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NEW QUESTION 26 
Of the 2.896 people who voted on a certain issue. the number who voted yes and the number who voted no are shown in the table. classified by age-group. Which of the following statements are true?
Indicate all such statements.
- A. There were more votes of no on the issue than votes of yes.
- B. The median age of all the people who voted was in the 50-to-59 age-group.
- C. Of all the people who voted- the number of voters from the 40-to-49 age-group was more than the number of voters from any of the other age-groups shown.
Answer: A,B,C
NEW QUESTION 27
In 1976, Sichan Siv was crawling through the jungle, trying to escape from Cambodia.
By 1989, however, Siv was working in the White House, in Washington D C as an advisor to the President of the United States. How did this strange journey come about?
Like millions of Cambodians, Siv was a victim of a bloody civil war. One of the sides in this war was the Cambodian government. The other was a group called the Khmer Rouge. When the Khmer Rouge won the war, the situation in Cambodia got worse. Many people were killed, while others were forced into hard labor. Sometimes entire families were wiped out. Siv came from a large family that lived in the capital of Cambodia. After finishing high school, Siv worked for a while with a Cambodian airline company. Later, he taught English. After that, he took a job with CARE, an American group that was helping victims of the war.
Siv had hope to leave Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge took over the country. Unfortunately, he was delayed. As a result, he and his family were taken from their homes and forced to labor in rice fields. After a while, Siv managed to escape. He rode an old bicycle for miles, trying to reach Thailand where he would be free and safe. For three weeks he slept on the ground and tried to hide from the soldiers who were looking for him. Caught at last, he was afraid he would be killed. Instead, he was put into a labor camp, where he worked eighteen hours each day without rest. After several months, he escaped again; this time he made it. The journey, however, was a terrifying one. After three days of staggering on foot through mile after mile of thick bamboo, Siv finally made his way to Thailand. Because he had worked for an American charity group, Siv quickly found work in a refugee camp. Soon he was on his way to the states. He arrived in June of 1976 and got a job-first picking apples and then cooking in a fast-food restaurant. Siv, however, wanted more than this; he wanted to work with people who, like himself, had suffered the hardship of leaving their own countries behind. Siv decided that the best way to prepare for this kind of work was to go to college. He wrote letters to many colleges and universities. They were impressed with his school records from Cambodia, and they were impressed with his bravery. Finally, in 1980, he was able to study at Columbia University in New York City. After finishing his studies at Columbia, Siv took a job with the United Nations. He married an American woman and became a citizen. After several more years, he felt that he was very much a part of his new country. In 1988, Siv was offered a job in the White House working for President Reagan's closest advisors. It was a difficult job, and he often had to work long hours.
However the long hard work was worth it, because Siv got the opportunity to help refugees in his work.
What is the main idea of this passage?
- A. Siv persevered to become an American citizen.
- B. Siv overcame numerous challenges to come to American and help others.
- C. Siv persevered to become an American citizen
- D. Siv covered a large area during his life.
- E. Persistence and courage are global ideas.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 28
IMPORTANT : PIVOTAL ::
- A. stern : draconian
- B. copious : thorough
- C. salient : compulsory
- D. impetuous : spontaneous
- E. minimal : voluminous
Answer: A
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This is a "form of" (degree or extent) analogy. PIVOTAL means "extremely IMPORTANT," just as draconian means "extremely stern." The analogy is based on degree.
NEW QUESTION 29
The book's approach to modern art was hardly_________: it aimed simply to give readers a deeper understanding of prevailing perspectives in the field.
- A. conventional
- B. innocuous
- C. decipherable
- D. revisionist
- E. calculated
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 30
Al. Ben. Carl, Dina. and Edna are to be seated in a row of 5 adjoining chairs, with 1 person sitting in each chair. If Dina and Edna must each be seated m the first chair in the row or the last chair in the row. in how many different seating arrangements can the 5 people be seated"1
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 31
The snow-covered surface of the lake presents a reassuring illusion of________. but beneath the snow the ice is riven with treacherous cracks.
- A. isolation
- B. uniformity
- C. substantiality
- D. seclusion
- E. protection
- F. soundness
Answer: C,E
NEW QUESTION 32
The victory of the small Greek democracy of Athens over the mighty Persian empire in 490 B C is one of the most famous events in history. Darius, king of the Persian empire, was furious because Athens had interceded for the other Greek city-states in revolt against Persian domination. In anger the king sent an enormous army to defeat Athens.
He thought it would take drastic steps to pacify the rebellious part of the empire. Persia was ruled by one man. In Athens, however, all citizens helped to rule. Ennobled by this participation, Athenians were prepared to die for their city-state. Perhaps this was the secret of the remarkable victory at Marathon, which freed them from Persian rule. On their way to Marathon, the Persians tried to fool some Greek city- states by claiming to have come in peace. The frightened citizens of Delos refused to believe this. Not wanting to abet the conquest of Greece, they fled from their city and did not return until the Persians had left. They were wise, for the Persians next conquered the city of Etria and captured its people. Tiny Athens stood alone against Persia. The Athenian people went to their sanctuaries. There they prayed for deliverance. They asked their gods to expedite their victory. The Athenians refurbished their weapons and moved to the plain of Marathon, where their little band would meet the Persians. At the last moment, soldiers from Plataea reinforced the Athenian troops. The Athenian army attacked, and Greek citizens fought bravely. The power of the mighty Persians was offset by the love that the Athenians had for their city. Athenians defeated the Persians in archery and hand combat.
Greek soldiers seized Persian ships and burned them, and the Persians fled in terror.
Herodotus, a famous historian, reports that 6400 Persians died, compared with only 192 Athenians.
Darius took drastic steps to ___ the rebellious Athenians.
- A. placate
- B. calm
- C. answer not available
- D. destroy
- E. weaken
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 33
SODDEN:
- A. buoyant
- B. porous
- C. billowy
- D. parched
- E. laden
Answer: D
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SODDEN means "soaked or drenched"; parched means "dried out with heat" and is the best antonym among the five choices.
NEW QUESTION 34
If x + y = a, and if x - y = b, then x
- A. Option A
- B. Option E
- C. Option C
- D. Option B
- E. Option D
Answer: B
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Add the two equations:
NEW QUESTION 35
Exhibit.
- A. The two quantities are equal
- B. Quantity B is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity A is greater.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 36
PROXIMAL:
- A. mobile
- B. adjoining
- C. wavering
- D. peripheral
- E. vague
Answer: D
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PROXIMAL means "situated toward the center or point of attachment"; peripheral means "located away from the center, at the fringe, or near a boundary."
NEW QUESTION 37
COUNTERPOINT : MELODY ::
- A. biography : book
- B. sketch : pencil
- C. pane : window
- D. coffee : bean
- E. masonry : brick
Answer: E
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This is a "component of" analogy. COUNTERPOINT refers to the interplay between one MELODY and one or more others. So each MELODY is a distinct and necessary component of COUNTERPOINT. Similarly, each brick is a distinct and necessary component of masonry (brick or stone work, such as a chimney). As for choice (C), beans are ingredients which are combined to make coffee, but the bean itself is not, as a whole bean, part of the product.
NEW QUESTION 38
QUELL : UPRISING ::
- A. bite : hunger
- B. incite : hostility
- C. indulge : habit
- D. quench : thirst
- E. strike : labor
Answer: D
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This is one form of an "operates against" analogy. To QUELL is to suppress or put down, an act that eliminates an UPRISING; similarly, to quench is to completely satisfy a thirst, an act that eliminates it.
NEW QUESTION 39
One difficulty in convincing early scientists that craters fanned as a result of impacts from space is that most craters are circular. Impacts could come in at any angle, and experiments firing projectiles in the laboratory show that low-angle impacts lead to elliptical craters, not circular ones. Furthermore, while there was rarely evidence of any impacting object, there was often silicate melt around, suggesting that craters were caused by volcanic processes. The breakthrough in understanding crater origin was the recognition that the shock caused by the impacting object-not the object itself-creates a circular crater some twenty Times larger than the diameter of the impactor. The impact also generates enough heat to largely vaporize the impactor and melt the native rock.
What can be inferred from the passage about the silicate melt found around craters?
- A. It led early scientists to consider volcanic activity as a cause of crater formation.
- B. It was not caused exclusively by volcanic processes.
- C. It can probably be explained by the intense heat caused by impact
Answer: A,B,C
NEW QUESTION 40
ENTICE : REPEL
- A. implore : entreat
- B. lubricate : grease
- C. germinate : sprout
- D. officiate : preside
- E. flourish : fade
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 41
The origin of the attempt to distinguish early from modern music and to establish the canons of performance practice for each lies in the eighteenth century. In the first half of that century, when Telemann and Bach ran the collegium musicum in Leipzig, Germany, they performed their own and other modern music. In the German universities of the early twentieth century, however, the reconstituted collegium musicum devoted itself to performing music from the centuries before the beginning of the
"standard repertory," by which was understood music from before the time of Bach and Handel. Alongside this modern collegium musicum, German musicologists developed the historical sub-discipline known as
"performance practice," which included the deciphering of obsolete musical notation and its transcription into modern notation, the study of obsolete instruments, and the re-establishment of lost oral traditions associated with those forgotten repertories. The cutoff date for this study was understood to be around
1750, the year of Bach's death, since the music of Bach, Handel, Telemann and their contemporaries did call for obsolete instruments and voices and unannotated performing traditions - for instance, the spontaneous realization of vocal and instrumental melodic ornamentation. Furthermore, with a few exceptions, late baroque music had ceased to be performed for nearly a century, and the orally transmitted performing traditions associated with it were forgotten as a result. In contrast, the notation in the music of Haydn and Mozart from the second half of the eighteenth century was more complete than in the earlier styles, and the instruments seemed familiar, so no "special" knowledge appeared necessary. Also, the music of Haydn and Mozart, having never ceased to be performed, had maintained some kind of oral tradition of performance practice. Beginning around 1960, however, early-music performers began to encroach upon the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Why? Scholars studying performance practice had discovered that the living oral traditions associated with the Viennese classics frequently could not be traced to the eighteenth century and that there were nearly as many performance mysteries to solve for music after 1750 as for earlier repertories. Furthermore, more and more young singers and instrumentalists became attracted to early music, and as many of them graduated from student- amateur to professional status, the technical level of early-music performances took a giant leap forward. As professional early-music groups, building on these developments, expanded their repertories to include later music, the mainstream protested vehemently. The differences between the two camps extended beyond the question of which instruments to use to the more critical matter of style and delivery. At the heart of their disagreement is whether historical knowledge about performing traditions is a prerequisite for proper interpretation of music or whether it merely creates an obstacle to inspired musical tradition.
