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Unlike the former, however, the latter is arranged into two stanzas: an octet (eight lines) followed by a sestet six lines.
Typically, the octet presents a problem or describes a situation, such as the poet's inability to gain the love of someone adored from afar;
Question 3 of 20: As used in sentence 16, "furiously" most nearly means?
A: Intensely
says Davis, chairman of the biology department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Boy, if you want nature to stop, you're going to be miserable."
Question 10 of 20: The primary purpose of the passage is to
B. provide biographical information about a noteworthy person in the arts
Question 1 of 20: Which of the following best describes what is happening in sentence 5 when Biren releases "a long, incredulous breath" and Ruchira notices "that she had been holding hers as well"?
D: Biren admires the artwork, and Ruchira realizes she has been nervous about his reaction.
Rationale: Choice D is the best answer because it most accurately explains the likely significance of Biren's and Ruchira's actions in sentence 5.
The passage indicates that Biren leans in close to the painting, admiring Rushira's brushstrokes, and then asks Ruchira to tell him about her work.
The passage indicates that there may be "vast quantities" of water deep within Earth, in its "mantle."
The passage's description of McNeill's discovery of ringwoodite within the diamond as
But only artists did that.
Was he a closet artist, too?
It is introduced as a "more nuanced view of the invasive question,"
which promises a view with more subtleties than those of Davis and Simberloff.
Rationale: Choice C is the best answer because it most clearly sets forth the relationship between Passage 1
, which describes Davis's "heretical viewpoint" about invasive species, and Passage 2, which offers two scientists' responses to Davis's stance.
Though he cannot be credited with inventing the form, Francesco Petrarca 1304-1374, known as Petrarch, is most closely associated with "the Italian Sonnet" as modern readers know it today
; in fact, its alternate name is the "Petrarchan sonnet." Like the English, or Shakespearean, sonnet, the Italian sonnet consists of fourteen lines.
Rationale: Choice C is the best answer because it best characterizes Ruchira's parents' perspective on her interest in painting.
Sentence 9 states that "her parents didn't know" about the painting.
This was hard.
She had started painting two years ago, and had never talked to anyone about it.
She made excuses when her friends wanted her to go out.
She had to force herself to return their calls, and often she didn't.
After training in Los Angeles, Tallchief began her brilliant career, working mostly with the New York City Ballet and the legendary choreographer George Balanchine.
She quickly rose in status to prima ballerina. Some credit her performance as the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker as the catalyst for the ballet's immense popularity.
Rationale: Choice B is the best answer because it correctly identifies the main purpose of the passage.
The content of the passage primarily consists of biographical details about Tallchief's rise to prominence in the world of ballet.
Choice C is the best answer because it correctly identifies a difference between the Italian and English sonnets discussed in the passage.
The second and third sentences of the passage outline one way in which the types of sonnets vary in their structure and number of stanzas:
Clearly, according to the information in Passage 2, Simberloff believes that nonnative species are harmful.
The second paragraph of Passage 1 indicates that Davis acknowledges there are harmful nonnative species but he specifies that
Even her parents didn't know.
When they came for dinner, she removed the canvases from the wall and hid them in her closet.
Question 12 of 20: The passage indicates that one difference between the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet is that the
c: Italian sonnet is composed of two stanzas, while the English sonnet is not
This definition is consistent with the passage's description of Ruchira's actions:
details such as Ruchira painting late into the night until she was light-headed and slashing canvases in frustration are indicative of an intensity that matches this meaning of "furiously."
"something he hadn't seen before" and the water within the ringwoodite as "something stranger"
emphasizes the surprising nature of the discovery, suggesting that it wasn't consistent with previous assumptions.
Wilcove does prove to have sympathies for both views:
he says that the extent of the harm of nonnative species may have been exaggerated
Deborah Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, studies ant colonies in the Arizona desert to find how they
manage to accomplish complex tasks with no language and no hierarchical leadership system.
This conclusion is also supported by other claims Davis makes in the passage
such as the idea that rigid attitudes make for poor policy and that instead of destroying nonnative species we should "get used to them."
She has found out the ants use simple interactions that can be combined to carry out much more complex tasks.
Gordon calls this network the 'anternet' and believes the way it works could help us understand how information spreads,
A: mark Ruchira's transformation from a frustrated, unskilled painter to a serene, capable one.
Choice A is the best answer because it most accurately describes the function of sentence 23, which indicates a turning point in the narrative.
A: offer a viewpoint on nonnative species that sits somewhere between Simberloff's and Davis's
Choice A is the best answer because it most accurately describes the main function of the paragraph, in which Wilcove's view is presented.
B: Some nonnative species can cause harm to the native ecosystems they inhabit.
Choice B is the best answer because it presents a topic where Davis and Simberloff are most likely to hold a similar view.
D: indicates that there may be more water in Earth's mantle than scientists previously thought
Choice D is the best answer because it correctly identifies what the passage implies is the significance of the discovery of water in the speck of ringwoodite.
She has found out the ants use simple interactions that can be combined to carry out much more complex tasks. from how data is transferred over the internet to the workings of our .
Gordon calls this network the 'anternet' and believes the way it works could help us understand how information spreads,
"A number of introduced species have been innocuous for decades and they [can] suddenly explode and become problematic," he says.
He points to the example of ornamental figs in Florida, which arrived in the early 1900s.
perspective is certainly much less costly than any other sort of management program," Davis writes in his recently published book, Invasion Biology.
