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NEW QUESTION 225
Conflict had existed between Spain and England since the 1570s. England wanted a share of the wealth that Spain had been taking from the lands it had claimed in the Americas.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, encouraged her staunch admiral of the navy, Sir Francis Drake, to raid Spanish ships and towns. Though these raids were on a small scale, Drake achieved dramatic success, adding gold and silver to England's treasury and diminishing Spain's omnipotence. Religious differences also caused conflict between the two countries. Whereas Spain was Roman Catholic, most of England had become Protestant.
King Philip II of Spain wanted to claim the throne and make England a Catholic country again. To satisfy his ambition and also to retaliate against England's theft of his gold and silver, King Philip began to build his fleet of warships, the Armada, in January 1586.
Philip intended his fleet to be indestructible. In addition to building new warships, he marshaled one hundred and thirty sailing vessels of all types and recruited more than nineteen thousand robust soldiers and eight thousand sailors. Although some of his ships lacked guns and others lacked ammunition, Philip was convinced that his Armada could withstand any battle with England. The martial Armada set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on May 9,1588, but bad weather forced it back to port. The voyage resumed on July 22 after the weather became more stable. The Spanish fleet met the smaller, faster, and more maneuverable English ships in battle off the coast of Plymouth, England, first on July 31 and again on August 2. The two battles left Spain vulnerable, having lost several ships and with its ammunition depleted. On August 7, while the Armada lay at anchor on the French side of the Strait of Dover, England sent eight burning ships into the midst of the Spanish fleet to set it on fire. Blocked on one side, the Spanish ships could only drift away, their crews in panic and disorder. Before the Armada could regroup, the English attacked again on August 8. Although the Spaniards made a valiant effort to fight back, the fleet suffered extensive damage.
During the eight hours of battle, the Armada drifted perilously close to the rocky coastline. At the moment when it seemed that the Spanish ships would be driven onto the English shore, the wind shifted, and the Armada drifted out into the North Sea. The Spaniards recognized the superiority of the English fleet and returned home, defeated The Armada was ___ on one side.
- A. closed off
- B. answer not available in this article
- C. damaged
- D. alone
- E. circled
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 226
IMPEDE:
- A. comply
- B. engulf
- C. deny
- D. hasten
- E. progress
Answer: D
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To IMPEDE is to "hinder or obstruct" (as in impede progress); to hasten is to cause an event to occur sooner than it otherwise might.
NEW QUESTION 227
The government's _______ clinical study requirements for new drugs do not _______ pharmaceutical firms when it comes to research and development, chiefly because of the profit potential afforded by patent protection.
- A. onerous . . dissuade
- B. official . . please
- C. unenforceable . . favor
- D. vague . . prejudice
- E. extensive . . impel
Answer: A
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The signpost word in this sentence is "because," which requires that what follows it must explain what precedes it. Profit potential would explain why drug companies persist in developing new drugs despite onerous (burdensome) government regulations. Choice B is the only one that expresses this idea. (The word dissuade means "discourage or persuade not to.")
NEW QUESTION 228
Recent research has questioned the long-standing view of pearly mussels as exclusively suspension feeders (animals that strain suspended particles from water) that subsist on phytoplankton (mostly algae). Early studies of mussel feeding were based on analyses of gut contents, a method that has three weaknesses. First, material in mucus-bound gut contents is difficult to identify and quantify. Second, material found in the gut may pass undigested out of the mussel, not contributing to its nutrition. Finally, examination of gut contents offers limited insight into the mechanisms and behaviors by which mussels acquire food. Modem studies suggest that pearly mussels feed on more than just algae and may use other means than suspension feeding. Pedal feeding (sweeping up edible material with a muscular structure called the foot) has been observed in juvenile pearly mussels.
Besides the phytoplankton pearly mussels capture from the water column, their guts also contain small animals, protozoans, and detritus (nonliving particulate organic material). Recent studies show that mussels can capture and assimilate bacteria as well, a potentially important source of food in many fresh waters.
