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Perhaps ________ meted out to his recent works, or having simply decided to raise his game, The Map and the Territory finds Houellebecq almost back at his best.
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Of the painters who emerged in New York during the late 1940s and early `50s, de Kooning, who died in 1997, remains the most ____(i)____: He was too vital, too restless, too jazzy, and too unpredictable. He crossed many of art`s boundaries, spilling between abstraction and figuration at will. According to Irving Sandler, an art historian who has chronicled the development of postwar American art, it was de Kooning who was able to continue the grand tradition of Western painting and to deflect it in a new direction, creating ____(ii)____ style that spoke to our time.
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We have each of us, as a matter of fact, a little of the poet, of the sculptor, of the musician, of the painter, of the prose writer: but how little, as compared with those who are so called, precisely because of the _____(i)_____ degree in which they possess the most universal _____(ii)_____ and energies of human nature.
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The last 100 years have brought a series of revolutions in astronomy, each one kicking Earth a bit farther from _______(i) _______. People have not exactly been receptive to these blows to our home planet's centrality. In the 1970s, when Mars was shown to have a pink sky, not blue, reporters _______(ii) _______. And in the 1990s, astronomers almost missed extra-solar planets hiding in their data because they had _______(iii)_______ their search techniques to find planets more like those in our own solar system.
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For Martin Kemp, however, the religious icon is only one example of a much more widespread phenomenon, addressed in his new book Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon. Images _____(i)______, influencing our thoughts and actions, governing our tastes and purchasing habits, and drawing on deep and hidden emotions for their power. There is the famous image of the Chilean rebel, Che Guevara, adapted from a fleeting photograph taken by Alberto Korda, and used to give sex appeal to the posturing of _____(ii)______. There is the cross that gave victory to the Emperor Constantine, worn as a sign of obedience by Christians everywhere, and which is now marked out for persecution in the European courts. There is the heart, universal symbol of love, and adopted by New York City as _____(iii)______.
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Citing the re-emergence of Tuberculosis as a serious disease in the country, a Republican Senator yesterday blamed the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) for not working hard enough to control contagious diseases. The Senator accused the scientists of CDC of indulging in esoteric research and being unaware of the ground realities.
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Economist: Despite efforts to halt the recession in the economy, in the last two years, it has been declining at a rate triple that of the rate of fall before. Analysts have tried to explain this accelerated decline. One of the possible reasons that they cite is the formation of, and the subsequent bursting of, the housing market bubble. Deflation has run virtually unchecked despite constant and desperate efforts of the apex bank to the contrary. However, because the slowdown has been reversed significantly in our trading partner countries that had a housing market gone bust and deflation run amuck, it is fair to conclude that the recession in the USA must be due to the constant infusions of artificial liquidity into the markets.
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Packed tightly into nearly every one of the several trillion body cells is a complete copy of the human genome - all the genes that make up the master blueprint for building a man or woman. One hundred thousand or so genes sequestered inside the nucleus of each cell are parceled among the 46 sausage shaped genetic structures known as chromosomes.New maps developed through the Human Genome project have enabled researchers to pinpoint specific genes on our chromosomes and decipher the genetic instructions encoded in the estimated 3 billion base pairs of nucleotide bases that make up human DNA. Analysis of this information has revolutionized our understanding of how genes control the overall functions of the human body. This knowledge has provided new strategies to diagnose, treat and possibly prevent human diseases. It has helped explain the mysteries of embryonic development and give us important insights into our evolutionary past. Most inherited diseases are rare, but taken together; the more than 3,000 disorders known to result from single altered genes rob millions of healthy and productive lives. Today, little can be done to treat, let alone cure, most of these diseases. But having a gene in hand allows scientists to study its structure, characterize the molecular alterations, or mutations that result in disease.Gene mutations probably play a role in many of today's most common diseases - believed to result from complex interactions between genes and environmental factors. Once a gene is located on a chromosome and its DNA sequence worked out, scientists determine which protein the gene is responsible for making and find out what it does in the body. One can understand the mechanism of a genetic disease and eventually conquer it. Genetic diseases can be treated by correcting errors in the gene itself, replacing its abnormal protein with a normal one, or by switching the faulty gene off.
