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NEW QUESTION 140
A car service charges S5 for the first mile of a trip and S2 for each additional mile or part thereof. If the car service charges SI01 for an //-mile trip, where // is an integer, what is the value of n ?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 141
The following appeared as a letter to the editor from the owner of a skate shop in Central Plaza.
"Two years ago the city council voted to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. They claimed that skateboard users were responsible for litter and vandalism that were keeping other visitors from coming to the plaza. In the past two years, however, there has been only a small increase in the number of visitors to Central Plaza.
and litter and vandalism are still problematic. Skateboarding is permitted in Monroe Park, however, and there is no problem with litter or vandalism there. In order to restore Central Plaza to its former glory, then, we recommend that the city lift its prohibition on skateboarding in the plaza." Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
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Explanation
The given letter describes in detail the recommendation of the owner of a skate shop in the central plaza.The letter mentions that the city council had prohibited and imposed restrcitions on the usage of skateboard in the central plaza.though the argument in the letter deems to be possible, there are various illsutration and dearth of facts that makes the arguement placed in the letter to be weak and it is also subject lo be undermined.
Firstly, the number of other factors have not been considered or taken into account. there must be simple and logical solution stated for the menace stated by the authorities. The owner has not stated or even refuted the argument of the council which makes the argument to be flawed. The other fcators have to be questioned and the reasons on how to stop them in future need to be introspected.
Secondly, comparative statement about the other park has been stated in an ambiguous manner and the owner has failed to mention clear and concrete illustrations, paradigm question needs to be. if both the parks are of the same kind and the same nature. They should also be in a position to answer the question pertaning to the prohibitive mechanism and also the differences between the parks. I would also like to question if both the plazas follow the same protocol and litter control norms.
Thirdly, failed to mention on how the the factor of lilting the band and restriction would be advantageous for the general public and the city council. This argument is also not supported . There might be several other reasons except the prohibition that causes only a small increase in the number of clientele. For instance, the local population.;! better plaza nearby.
NEW QUESTION 142
The geographer held a (i)________view of the succession of theoretical trends (environmental determinism, spatial determinism, and various types of critical theory) in her field, maintaining that theory can (n)________what is transpiring in a complex environment by focusing excessively on the favored schemes and variables of the moment.
- A. exacerbate
- B. magnify
- C. self-contradictory
- D. sanguine
- E. obfuscate
- F. deprecatory
Answer: E,F
NEW QUESTION 143
Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not_________interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
- A. betray
- B. rebuff
- C. reject
- D. foresee
- E. evince
- F. predict
Answer: A,E
NEW QUESTION 144
Late Victorian and modern ideas of culture are indebted to Matthew Arnold, who, largely through his Culture and Anarchy (1869), placed the word at the center of debates about the goals of intellectual life and humanistic society. Arnold defined culture as "the pursuit of perfection by getting to know the best which has been thought and said." Through this knowledge, Arnold hoped, we can turn "a fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Although Arnold helped to define the purposes of the liberal arts curriculum in the century following the publication of Culture, three concrete forms of dissent from his views have had considerable impact of their own. The first protests Arnold's fearful designation of
"anarchy" as culture's enemy, viewing this dichotomy simply as another version of the struggle between a privileged power structure and radical challenges to its authority. But while Arnold certainly tried to define the arch - the legitimizing order of value - against the anarch of existentialist democracy, he himself was plagued in his soul by the blind arrogances of the reactionary powers in his world. The writer who regarded the contemporary condition with such apprehension in Culture is the poet who wrote "Dover Beach," not an ideologue rounding up all the usual modern suspects. Another form of opposition saw Arnold's culture as a perverse perpetuation of classical and literary learning, outlook, and privileges in a world where science had become the new arch and from which any substantively new order of thinking must develop. At the center of the "two cultures" debate were the goals of the formal educational curriculum, the principal vehicle through which Arnoldian culture operates. However, Arnold himself had viewed culture as enacting its life in a much more broadly conceived set of institutions. A third form is so-called "multiculturalism," a movement aimed largely at gaining recognition for voices and visions that Arnoldian culture has implicitly suppressed. In educational practice, multiculturalists are interested in deflating the imperious authority that
"high culture" exercises over curriculum while bringing into play the principle that we must learn what is representative, for we have overemphasized what is exceptional. Though the multiculturalists' conflict with Arnoldian culture has clear affinities with the radical critique, multiculturalism actually affirms Arnold by returning us more specifically to a tension inherent in the idea of culture rather than to the cultureanarchy dichotomy. The social critics, defenders of science, and multiculturalists insist that Arnold's culture is simply a device for ordering us about. Instead, however, it is designed to register the gathering of ideological clouds on the horizon. There is no utopian motive in Arnold's celebration of perfection.
