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OFFICIAL ACT Form Z08 · 2020

English

26 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.

=== Notre Dame Cathedral: Saved By a Book ===
Every year, thirteen million people visit Notre Dame de Paris on an annual basis. They wait in long lines to view the brilliant stained glass of the famed rose windows, to gaze at the horned and gaping gargoyles, and to feel small beneath the vaulted ceilings and flying buttresses of the cathedral.

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el, the masterpieceoffers a sweeping and brutal look at issues of class and power in France. The first novel to have beggars as protagonists, the book also features the cathedral itself as a central character. So popular was the story that one of its effects was to spur the restoration of the cathedral, and Hugo had portrayed as teetering on the brink of utter deterioration. In addition to being exalted as a monumental work of architecture, the cathedral emerging in Hugo’s pages as embodying history—history worth preserving with a vengeance. The actual work of restoration was helped by Gothic Revival architect his name is Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. The popular sentiment that set the stage for the restoration was fueled by a novel, that like the monument it celebrated, eventually gained international cheers.

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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...

1. Starting in 2007, volunteers around the world began contributing via the Internet to

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?

3. In the case of spiral galaxies, by which participants

4. 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.

5. Soon after the start of the project, its managers had to upgrade hardware to handle the contributions, which proved to be a real challenge.

6. 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.

7. Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most clearly indicates why the actions described in this sentence were taken?

8. The huge database amassed as part of Galaxy Zoo allowed researchers to advance their understanding of galaxy formation, evolution, and types.

9. Following Galaxy Zoo’s success are other similar projects, such as Galaxy Zoo: Hubble. These online endeavors, which ask for increasing sophistication of judgment from citizen scientists, engaging them in an array of astronomical challenges. 'If you’re quick,' reads the home page of one such website 'you may even be the first person in history to see each of the galaxies you’re asked to classify.' With that kind of encouragement, hundreds of thousands of viewers look for new planets, describe 'bubbles' in the Milky Way, and examine the surface of the Moon—tasks each volunteer can perform conveniently on his or her own computer.

10. 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:

11. Every year, thirteen million people visit Notre Dame de Paris on an annual basis.

12. They wait in long lines to view the brilliant stained glass of the famed rose windows, to gaze at the horned and gaping gargoyles, and to feel small beneath the vaulted ceilings and flying buttresses of the cathedral.

13. If the writer were to delete the underlined portion (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the paragraph would primarily lose details that:

14. There would likely be no cathedral to visit, for instance, if not for Victor Hugo’s epic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the late 1700s, during the French Revolution, much of the architectural icon was destroyed.

15. What builders and craftsmen, starting in 1163, had then taken more than one hundred fifty years to create were tumbling into ruins in politically tumultuous times.

16. The population of a city engulfed in chaos chose Notre Dame as one of its targets, defacing statues, breaking windows, and smashing furniture in an attempt to remove any vestiges of royalty and of its religion.

17. 38. If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lose a statement that:

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

25. 74. F. NO CHANGE G. had been aiming H. was aiming J. aimed

26. 75. Would this essay accomplish that purpose? A. Yes, because it discusses how Montileaux works within and modernizes the tradition of ledger art. B. Yes, because it focuses on the ways that ledger art has evolved since Montileaux’s time. C. No, because it questions the accuracy of Montileaux’s style of ledger art. D. No, because it indicates that Montileaux radically alters the antique ledger pages.

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