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Which of the following statements most strongly supports the author's assertion in the passage?
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Packed tightly into nearly every one of the several trillion body cells is a complete copy of the human genome - all the genes that make up the master blueprint for building a man or woman. One hundred thousand or so genes sequestered inside the nucleus of each cell are parceled among the 46 sausage shaped genetic structures known as chromosomes.New maps developed through the Human Genome project have enabled researchers to pinpoint specific genes on our chromosomes and decipher the genetic instructions encoded in the estimated 3 billion base pairs of nucleotide bases that make up human DNA. Analysis of this information has revolutionized our understanding of how genes control the overall functions of the human body. This knowledge has provided new strategies to diagnose, treat and possibly prevent human diseases. It has helped explain the mysteries of embryonic development and give us important insights into our evolutionary past. Most inherited diseases are rare, but taken together; the more than 3,000 disorders known to result from single altered genes rob millions of healthy and productive lives. Today, little can be done to treat, let alone cure, most of these diseases. But having a gene in hand allows scientists to study its structure, characterize the molecular alterations, or mutations that result in disease.Gene mutations probably play a role in many of today's most common diseases - believed to result from complex interactions between genes and environmental factors. Once a gene is located on a chromosome and its DNA sequence worked out, scientists determine which protein the gene is responsible for making and find out what it does in the body. One can understand the mechanism of a genetic disease and eventually conquer it. Genetic diseases can be treated by correcting errors in the gene itself, replacing its abnormal protein with a normal one, or by switching the faulty gene off.
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Select a sentence indicating that the Human Genome project unraveled the developmental linkages to human's present day biological conception.
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All of the following are functions of the genes, as described in the passage, EXCEPT:
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Cinema aspires to make beautiful people look stunning, but it wasn't always so. In its earliest days, film had an adversarial relationship to beauty, exaggerating the tonal and textural variations of the human face so that even the most stunning heroine became a blotchy caricature. Early black-and-white film stocks—first, orthochromatic film, dominant until 1927, and to a lesser degree its successor, panchromatic film—rendered dark colors darker and light colors lighter, turning features that seemed innocuous off camera (rouged cheeks, a constellation of moles) into distracting blemishes when seen on the screen. Pimples and freckles looked like spots of mud and blue eyes seemed colorless; lipstick made the mouth a cavernous hole and a complexion with sallow or pink undertones appeared, in the term of the time, "negroid." Techniques borrowed from the stage also proved problematic: face paint used to suggest wrinkles to a theater audience, for example, read as tattoos on film. Cinematic makeup, then, was not born from vanity—it was a necessary antidote to the flawed medium of film.
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He hurls himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible ________ of the laws of modesty and of the police.
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x : k = 2 : 3 and y : k = 5 : 8; k is a positive integer.
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In a bag, there are 8 red, 5 blue and 10 green balls. Two balls are drawn at random, one after the other, with replacement.
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Alexander and Bennett plan to meet at a cinema hall. Alexander leaves his office at 4:00 pm at a speed of 20 miles per hour. Bennett leaves his office at 5:00 pm at a speed of 40 miles per hour. Both Alexander and Bennett reach the cinema hall at the same time.
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T1, T2, T3, ... Tk, ...
The sequence is defined by T1 = $\frac{1}{10}$ and Tk + 1 = 10Tk, for each positive integer k.
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If a number is divisible by both 8 and 18, it should definitely be divisible by
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In a group of 100 people, 40 liked apples and 38 liked bananas. Some people liked both apples and bananas. The number of people who did not like either of the fruits was twice the number of those who liked both the fruits. Find the number of people who liked both apples and bananas.
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The distance between two points A(x, 11) and B(4, 5) is 10. Which of the following integers can replace x?
Indicate all such integers.
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To those who actually knew Socrates, he was not always the beloved master philosopher that Plato writes about; to the ignorant or hostile, he could also appear as a peddler of useless intellectual tricks, a/an ____________.
