurements showed the presence of carbon dioxide(CO₂)in WASP-39b's atmosphere.This finding not only offers the first decisive evidence of CO₂in the atmosphere of an exoplanet but also illustrates the potential for future scientific breakthroughs held by the JWST.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. It outlines the steps taken in a scientific study,then presents a hypothesis based on that study.
B. It discusses a method used by some researchers, then states why an alternative method is superior to it.
C. It examines how a group of scientists reached a conclusion,then shows how other scientists have challenged that conclusion.
D. It describes how researchers made a scientific discovery,then explains the importance of that discovery.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times.Coketown is a fictional town in England.
[Coketown]contained several large streets all very like one another,and many small streets still more like one another,inhabited by people equally like one another,who all went in and out at the same hours,with the same sound upon the same pavements,to do the same work,and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow,and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A. To explain the limited work opportunities available to the town's residents.
B. To emphasize the uniformity of both the town and the people who live there
C. To argue that the simplicity of life in the town makes it a pleasant place to live
D. To reveal how the predictability of the town makes it easy for people lose track of time
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