2022 Test B English

Read this sentence from paragraph 1. The scene is like a twisted… movie, with doomed gadgets riding an unrelenting conveyor belt into a machine that shreds them into piles of…

How does paragraph 2 build on what the reader learns in paragraph 1?

Which sentence from the excerpt suggests that electronic devices are purposely designed to be disposed of after a short time?

The details in paragraphs 4–5 develop a central idea of the excerpt mainly by suggesting that

What is the role of paragraphs 7–9 in the organization of the excerpt?

The idea that e-waste regulations can be ineffective is conveyed in the excerpt through

How does the diagram after paragraph 9 most support the claim made in paragraph 4?

The phrases “166,000 floating solar panels are strung together atop the rippling surface of a lake” and “an immense blanket of renewable energy” in paragraph 1 convey that the solar-power…

The author includes the statements from Dajie in paragraphs 2 and 7 most likely to

How does paragraph 2 contribute to the development of ideas in the article?

Which statement best describes how the chronological structure of paragraphs 4–5 contributes to the development of ideas in the article?

How do the details in paragraph 6 about the solar-power goals of the Chinese government convey a central idea of the article?

China’s role in the increase of solar-energy use around the world is illustrated in the article mainly through the inclusion of

The author’s purpose for writing the article is best conveyed by the

How do the details in paragraph 4 about Germany, Spain, and Italy contribute to a central idea of the article?

How does the author’s use of comparison in paragraphs 4 and 5 contribute to the development of ideas in the excerpt?

Read this sentence from paragraph 6. To see what effects exercise might have on this process, the researchers first recruited 40 college-age Chinese men and women who were trying to…

In the study described in the excerpt, researchers asked English learners to assess the sense of words in context because that task is

Which evidence from the excerpt is most relevant to the author’s claim that there are many unanswered questions about the relationship between movement and learning?

Read these sentences from paragraph 17. These improvements extend beyond simply aiding in memorization, she added. The exercise also deepened language learners’ grasp of how to use their newly acquired…

Paragraph 18 shows that the author’s perspective toward the study described in the excerpt is that

Which sentence is the best summary of the research procedure used in the study in the excerpt?

Read lines 5–8 from the poem. So beneath the level of molecules are atoms, and beneath the level of atoms, we find protons, electrons, neutrons; and beneath that— what, exactly?…

The break between the second stanza (lines 5–14) and the third stanza (lines 15–26) serves as a transition from

The main purpose of the comparison in lines 23–24 of the poem is to show

Read lines 25–26 from the poem. until everything we think we know bangs against everything else we know. The lines help develop a central idea in the poem by suggesting…

Read lines 27–28 from the poem. And there, in the explosion, in the darkness, briefly incandescent, they appear: The imagery in the lines reveals that the speaker

Read lines 30–32 from the poem. Their names sound like dinosaurs or maybe bands playing terrible music in someone’s garage. The speaker refers to familiar objects and events in the…

Read lines 36–39 from the poem. both together and apart, what keeps together the pencil in your hand right now as well as separate from, say, Jupiter. The poet includes…

The last stanza (lines 33–44) concludes the poem by emphasizing which central idea?

Read lines 39–44 from the poem. They spin, and it is only down there in the darkness—in the vast garage where physicists jot down what they can, whatever seems most…