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The contrasts the narrator draws in sentences 1 and 2 between the Players' homes and the houses in the "landscape" and between the Players' automobiles and the "roads" are most likely meant to suggest that the Players' homes and automobiles are B. modern and alien Based on the passage, which of the following most accurately characterizes the claim that "there was plenty of time to smooth the thing out" (sentence 8)? A. A comforting falsehood that the Players know to be untrue 01:15 01:36 The descriptive language in sentence 10 is mainly intended to reinforce the passage's depiction of the Players' D. persistent mood of despair regarding the play The narrator most strongly suggests that which of the following resulted in the transformation described in the last paragraph? D. The break in routine occurring the day before the first performance The main purpose of the last paragraph of Passage 1 is to offer B. justification Which conclusion can reasonably be drawn about the status of the "lawnbot" issue at the time of the writing of Passage 2? D. The manufacturer and astronomers have yet to resolve their conflict. Which choice best describes the relationship between the two passages? A. Passage 1 mainly discusses the National Radio Quiet Zone in general, while Passage 2 mainly discusses a particular threat to the zone's integrity. Given the evidence in the passages, with which statement would the authors of both passages most likely agree? B. The Green Bank Telescope can detect extremely small amounts of energy In the passage, the use of "crazy," "dinosaur head," "bumpy," "straight," and "swooping" serve mainly to emphasize the C. irregularity of downtown Manhattan Which choice best describes the overall structure of the passage? B. An author's life is connected to various themes in her work. When the author writes that C. diegosuarezi "should have been a meat eater," she most likely means that the species D. had body features similar to those of its meat-eating relative The second paragraph marks a shift in the passage from a discussion of Leehom Wang's B. early musical influences to his later musical career Which of the following would be most similar to the examples the author provides in the passage? C. A person's unfiltered first reaction to a major event becomes widely known because that person posts it online. The passage most strongly emphasizes which aspect of the job of construction management? A. The variety of its responsibilities Which of the following does the author offer as evidence to support the point that, for a time, serialization was highly successful? A. The change in circulation for The Pickwick Papers Based on the passage, Anderson puts "city" in quotation marks most likely to B. signal a nonliteral usage It can reasonably be concluded from the passage that in the author's opinion, scientific research today is chiefly impaired by the D. operation of economic forces potentially hostile to the common good The main purpose of the passage is to B. present a sharp critique Deciding that none of the nominees was ______________ the award, the film committee began reviewing a new group of candidates with better qualifications. C. worthy of Nuclear engineer Meena Mutyala argues that nuclear power is an environmentally ______________ technology, operating with essentially no emissions. D. benign