Perfection mattered to Arnold as the only background against which we could form a just image of our actual circumstances, just as we can conceive finer sunsets and unheard melodies.
It can be inferred from the passage that the two-cultures debate
- A. influenced Arnold's thinking about culture
- B. emerged as a reaction to the multiculturalist movement
- C. developed after 1869
- D. led to a schizophrenic educational system
- E. was carried on by American as well as European scientists
Answer: C
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Arnold's Culture was published in 1869. The three forms of opposition to Arnold's ideas as presented in this work developed after its publication; therefore, they must have emerged later than 1869.
NEW QUESTION 145
Charles A Lindbergh is remembered as the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, in 1927. This feat, when Lindbergh was only twenty-five years old, assured him a lifetime of fame and public attention. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was more interested in flying airplanes than he was in studying. He dropped out of the University of Wisconsin after two years to earn a living performing daredevil airplane stunts at country fairs. Two years later, he joined the United States Army so that he could go to the Army Air Service flight-training school. After completing his training, he was hired to fly mail between St. Louis and Chicago. Then came the historic flight across the Atlantic. In 1919, a New York City hotel owner offered a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Nine St. Louis business leaders helped pay for the plane Lindbergh designed especially for the flight. Lindbergh tested the plane by flying it from San Diego to New York, with an overnight stop in St. Louis. The flight took only
20 hours and 21 minutes, a transcontinental record. Nine days later, on May 20,1927, Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, at 7:52 A M He landed at Paris on May 21 at 10:21 P M He had flown more than 3,600 miles in less than thirty four hours. His flight made news around the world. He was given awards and parades everywhere he went. He was presented with the U S Congressional Medal of Honor and the first Distinguished Flying Cross. For a long time, Lindbergh toured the world as a U S goodwill ambassador. He met his future wife, Anne Morrow, in Mexico, where her father was the United States ambassador. During the 1930s, Charles and Anne Lindbergh worked for various airline companies, charting new commercial air routes. In 1931, for a major airline, they charted a new route from the east coast of the United States to the Orient. The shortest, most efficient route was a great curve across Canada, over Alaska, and down to China and Japan. Most pilots familiar with the Arctic did not believe that such a route was possible. The Lindberghs took on the task of proving that it was. They arranged for fuel and supplies to be set out along the route. On July 29, they took off from Long Island in a specially equipped small seaplane. They flew by day and each night landed on a lake or a river and camped. Near Nome, Alaska, they had their first serious emergency. Out of daylight and nearly out of fuel, they were forced down in a small ocean inlet. In the next morning's light, they discovered they had landed on barely three feet of water. On September 19, after two more emergency landings and numerous close calls, they landed in China with the maps for a safe airline passenger route. Even while actively engaged as a pioneering flier, Lindbergh was also working as an engineer.
In 1935, he and Dr. Alexis Carrel were given a patent for an artificial heart. During World War I in the
1940s, Lindbergh served as a civilian technical advisor in aviation.
Although he was a civilian, he flew over fifty combat missions in the Pacific. In the 1950s, Lindbergh helped design the famous 747 jet airliner. In the late 1960s, he spoke widely on conservation issues. He died August 1974, having lived through aviation history from the time of the first powered flight to the first steps on the moon and having influenced a big part of that history himself.
What happened immediately after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic?
- A. He married Anne Morrow.
- B. He attended the Army flight-training school.
- C. He left college.
- D. He flew the mail between St. Louis and Chicago.
- E. He was given the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 146
Exhibit.
