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MathFunctions ..............................................................................................................................................................................................9

ReadingAnalyze Words and Phrase Choice ............................................................................................................................................13

ScienceMathematical and Variable Relationship ................................................................................................................................17

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Confusing Pairs

Then they’re the question of whether or not

parents should allow their children play outside

unsupervised, since the news constantly shows cases

of missing children taken from their nearby homes.

1. A. NO CHANG E B. theirs C. there’s D. there are

During they’re meetings that’s always room

for debate, but the students must realize that people

are entitled to their own opinions.

2. F. NO CHANGE G. our meetings their isH. those meetings theirs J. those meetings there’s

A recent study in teenagers shows they’re

sincerely interested in humanitarian efforts, both

locally in their own hometowns and abroad in places

that need assistance, like Haiti, South Africa, and

Nepal.

3. A. NO CHANGE B. shows theirC. show they’reD. show their

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In their guidelines that’s plenty of freedom to

build their own classroom and teachers should make

their classroom unique to keep students interested.

1. A. NO CHANGE B. they’re guidelines there’sC. our guidelines that’s D. their guidelines there’s

A new shift among college graduates displays

they’re willingness to move back home and live with

their parents while they pay off student loans and

find stability before heading into the real world.

2. F. NO CHANGE G. displays their H. display they’reJ. display their

The emergency response workers, using a

specially made drill, were able to dig as far as 700

feet into the ground in the attempt to rescue their

coal miners.

3. A. NO CHANGE B. they’re attempt to rescue the C. their attempt to rescue theD. their attempt to rescue their

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Homonyms are words that look or sound similar but have different meanings, like aloud and allowed.

a. The library is a quite space. We aren’t allowed to read aloud.

b. Other examples include right/write and see/sea.

Think of three sets of homonyms (a total of six words). Write a paragraph about how you determine which word you’re sup-posed to use when writing.

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3. Which definition, shown below, is possible for f(x) if f(4) = 19 ?A. f(x) = x – 15B. f(x) = x + 17C. f(x) = 19x + 4D. f(x) = x2 – 3 E. f(x) = x2 + 3

1. What is the value of f(–4) given f(x) = 3x2 – 6x ?A. –84B. –12C. 24D. 72E. 168

2. If f(x)= 4x2 + 6x – 20, then f(–3)= ?F. 106G. 34H. 30J. –2K. –74

DO YOUR FIGURING HERE.

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A student is given a table of inputs and outputs for an unknown function.

Input Output

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In mythology, the story of King Midas is about a man who could turn anything into gold with the touch of his hand. Imagine you have the opportunity to have your own version of the Midas touch. You create a machine that turns anything you want into something else. Write a paragraph describing your dream machine. What are the inputs? What are the outputs?

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Summarize the passage in one sentence.

Humanities: A Mirror of Motion. This passage adapted from several sources.

Movies have been called The Art Form of the 20th Century. While technology developed in the 19th century popularized the novelty of Moving Pictures, it was in the 20th century that the very fabric of life all over the world became a pattern for and a reflection of The Movies. Cinema both reflects the current tastes and values of its audience, and affects those tastes and fashion, attitudes and beliefs, hence, a mirror of motion. This reciprocal influence has always been clearly visible up on the screen, and while movies reflect the audience, they simultaneously move sales of products.

Many film critics and philosophical historians, such as A.S. Ferguson in Plato’s Smile of Light, see movies as an ironic embodiment of Plato’s Cave Allegory, wherein the prisoners believe that the shadows passing before them on the cave wall are not reflections but reality. In equating cinema to the way rulers manipulate the human population, the image of a movie house and its spectators is unmistakable. But the rulers of these modern reflections projected onto a movie screen are studios and marketers representing the fantasy desires of the audience to sell products. While few paying customers actually believe these projections are real, they do identify with the characters and actions as role models and continue to participate in that fantasy by repeated viewings and by purchasing merchandise of their favorite characters and movie icons.

Early in the 20th century, some audience reactions took the film industry and manufacturers by surprise. The market for men’s sleeveless undershirts disappeared after film star Clark Gable refused to wear one in It Happened One Night (1934) and started a whole generation of young males going bare-chested under their outer garments. Marlon Brando brought back the undershirt’s popularity in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), notably without an outer shirt. Almost from film’s inception, movie tie-ins and merchandise are the most sought-after secondary market; a hit movie—particularly for children or young adults—can yield profits far in excess of ticket sales. The Star Wars saga made its producer/director/writer George Lucas rich beyond his wildest dreams—not from ticket sales, but from numberless toys, posters, action figures, video games, pajamas, and other memorabilia.

But this moving mirror of manners, mores, and slick marketing sprang from origins much more humble than countless T-shirts and collector’s items. The earliest form of what we know today as cinema was a simple lens attached to one side of a wooden box. For centuries, glass-

makers knew that in a dark room, simple sunlight could be projected through glass onto a flat vertical surface. The image would always be inverted because of the physics of ordinary daylight passing through a lens. But when reflected by a mirror through a glass prism onto a flat surface, one could walk around it and see the everyday world projected into a dark room. By the early 1800s, entrepreneurs were projecting images from glass slides onto white sheets in tents and storefronts all over Europe and the Americas.

