Workspace English Test 102
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OFFICIAL ACT Form Z08 · April 2022

English

49 questions ~9 min recommended
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=== Citizen Scientists Advance Astronomy at Home ===
Starting in 2007, volunteers around the world began contributing via the Internet to cutting-edge astronomical research. Galaxy Zoo, a website developed at Oxford University, achieved an immediate and extraordinary success, surprising even the astronomers who created it. Initially, project leaders invited the public to study images gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in order to classify galaxies as elliptical or spiral. In the case of spiral galaxies, by which participants were also to note the direction of the galaxy’s rotation, clockwise, or counterclockwise. During Galaxy Zoo’s first year, 150,000 volunteers took a short online tutorial and began eyeballing the SDSS images on their own computers and submitting their classifications. Soon after the start of the project, its managers had to upgrade hardware to handle the contributions, which proved to be a real challenge. Project creators are quick to point out that humans perform some scientific tasks far better than computers do, even in disciplines such as astronomy, however, that rely heavily on technology.

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the retinas sense, the body sets its internal clock to a twenty-four-hour cycle called the circadian rhythm, which cues body functions...

=== Reviving a Tradition ===
When Donald Yellowbird Montileaux first began to make art, he adopted the traditions of his Lakota ancestors...

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2. 2. At this point, the writer is considering adding the following true statement: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation was created in 1934. Should the writer make this addition here?

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9. 9. If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lose information that suggests:

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14. 14. Given that all the choices are accurate, which one best ends the essay with an indication of why online projects like Galaxy Zoo sometimes achieve wide-spread participation?

15. 15. The writer wants to divide this paragraph into two in order to separate information about the original Galaxy Zoo from information about other projects. The best place to begin the new paragraph would be at:

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26. Which choice best indicates that Viollet-le-Duc played a prominent role in the restoration process?

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30. Suppose the writer’s main purpose had been to write an essay about how a masterpiece in one discipline influenced a masterpiece in another discipline. Would this essay accomplish the writer’s purpose?

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37. Given that all the choices are true, which one best completes the contrast with the preceding sentence and offers the most logical interpretation of the quotation from Bradford?

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45. Which choice best concludes the paragraph and essay by forming a specific connection between current attitudes toward lobster and those of the colonists?

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48. Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most effectively introduces the subject of the paragraph?

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