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NEW QUESTION 94
A certain strain of bacteria called lyngbya majuscula, an ancient ancestor of modern-day algae, is making a comeback in ocean waters just off the world's most industrialized coastal regions. This primitive bacteria has survived for nearly three billion years due to a variety of survival mechanisms. It can produce its own fertilizer by pulling nitrogen out of the air; it relies on a different spectrum of light than algae do, allowing it to thrive even in deep, murky waters; and when it dies and decays, it releases its own nitrogen and phosphorous, on which the next generation of lyngbya feeds. Lyngbya emits more than one hundred different toxins harmful to other ocean life as well as to humans. Commercial fishermen and divers who come in contact with the bacteria frequently complain of skin rashes and respiratory problems, which can keep these workers off the job for months at a time. The bacteria further disrupts local economies by blocking sunlight to sea grasses that attract fish and other sea life. Scientists attribute the modern-day reappearance of lyngbya, and the resulting problems, chiefly to nitrogen- and phosphorous-rich sewage partially processed at wastewater treatment plants and pumped into rivers that feed coastal ocean waters.
According to passage, the lyngbya majuscula strain
I. depends largely on nitrogen and phosphorous as nutrients
II. can harm other ocean life as a result of its high toxicity
III. thrives mainly in waters where algae is largely absent
- A. III only
- B. I, II, and III
- C. I only
- D. I and II only
- E. II and III only
Answer: D
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Nowhere in the passage does the author discuss algae, except to state (in the first sentence) that lyngbya is an ancestor of modern-day algae.
NEW QUESTION 95
Typefaces, in one sense, are just like styles of shoes: they________ because different people have different tastes and identities and because both creators and users value novelty for its own sake.
- A. proliferate
- B. converge
- C. abound
- D. evolve
- E. bemuse
- F. coincide
Answer: A,C
NEW QUESTION 96
The highly dispersed nature of Panzaleo pottery throughout present-day Ecuador has led archaeologists to speculate about the pottery's origins and significance. Jijon y Caamano attributed the pottery's distribution to trade, and based on the large quantities of pottery recovered in the Ambato-Latacunga region of the central Ecuadorian highlands, he proposed that region as the probable locus of production. However. Porras suggests that inhabitants of the subtropical eastern Andean slopes, or montaria. were the original producers of Panzaleo.
Ponas" theory involves the forced migration of the montaria population from then homeland in the Quijos River valley into the Ecuadorian highlands. The gradual exodus and ensuing dispersal of the makers of this ware could account for the diffuse distribution of the materials.
It can be inferred from the passage that Jijon y Caamano would probably agree with which of the following statements about the distribution of Panzaleo pottery throughout Ecuador?
- A. This distribution is not primarily the result of the relocation of the original makers of the pottery
- B. This distribution indicates that the Ambato-Latacunga region was known primarily as a trading center
- C. This distribution originally took place over a relatively short period of time.
- D. This distribution could not have occurred without the forced migration of certain peoples
- E. This distribution was largely limited to the Ambato-Latacunga region.
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 97
SYNERGIZE:
- A. sabotage
- B. catalyze
- C. atrophy
- D. languish
- E. lapse
Answer: A
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To SYNERGIZE is to "coordinate different elements toward achieving a common goal." To sabotage is to
"deliberately spoil or damage as to make useless or unproductive." An act of sabotage may very well be designed to disrupt or spoil an attempt to synergize. Though not a perfect antonym, sabotage is the best of the five choices.
NEW QUESTION 98
The importance of the Bill of Rights in twentieth-century United States law and politics has led some historians to search for the "original meaning" of its most controversial clauses. This approach. known as
"originalism." presumes that each right codified in the Bill of Rights had au independent history that can be studied in isolation from the histories of other rights, and its proponents ask how formulations of the Bill of Rights in 1791 reflected developments in specific areas of legal thinking at that time. Legal and constitutional historians, for example, have found originalism especially useful in the study of provisions of the Bill of Rights that were innovative by eighteenth-century standards, such as the Fourth Amendment's broadly termed protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Recent calls in the legal and political arena for a return to a "jurisprudence of original intention." however, have made it a matter of much more than purely scholarly interest when originalists insist that a clause's true meaning was fixed at the moment of its adoption, or maintain that only those rights explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution deserve constitutional recognition and protection. These two claims seemingly lend support to the notion that an interpreter must apply fixed definitions of a fixed number of rights to contemporary issues, for the claims imply that the central problem of rights in the Revolutionary era was to precisely identity, enumerate, and define those rights that Americans felt were crucial to protecting their liberty.
