Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Deborah disliked her teacher’s rambling speeches; she wished he were more __________.
Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Although Todd tends to be ___________, he used a conversation partner to help him learn French.
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The increasing gap between the very rich and the desperately poor is one of the most _____ economic trends of our time.
During the damaging drought of last year, many farmers found it difficult to make it, even with generous government _____.
Professors are often pressured to increase the grades of star athletes, however, I simply cannot do this, as I feel it violates my _____ as an instructor.
Although she has led what many would consider a rather scandalous life, Nicole is unusually _____ about her past, even with people she has only just met.
Directions: Answer the questions based on following reading passage.
Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly. A bird, by singing, may forfeit time that could otherwise be spent on other important behaviors such as foraging or resting. Singing may also advertise an individual’s location to rivals or predators and impair the ability to detect their approach. Although these types of cost may be important, discussions of the cost of [Line 5] singing have generally focused on energy costs. Overall the evidence is equivocal: for instance, while Eberhardt found increases in energy consumption during singing for Carolina wrens, Chappell found no effect of crowing on energy consumption in roosters.
To obtain empirical data regarding the energy costs of singing, Thomas examined the relationship [Line 10] between song rate and overnight changes in body mass of male nightingales. Birds store energy as subcutaneous fat deposits or “body reserves”; changes in these reserves can be reliably estimated by measuring changes in body mass. If singing has important energy costs, nightingales should lose more body mass on nights when their song rate is high. Thomas found that nightingales reached a significantly higher body mass at dusk and lost more mass [Line 15] overnight on nights when their song rate was high.
These results suggest that there may be several costs of singing at night associated with body reserves. The increased metabolic cost of possessing higher body mass contributes to the increased overnight mass loss. The strategic regulation of evening body reserves[Line 20] is also likely to incur additional costs, as nightingales must spend more time foraging in order to build up larger body reserves. The metabolic cost of singing itself may also contribute to increased loss of reserves. This metabolic cost may arise from the muscular and neural activity involved in singing or from behaviors associated with singing. For example, birds may expend more of their reserves on thermoregulation if they [Line 25] spend the night exposed to the wind on a song post than if they are in a sheltered roost site. Thomas’s data therefore show that whether or not singing per se has an important metabolic cost, metabolic costs associated with singing can have an important measurable effect on a bird’s daily energy budget, at least in birds with high song rates such as nightingales.
Q. The primary purpose of the passage is to
Directions: Answer the questions based on following reading passage.
Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly. A bird, by singing, may forfeit time that could otherwise be spent on other important behaviors such as foraging or resting. Singing may also advertise an individual’s location to rivals or predators and impair the ability to detect their approach. Although these types of cost may be important, discussions of the cost of [Line 5] singing have generally focused on energy costs. Overall the evidence is equivocal: for instance, while Eberhardt found increases in energy consumption during singing for Carolina wrens, Chappell found no effect of crowing on energy consumption in roosters.
To obtain empirical data regarding the energy costs of singing, Thomas examined the relationship [Line 10] between song rate and overnight changes in body mass of male nightingales. Birds store energy as subcutaneous fat deposits or “body reserves”; changes in these reserves can be reliably estimated by measuring changes in body mass. If singing has important energy costs, nightingales should lose more body mass on nights when their song rate is high. Thomas found that nightingales reached a significantly higher body mass at dusk and lost more mass [Line 15] overnight on nights when their song rate was high.
These results suggest that there may be several costs of singing at night associated with body reserves. The increased metabolic cost of possessing higher body mass contributes to the increased overnight mass loss. The strategic regulation of evening body reserves[Line 20] is also likely to incur additional costs, as nightingales must spend more time foraging in order to build up larger body reserves. The metabolic cost of singing itself may also contribute to increased loss of reserves. This metabolic cost may arise from the muscular and neural activity involved in singing or from behaviors associated with singing. For example, birds may expend more of their reserves on thermoregulation if they [Line 25] spend the night exposed to the wind on a song post than if they are in a sheltered roost site. Thomas’s data therefore show that whether or not singing per se has an important metabolic cost, metabolic costs associated with singing can have an important measurable effect on a bird’s daily energy budget, at least in birds with high song rates such as nightingales.
Q. The passage implies that during the day before a night on which a male nightingale’s song rate is high, that nightingale probably does which of the following?
[For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that
apply.]
Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Q. We were all drawn in by the twin babies' __________, wanting to __________ as many hugs as possible from the little __________ duo.
Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Q. My neighbor's well-behaved, __________ son displayed his patience and __________ while he sat still amidst the chaos, refusing to wander and __________ about.
Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Q. I feel such a strong sense of __________ at the __________ fees charged by my local bank that I am thinking of __________ banking institutions altogether.
