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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Voters need to understand the prosaic details of complex policies. Most have staked out positions on these issues, but they are not often reasoned positions, which take hard intellectual work. Most citizens opt instead for simplistic explanations, assuming wrongly that they comprehend the nuances of issues. Psychological scientists have a name for this easy, automatic, simplistic thinking: the illusion of explanatory depth. We strongly believe that we understand complex matters, when in fact we are clueless, and these false and extreme beliefs shape our preferences, judgments, and actions – including our votes.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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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?

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Archaeologists have discovered that some Vikings deliberately carved grooves into their teeth. The reasons behind this dental decision remain unclear.

Which choice most effectively combines the two sentences at the underlined portion?


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