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Which of the following best describes the purpose of the highlighted sentence?
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Which of the following can be inferred about the behavior of the dogs observed in Bauer and Smuts` study?
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As clucks of disapproval about Americans` political __________ have grown louder in recent years, many historians have looked for contrast to the decades before the Civil War as a time when Americans were enthusiastically engaged in politics.
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As a proponent of women`s traditional roles, Sarah Hale was adamantly against women`s suffrage as thrusting women into an improper sphere; yet she __________ female textile strikers when they publicly protested their mistreatment at mills.
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Manga-illustrated Japanese books that are read from right to left-are beginning to win fans, __________ the enormous success of anime films such as Miyazaki`s breathtaking Spirited Away.
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When food companies seek to inflate their revenues by reducing the amount of food in each package without offering a corresponding price reduction, their marketing campaigns are often __________, claiming that the smaller versions are healthier, with fewer calories than before.
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Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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According to the passage, an important focus of research for scholars of Native American oral literature has been
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The author of the passage refers to Nellie Barnes` study most probably in order to do which of the following?
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Not surprisingly, a new report indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are the only likely explanation for global warming was disputed by some groups that (i)_____ carbon dioxide emissions; these groups claim that the science pointing to dangerous human-caused warming is (ii)_____.
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As Toronto-based documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek notes, even as new technologies forge connections between people, they can also deepen cultural and political (i)_____, eroding our common public arena for discussion instead of (ii)_____ it.
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For years the prime minister was made to sound articulate and convincing through the efforts of his talented speech writers. Yet there was a downside to the speech writers` (i)_____: as the prime minister`s government began to (ii)_____, his rhetorical (iii)_____ stood in stark contrast to his political inadequacies.
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One reason for the (i)_____ of the Victorian novel is our recognition that Victorian society, despite its differences from the contemporary world, confronted its novelists with problems that (ii)_____ our own: how to reconcile democracy with traditional humanistic culture and how to create a humane existence in the welter of urban life. In short, foreshadowings of our present-day (iii)_____ abound in the Victorian novel.
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According to the passage, during the seventeenth century the French increasingly developed a taste for
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In the context in which it appears, "sensibilities" most nearly means
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The temperature of the fires that produced the "lens-shaped patches" is mentioned primarily in order to
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The fact that "many of H. erectus` tools were made of basalt or quartz" is relevant to the argument of the passage for which of the following reasons?
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Zadie Smith`s White Teeth is ecstatically __________: Smith seems to have omitted no incident, no character, no metaphor, no joke that struck her fancy.
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