A group of 3 different investors is to be randomly selected from the 5 investors shown. What is the probability that, for at least 2 of the 3 investors selected, the number of shares of Stock X purchased and then sold will be less than 1.5 times the corresponding number for stock Y?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
- A. Option D
- B. Option B
- C. Option A
- D. Option E
- E. Option C
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 147 
- A. Option D
- B. Option B
- C. Option A
- D. Option E
- E. Option C
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 148
Scholars generally estimate subscribers to Freedom z Journal (1827-1829), the United States" first African American newspaper, at around 800. based on subscriptions to The Rights of AIL an African American newspaper founded in 1829 as a successor to Freedom s Journal by a former editor of that newspaper But Gross argues that many more than 800 readers probably subscribed to Freedom X Journal because many of its subscribers, dissatisfied with the direction ultimately taken by the paper, refused to subscribe to The Rights of All. In any case, the figure of 800 subscribers would make the circulation of Freedom s Journal close to that of other weekly papers of the time Its number of readers, however, would have been much larger: copies were often shared. and African American organizations subscribed to Freedom s Journal, providing nonsubscribers access to the paper Which of the following, if true, would most lend to undermine Gross's argument mentioned in the highlighted portion of the passage?
- A. A larger number of African American organizations subscribed to Freedom s Journal than to The Rights of Ail.
- B. Copies of The Rights of Alt were shared more frequently with nonsubscribers than were copies of Freedom s Journal.
- C. Many people who had not subscribed to Freedom s Journal bought subscriptions to The Rights of All.
- D. While many of the subscribers to Freedom s Journal did become dissatisfied with the paper over time, most of its readers were initially highly supportive of the paper
- E. The editorial direction of The Rights of All followed closely the direction that Freedom s Journal had taken.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 149 
- A. Option D
- B. Option A
- C. Option E
- D. Option C
- E. Option B
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 150
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 151 
- 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 152
In the xy-plane. what is the slope of the line that passes through the points (2,-3) and (5. -4)? Give your answer as a fraction.
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NEW QUESTION 153
Great achievers are by nature (i) _______, and therefore tend to be dissatisfied and discontent with their accomplishments - no matter how great. Perhaps the (ii) _______ modern example of this phenomenon was the eminent physicist Albert Einstein, whose theoretical breakthroughs in physics only raised new theoretical (iii) _______, which Einstein himself recognized and spent the last twenty years of his life struggling unsuccessfully to solve.
- A. tenaciously obsessive
- B. paradigmatic
- C. challenges
- D. unrivaled
- E. most illustrious
- F. concepts
- G. dilemmas
- H. perpetually malcontent
- I. insatiably ambitious
Answer: C,H,I
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Great achievers nevertheless driven to top their latest accomplishments would aptly be described as insatiably ambitious; that is, never satisfied with their achievements. The second sentence discusses a classic, or model, example of the phenomenon described in the first sentence. The word paradigmatic means "classic or model," so it's perfect for blank (ii). The passage's final phrase provides the key to filling in blank (iii). What someone might struggle to solve is a problem or puzzle, which is exactly what the word dilemma means.
NEW QUESTION 154
INSOLVENT:
- A. wealthy
- B. fortunate
- C. prudent
- D. generous
- E. sparing
Answer: A
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To be INSOLVENT is to be "without money"; the opposite is to be wealthy
NEW QUESTION 155 
- A. The two quantities are equal.
- B. Quantity A is greater.
- C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
- D. Quantity B is greater.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 156
The length of Cassie's family room is exactly two thirds the length of her master bedroom. Both rooms are rectangular, and the area of the two rooms is the same. If Cassie's family room has a length of L and a width of W, which of the following represents the perimeter of her master bedroom?
- A. Option E
- B. Option D
- C. Option B
- D. Option A
- E. Option C
Answer: A
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Since the two areas both equal L x W, the master bedroom (the longer room) must have a length of
and a width of W Accordingly, the perimeter of the master bedroom
= .
NEW QUESTION 157
The unwillingness of either political party to surrender any ground on the issue makes compromise unlikely:
both sides are too_________.
- A. entrenched
- B. pessimistic
- C. belligerent
- D. wary
- E. dispirited
- F. obdurate
Answer: C,F
NEW QUESTION 158
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