Directions: Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
Q. The __________ work of Isidore of Seville __________ all known topics of his era into a single text. It was named after his __________ methodology, which utilized grammar and history to explain the origins of the words listed in the tome.
Directions: Answer the questions based on following reading passage.
When marine organisms called phytoplankton photosynthesize, they absorb carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater, potentially causing a reduction in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes to global warming. However, phytoplankton flourish only in surface waters where iron levels are sufficiently high. Martin therefore hypothesized that adding iron to iron-poor regions of the ocean could help alleviate global warming. While experiments subsequently confirmed that such a procedure increases phytoplankton growth, field tests have shown that such growth does not significantly lower atmospheric carbon dioxide. When phytoplankton utilize carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, the carbon becomes a building block for organic matter, but the carbon leaks back into the atmosphere when predators consume the phytoplankton and respire carbon dioxide.
Q. It can be inferred that the author of the passage mentions predators (line 10) primarily in order to
[For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that
apply.]
The defendant’s history of drug use and mental health issues was used very effectively by the prosecution, who made it a(an) _____ part of their case.
Unfortunately, the long-term _____ of using such pesticides was not known at the time, and many farmers used them widely without fully understanding their harmful properties.
In the more undeveloped, isolated parts of the country, farmers still practice the simple, time-honored techniques of their _____.
Directions: Answer the questions on following data.
Percent of Adjunct Faculty and Percent of Non-Adjunct Faculty at College X, by Field
Q. There are 275 students in the field of engineering at College X. Approximately what is the ratio of the number of students in engineering to the number of faculty in engineering?Directions: Answer the questions on following data.
Percent of Adjunct Faculty and Percent of Non-Adjunct Faculty at College X, by Field
Q. Approximately what percent of the faculty in humanities are non-adjunct
faculty?
Directions: Answer the questions on following data.
Percent of Adjunct Faculty and Percent of Non-Adjunct Faculty at College X, by Field
[Use the directions for Numeric Entry questions.]
Q. For the biological sciences and health sciences faculty combined, 1/3 of the adjunct and 2/9 of the non-adjunct faculty are medical doctors. What fraction of all the faculty in those two fields combined are medical doctors?
Directions: Your answer may be an integer, a decimal, or a fraction, and it may be negative. Enter the exact answer unless the question asks you to round your answer.
Q. The figure above represents a rectangular garden with a walkway around it. The garden is 18 feet long and 12 feet wide. The walkway is uniformly 3 feet wide, and its edges meet at right angles. What is the area of the walkway?
Directions: Directions: Select a single answer choice.
Q. By weight, liquid A makes up 8 percent of solution R and 18 percent of solution S. If 3 grams of solution R are mixed with 7 grams of solution S, then liquid A accounts for what percent of the weight of the resulting
Directions: Numeric Entry Questions- Your answer may be an integer, a decimal, or a fraction, and it may be negative. Enter the exact answer unless the question asks you to round your answer.
Q. What is the slope of line k in the xy-plane below?
Directions: compare Quantity A and Quantity B, using additional information centered above the two quantities if such information is given. Select one of the following four answer choices. A symbol that appears more than once in a question has the same meaning throughout the question.
Q. Frequency Distribution for List X
Frequency Distribution for List Y
List X and list Y each contain 60 numbers. Frequency distributions for each list are given above. The average (arithmetic mean) of the numbers in list X is 2.7, and the average of the numbers in list Y is 7.1. List Z contains 120 numbers: the 60 numbers in list X and the 60 numbers in list Y.
Quantity A: The average of the 120 numbers in list Z
Quantity B: The median of the 120 numbers in list Z
Directions: Select a single answer choice.
Q. If x ≠ 0, which of the following is equivalent to
Directions: select all the answer choices that apply.
Q. On the number line shown above, the tick marks are equally spaced. Which of the following statements about the numbers x, y, and z must be true?
Indicate all such statements.
Directions: Select a single answer choice.
Q. Which of the following could be the graph of all values of x that satisfy the inequality
Directions: Select a single answer choice.
Q. Parallelogram OPQR lies in the xy-plane, as shown in the figure below. The coordinates of point P are (2, 4) and the coordinates of point Q are (8, 6). What are the coordinates of point R?
Directions: Select a single answer choice.
Q. The sequence of numbers a1, a2, a3, . . . , an, . . . is defined by for each integer n ≥ 1. What is the sum of the first 20 terms of the sequence?
Directions: Your answer may be an integer, a decimal, or a fraction, and it may be
negative. Enter the exact answer unless the question asks you to round your answer.
Q. The table below shows the frequency distribution of the values of a variable Y. What is the mean of the distribution?
Give your answer to the nearest 0.01.
Directions: Select all the answer choices that apply.
Q. Let S be the set of all positive integers n such that n2 is a multiple of both 24 and 108. Which of the following integers are divisors of every integer n in S?
Indicate all such integers.
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