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Part A Which statement best describes a central idea of the passage? D Fa ce—to—face instruction offers more benefits than Virtual
instruction. C] Uld—fashioned teaching methods are being replaced by digital methods. [3 Many students prefer learning in a traditional
classroom to learning in a virtual classroom. D Digital assignments can be frustrating for students Mao are unfamiliar with new technology.

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics – Kinship, Marriage, and the Household
1.   The marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time.
a.   polygamy                                    c. monogamy
b.   b. polyandry                              d. polygyny
2.   The basic institution of most societies.
a.   family                                         c. marriage
b.   b. kinship                                  d. descent
3.       Family structure that is based on residence that permits the newly married couple to live independently.
a.   patrilocal                                    c. biolocal
b.   matrilocal                                   d. neolocal
4.Refers to a group whose members are involved in politics. This can be seen in families that have been part of the government for several generations.
a.   political alliance                        c. political dynasty
b.   b. political kinship                     d. political descent
5.Kinship based on blood is considered as the most basic and general form of relations.
a.   matrilineal descent                  c. consanguineal kinship
b.   patrilineal descent                    d. affinal kinship
6.It refers to the practice of having more than one partner or sexual mate.
a.   polygamy                                   c. endogamy
b.   b. monogamy                             d. exogamy
7.A type of family that is made up of a group of people who are united by social ties and is usually made up of two adults and their socially recognized children.
a.   extended family                        c. blended family
b. complex family                          d. nuclear family
8.It happens when the newlywed couple stays with the husband’s relatives and the wife’s kin alternately.
a.   biolocal residence                     c. neolocal residence
b. avuncolocal residence            d. patrilocal family
9.Which type of marriage where the man or woman’s parents determine the marital partner of the individual?
a.   exchange marriage                   c. referred marriage
b. child marriage                           d. diplomatic marriage
10.It is sometimes called a step family, reconstituted family or a complex family.
a.   nuclear family                          c. blended family
b.   transnational family                  d. extended family
11.It refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs.
a.   consanguineal kinship             c. kinship by ritual
b.   affinal kinship                            d. kinship
12.It refers to the spiritual parents of the child.
a.   compadrazgo                             c. goddaughter
b.   b. godson                                   d. parents
13.When someone finds his/her partner through a matchmaker.
a.   arranged marriage                   c. fixed marriage
b.   referred marriage                      d. diplomatic marriage
14.It refers to the biological origin of a person’s family.
a.   kinship                                        c. descent
b.   b. alliance                                  d. dynasty
15. A marriage where an individual has only one spouse at a time.
a. polygamy                                     c. endogamy
b. polygyny                                     d.monogam

Select the sentence that correctly uses commas.
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?      On every July 4th since I was a child we have celebrated, with a barbecue, live music, and fireworks.
?      b.)
?      On every July 4th since, I was a child, we have celebrated with a barbecue, live music, and fireworks.
?      c.)
?      On every July 4th, since I was a child we have celebrated with a barbecue, live music and fireworks.
?      d.)
On every July 4th since I was a child, we have celebrated with a barbecue, live music, and fireworks.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Characters: Julia, Olga, Amá, Apá, Lorena, Connor, Angie, Juanga, Mr. Ingman, Jazmyn, Tía Fermina, Dr. Castillo
Evidence and Analysis
Directions: Gather quotes and other examples from the text to use as evidence that provides insight into each of the characters. Describe and analyze each of the characters, including relationships, traits, motivations, fears, and how they develop over the course of the text.

39. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would best introduce the topic to the audience and help set up the main argument of the passage? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), originally known as the Communicable Disease A Center, is a federal agency that was founded in 1946. According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans are not getting enough sleep. In 2015 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a study indicating that wearable technology such as fitness trackers are not hazardous to people’s health. When I woke up the other morning and checked my fitness tracker, I was disappointed to see that I only got five hours of sleep the night before. A recent study by researchers from Korea and the United States examined the accuracy of a number of different fitness trackers that are commonly used to measure sleep patterns.

39. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would best introduce the topic to the audience and help set up the main argument of the passage? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), originally known as the Communicable Disease A Center, is a federal agency that was founded in 1946. According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans are not getting enough sleep. In 2015 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a study indicating that wearable technology such as fitness trackers are not hazardous to people’s health. When I woke up the other morning and checked my fitness tracker, I was disappointed to see that I only got five hours of sleep the night before. A recent study by researchers from Korea and the United States examined the accuracy of a number of different fitness trackers that are commonly used to measure sleep patterns.

39. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would best introduce the topic to the audience and help set up the main argument of the passage? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), originally known as the Communicable Disease A Center, is a federal agency that was founded in 1946. According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans are not getting enough sleep. In 2015 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a study indicating that wearable technology such as fitness trackers are not hazardous to people’s health. When I woke up the other morning and checked my fitness tracker, I was disappointed to see that I only got five hours of sleep the night before. A recent study by researchers from Korea and the United States examined the accuracy of a number of different fitness trackers that are commonly used to measure sleep patterns.

The majority of recyclable wastes are ____. Group of answer choices preconsumer, and generated by users of the product postconsumer, and generated by users of the product preconsumer, and generated in the manufacturing process postconsumer, and generated in the manufacturing process preproducer, and generated by users of the product

Businesses intending to market their products globally should:
guess what consumers in foreign markets want.
translate their packages to the local language.
educate themselves to use cultural differences to their advantage.
disregard cultural differences—people are people.

III. READING COMPREHENSION
A. Passages. Read the following passages carefully. Select the response to the comprehension questions which most accurately agrees with what you have read.
Passage 1
The potato, like other root crops, has an unearned reputation in some countries as an inferior food, or a poor person’s staple. While roots are the main ingredient of the diet of half a million people, the potato’s nutritive content of protein, fiber, minerals, and vitamins Bl, B2 and C hardly makes it inferior. Medical researchers report that potatoes are even better than milk for malnourished children, who often cannot digest milk. Potatoes provide a high-quality protein similar to that in dairy products. Unfortunately, the potato is still out of reach of a poor person’s budget in many developing countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines.
26. According to this passage, why might potatoes be better than milk for children who are improperly nourished?
A. Potatoes contain quite a bit of calcium.
B. Potatoes have more B vitamins than milk.
C. These children often cannot assimilate milk.
D. These children often cannot find a supply.
27. The potato ____________.
A. does not deserve its bad reputation.
B. is the main food for half a million people.
C. is not available in many developing countries.
D. can hardly be called nutritious.
Passage 2
“Anting” is a noun that is entering the language because of ornithologists, or bird watchers. Anting refers to an activity in which birds rub themselves with defence fluids or, sometimes, other bodily fluids of ants. In the past scientists thought anting had no function and that it was a vice like smoking or drinking. However, most ornithologists now think that birds use ant fluids to kill parasites. Among those ants that birds favour are the Azteca ants, which produce formic acid, a repellent so effective that it will drive off army ants. Birds often crash dive into Azteca nests and allow the insects to crawl all over their bodies, or they grasp them in their beaks and rub them through their feathers. The birds get such relief from their treatment that some appear to swoon and even lose their balance.
28. “Anting” ____________.
A. is an activity unique to bird watchers.
refers to the killing of Azteca ants by parasites.
C. is a relatively new word in the English language.
D. refers to the way ants defend themselves.
29. Birds sometimes dive into Azteca ant nests because ____________.
A. they lose their balance as they enter.
they are trying to kill the ants.
they are seeking relief from parasites.
they are repelled by the Azteca ants.
Passage 3
Tall children score slightly higher on intelligence tests and perform somewhat better academically than their shorter classmates, perhaps because more is expected of them, researchers for a National Health Examination survey have found. The magnitude of the difference is not large, however, and certainly not worth giving children growth hormones to make them taller, said Dr. Darrell Wilson of Stanford University. He and his colleagues concluded there was a definite link between height and scores on tests of both intelligence and achievement. The association remained even after controlling for other factors, including socioeconomic status, birth order, family size and rate of physical maturity. Dr. Wilson said the difference was small but significant. The researchers based their findings on data from a study involving nearly 14,000 children from six to 17 years old.
One cause the researchers suggested for the connection between height and test scores was the tall children’s ________.
A. greater rate of physical maturity.
increased growth hormone production.
response to greater expectations.
general health and better nutrition.
The researchers found that the difference between the test scores of tall and short children ________.
can be linked to socioeconomic status.
appears to be inexplicable.
is meaningful although it is small.
is worthless for measuring intelligence.
Passage 4
