Free Texas Initiative Assessment Components Questions and Answers
Instrumental and tree-ring records from the southern Andres show a strong warming trend during the last 50 years coupled with a decline in precipitation. With rising temperatures, glaciers in the North and South Patagonian icefields are receding up to 100 times faster than at any time since the Little Ice Age. These trends are projected to continue in the coming decades and lead to increased moisture deficits, further ice recession, tree mortality, and greater risk of fires.
The sentence pairs "instrumental and tree-ring records" as evidence that show warming trends in the region of the Andes in a passages about climate science. So instrumental most likely refers to the scientific instruments that would help show measurements of this warming effect. C
The long reign of Elizabeth, who became known as the "Virgin Queen" for her reluctance to endanger her authority through marriage, coincided with the flowering of the English Renaissance, associated with such renowned authors as William Shakespeare. By her death in 1603, England had become a major world in every respect, and Queen Elizabeth I passed into history as one of England's greatest monarchs.
The passage states that Elizabeth felt "reluctance to endanger her authority" and so refrained from marriage. The English Renaissance is mentioned in the passage, but not in direct connection to Elizabeth's refusal to marry.
Marvin Freeman's groundbreaking new study of the plays of Henrik Ibsen will alter the course of Ibsen scholarship forever. Previously, scholars limited the areas of their studies to a particular phase of Ibsen's career, since a different scholarly approach seemed to fit each of the phases. Freeman has instead taken on the entirety of Ibsen's work. Happily, this breadth of scholarship does not diminish the depth with which Freeman explores each work. The career of Ibsen is now liberated from arbitrary divisions and stands before us as a complete picture. It will be years before we can fully appreciate the service that Freeman has rendered.
What is the main point of the paragraph?
The author has consistent tone of praise for Freeman's work, so the correct answer must be positive.
The amount of time a person sits during the day is associated with a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and health, regardless of regular exercise, according to a recent study. More than one half of an average person's day is spent being sedentary---sitting, watching television, or working at a computer. Avoiding sedentary time and getting regular exercise are both important for improving your health and survival.
Which of the following is implied by the passage?
The passage mentions that "regardless of regular exercise," sedentary activities can negatively impact one's health.
At the time Paine wrote "Common Sense," most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonist' argument with the crown when he wrote the following: "Europe, and not England , is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty form every part of Europe. Hither they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still."
The main idea of the paragraph suggests that Paine?
The passage shows that after Paine released "Common Sense," the argument of the colonists changed, and that rather than considering themselves as solely aggrieved "Britons," they now shared a larger bond in opposition to Europe as a whole.
In the first paragraph of the attached passage, the word "incessantly" most nearly means __________.
Picasso expanded the artform by breaking figures into shapes and playing with shifting perspective in his paintings.
Expanding the artform, …. The next words will be?
The sentence should be rewritten "Expanding the artform, Picasso broke figures into shapes and played with shifting and played with shifting perspectives in his paintings." The past-tense verb expanded is rewritten as the gerund, expanding. In order to retain the past-tense of the original sentence, the gerunds breaking and playing become broke and played. Choices A and C are are incorrect because they both result in sentence phrasing and changes the meaning of the original sentence.
Imagine that you have a short stick that measure 8.7 cm, and a long stick that measures 27.6 cm. How much longer does the short sick need to be so that the long stick is exactly three times longer?
If you want the long stick to be exactly three longer without changing its length of 27.6 cm, the short stick needs to be 27.6/3, or 9.2cm long. This is 0.5 cm longer than it is now, so the correct choice is A.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth. Its outermost planet orbits in the 'Goldilocks' zone---- a region where surface temperatures could be moderate enough for liquid water, and perhaps life, to exist. The star ranks among the top 10 nearest stars known to have transiting planets.
The purpose of passage is to inform the reader that a new planet has been found---- one that could possibly can conclude this because of the phrase "has discovered" in the first sentence.
The area of a square is 169 square feet. What is the length of one of its diagonals?
Let s be a side of the square. Then, s2 = 169, and taking the square root of both sides yields s = 13. Now, if D represents a diagonal of the square, using the Pythagorean theorem yields the following: So, a diagonal has length feet. Choice A is the length of a side, not the diagonal. Choice C is incorrect because the 2 and 13 should be interchanged. Choice D is incorrect because you made an arithmetic error involving radicals.
Caused by a genetic mutation that prevents humans from synthesizing vitamin C, scurvy was inevitable in long voyages of discovery during which fresh food was hard to get, causing the body to disintegrate. One of the remarkable symptoms was an extreme receptivity to sensory impressions. Sudden sounds, such as a loud boom from a musket or a cannon blast, were known to kill scorbutic sailors. Even pleasant stimuli such as a drink of fresh water, or a long-awaited taste of fruit, could provoke a seizure and put an end to their lives.
The author mentions that sailors could be killed from a "long-awaited taste of fruit." Therefore it is unlikely that "fresh food could cure them of the disease."