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The public interest comprises many interests and the broadcast media must serve all of them. Perhaps most television viewers would prefer an action show to an opera. But a constant stream of action shows on all channels is not in the public interest. Thus, ________________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

broadcasters’ obligations are not satisfied if they look only to popularity to decide their programming schedules. the public interest should be considered whenever television producers develop a new program. the popularity of a television program is a poor indicator of its artistic quality. broadcast media could be rightly accused of neglecting the public interest only if all channels carried mostly action shows.

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Bees tend to have higher cognitive abilities. This was demonstrated in a series

Bees tend to have higher cognitive abilities. This was demonstrated in a series of experiments where real bees were made to learn an unnatural task of moving a small ball to a goal to gain a sugary reward. They tend to copy the task just after few observations. In order to understand how this learning was possible in the tiny brains of the bees. Scientists tested three groups of bees. One group of bees watched another previously trained bee move the ball to the goal. Second group watched the ball moving on the goal on its own. And third group did not receive any demonstration. All ten bees of the first group solved the task much quicker and are a higher success rate than either of the other groups. While the group which learned by watching the ball move on its own did significantly better than the bees who did not receive any demonstration.

Which choice is best supported by the text and the graph?

Observer bees benefited from seeing a demonstration of ball-moving task before attempting to solve the same task. Bees that received no demonstration of the ball-moving task required assistance when attempting to solve the task on their own. Observer bees that saw the demonstration of the magnet-moved ball solved the task as quickly as did bees that received no demonstration. Bees that saw the demonstration with the trained bee were the only bees that succeeded at the ball-moving task.

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Kim Thamatrakoln was studying to be a medical doctor when she found her true calling planktology. She had studied biochemistry as an undergraduate, but it was not until she ________ working on her master's degree working on her master's degree academic research in marine science.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

begins began will begin will have begun

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished more than perhaps any individual in the struggle for African American rights. In the early stages of the civil rights movement, though, King struggled to reconcile the Christian doctrine of love with the immense challenge of achieving economic and social rights for African Americans. During this time of soul-searching, King was introduced to the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent resistance _____________ the primary influence that helped King build momentum in the American civil rights movement.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Was Were Is has been

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Aunt Agatha was sitting bolt upright in a chair, staring into space. When I came in, she looked at me in that darn critical way that always makes me feel as if I had gelatine where my spine ought to be. She is one of those strong-minded women. She bosses her husband, Spencer Gregson, a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange. She bosses my cousin, Gussie Mannering-Phipps. She bosses her sister-in-law, Gussie’s mother. And, worst of all, she bosses me. She has an eye like a man-eating fish. I dare say there are fellows in the world—men of blood and iron, don’t you know, and all that sort of thing—whom she couldn’t intimidate; but if you’re a chappie like me, fond of a quiet life, you simply curl into a ball when you see her coming, and hope for the best.

Why does the narrator include a description of himself in the text?

To contrast Aunt Agatha’s personality with that of himself To provide background information about himself and Aunt Agatha’s family To provide details about Aunt Agatha’s ill-treatment of various family members To introduce the problem that Aunt Agatha is facing

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The theory of military deterrence was based on a simple psychological truth, that fear of retaliation makes a would-be aggressor nation hesitate before attacking and is often sufficient to deter it altogether from attacking. Clearly, then, to maintain military deterrence, a nation would have to be believed to have retaliatory power so great that a potential aggressor nation would have reason to think that it could not defend itself against such retaliation.

Which of the following can be inferred from the given text?

A would-be aggressor nation can be deterred from attacking only if it has certain knowledge that it would be destroyed in retaliation by the country it attacks. A nation will not attack another nation if it believes that its own retaliatory power surpasses that of the other nation. One nation’s failing to attack another establishes that the nation that fails to attack believes that it could not withstand a retaliatory attack from the other nation. It is in the interests of a nation that seeks deterrence and has unsurpassed military power to let potential aggressors against it become aware of its power of retaliatory attack.

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And some cities have transformed their streets into cycle-path freeways, making giant strides in public health and safety and the sheer livability of their neighborhoods—in the process turning the workaday bicycle into a viable form of mass transit. If you credit the demographers, this transit trend has legs.

As used in the text, what does the word ‘credit’ most nearly mean?

Endow Attribute Believe Honor

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Oppenheimer and Alter asked a group of volunteers to estimate how much off various commodities they could buy with a dollar. They were like ordinary things like paper clips and gumballs and paper napkins. Some of them were given a regular old dollar bill, with George Washington on it, while others were given less familial currency of the same value: a Susan B Anthony $1 coin, for example. Invariably, the volunteers believed that the familiar old dollar bill was worth more—that it had more buying power—than the unusual currency. This was due to most fundamental mental processes: The world is full of stimuli of various kinds, some more familiar than others, and the brain is tunes to process the familiar ones rapidly, effortlessly, and intuitively.

Which choice can be answered by the text, but not by the graph?

For which of the commodities in the study did the currency used make the least difference to the perceived quantity purchasable? Do any of the commodities have a higher perceived value in familiar currency than they do in unfamiliar currency? What is the likely reason for differences in the magnitude of the effect of using unfamiliar currency to purchase commodities? Which of the commodities has the greatest proportional difference between the perceived quantity purchasable using unfamiliar currency and the perceived quantity purchasable using familiar currency?

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Early in life, many of us have a natural love for ____________ take apart toy cars to see how they work, or build bridges and castles out of boxes and blocks. Sadly, this enthusiasm is often destroyed by schooling. One solution to this problem is to expose children to fun building activities without pitting them against each other, turning the task into a performance.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

engineering. We, engineering; we engineering: we engineering, we

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Which of the following is equivalent to

(2 + 50i) - (-4 + 9i)? (Note : i = v-1)

6 + 14i 6 - 4i - 2 - 4i -2 +14i

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