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The author would probably agree with which of the following statements regarding the work of Gellner and of Anderson?
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A law has been proposed requiring the cargo boxes of trucks carrying gravel to be covered by a tarpaulin, because vehicles driving close behind open-topped gravel trucks can be damaged by gravel flying off these trucks. The law is unlikely to substantially reduce such damage, however: flying gravel is much less likely to come from the cargo box itself than from the grooves of the tires, in which gravel can become wedged during loading.
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Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the argument given?
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Many researchers attribute the large number of physiological and behavioral similarities between birds and mammals, which have separate evolutionary histories, to endothermy (a thermoregulatory strategy whereby warm body temperature is maintained through internal heat sources). However, Farmer argues that parental care rather than endothermy is the key to understanding the similarities between mammals and birds. According to Farmer, while endothermy provides an explanation for a few similarities, such as the presence of body insulation, endothermy is just one characteristic among many related to parental care. The two purported advantages of endothermy that have been most frequently cited by researchers are an expanded range of inhabitable environments and the ability to sustain vigorous exercise. But metabolism has to increase substantially (at great energy cost) therefore conferring any significant thermoregulatory advantage in terms of the former, and there is no causal biological linkage to explain why endothermy would be essential to sustain exercise. Farmer argues instead that endothermy evolved as a means to control incubation temperature and that the ability to sustain exercise evolved separately, as a means to improve a parent`s ability to forage and provision its young.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Which of the following best characterizes the organization of the passage as a whole?
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According to the passage, Farmer concedes that endothermy provides an explanation for which of the following features shared by birds and mammals?
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In his heyday, Sonny Bono`s role in public was _____: he was an accomplished lyricist, a mayoral success story, delegate from Palm Springs, and the husband of an internationally acclaimed vocalist.
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Criticized for decades of overproduction in their signature line of derivative goods, Rectangle Record has satiated the market with a _____ of repackaged old CDs, which interferes with its ability to innovate and produce new albums.
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His political view, harking back to the turmoil in the 1934, is a _____ with no bearing on the present.
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A small degree of _____ is always desirable in a published diary. A sense of authenticity is seldom worth the diarist`s questionable grammar or careless phrasing.
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Quantity A: w+d
Quantity B: c+z
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For the 500 measurements obtained in experiment X, the average (arithmetic mean) value is 280 and the value k is at the 75th percentile. For the 500 measurements obtained in experiment Y, the average value is 280 and the value n is at the 75th percentile.
Quantity A: k
Quantity B: n
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Quantity A:AB
Quantity B:BC
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Which of the following CANNOT be the sum of six consecutive odd integers?
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What is the value of $$\frac{0.99999999}{1.0001}$$ - $$\frac{0.99999991}{1.0003}$$ ?
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