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I found myself reenacting it only a few days ago, uttering the same lines almost __________, and sinking to the earth under the same burden of world-darkening despair.
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To say that we have a clear conscience, is to admit a/an___________; had we never sinned, we should have had no conscience; were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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The way modern society teaches its kids is (i)__________ with the way they learn; what's been missing is, the recognition that kids learn best when they playfully (ii)__________ their own learning environments with only gentle guidance from adults.
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Although it seems like a modern _______(i)_______, sustainability is actually a centuries-old challenge, particularly as it relates to marine environments. For example, there is evidence that aboriginal fisheries in ancient times may have _______(ii)_______ marine species. Certainly by medieval times in Europe, _______(iii)_______ for fish, coupled with other developments like changing agricultural practices, forced species such as salmon and sturgeon into decline.
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As the CEO of the largest software company, it is (i)________ that Ballmer failed not because of some obvious product flop or some famous design snafu. Instead, he failed because he inherited a company whose success (ii)_______ desktop computers. And his tenure coincided with the rise of another sort of computer—mobile computers—that Microsoft couldn't continue (iii)________.
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Sardines are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the brackish waters of the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn. Until colonial-era dams cut off their migration, hundreds of thousands of sardines would have come pouring into lakes every spring.
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Which of the following poses a similar ecological development as stated in the passage?
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Of course, violence can occur to anyone working in a health or psychiatric environment. But according to Moylan, nurses are at particular risk because of the place they occupy in the healthcare system. She says that while psychiatrists and hospital administrators may be the people making decisions, it's ultimately nurses who are responsible for carrying them out. Oftentimes, it is hospital management that exacerbates the problem, and nurses often feel neglected and ignored when situations go awry. The admins sit at their desk, make the rules how they see things and never check in with the floor staff to see what reality is. Often, she says, hospital revenue comes before the well-being of the nurses. Administrators admit patients for the insurance money even when nurses don't feel comfortable caring for them. In mental health specifically, there's often an attitude of 'these things happen,' or worse, subtle victim blaming.
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Of course, violence can occur to anyone working in a health or psychiatric environment. But according to Moylan, nurses are at particular risk because of the place they occupy in the healthcare system. She says that while psychiatrists and hospital administrators may be the people making decisions, it's ultimately nurses who are responsible for carrying them out. Oftentimes, it is hospital management that exacerbates the problem, and nurses often feel neglected and ignored when situations go awry. The admins sit at their desk, make the rules how they see things and never check in with the floor staff to see what reality is. Often, she says, hospital revenue comes before the well-being of the nurses. Administrators admit patients for the insurance money even when nurses don't feel comfortable caring for them. In mental health specifically, there's often an attitude of 'these things happen,' or worse, subtle victim blaming.
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The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of the musket and the rifle. The musket was a fairly efficient weapon, and at the same time so simple that it could be produced almost anywhere. Its combination of qualities made possible the success of the American and French revolutions, and made a popular insurrection a more serious business than it could be in our own day. After the musket came the breech-loading rifle. This too was relatively simple to make and cheap to acquire. But thereafter every development in military technique has favored the State as against the individual, and the industrialized country as against the backward one. There are fewer and fewer foci of power. The one thing that might reverse it is the discovery of a weapon — or a method of fighting — not dependent on huge concentrations of industrial plant.
So we have before us the prospect of a few monstrous super-states, each possessed of a weapon by which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds, dividing the world between them. It has been rather hastily assumed that this means bigger and bloodier wars, and perhaps an actual end to the machine civilization. But suppose the haves make a tacit agreement never to use the atomic bomb against one another? Suppose they only use it, or the threat of it, against people who are unable to retaliate? In that case we are back where we were before, the only difference being that power is concentrated in still fewer hands and that the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes is still more hopeless.
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In what context does the author draw the difference between the musket and the atomic bomb?
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The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of the musket and the rifle. The musket was a fairly efficient weapon, and at the same time so simple that it could be produced almost anywhere. Its combination of qualities made possible the success of the American and French revolutions, and made a popular insurrection a more serious business than it could be in our own day. After the musket came the breech-loading rifle. This too was relatively simple to make and cheap to acquire. But thereafter every development in military technique has favored the State as against the individual, and the industrialized country as against the backward one. There are fewer and fewer foci of power. The one thing that might reverse it is the discovery of a weapon — or a method of fighting — not dependent on huge concentrations of industrial plant.
