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It can be inferred that the author of the passage and Manton would be most likely to disagree over which of the following claims?
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It can be inferred from the passage that Manton believed which of the following about the "shared characteristics" mentioned in the passage?
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Modem radar observations indicate that the bodies making up Saturn's rings range from small grains to bodies several meters in diameter. This generates some uncertainty about the origin of the material that composes the ring system. One theory is that the orbit of a small satellite diminished until its proximity to Saturn caused it to be torn apart by the planet's tidal forces, breaking it up into bodies a few tens of kilometers in diameter. Further fragmentation by tidal forces would have been unlikely, however, since the effectiveness of tidal forces increases with the size of the body on which they act. Subsequent collisions between these initial bodies could have been the events that produced the finer material to form the rings.
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Based on information in the passage, which of the following best describes the "subsequent collisions" ?
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The highlighted sentence serves primarily to
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The two primary theoretical traditions that frame research about audience exposure to television carry differential assumptions of how television viewers use the medium. The uses and gratifications approach conceptualizes the audience as active and goal directed when consuming media and offers an understanding of how audience motivations, individual characteristics, and preferences link to media behavior. Findings demonstrate considerable audience activity in decisions about whether to watch television, especially involving program-or program type-preferences. However, studies in this tradition empirically ignore that exposure is not completely free of constraints. Structural or contextual factors, such as the audience member's availability and access to television or other media, the ability or willingness to pay for multichannel services, as well as scheduling factors, impact use of television. Scholars who focus on these structural determinants use aggregate data (usually secondary analyses supplied by Nielsen) to demonstrate consistent patterns of macrolevel audience behavior. Findings from this approach usually have impressive predictive power and utility for explaining the mass audience but are ill-suited to explain the underlying reasons for medium or
program choice, including individual motivations for selecting television in the first place.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Select the sentence in the passage that identifies a limitation to the uses and gratifications approach.
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The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about television viewers' choices of particular programs?
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Mark Twain relished the huge cutthroat trout fished from Lake Tahoe but reported them uncommonly difficult to catch. Tahoe's extraordinary clarity may be one reason: Twain thought it an advantage that he could see the trout but did not realize that they could see him Light bends when it enters water, rendering floating objects outside a given circle invisible from underwater. The radius of such a circle, known as Snell' s Window, expands with the relative depth of the viewer's position. The Tahoe cutthroats lived very deep and could have seen Twain's boat long before it came to rest overhead. Moreover, the eyes of trout continue to grow along with their overall body size, and larger eyes, having more cones, provide sharper vision.
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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The passage suggests which of the following about Snell' s Window?
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What is really meant by "ownership" of works of art? When a museum or an art gallery takes refuge in the argument that something it possesses has been legitimately acquired by the standards of its day and has been properly cared for ever since, it is not a trivial piece of special pleading, but a valid appeal to our sense of fairness. This sort of claim can be strengthened when a museum returns other objects not acquired lawfully. Such concessions recognize that injustices can occur, and they serve to undergird legitimate claims rather than undermine them. But even with legitimate claims, possession of art is not out-and-out ownership, but a duty of care, since stewardship comes as the counterpart of possession.
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The primary purpose of the last sentence of the passage is to
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The passage suggests that a museum's claim on some possessions may be strengthened by its return of unlawful acquisitions because such returns imply that
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Pharmaceutical Developer: Until recently certain bacteria were considered too dangerous for use in vaccines. However, without a particular gene, these bacteria are harmless, and we can now remove the gene from these bacteria. Therefore, vaccines containing these bacteria can now be used safely.
Scientist: Actually, the safety of such vaccines remains doubtful. Genes often migrate from one strain of bacteria to another, and other strains of bacteria in the human body contain the harmful gene.
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The scientist's response does which of the following?
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A longstanding scholarly neglect of the subject of cooking is partly attributable to the antiquated“separate spheres" schema that differentiated a private female sphere, which included food preparation and consumption, from a public male sphere, which included food production. While this concept never reflected most women's daily realities-women are major food producers worldwide the ideological polarization certainly influenced the development of academia: it effectively segregated women into working in low-status "domestic” disciplines such as dietetics and home economics, while the male-dominated realms of industrial agriculture, food technology, mass retailing, and corporate management enjoyed public respect and academic prestige. This institutionalized bias delayed serious attention to cooking even after feminists in the 1960s obliterated the notion of separate spheres and more women entered all areas of academia.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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