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OFFICIAL ACT Form D05 · 04 2021

English

45 questions ~9 min recommended
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=== Beat Nation ===
A cymbal skitters over a powwow chant. The intonations of the Cree language create a staccato soundscape. Artist Jordan Bennett adorns skateboard decks with traditional beadwork. Dylan Miner is adding painted hides to bikes which are lowriders. Beat Nation, an art exhibition and website, showcases works from Vancouver’s Indigenous art scene. The greater Vancouver area’s population is around 2.4 million people.

=== What’s Shaking, Tree Frog? ===
Red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) lay their eggs in clutches, gelatinous sacs of dozens of eggs, on tree leaves that dangle over ponds and swamps.

=== Biological Sciences ===
in the biological sciences, and a rainstorm each cause sustained low-frequency H. often designed to measure the acceleration of vehicles, J. in this case small accelerometers, vibrations of the egg clutch. However, it also showed that a rainstorm usually produces short periods of significantly higher-frequency vibrations. While these interruptions are nearly absent from the vibrations caused by a snake attack. Bringing the recordings back to her lab at Boston University, Warkentin’s simulation of the snake-attack vibrations and the rainstorm vibrations on several four-day-old egg clutches. Most eggs in the clutches that occupied only low-frequency vibrations hatched. But few eggs in the clutches that were exposed to low-frequency vibrations combined with periods of high-frequency vibrations hatched. The periods of high-frequency vibrations that occur during a rainstorm, however, seem to signal safety to callidryas egg clutches. Given that premature tadpoles risk predation by fish or shrimp, needlessly hatching early is dangerous. Warkentin has shown that the egg clutches primarily lose: false alarms.

=== Maryam Mirzakhani’s Abstractions ===
Maryam Mirzakhani believes the beauty of mathematics only shows itself to patient followers. Few have followed math more patiently than she has. In 2014, at age thirty-seven, Iranian-born Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious prize. Her research focus, highly abstract, theoretical problems relating to geometry, is so imaginative and astonishingly complex that they defy explanation even to many practiced mathematicians. Mirzakhani’s thinking about her mathematical research is as imaginative as the problems she challenges herself to solve. She compares her work to that of a writer crafting a novel. To her, math research is a slow, steady process of watching characters evolve. Mirzakhani studies the geometry of curved surfaces.

=== Starlight in the Park ===
My mom and I, both Michigan-born, have been stargazing together since I was a toddler. I learned the names of major constellations long before I could write my own name. Every year, we spend warm August nights lounging in our yard each summer, gazing skyward in awe as the Perseid meteors trickle across the dark sky.

=== ... ===
eteors. Which choice best accomplishes So, when the nearby Headlands area was designated an this goal?

=== Replay It Again ===
[1] “This is not live! Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!” declared the television announcer during the 1963 Army-Navy football game...

1. Which choice most closely maintains the sentence pattern the writer establishes in the first three sentences of the essay?

2. At this point, the writer is considering adding the following true statement to the essay: The greater Vancouver area’s population is around 2.4 million people. Should the writer make this addition here?

3. Which choice provides the clearest transition to the next paragraph?

4. Selected artworks from the Beat Nation site has been shown in Vancouver’s Grunt Gallery, in Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal,and Toronto’s Power Plant.

5. Which choice most clearly indicates that Inutiq is speaking decisively?

6. The writer is considering adding the following sentence to the essay: Videographer Jackson 2Bears criticizes popular culture’s stereotypical representations of Native populations. If the writer were to add the sentence, it would most logically be placed at:

7. Though the egg clutches are safer when stuck to a leaf, than they would be drifting in a pond snakes can find and eat them. Fortunately, the clutches have a defense.

8. If the writer were to delete the underlined portion (adjusting the capitalization as needed), the essay would primarily lose a detail that:

9. Which choice provides the most relevant information at this point in the essay?

10. The writer is considering deleting the underlined portion. If the writer were to delete the underlined portion (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the essay would primarily lose:

11. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 26?

12. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 25?

13. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 31?

14. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 33?

15. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

16. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 38?

17. Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most strongly emphasizes Mirzakhani’s patient, methodical approach to finding solutions?

18. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 46?

19. What is the best way to write the underlined portion of sentence 47?

20. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?

21. That such a park existed just a few miles from our home in Petoskey was incredibly fortunate, we knew.

22. The designation is granted by an organization committed to protecting natural darkness from artificial light pollution...

23. To justify the designation...

24. Driving into the park at sunset...

25. Bats flitted through the air...

26. Eagerly, me and her waited...

27. For the sake of the logic and cohesion of this paragraph, Sentence 3 should be placed:

28. “There’s Cygnus,” I murmured...

29. We made a game of it...

30. The wide, starry swath of the Milky Way...

31. Which choice most effectively concludes the essay by alluding to a central idea?

32. Suppose the writer’s primary purpose had been to discuss methods of making astronomical observations...

33. “This is not live! Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!” declared the television announcer during the 1963 Army-Navy football game.

34. Fans in the stands saw the touchdown only once.

35. Fans watching the telecast, however, were astounded as they witnessed the play twice...

36. Which choice best introduces the main focus of the paragraph?

37. Verna’s use of a system of multiple videotape decks...

38. At the start and stop of each play...

39. Which choice best indicates that the beeps served as placeholders for particular moments within the recording?

40. Instant replay became a fixture in football...

41. At this point, the writer wants to emphasize the force and action of the running back...

42. Fans really feel a part of the whole deal...

43. Fans judge if the wide receivers foot was in bounds...

44. And, it has potential, the outcome of the game...

45. The writer wants to add the following sentence to the essay: Calls are either upheld or refuted.