SAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE WEEKLY ASSESSMENT

Loth leads a multi-institution group that is developing an innovative type of turbine blade. The group’s concept features hinged, foldable blades modeled on the flexible branches of palm trees, a design that will ensure that ________ will not break even when exposed to extremely strong wind gusts. 

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Conversation organizations should accept the scientific evidence and recognize the difference between the two African elephant species: the savanna elephant and the forest elephant. Doing so will improve the __________ of survival.

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Scientists have learned that shallow-water corals fluoresce as part of a symbolic, or mutually beneficial, relationship with algae living inside ______ By absorbing potentially harmful ultraviolet light and emitting safer pink or purple light, fluorescent coral effectively provide a sun block for the algae.

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Scientists have learned that shallow-water corals fluoresce as part of a symbolic, or mutually beneficial, relationship with algae living inside ______ By absorbing potentially harmful ultraviolet light and emitting safer pink or purple light, fluorescent coral effectively provide a sun block for the algae.

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A survey of the building designed by Ghanaian British architect David Adjaye reveals no obvious signature style. His Moscow School of Management Skolkovo in Russia features a two-story, 150-meter-wide circular base, on top of which ____________ four different sized rectangular prisms tiled in uneven herringbone patterns of transparent and colored glass panels.

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Although writers throughout history _________ rhetorical techniques to express opinions, scholars typically associate the origins of devices such as ethos and pathos with Greece, especially since Greek philosopher Aristotle coined the terms.

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For decades, elephants were classified into two species, Africa and Asian, and some organizations that work to protect threatened animals still assign all elephants to one of these two groups. However, several studies conducted in 2001, including one from 2016, __________ evidence that two unique African elephant populations are fact two distinct species: the savanna elephant and the forest elephant.

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Mysticetes grew in response to changes in climate. About 4.5 million years ago, Earth entered an ice age, with many cycles of glacial formation and _________ Every time the glaciers melted, water carried nutrients from the land into shallow ocean waters, a process called runoff.

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In 2011 residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, turned a vacant local lot into a garden. They maintained the garden for years, beautifying the landscape and reaping the fruits and vegetables– until a real estate company purchased the land and ultimately succeeded in evicting the gardeners. After the _________ forced departure, the land returned to disuse, subject to the slow process of commercial development.

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As the story of Crown Heights Community garden shows, commercial development may not always be the ideal solution to the problem, since regulations and long application processes can prevent companies from taking action on the plots. Community garden merit support over uncertain commercial enterprise not only because they can offer a speedier means of revitalizing the vacant lots _________ bring unique benefits to residents and neighborhoods.

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In addition to aiding Blais in securing the land, the city of Fairmont facilitated the building of the bridge and paved the roads around the garden for easier access. The garden had already begun to flourish by the fall of 2014 when funding for the bridge and other projects ________ obtained through a national grant award recognition of the garden’s positive impact on the community.

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Satyanarayan and Bala recognized that many individuals may not have access to older computer programs and _________ required software, so they developed OLIVE (Open Library of Images for Virtualized Execution), and executable content archive.

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OLIVE has two main purposes: first, it contains software that enables a modern computer to simulate all of the software of an older computer. Users stream this software over the internet to their newer electronic devices, ________ allows them to access obsolete computer programs in order to retrieve associated data files.

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OLIVE has two main purposes: first, it contains software that enables a modern computer to simulate all of the software of an older computer. Users stream this software over the internet to their newer electronic devices, which allows them to access obsolete computer programs in order to retrieve associated data files. Second, OLIVE functions as a free digital archive of outdated computer programs that individuals can use for education and research ________

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When programmers remake a classic video game or NASA scientists need their computers on Earth to be compatible with those used on a spacecraft on a decade-long mission, ________ may rely on OLIVE to fulfil their needs.

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A workshop guided students through several phases of game development. The first step was the storytelling phase, in which students learned different techniques, listened to stories presented by elders, ________ stories they knew.

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A workshop guided students through several phases of game development. The first step was the storytelling phase, in which students learned different techniques, listened to stories presented by elders, and shared stories they knew. From this phase emerged the narrative the students would soon bring to ________ an Iroquios hunter journeys back to his village and defends it against characters from traditional Mohawk legends.

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Andrea Bayer, the curator of the exhibition, says that unfinished works can be masterpieces in their own right and illuminate the process of artistic creation. _________ demonstrate that unfinished works can also provide valuable insights into the interplay between historical context and creative decisions.

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External awnings, which are assembled out of standardized parts, often don’t fit the atypical contours of modern buildings and are prone to weather damage. Recognizing the insufficiency of these traditional rigid-body devices, _______

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In 2014, Simon ____________  followed Oxman’ s biometric approach in solving a particular engineering challenge: designing shading systems for irregularly shaped glass-paneled skyscrapers.

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