Rhetorical Synthesis Lv Easy

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was a road built between 1792 and 1794.

It was the first private turnpike in the United States.

It connected the cities of Philadelphia and Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania.

It was sixty-two miles long.

The student wants to emphasize the distance covered by the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The calendar used by most of the world (the Gregorian calendar) has 365 days.
• Because 365 days can’t be divided evenly by 7 (the number of days in a week), calendar dates fall on a different day of the week each year.
• The Hanke-Henry permanent calendar, developed as an alternative to the Gregorian calendar, has 364 days.
• Because 364 can be divided evenly by 7, calendar dates fall on the same day of the week each year, which supports more predictable scheduling.

The student wants to explain an advantage of the Hanke-Henry calendar. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Annie Wu is a prominent American flutist who graduated from the New England Conservatory.
• She has won multiple national flute competitions.
• She is best known for a 2011 YouTube video that has been viewed over two million times.
• The video shows her performing Three Beats for Beatbox Flute, an original work by composer Greg Pattillo.
• Wu combines flute playing and beatboxing in the video.

The student wants to emphasize Wu’s most well-known achievement. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Bioluminescence is the emission of light by living organisms.
• This light is produced by chemical reactions in organisms’ cells.
• Jellyfish emit flashes of blue light.
• This behavior serves to startle predators.
• Black dragonfish emit a steady red light.
• This behavior helps them locate prey in deep waters.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the behavior of jellyfish and that of black dragonfish. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Jon Ching is a Los Angeles-based painter.
• He uses the term “flauna” to describe the plant-animal hybrids that he depicts in his surreal paintings.
• “Flauna” is a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna.”
• His painting Nectar depicts a parrot with leaves for feathers.
• His painting Primaveral depicts a snow leopard whose fur sprouts flowers.

The student wants to provide an explanation and example of “flauna.” Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The painter Frida Kahlo is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
• She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1907.
• She is best known for her vivid and richly symbolic self-portraits.
• The Two Fridas (1939) features two versions of Kahlo sitting together.
• One version wears a European-style dress and the other a traditional Tehuana dress.

The student wants to introduce Kahlo to an audience unfamiliar with the artist. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 1897, African American inventor Andrew Beard invented an automatic coupler.
• It improved on the existing design of train car couplers.
• It made the job of connecting train cars safer.
• In 1938, African American inventor Frederick Jones invented a mobile refrigeration system.
• It improved on the existing design of food transport trucks.
• It enabled trucks to carry perishable foods farther.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Beard’s invention and Jones’s invention. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Archaeologist Dr. Sada Mire founded the Horn Heritage Foundation to preserve the cultural history of regions in the Horn of Africa.
• Horn Heritage has overseen a preservation project to create 3D digital scans of ancient rock art in Somaliland.
• Paintings found at the Laas Geel caves are included in the scans.
• The Laas Geel paintings feature human figures and animals.
• Paintings found at the Dhagah Nabi Galay caves are included in the scans.
• The Dhagah Nabi Galay caves feature what are thought to be the earliest examples of writing in East Africa.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the Laas Geel paintings and the Dhagah Nabi Galay paintings.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• NASA uses rovers, large remote vehicles with wheels, to explore the surface of Mars.
• NASA’s rovers can’t explore regions inaccessible to wheeled vehicles.
• Rovers are also heavy, making them difficult to land on the planet’s surface.
• Microprobes, robotic probes that weigh as little as 50 milligrams, could be deployed virtually anywhere on the surface of Mars.
• Microprobes have been proposed as an alternative to rovers.

The student wants to explain an advantage of microprobes. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: 

• The Sasanian Empire lasted about 400 years (AD 224 to AD 651).
• The Sasanians controlled an area spanning 1.4 million square miles.
• This area included present-day Iran and Iraq.
• The empire’s capital was the ancient city of Ctesiphon.
• Ctesiphon was located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq.

The student wants to specify the location of Ctesiphon. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• A wok is a cooking pan that originated in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE).
• The wok’s round, wide base helps to cook food evenly.
• The wok’s high, angled sides help to contain oil splatters.
• Grace Young is a cook and culinary historian.
• Her book The Breath of a Wok (2004) traces the history of the wok.

The student wants to describe the wok’s shape. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The tundra is a type of environment characterized by especially harsh winter conditions.
• Winter temperatures in the tundra average a frigid −30 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Animals that have adapted to these conditions can survive tundra winters.
• During the tundra’s short growing season, average temperatures can reach a relatively mild 54 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Around 1,700 different kinds of plants are able to grow in the tundra.

The student wants to emphasize how harsh the conditions can be in the tundra. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Seikan Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Japan.
• It connects the island of Honshu to the island of Hokkaido.
• It is roughly 33 miles long.
• The Channel Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Europe.
• It connects Folkestone, England, to Coquelles, France.
• It is about 31 miles long.

The student wants to compare the lengths of the two rail tunnels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 2013, paleontology professor Hesham Sallam and his students from Mansoura University in Egypt made a discovery.
• The team found a partial dinosaur skeleton at a site in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.
• The skeleton belonged to a dinosaur species that lived approximately 80 million years ago.
• The new species was named Mansourasaurus to recognize the team that discovered it.

The student wants to explain the origin of the species’ name. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Novelist Willa Cather grew up in Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Some of Cather’s best-known novels are set in Nebraska.
• Two such novels are O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918).
• Cather’s novels describe the experiences of immigrants who settled in the Great Plains.

The student wants to identify the setting of Cather’s novel My Ántonia. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Azores is a group of islands about 870 miles off the coast of Portugal.
• Historians have long believed that in the fifteenth century Portuguese mariners were the first humans to populate the Azores.
• A 2015 study coauthored by Sofia Gabriel and Maria da Luz Mathias found that Vikings from Scandinavia may have populated the Azores as early as the ninth century.
• The researchers found a genetic connection between house mice in the Azores and house mice in Scandinavia.
• House mice may have traveled from Scandinavia to the Azores on Viking ships.

The student wants to specify who may have first populated the Azores, according to the 2015 study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Yellowstone is a national park in the northwest United States.
• In 1995, gray wolves were reintroduced into the park.
• Since then, the number of gray wolves in the park has stabilized at roughly 100.
• This number is believed to be the park’s carrying capacity.
• Carrying capacity describes the maximum number of a species that a specific environment’s resources can sustain over time.

The student wants to specify the number of gray wolves in Yellowstone. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Oracles of the Pink Universe was a 2021 exhibition at the Denver Museum of Art in Colorado.
• It featured eight artworks by South African artist Simphiwe Ndzube.
• One of these works is a painting titled Assertion of Will.
• Assertion of Will depicts three standing figures.
• The figures wear clothing made of fabric pieces stitched to the painting’s canvas.

The student wants to describe how fabric is used in Assertion of Will. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Muslins are woven cotton fabrics with a variety of uses.
• Dhaka muslin is a handmade fabric produced in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• It has an extremely fine weave and is primarily used to make luxury clothing.
• Sheeting muslin is a machine-made fabric produced in factories.
• It has a coarse weave and is primarily used to upholster furniture and create backdrops for theater sets.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two muslins. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?