Both claims, however, are questionable from the perspective of a strictly historical inquiry, however sensible they may seem from the vantage point of contemporary jurisprudence. Even though originalists are correct in claiming that the search for original meaning is inherently historical, historians would not normally seek.
It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the Bill of Rights?
- A. Establishing the original meaning of each clause will enable controversial issues to be settled according to the intentions of its framers.
- B. Originalists have exaggerated the contributions of certain framers and ratifiers of the Bill of Rights while downplaying the contributions of others.
- C. The omission of certain rights by the framers and ratifiers should limit the number of constitutionally recognized and protected rights today.
- D. The Bill of Rights' importance in twentieth-century United States law 3iid politics has been overemphasized by some scholars.
- E. The diversity of views among the Bill of Rights" framers and ratifiers makes the search for any right's original meaning inherently problematic.
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 99 
If x and v in the equation shown are numbers that satisfy y < 0 and |x| = |y|, which of the following must be the value of x ?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 100
LACKLUSTER:
- A. brilliant
- B. exceedingly bold
- C. exceptional
- D. quick to respond
- E. well spoken
Answer: A
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The word LACKLUSTER means "lacking luster". Its antonym lustrous means "brilliant, radiant, or bright"
NEW QUESTION 101
A certain company made neither a profit nor a loss on the first 1.000 widgets it sold and made a profit of $0.50 on each widget it sold after the first 1.000. If the company's total profit from the sale of widgets was p dollars, what is the number of widgets it sold in terms of p ?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
- A. Option D
- B. Option B
- C. Option A
- D. Option C
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 102
Victorian poetess Christina Rossetti's potent sensual imagery compelled Edmond Gosse, perhaps the most influential literary critic in late Victorian England, to observe that she "does not shrink from strong delineation of the pleasures of life even when denouncing them." In the face of Rossetti's virtual canonization by critics at the end of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia Woolf ignores her apparent conservatism, instead seeing in her curiosity value and a model of artistic purity and integrity for women writers. In 1930, the centenary of Rossetti's birth,Woolf identified her as "one of Shakespeare's more recent sisters" whose life had been reclusively Victorian but whose achievement as an artist was enduring.
Woolf remembers Rossetti for her four volumes of explosively original poems loaded with vivid images and dense emotional energy. "A Birthday," for instance, is no typical Victorian poem and is certainly unlike predictable works of the era's best known women poets. Rossetti's most famous poem, "Goblin Market," bridges the space between simplistic fairy tale and complex adult allegory - at once Christian, psychological, and profeminist. Like many of Rossetti's works, it is extraordinarily original and unorthodox in form. Its subject matter is radical and therefore risky for a Victorian poetess because it implies castigation of an economic (and even marital) marketplace dominated by men, whose motives are, at best, suspect. Its Christian allusions are obvious but grounded in opulent images whose lushness borders on the erotic. From Rossetti's work emerge not only emotional force, artistic polish, frequently ironic playfulness, and intellectual vigor but also an intriguing, enigmatic quality. "Winter: My Secret," for example, combines these traits along with a very high (and un-Victorian) level of poetic selfconsciousness.
"How does one reconcile the aesthetic sensuality of Rossetti's poetry with her repressed, ascetic lifestyle?" Woolf wondered. That Rossetti did indeed withhold a "secret" both from those intimate with her and from posterity is Lona Packer's thesis in her 1963 biography of Rossetti. Packer's claim that Rossetti's was a secret of the heart has since been disproved through the discovery of hundreds of letters by Rossetti, which reinforce the conventional image of her as pious, scrupulously abstinent, and semi-reclusive. Yet the passions expressed in her love poems do expose the "secret" at the heart of both Rossetti's life and art: a willingness to forego worldly pleasures in favor of an aestheticized Christian version of transcendent fulfillment in heaven. Her sonnet "The World," therefore, becomes pivotal in understanding Rossetti's literary project as a whole - her rhymes for children, fairy tale narratives, love poems, and devotional commentaries. The world, for Rossetti, is a fallen place. Her work is pervasively designed to force upon readers this inescapable Christian truth. The beauty of her poetry must be seen therefore as an artistic strategy, a means toward a moral end. It can be inferred from the passage that the author discusses Packer's thesis and its flaws probably to
- A. provide a foundation for the author's own theory about Rossetti's life and work
- B. call into question the authenticity of recently discovered letters written by Rossetti
- C. compare Woolf's understanding of Rossetti with a recent, more enlightened view
- D. reveal the secret to which Rossetti alludes in "Winter: My Secret"
- E. contrast the sensuality of Rossetti's poetry with the relative starkness of her devotional commentary
Answer: A
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The author's threshold purpose in discussing Packer's biography is to affirm that Rossetti's style of writing was not a reflection of her personal lifestyle. Having dismissed the theory that Rossetti was keeping secrets about her life, the author goes on (in the final paragraph) to offer a better explanation for the apparent contradiction between Rossetti's lifestyle and the emotional, sensual style of her poetry.