"It's amazing how extensive the indoctrination has been: 'Nonnative species are bad—we've got to get rid of them,'"
"The extent of their harm may have been overstated," says Princeton's David Wilcove, who first tallied up the threat of invasive species and still stands by it.
"Maybe the issue is: Are we being strategic in the way we combat invasive species? And I think that's a fair question to raise."
Finally he moved back and let out a long, incredulous breath, and it struck her that she had been holding hers as well.
"Tell me about your work," he said.
can run through a list of devastating invasive species from Brazilian pepper in Florida to gray squirrels in the U.K. to zebra mussels clogging water pipes in the Great Lakes.
He says that Davis's argument that not all exotics are invasive is impractical.
Rationale: Choice D is the best answer because it is a reasonable conclusion based on Davis's statement in the second paragraph:
"altering one's perspective is certainly much less costly than any other sort of management program."
were analyzing a pile of diamonds that formed at least 325 miles underground hundreds of millions of years ago.
After emerging through a volcanic explosion, the diamonds were found in 2008 at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.
McNeill and Pearson were studying them to look for clues about the evolution and origin of the mantle, the thickest of Earth's inner layers.
After shining a laser into hundreds of diamonds, probing their composition, McNeill spotted something he hadn't seen before: a speck of a mineral called ringwoodite.
Question 11 of 20: An __________ musician by the time she made her debut in the United States in 1922, Julia Myra Hess had already established herself as one of England's premier concert pianists.
B: accomplished
Question 2 of 20: Based on the passage, which of the following best characterizes the outlook of Ruchira's parents on their daughter's interest in painting?
C) They were unaware of it.
Which of the following best describes what "the anternet" means as it is used in the passage?
D: A term Gordon uses to refer to the network of interactions ants use to complete complex tasks
Question 7 of 20: Which of the following conclusions can most logically be drawn from Davis's claims as they are presented in Passage 1?
D: Nonnative species management programs should consider more effective ways to use resources to protect the environment.
When biologist Mark A. Davis talks about exotic species, he eventually comes to LTL, his shorthand for Learn to Love them.
Flying in the face of the conventional wisdom among biologists that exotic species are harmful to native ecosystems, Davis and a small cohort of biologists espouse a heretical viewpoint:
Being at the gallery, she knew how different her work was from everything in there, or in the glossy art journals.
Her technique was crude—she hadn't taken classes and didn't intend to.
Exotic species are here to stay, so get used to them, and forget about ripping out the fast-spreading shrub, buckthorn, on a large scale or throwing Asian carp on the bank to die.
If the newcomers are only changing the ecosystem but "not causing significant harm," then "altering one's
Vast quantities of water might lurk unseen deep within the hot, thousand-degree confines of Earth.
In 2009, Canadian geochemist Graham Pearson and his graduate student John McNeill
He'd moved close to the wall and was standing very still.
It took her a moment to figure out that he was examining her brushstrokes.
Then, miraculously, she got better.
Sometimes now, at 2:00 or 3:00, her back muscles tight and burning, a stillness would rise around her, warm and vaporous.
Davis and his like-minded colleagues contend that the rigid attitudes, and militaristic metaphors, that characterize the debate about exotic species make for poor science and policy-making.
Off the top of his head, Dan Simberloff, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Tennessee,
Rationale: Choice B is the best answer because "accomplished" is the most appropriate vocabulary choice in the context of the sentence.
One definition of "accomplished" is "skillful or successful due to practice or training."
Rationale: Choice A is the best answer because it most accurately captures the meaning of "furiously" as it is used in the context of the passage.
One meaning of "furiously" is "marked by intensity."
Confined to backyards until their pollinating wasp showed up 25 years ago, figs have now invaded Everglades National Park.
Other ecologists have taken a more nuanced view of the invasive question.
a tiny bit of water, trapped and distributed microscopically in the mineral during its formation.
Pearson completed a detailed analysis of the diamond in 2014, confirming the water's discovery.
the sestet, then, tries to resolve this dilemma and might focus on how the lover is resigned to this inability to capture the love interest's attention.
Petrarch, for instance, addressed many of his best-known sonnets to an unattainable love interest called "Laura."
She worked late into the night, light-headed with the effort to remember.
She stopped inviting people over.
She ruined canvas after canvas, slashed them in frustration and threw them into the Dumpster behind the building.
She wept till she saw a blurry brightness, like sunspots, wherever she looked.
She would probably never amount to much.
Still, she came back from work every evening and painted furiously.
The ballerina Maria Tallchief was born in Oklahoma in 1925 to an Osage father and a Scottish American mother.
Tallchief, along with several other Oklahoma ballerinas of Native American descent, began her rise to prominence in the dance world in the 1940s.
She sprayed the room with Eucalyptus Mist and lit incense sticks so they wouldn't smell the turpentine.
The act of painting was the first really risky thing she had done in her life.
"If the newcomers are only changing the ecosystem but 'not causing significant harm'" then they shouldn't be managed.
The two scientists disagree on the extent of the harm and how to handle nonnative species, but they agree that these species can cause harm.
The Russian ballet was widely admired at that time, so many dancers in the United States were adopting Russian stage names.
When friends suggested that Maria go by the name Tallchieva, she maintained her last name and continued to closely identify with her Osage lineage,although she did go by "Maria" instead of her given name, Elizabeth.
Though thought to be plentiful in the planet's deep, high-pressure interior, scientists had previously seen the mineral only in meteorites, or synthesized in labs.
Within that speck of ringwoodite, it turned out, was something stranger:
