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NYSESLAT VIP English Language Proficiency Exam
NYSESLAT — The NYSESLAT (New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test) is an annual assessment administered by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to all English Language Learners (ELLs) in grades K–12; it measures proficiency across four domains — Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing — and determines whether students have attained the English proficiency needed to exit ESL services. This practice set focuses on the Reading and Writing domains at the grades 9–12 band, which are the most complex and academically demanding.
54
Questions
120m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 54👑 VIP
Read the following passage and answer the question. "The migration of monarch butterflies across North America is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the natural world. Each autumn, millions of monarchs travel up to 3,000 miles from their summer breeding grounds in the United States and Canada to their overwintering sites in the mountains of central Mexico. Scientists have long puzzled over how the butterflies navigate so precisely — they use the position of the sun and an internal biological clock to maintain their southwestern direction. Alarmingly, the monarch population has declined by more than 80% over the past two decades, largely due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change." According to the passage, which combination of factors MOST threatens the monarch butterfly population?
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