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Every few years, as a reviewer, one encounters a novel whose (i)________ are so many in number, and so (ii)_______ that to correct them fully would produce a text that exceeded the novel itself in length. Faced with such a book. one wishes only to let it slip quietly to the seabed of culture, there to join thousands of other (iii)________ books in their slow disintegration
Recently, controversial findings were released that suggest that the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by United States forests might be greater than the amount emitted by the nation's fossil-fuel combustion. This conclusion has two astonishing implications. First, the United States may not be directly contributing to rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Second, the atmosphere seems to be benefiting from young forests, which are particularly efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. But these young forests exist only because old-growth forests were clear-cut in earlier centuries. The possibility that the United States absorbs more carbon dioxide than it produces thus does not reflect efforts to protect the environment; rather, it reflects a history of deforestation and development.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author's argument that the ability of the United States to absorb more carbon dioxide than it produces is not a result of efforts to protect the environment?
It can be inferred from the passage that the author assumes which of the following about United States carbon dioxide emissions?
Looking back on a project that they had approached with both great________ and considerable aspirations, they were amused to recognize that neither the fears nor the hopes had been at all realistic.
Recent discoveries suggest that mathematical techniques developed by ancient Babylonian astronomers________ those of medieval European scholars: Babylonian trapezoid procedures can be viewed as a concrete example of graphical methods devised by fourteenth-century philosopher Nicole Oresme.
Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?
Few topics engender more controversy among musicologists than the "authentic" performance of music of earlier periods. At issue are claims made by partisans of the early music movement that their performances represent a re-creation of history and that the historical information on which such performances are based provide a sure foundation for performances that accurately reflect the composer's original intentions. Taruskin has been the most powerful critic of this view, arguing that so-called authentic performances do not reveal any concrete truth of how the music of earlier times "should" sound. Instead, these performances reflect our contemporary taste for this repertoire's sound and offer a twentieth-century interpretation that, while based on certain historical facts, is encumbered with the unconscious biases inherent in any interpretive endeavor.

Yet, despite their flaws, historical investigations and interpretations remain an indispensable part of music scholarship. Indeed, Taruskin is not engaged in a wholesale crusade against the early music movement or against performance-practice research; rather, he is calling for intellectual honesty. His arguments are important because they help clarify the thin line between historical facts, on the one hand, and, on the other, musical interpretations based not only on those facts but also on imaginative, well-founded speculation.
The passage suggests that Taruskin would probably agree with which of the following criticisms regarding the partisans of the early music movement?
The passage indicates that Taruskin and the partisans mentioned would both agree with which of the following statements regarding "authentic" performances of early music?
Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
Consider all the permutations of the letters in the word $$MISSISSIPPI$$, where $$I$$ is a vowel and the other letters are consonants.

Quantity A

The number of permutations in which all the vowels are next to each other

Quantity B

The number of permutations in which all the consonants are next to each other


Two balls are to be randomly selected from a bag, one at a time and without replacement. The probability that the first ball selected will be red is $$\frac{5}{8}$$. If the first ball selected is not red, the probability that the second ball selected will be red is $$\frac{2}{3}$$. What is the probability that the first or the second ball selected will be red (that is, one red ball either in the first attempt, or in the second attempt, but not both)?

Give your answer as a $$\underline{fraction}$$.


Each morning Betty walks from intersection P to intersection R, always walking along streets shown in the figure above and always going east or north. If she varies her walks as much as possible, taking every different path in turn before repeating the sequence of paths, on how many mornings in 48 consecutive mornings will Betty walk through intersection Q?

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