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21Standard English Conventions
34-In 1990, California native and researcher Ellen Ochoa left her position
as chief of the Intelligent Systems Technology Branch at a NASA research
center _____ the space agency's astronaut training program.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) to join
B) is joining
C) joined
D) joins
35-Wanda Diaz-Merced is an astrophysicist who lost her sight when she
was young. Diaz-Merced's condition inspired her to develop software that
can translate scientific data into sound. Sound-based tools______scientists
to detect subtle patterns in data. Such patterns may not be evident in
traditional graphs.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) has enabled
B) enable
C) is enabling
D) enables
36-Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier's star quilt poems offer an
unusually open-ended reading experience.
With_______eight panels of text stitched together in the shape of a
traditional eight-pointed Lakota star quilt, the poems present viewers with a
seemingly infinite number of ways to read them.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) their
B) it's
C) they're
D) its
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37-Humans were long thought to have begun occupying the Peruvian
settlement of Machu Picchu between 1440 and 1450 CE. However, a team
led by anthropologist Dr. Richard Burger used accelerator mass
spectrometry to uncover evidence that it was occupied______ 1420 CE,
according to Burger, humans were likely inhabiting the area.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) earlier. In
B) earlier, in
C) earlier, which in
D) earlier in
38-Swedish scientists Eva Engvall and Peter Perlman developed a method
for measuring the concentration of different proteins in a biological sample.
Their…….. ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), is used to detect
and measure proteins that indicate the presence of certain diseases.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) method (called
B) method-called
C) method, called
D) method called
39-In discussing Mary Shelley's 1818 epistolary novel Frankenstein, literary
theorist Gayatri Spivak directs the reader's attention to the character of
Margaret Saville. As Spivak points out, Saville is not the protagonist of
Shelley's______as the recipient of the letters that frame the book's
narrative, she's the "occasion" of it.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A) novel
B )novel,
C) novel; rather,
D) novel, rather,
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