The passage mentions all of the following as aspects of performance practice of the early twentieth century EXCEPT for
- A. transcribing older music into modern notation
- B. spontaneous vocal and instrumental ornamentation
- C. varying the delivery of music to suit particular audiences
- D. deciphering outdated music notation
- E. reestablishing unannotated performing traditions
Answer: C
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Although performance practice did indeed involve varying the performance of a work of music from one time to the next (by including spontaneous vocal and instrumental ornamentation), the passage neither states nor implies that how the delivery of music varied from time to time depended upon the particular tastes of the audience. Thus, choice D is unsupported by the passage.
NEW QUESTION 42
Although technically their members were hunter-gatherers, many early Native California communities exhibited traits more typically associated with well-developed agrarian societies and. therefore, are often presented in the ethnographic literature as________.
- A. utilitarian
- B. archaic
- C. exemplary
- D. anomalous
- E. pragmatic
- F. exceptional
Answer: D,F
NEW QUESTION 43
In the figure above, what is the value of x?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: A
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The total number of degrees is 360°, and so .
Solve for x:
NEW QUESTION 44
The Galapagos Islands are in the Pacific Ocean, off the western coast of South America.
They are a rocky, lonely spot, but they are also one of the most unusual places in the world. One reason is that they are the home of some of the last giant tortoises left on earth. Weighing hundreds of pounds, these tortoises, or land turtles, wander slowly around the rocks and sand of the islands. Strangely, each of these islands has its own particular kinds of tortoises. There are seven different kinds of tortoises on the eight islands, each kind being slightly different from the other. Hundreds of years ago, thousands of tortoises wandered around these islands. However, all that changed when people started landing there.
When people first arrived in 1535, their ships had no refrigerators. This meant that fresh food was always a problem for the sailors on board.
The giant tortoises provided a solution to this problem. Ships would anchor off the islands, and crews would row ashore and seize as many tortoises as they could. Once the animals were aboard the ship, the sailors would roll the tortoises onto their backs. The tortoises were completely helpless once on their backs, so they could only lie there until used for soups and stews. Almost 100,000 tortoises were carried off in this way. The tortoises faced other problems, too. Soon after the first ships, settlers arrived bringing pigs, goats, donkeys, dogs and cats. All of these animals ruined life for the tortoises.
Donkey and goats ate all the plants that the tortoises usually fed on, while the pigs. Dogs and cats consumed thousands of baby tortoises each year. Within a few years, it was hard to find any tortoise eggs- or even any baby tortoises. By the early 1900s, people began to worry that the last of the tortoises would soon die out. No one, however, seemed to care enough to do anything about the problem. More and more tortoises disappeared, even though sailors no longer needed them for food. For another fifty years, this situation continued. Finally, in the 1950s, scientist decided that something must be done. The first part of their plan was to get rid of as many cats, dogs and other animals as they could.
Next, they tried to make sure that more baby tortoises would be born. To do this, they started looking for wild tortoise eggs. They gathered the eggs and put them in safe containers. When the eggs hatched, the scientists raised the tortoises in special pens. Both the eggs and tortoises were numbered so that the scientists knew exactly which kinds of tortoises they had-and which island they came from. Once the tortoises were old enough and big enough to take care of themselves, the scientists took them back to their islands and set them loose. This slow, hard work continues today, and, thanks to it, the number of tortoises is now increasing every year.
What happens right after the tortoise eggs hatch?
- A. The sailors use the tortoises for food.
- B. The scientist raised the tortoises in special pens.
- C. The scientists take the tortoises back to their islands.
- D. The scientists get rid of cats, dogs, and other animals.
- E. The scientist encouraged the villagers to help.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 45
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