NEW QUESTION 103
CHRONOLOGICAL : TIME
- A. marginal : knowledge
- B. virtual : truth
- C. abnormal : value
- D. coincidental : health
- E. ordinal : place
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 104
Experimental magazine essays are quite in vogue, but many of the characteristic that now seem innovative will doubtless look (1)________in thirty years" time; a vaunted self-consciousness will look affected, a fractured style, far from appearing (ii)________ will appear (lii)________instead.
- A. groundbreaking
- B. quaint
- C. auspicious
- D. idiosyncratic
- E. conventional
- F. pretentious
- G. mannered
- H. foreign
- I. radical
Answer: E,H,I
NEW QUESTION 105
Exhibit.
- A. Quantity A is greater.
- B. The two quantities are equal
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 106
Recent studies of the gender gap in the history of United States politics tend to focus on candidate choice rather than on registration and turnout. This shift in focus away from gender inequality in political participation may be due to the finding in several studies of voting behavior in the United States that since
1980. differences in rates of registration and voting between men and women are not statistically significant after controlling for traditional predictors of participation. However. Fullerton and Stern argue that researchers have overlooked the substantial gender gap in registration and voting in the South. While the gender gap in participation virtually disappeared outside the South by the 1950s, substantial gender differences persisted in the South throughout the 1950s and 1960s, only beginning to decline in the 1970s.
The passage is primarily concerned with
- A. establishing the chronology of a transition
- B. evaluating an underlying assumption
- C. confirming the merits of a claim
- D. discussing a perceived oversight
- E. explaining the reasons for a change
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 107
In the brushland of Klanos Island, seeds of the plant Emmenan the penduliflora normally stay dormant for years and germinate only after a brushfire. The resulting plants quickly mature, produce seed, and then die. It is the nitrogen dioxide in (he smoke that induces the seeds lo germinate. Because automobiles are being introduced on Klanos. and their exhaust contains nitrogen dioxide, the plants will probably be seen throughout Klanos every year.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
- A. All efforts to reduce the frequency and intensity of brushfires on Klanos have failed.
- B. Fires in the habitat off. penduliflora entirely destroy the plant's seeds in the places where the fires bum most intensely.
- C. Fires clear much of the brush in the habitat off. penduliflora. allowing germinating seeds to receive enough sunlight to grow.
- D. The seeds of some of the other plants that are found on Klanos do not germinate unless the seed coat that protects the kernel of the seed is cracked by intense heat.
- E. A small amount of nitrogen dioxide, such as is contained in the exhaust of two or three automobiles, is sufficient to induce the germination of nearby seeds off. penduliflora.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 108 
- A. The quantities are equal;
- B. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- C. The quantity in Column A is greater;
- D. The quantity in Column B is greater;
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 109
"Old woman," grumbled the burly white man who had just heard Sojourner Truth speak, "do you think your talk about slavery does any good? I don't care any more for your talk than I do for the bite of a flea." The tall, imposing black woman turned her piercing eyes on him. "Perhaps not," she answered, "but I'll keep you scratching." The little incident of the 1840s sums up all that Sojourner Truth was: utterly dedicated to spreading her message, afraid of no one, forceful and witty in speech. Yet forty years earlier, who could have suspected that a spindly slave girl growing up in a damp cellar in upstate New York would become one of the most remarkable women in American history? Her name then was Isabella (many slaves had no last names), and by the time she was fourteen she had seen both parents die of cold and hunger. She herself had been sold several times. By 1827, when New York freed its slaves, she had married and borne five children. The first hint of Isabella's fighting spirit came soon afterwards, when her youngest son was illegally seized and sold. She marched to the courthouse and badgered officials until her son was returned to her. In 1843, inspired by religion, she changed her name to Sojourner (meaning "one who stays briefly") Truth, and, with only pennies in her purse, set out to preach against slavery. From New England to Minnesota she trekked, gaining a reputation for her plain but powerful and moving words. Incredibly, despite being black and female (only white males were expected to be public speakers), she drew thousands to town halls, tents, and churches to hear her powerful, deep-voiced pleas on equality for blacks-and for women. Often she had to face threatening hoodlums. Once she stood before armed bullies and sang a hymn to them. Awed by her courage and her commanding presence, they sheepishly retreated. During the Civil War she cared for homeless ex-slaves in Washington. President Lincoln invited her to the White House to bestow praise on her. Later, she petitioned Congress to help former slaves get land in the West. Even in her old age, she forced the city of Washington to integrate its trolley cars so that black and white could ride together. Shortly before her death at eighty-six, she was asked what kept her going. "I think of the great things," replied Sojourner.
