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Which of the following does the passage imply about the nineteenth-century reaction to French Impressionist landscape paintings?
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The passage suggests which of the following about French Impressionist painters of landscapes?(Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.)
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In the context in which it appears "retained" most nearly means
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The meteorite Monahans 1998 is an ordinary chondrite, a class of meteorites that astronomers have believed contain little or no water. But Monahans 1998 contains water locked inside salt crystals that date from the solar system's formation. The water is presumed to be of the same vintage-the first time that water of primordial origin has been detected. The water could have come from a water- rich comet that plowed into the meteorite's parent asteroid after its formation. But if the water was incorporated into the asteroid as it first coalesced, scientists may have to revise their thinking about conditions at the solar system's formation under which chondrites formed. To carry a concentrated salt solution today, Monahans 1998 must have once been in contact with several times more water than what now remains.
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The passage mentions the concentration of the salt solution in Monahans 1998 primarily in order to
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Which of the following can be inferred about the explanation offered in the highlighted sentence?
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From a purely evolutionary standpoint, pet keeping is an anomalous activity. It is easy to explain, for example, why people keep chickens, pigs, or sheep: these animals are worth at least their own weight in eggs, meat, hide, or fiber. But what could possibly be the adaptive value of keeping Siamese cats or miniature schnauzers? A common response to this evolutionary puzzle, and one that keeps being regurgitated in the literature, is the idea that pets are simply social parasites who have perfected the art of releasing and exploiting our innate parental instincts-called "cute response." Parallels are sometimes drawn with the phenomenon of brood parasitism in birds, in which the parasite' s nestling seems to exaggerate many of the care-soliciting aspects of the host' s, thus insuring that it is fed assiduously to the detriment of its foster parents and siblings. The superficially infantile appearance of some lapdogs lends support to this idea, but it should be emphasized that a key difference between people and songbirds is that the latter are presumably unaware that they are feeding and caring for a nonconspecific intruder. People may indeed find puppies or pug dogs cute, but they are certainly never in any doubt concerning their true provenance.
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The author mentions the "infantile appearance of some lapdogs" primarily in order to
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The author mentions a "key difference" primarily in order to
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It can be inferred that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following claims about pet keeping?
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A recent study shows that farmers have a 40 percent lower risk of developing various common forms of cancer than people in the general population do. Farmers are more active than most people are, but even taking this into account, farmers had a significantly lower cancer risk. Therefore, it is likely that some substances that farmers are typically exposed to in the course of their work lower the risk of developing these forms of cancer.
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Which of the following, if discovered to be true, would cast the most serious doubt on the argument?
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According to the passage, which of the following statements about tea consumption in India is true?
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It can be inferred from the passage that the Tea Cess Committee reorganized as the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board in order to
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The brain' s fusiform face area (FFA) responds to images of faces, leading some neuroscientists to theorize that the region is hardwired for facial recognition. Others support the expertise hypothesis, which holds that humans use those same brain circuits to distinguish between all objects with which they have developed considerable familiarity. According to them, humans excel at recognizing faces because most have been doing so all their lives, not because of any specialized brain structures. This theory explains why the FFA of a birdwatcher, for example, will activate for both faces and birds. And while FFA responses for other objects are considerably weaker than those for faces, even dedicated birdwatchers have probably spent considerably less time studying birds than looking at faces.
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In the passage as a whole, the highlighted portion primarily serves to
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The two groups of neuroscientists mentioned in the passage would likely agree on which of the following statements regarding the brain' s FFA? (Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.）
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She is (i)_________ on the Senate floor, just as she is elsewhere: her speech is (ii)_________ with the verbal pomposity of much senatorial oratory.
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As a consequence of his need for (i)________ and his (ii)________ self-advertisement, Joseph Duveen' s career is better known than those of most of his fellow dealers of museum-quality material. The Wildensteins, for instance, were far more successful financially, but they were (iii)________ beyond measure.
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