Another potential source of food for mussels is dissolved organic matter. Early studies showing that pearly mussels could take up simple organic compounds were largely discounted because such labile (unstable) compounds are rarely abundant in nature. Nevertheless, recent work on other bivalves suggests that dissolved organic matter may be a significant source of nutrition.
Of this complex mix of materials that pearly mussels acquire, what is actually required and assimilated?
Stable-isotope analyses of mussels taken from nature and of captive-reared mussels are beginning to offer some insight into this question. Nichols and Garling showed that pearly mussels in a small river were omnivorous, subsisting mainly on particles less than 2S micrometers in diameter, including algae, detritus, and bacteria. Bacterially derived carbon was apparently the primary source of soft-tissue carbon. However, bacteria alone cannot support mussel growth, because they lack the necessary long-chain fatty acids and sterols and are deficient in some amino acids. Bacteria may supplement other food resources, provide growth factors, or be the primary food In habitats such as headwater streams, where phytoplankton is scarce. Juvenile mussels have been most successfully reared m the laboratory on diets containing algae high in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Thus, it appears that the pearly mussel diet in nature may consist of algae, bacteria, detritus, and small animals and that at least some algae and bacteria may be required as a source of essential biochemicals.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
- A. summarize the present state of knowledge about what pearly mussels eat
- B. suggest that a particular source of nutrients is more essential to pearly mussels than was previously thought
- C. question whether research findings about laboratory-reared pearly mussels can be extrapolated to pearly mussels in natural habitats
- D. explain why evidence used to support a long-standing view about pearly mussels is flawed
- E. contrast two mechanisms by which pearly mussels have been shown lo feed
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 229
The book's approach to modern art was hardly_________: it aimed simply to give readers a deeper understanding of prevailing perspectives in the field.
- A. conventional
- B. decipherable
- C. innocuous
- D. revisionist
- E. calculated
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 230
The high incidence of speech articulation disorders among young children suggests that such "disorders" are _______ developmental phenomena, since they generally occur less frequently among _______ age groups.
- A. very serious . . most
- B. commonly misunderstood . . older
- C. clinically acceptable . . younger
- D. actually normal . . other
- E. relatively rare . . certain
Answer: D
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The first operative word in the sentence is since, which means "because" here. The fact that the disorders appear frequently only among young children would explain the conclusion that these "disorders" are not disorders at all, but rather normal developmental phenomena that children grow out of. Choice C conveys this idea. The second key word is "disorders" (in quotes). The fact that the word appears in quotes provides a clue that the term might be a misnomer - an inappropriate label. Again, choice C conveys this idea.
NEW QUESTION 231
Carbon dating of charcoal gathered from a Nok iron smelter at Intime. Nigeria, suggests that iron technology was established there by 410 B.C. This may not be the oldest smelter in sub-Saharan Africa, however.
Archaeologists have located evidence of iron-smelting in the Termite Hills of Niger from as early as 1400 B.C.. but skeptics say the wood used for that dating could have already been centuries old when burned as fuel-a problem that dogs carbon dating, especially in arid places like Niger, where wood desiccates and lasts longer. Of course, the same problem could distort dates for the Intime furnace as well, but here there is an important piece of corroborating evidence: Nok pottery found inside the furnace alongside the charcoal.
The author implies which of the following about the "Nok pottery found inside the furnace"?
- A. It contains traces of iron smelted in the same furnace.
- B. It predates the pottery found in the Termit Mills of Niger.
- C. It was probably imported to Intini from a less arid climate.
- D. It provides independent support for the results of the carbon dating of the charcoal.
- E. It indicates that the furnace was used primarily for purposes other than smelting.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 232
For a list of k consecutive integers, the median is m and the range is r. Which of the following must be equal to K?
- A. m+1
- B. m
- C. r
- D. r-m+1
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 233
It is nn ironic reversal that just those politicians who most vociferously lambasted the distorting complexities of the country's tax system are now the ones_________an agreement that worsens the mess.
- A. negotiating
- B. championing
- C. ignoring
- D. discounting
- E. eschewing
- F. espousing
Answer: B,F
NEW QUESTION 234
The main advantage of inertial guidance systems in modern aircraft, spacecraft, and submarines is that they are _______ and are able to function without _______ data.
- A. computerized . . processing
- B. reliable . . further
- C. internal . . vital
- D. scientific . . losing
- E. automatic . . external
Answer: E
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Notice that the word "advantage" is singular (not plural). This suggests that the two phrases "they are
_______" and "they are able to . . ." must express nearly the same idea. Choice B helps convey the idea nicely: An automatic system is by definition one that functions without external help. (In the digital realm, the words "data" and "help" can carry essentially the same meaning.) None of the other answer choices establishes as close a relationship between these two phrases.
NEW QUESTION 235
The public has not reacted favorably to the majority of the policies adopted by the present government. If.
however, the electoral landslide by which the government achieved power five years ago was. as is often claimed, a mandate for more conservative policies, then the public response to most of the government's policies would have been favorable.
If the statements in the passage are true, which of the following must also be true on the basis of them?
- A. The electoral landslide by which the present government achieved power was not a mandate for more conservative policies.
- B. None of the policies adopted by the present government to which the public has responded favorably are conservative policies.
- C. The present government will be voted out of office at the next election.
- D. Most of the people who voted for the present government would have voted for an opposition party if they had not been misled about the policies that would be adopted.
- E. The public would have reacted more favorably to the policies adopted by the present government if those policies had been more conservative.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 236 
In the at-plane, line k intersects the rectangle shown at points P and O.
Which of the following represents the slope of line k ?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
- A. Option
- B. Option
- C. Option
- D. Option
- E. Option
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 237
Most people think it's fine to be "busy as a beaver." Little do they know. Beavers may work hard, but often they don't get much done. Beavers are supposed to be great tree cutters. It is true that a beaver can gnaw through a tree very quickly. (A six-inch birch takes about ten minutes.) But then what? Often the beaver does not make use of the tree.
One expert says that beavers waste one out of every five trees they cut. For one thing, they do not choose their trees wisely. One bunch of beavers cut down a cottonwood tree more than one hundred feet tall.
Then they found that they could not move it. In thick woods a tree sometimes won't fall down. It gets stuck in the other trees. Of course, doesn't think to cut down the trees that are in the way. So a good tree goes to waste. Some people think that beavers can make a tree fall the way they want it to. Not true. (In fact, a beaver sometimes gets pinned under a falling tree.) When beavers cut a tree near a stream, it usually falls into the water. But they do not plan it that way. The fact is that most trees lean toward the water to start with. Now what about dam building? Most beaver dams are wonders of engineering. The best ones are strongly built of trees, stones, and mud. They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. Beavers think nothing of building a dam more than two hundred feet long. One dam, in Montana, was more than two thousand feet long. The largest one ever seen was in New Hampshire. It stretched four thousand feet. It made a lake large enough to hold forty beaver homes. So beavers do build good dams. But they don't always build them in the right places. They just don't plan. They will build a dam across the widest part of the stream. They don't try to find a place where the stream is narrow. So a lot of their hard work is wasted.
Beavers should learn that it's not enough to be busy. You have to know what you're doing, too. For example, there was one Oregon beaver that really was a worker. It decided to fix a leak in a man-made dam. After five days of work it gave up. The leak it was trying to block was the lock that boats go through.
What is the main idea of this passage?
- A. Beavers are well developed tree cutters.
- B. New Hampshire was the site of the largest beaver dam.
- C. Beavers are excellent dam builders.
- D. Beavers are poor surveyors of aquatic environments in some cases.
- E. Beavers may be hard working animals, but they don't always choose the most efficient mechanisms.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 238
VERDANT:
- A. forbidding
- B. desolate
- C. diminutive
- D. incomplete
- E. immature
Answer: B
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VERDANT means "lush and overgrown"; desolate means "bare of any living thing."
NEW QUESTION 239
DIALOGUE : PLAYWRIGHT
- A. overture : composer
- B. pact : humorist
- C. narrative : character
- D. clarification : beneficiary
- E. farce : buffoon
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 240
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