The popularity of this laterna magica led to the desire to show photographic images of people, animals, and the world in motion—a technological reinvention of human sight. The first moving images were produced in the 1830s by using a series of revolving drums, mirrors, and disks. Invented independently in Austria, Belgium, and Britain, they were true recorded photographs that—when viewed from above while spinning—exploited a defect in the retina of the human eye in which retinal afterimages would persist, creating the illusion that still images appeared to move by themselves. The most famous and lasting of these inventions was by the Englishman William Horner and his wondrous Zoetrope machine. Zoetrope was taken from the Greek words meaning life turning. Our very word cinema, from the Greek movement, was coined by French film pioneers the Lumière brothers for their cinematograph which presented these seemingly moving photographs of everyday reality. Simultaneously, French stage magician George Méliès was exploring fantastical, visionary worlds by exploiting the illusions of such special effect techniques as double exposure, jump cutting, and stop motion.

During the pre-World War I decades, technological improvements also led to new techniques of scripting, editing, and increasing ticket sales by advertising popular performers, which in itself gave rise to the Hollywood Star System. Aspiring movie stars flocked to Hollywood to get in on the action, but many found it was not worth the price. As various independent companies consolidated and merged for financial gain, studios evolved to streamline and industrialize the production and marketing of movies like an industrial assembly line. Artistic expression became secondary to profit gain to the point that during the Great Depression, film studios were among the most profitable industries in the United States. It was by servicing the fantasies of wealth and happiness that the movie business garnered massive profits until studios lost their monopolies on theaters and the mid-century brought with it the advent of television. Today, for better or worse, cinema seems to have regained that grip on those of us who desire a small escape from reality.

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1. When describing the origins of cinema as “humble” (line 46), the author is most directly referring to the fact that:

A. despite cinema’s mass market appeal, it arose from a simple device made from a wooden box.

B. cinema was created so that working class families could enjoy a relaxing outing to-gether.

C. the Lumière brothers sold their first batch of cinematographs as an attempt to make a living.

D. film executives and producers have become increasingly greedy and only want to make a profit.

2. In the context of the passage, the author equates Plato’s Cave Allegory to modern cinema audiences (lines 13-16) primarily to emphasize:

F. the physical similarities between shadows on a wall and reflections of light on a movie screen.

G. that the distortion of true reality is present in both the cave and the movie house.

H. that modern movie houses were inspired by Plato’s writings about reality and perception.

J. that the author hopes readers will be per-suaded by Ferguson’s unpopular theory.

3. The statement “many found it was not worth the price” (line 86-87) strongly suggests that becoming a Hollywood star was:

A. worthwhile.B. challenging.C. advantageous.D. uncomplicated.

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A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his comput-er terminal. His password wouldn’t work. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss, and they had this conversation:

Man - “Hey boss, I just tried to log in but my password was out of date.”

Boss - “Yes, that’s right. The password is different now, but if you listen carefully you should be able to figure out the new one: It has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.”

Man: “Thanks boss!”

With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.

What was the new password? _________________________

What was his old password? _________________________

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The Carlingford Igneous Centre (CIC) was a site of volcanic activity in Ireland during the Ordovician Period that spanned 485 to 483 million years ago. This type of volcanism is an example of “bimodal volcanism” in which both basalt and rhyolite magma are found in the core of the volcano. This results in particularly violent eruptions. Scientists studied the geological makeup of the CIC and discovered that this “bimodal volcanism” may be caused by the geological features of the rocks underneath the volcano. Figure 1 shows the relationship between the niobium (Nb) and zirconium (Zr) content of crustal rocks found at the CIC site.

Volcanic activity can influence global climate and trigger cold events. The injection of sulfur dioxide gas (SO

2), which is ultimately converted to sulfuric acid

aerosol particles (H2SO

4), scatters shortwave solar radiation

and absorbs near-infrared solar radiation and outgoing longwave terrestrial radiation. This results in cooling of the troposphere and heating of the stratosphere. Figure 2 shows the results of a study which examined the effect of erupting volcanoes on the number of cold events in Ireland.

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Figure 1 Adapted from Meade, F. C. et al. Nat. Commun. 5:4199 (2014)

Figure 2 Adapted from Francis Ludlow, et al. Environ. Res. Let. 8 (2013)

Summarize the passage in one sentence.

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1. According to the information in Figure 2, does the total number of cold events depend on volcanic activity?

A. Yes, because as volcanic activity based cold events increased, non-volcanic based cold events increased

B. Yes, because as volcanic activity based cold events increased, non-volcanic based cold events remained constant

C. No, because as volcanic activity based cold events increased, non-volcanic based cold events increased

D. No, because as volcanic activity based cold events increased, non-volcanic based cold events remained constant.

2. According to Figure 1, the relationship between Nb and Zr is best represented by:

F. Nb = 3.8 × Zr

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Set Three

In fashion, a trend is a new style that is becoming popular. Today we dress very differently than our parents and grandparents dressed. If we are familiar with the flapper dress trend in the 1920s, the bell bottoms of the 1960s and 70s, and the puffy sleeves worn in the 1980s, then we can predict how a certain person might look if he or she lived in that time period. Write a paragraph about what you think a “trend” refers to concerning science or analyzing charts and graphs.

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Essential Reinforcement for the ACT ® Aspire™ Test

ACT ® Aspire™

E lementsFor the first time ever, your students can work toward college and career readiness

and better ACT ® Aspire™ scores in just five minutes a day.

Starting as early as sixth grade, the MasteryPrep ElementsTM program consists

of grade-by-grade exercise sets for the beginning or end of a class period. The

program provides essential reinforcement for skills heavily weighted on the ACT®

Aspire™ Test.

To find out more about MasteryPrep Elements,

as well as the other products and services available

to your school district, contact MasteryPrep at

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