When New York freed its slaves, Isabella had ...
- A. no children
- B. problems
- C. three children
- D. an education
- E. five children
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 110
Although its gray text blocks and black-and-white illustrations give it a sober mien, this one-stop resource can take the place of a dozen less_________texts.
- A. exhaustive
- B. interesting
- C. original
- D. educational
- E. comprehensive
- F. appealing
Answer: A,E
NEW QUESTION 111
In the xy-plane, the graph of a certain quadratic function has a single x-intercept and passes through the point (2.8). If the x-intercept of the graph is - X what is its y-intercept?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
- A. Option
- B. Option
- C. Option
- D. Option
- E. Option
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 112
SHORE : PRECARIOUS ::
- A. stiffen : pliable
- B. boil : tepid
- C. plane : irregular
- D. douse : damp
- E. frequent : uninviting
Answer: C
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This is an "operates against" analogy. To SHORE is to prop or support (especially, a ship, wall, or building). The word PRECARIOUS means "insecure or uncertain." So you lessen precariousness (of a wall, for example) by shoring it up. Similarly, one way to lessen irregularity (unevenness) of a surface is to plane it.
NEW QUESTION 113 
- A. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- B. The quantities are equal;
- C. The quantity in Column A is greater;
- D. The quantity in Column B is greater;
Answer: C
Explanation:
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Both triangles are right triangles. The triangle described in Column A has legs 3 and 4 units long. The triangle described in Column B has legs 3 units long each. Hence, the hypotenuse and, in turn, the perimeter of the triangle described in Column A must be greater than those of the triangle described in Column B There's no need to calculate either hypotenuse or perimeter.
NEW QUESTION 114 
- A. Quantity B is greater.
- B. The two quantities are equal.
- C. Quantity A is greater.
- D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 115
A large cube and a small cube are made of granite of uniform density- The large cube has edges of length 1.2 meters and weighs 4.752 kilograms. If the small cube has edges of length 10 centimeters, what is the weight, in grains, of the small cube?
- A. 0
- B. 3.960
- C. 1
- D. 2.750
- E. 2
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 116
Although the percentage of first graders in Almaria who were excellent readers varied little between 1995 and
2010 the percentage of first graders who had considerable difficult)" reading their schoolbooks increased markedly during that period. This evidence strongly indicates that the average reading ability of first craders decreased between 1995 and 2010.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest additional support for the argument?
- A. The percentage of first graders in Almaria who had difficulty solving arithmetic problems did not increase as much between 1995 and 2010 as did the percentage of first graders who had reading difficulties.
- B. The average number of schoolbooks used in first-grade classrooms in Almaria increased between 1995 and 2010.
- C. The average difficulty of the schoolbooks used in first-grade classrooms m Almaria decreased between
1995 and 2010. - D. The number of children in Almaria who were enrolled as first graders decreased steadily between 1995 and 2010.
- E. The number of hours devoted to reading activities in first-grade classrooms in Almana did not vary significantly, on average, between 1995 and 2010.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 117
Exhibit.
For each of 20 brands of protein bars, the number of grams of protein per bar was rounded to the nearest gram and recorded. The histogram shows the frequency distribution of the recorded numbers of grams of protein per bar for the 20 brands, where each interval shown includes its left endpoint and excludes its right endpoint.
Based on the histogram, which of the following could be the average (arithmetic mean) and the median, respectively, of the recorded numbers of grams of protein per bar for the 20 brands?
- A. 16 and 21
- B. 18 and 17
- C. 23 and 21
- D. 21 and22
- E. 19 and 19
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 118
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