Worker involvement in the protection of health at work is gaining ground in the European Economic Community (EEC), where most States have overhauled their national laws on job safety during the past decade. Today, worker representatives should be informed and consulted on health and safety matters and they are entitled in one way or another to inspect workplaces and investigate accidents. The watchdog role is assigned to statutory work councils, safety delegates and voluntary bodies. But what rights do EEC workers actually enjoy, and how much real use have they made of them? A study of these questions recently published by the ILO reveals a chequered picture of greatly varying approaches and degrees of success.
32. In this passage the author suggests that ____________.
A. statutory work councils have done a great deal to protect worker health and safety.
most States in the EEC have taken a similar approach to worker safety.
the results of worker involvement in health protection have been uneven.
worker groups do not have enough power to enforce safety laws.
Passage 5
The Pronunciation Research Unit, which is made up of three linguists and a clerk, is charged with upholding the standard of spoken language at BBC. Today, the unit concerns itself mostly with proper nouns, leaving ordinary vocabulary and grammar to the discretion of the announcers, who deliver the 2,000 hours of BBC broadcasting each week. Though many still speak the Queen’s English, or the plummy, southern English known as Received Pronunciation, there is a good deal of room for variation now.
33. The author suggests that ___________.
A. the BBC broadcasters have learned to be very discreet.
the pronunciation of people from the south of England is changing.
nouns are the least problematic in terms of pronunciation.
accents other than Received Pronunciation are now acceptable.
Passage 6
A long time back a reviewer ridiculed William Carlos Williams for saying one reason a poet wrote was to become a better person. I was fresh out of graduate school and I easily sided with the reviewer. But now I see Williams was right. I do not think Williams was advocating writing as therapy, nor the nai¨ve idea that after writing a poem one is less depraved. I believe Williams discovered that a lifetime of writing was a slow, accumulative way of accepting one’s life as valid. We sweat through poem after poem to realize what dumb animals know by instinct and reveal in their behaviour: my life is all I have got. We are off to know ourselves, even if our method of learning is painfully convoluted. When you write you are momentarily telling the world and yourself that neither of you need any reason to be but the one you had all along.
34. The author of this passage has come to realize the value of writing as ____________.
A. a means of coming to terms with your existence.
B. an efficient way of understanding your true feelings.
C. an aid to help you better understand your world.
D. a potential therapy for your instinctive behaviour.
Passage 7
There is a special kind of person who is more likely than most to take the first step to help and to stay with the effort to the end: the altruist. According to Dr. Staub, “There is a pattern of child-rearing that seems to encourage altruism in later years. A warm and nurturing relationship between parent and child is essential, but not enough in itself. The parents who transmit altruism most effectively exert a firm control over their children. Although they are nurturing, they are not permissive. They use a combination of firmness, warmth and reasoning. They point out to children the consequences to others of misbehaviour – and good behaviour. And they actively guide the child to do good, to share, to be helpful.”
35. This passage suggests that some adults have become altruists because their parents ____________.
A. taught them to feel sorry for the less fortunate.
B. encouraged them in later years.
C. were not only encouraging but also strict.
D. taught them that misbehaviour deserves punishment.
B. Texts. In this section of the reading test, you will read two texts several paragraphs in length. Each text is followed by five comprehension questions. Mark your answer to each question on your answer.
Text A
1. To many developing countries, tourism has appeared to be a bonanza, a source of precious foreign exchange, a stimulant to foreign investment in splendid hotels and a creator of employment in service industries. Now there are many second thoughts as the real cost in economic distortion and pollution of the social environment is totalled up.
2. The distortion arises from land speculation in tourist areas, inflation of land values in principal cities and the unbalanced development that caters to the requirements of pleasure seekers from abroad as much as to the needs of the indigenous people. Roads, water supply and telecommunications are often designed with tourism primarily in mind. One critic estimates that infrastructural expenses of this kind, plus imports of luxury items to create creature comforts for visitors, consume more than two thirds of the foreign exchange derived from tourism.
3. But such economic costs may well be less than the psycho-social impact. At a recent international conference, the mischief wrought by the tourist industry was frequently referred to as catastrophic, especially in those areas described in travel folders as “upspoilt paradises”. The conferees agreed that all too often travel does not heighten understanding between