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QUESTION 1 · Set your scope,then identify the main idea
Original passage: A seed archive once listed each collection under a familiar plant name. Staff found that a familiar name could refer to different plants in different regions. The new catalog links that name to a checked specimen and a collection record. Entries with uncertain identities are marked for further review. Visitor displays keep familiar names alongside verified identifiers, so visitors can still recognize the labels they know. The archive has not changed its storage capacity. Which statement best expresses the main idea?
The archive replaces specimen checking with a simpler system of familiar names.
The archive increases storage space before accepting more seed collections.
The archive improves identity tracking while preserving usable familiar labels.
The archive treats unresolved labels as evidence that the collections have failed.
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Answer: The archive improves identity tracking while preserving usable familiar labels.
The linked specimens and records improve identity tracking, while the visitor labels retain familiar names. That statement explains both major strands. Storage expansion, reduced checking and a declaration of failure conflict with or exceed the passage.
Review the lesson QUESTION 2 · Recover word meaning from its local context
An editor writes: “The specimen label is provisional. We will use it for now, but a second examination may require us to change it.” In this sentence, provisional most nearly means:
Temporary
Permanent
Unrelated
Previous
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Answer: Temporary
“For now” and the possibility of revision identify a temporary status pending confirmation. The context supplies the meaning without requiring outside knowledge about the specimen.
Choose the completion that makes all three listed actions parallel: “The volunteers agreed to label packets, to weigh samples, and _____.”
records arrivals
a record of arrivals
to record arrivals
recording arrivals
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Answer: to record arrivals
The three actions share the infinitive pattern: to label, to weigh, to record. The grammatical relationship, rather than the subject matter, determines the matching completion.
A workshop has 72 unmounted prints. It sends one third of them to an exhibition. It then mounts three eighths of the prints that remain. How many prints are still unmounted at the workshop?
18 prints
30 prints
21 prints
45 prints
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Answer: 30 prints
One third of 72 is 24, leaving 48 at the workshop. Three eighths of 48 is 18 newly mounted. The unmounted remainder is 48−18=30 prints. The second fraction uses 48 as its base, not 72.
Review the lesson QUESTION 5 · Separate proton identity,nuclear mass count and charge
A particle has 17 protons, 18 neutrons and 18 electrons. Which record gives its atomic number Z, mass number A and net charge?
Z=17; A=35; charge=−1
Z=18; A=35; charge=−1
Z=17; A=36; charge=−1
Z=17; A=35; charge=+1
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Answer: Z=17; A=35; charge=−1
Z counts 17 protons. A counts the nucleus: 17+18=35. Net charge in elementary-charge units is 17−18=−1. Changing electrons affects charge without changing the proton-defined element identity.
Review the lesson QUESTION 6 · Follow newly labeled cargo through a specified pathway
In a simplified eukaryotic-cell model, a newly labeled secreted protein follows rough ER→Golgi→secretory vesicle. Labeling starts after transport from the ER to the Golgi has been completely blocked. Protein synthesis continues, and no labeled protein was present before the block. Over the short observation interval, which pattern is consistent with this model?
New label bypasses the ER and first appears inside outgoing secretory vesicles.
New label appears in the ER but does not newly arrive in the Golgi.
New label first appears in the Golgi, then moves backward into the ER.
New label cannot appear in the ER because the Golgi makes this protein.
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Answer: New label appears in the ER but does not newly arrive in the Golgi.
The label is introduced only after the block, so there is no previously labeled Golgi pool. New synthesis can label the ER, but the stipulated block prevents that new cargo from reaching the Golgi. The inference concerns this model and interval, not every protein-trafficking route.
Review the lesson QUESTION 7 · Keep anatomical directions attached to the subject
A paper human figure in anatomical position faces the observer directly, with no mirror or image reversal. A marker is on the figure’s anatomical left forearm. In this frontal view, which description is correct?
The marker appears on the observer’s right and becomes anatomically right.
The marker appears on the observer’s left and becomes anatomically right.
The marker appears on the observer’s left and remains anatomically left.
The marker appears on the observer’s right and remains anatomically left.
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Answer: The marker appears on the observer’s right and remains anatomically left.
Anatomical left belongs to the subject. For an unreversed frontal view of a facing figure, that side appears on the observer’s right. Changing the observer’s viewpoint does not rename the subject’s anatomical sides.
Original passage: A walking-route team logs only paths its members have visited that month. Every completed visit in the current log occurred in dry weather. A blank line means the team has not yet visited that path; it is not a closure notice. The log contains no rainy-weather observations. Which conclusion follows from this information?
An unvisited path has worse conditions than every path with a completed entry.
The dry-weather entries establish how those paths will perform during rain.
Blank entries identify the paths that the team has closed to the public.
The log does not establish the condition of an unvisited path.
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Answer: The log does not establish the condition of an unvisited path.
A blank entry establishes that no monthly visit is recorded, not whether the path is good, bad or closed. The dry-weather scope also cannot be extended to rainy conditions. Keep the conclusion within the supplied observations.
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