So we have before us the prospect of a few monstrous super-states, each possessed of a weapon by which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds, dividing the world between them. It has been rather hastily assumed that this means bigger and bloodier wars, and perhaps an actual end to the machine civilization. But suppose the haves make a tacit agreement never to use the atomic bomb against one another? Suppose they only use it, or the threat of it, against people who are unable to retaliate? In that case we are back where we were before, the only difference being that power is concentrated in still fewer hands and that the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes is still more hopeless.
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In what context does the author use the phrase 'popular insurrection a more serious business'?
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Eccentricity and creativity go hand in hand. Just as generating a creative idea requires deviating from conventional modes of thought; quirkiness involves deviation from conventional social behavior. If you ignore the rules in one domain, you may also ignore them in another. Once we form a stereotype of the erratic artist, we may see those who fit the stereotype more snugly as being better artists.
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You may have heard that tomatoes and processed tomato products like tomato sauce and canned tomatoes protect against some types of cancer. The cancer-preventing properties of tomato products have been attributed to lycopene. It is a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and is the cause of their red color. Unlike other fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing of tomatoes increases the concentration of lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times more than in fresh tomatoes. This is because lycopene is insoluble in water and is tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus, processed tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, so up, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations of lycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes as in the canning process and serving in oil-rich dishes such as spaghetti sauce or pizza greatly increase assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance, so the oil is said to help absorption to a great extent.
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You may have heard that tomatoes and processed tomato products like tomato sauce and canned tomatoes protect against some types of cancer. The cancer-preventing properties of tomato products have been attributed to lycopene. It is a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and is the cause of their red color. Unlike other fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing of tomatoes increases the concentration of lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times more than in fresh tomatoes. This is because lycopene is insoluble in water and is tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus, processed tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, so up, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations of lycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes as in the canning process and serving in oil-rich dishes such as spaghetti sauce or pizza greatly increase assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance, so the oil is said to help absorption to a great extent.
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It can be understood from the passage that as far as the lycopene intake is concerned ----.
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You may have heard that tomatoes and processed tomato products like tomato sauce and canned tomatoes protect against some types of cancer. The cancer-preventing properties of tomato products have been attributed to lycopene. It is a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and is the cause of their red color. Unlike other fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing of tomatoes increases the concentration of lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times more than in fresh tomatoes. This is because lycopene is insoluble in water and is tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus, processed tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, so up, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations of lycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes as in the canning process and serving in oil-rich dishes such as spaghetti sauce or pizza greatly increase assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance, so the oil is said to help absorption to a great extent.
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It can be understood from the passage that ----.
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The set obtained by measuring the weight of 15 students of class A has a median of 30 lbs and a range of 35 lbs. Which of the following can be the maximum weight of a student in the class?
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PERCENTAGE OF PROFESSIONALS IN DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THREE STATES
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HRD
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| 12$\frac{1}{2}$%
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The ratio of the number of marketing professionals in Utah to that of marketing professionals in Nevada is
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ERCENTAGE OF PROFESSIONALS IN DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THREE STATES
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Marketing
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HRD
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The number of finance professionals in Arizona is
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PERCENTAGE OF PROFESSIONALS IN DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THREE STATES
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Marketing
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If the number of marketing professionals in Arizona is to go up by 10%, the ratio of the number of marketing professionals in Arizona to that of marketing professionals in Nevada will be
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If $\frac{x+y}{x-y}$= 5 and the value of x is 3, find the value of y.
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Two trains, A and B, started at the same time from Austin with speeds of 60 miles per hour and 80 miles per hour, respectively. They did not stop anywhere up to Houston. Train A reached Houston 40 minutes after train B. Find the distance between Austin and Houston.
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Which of the following represents the perimeter of the given figure in terms of p?
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The cost of a burger is 5 dollars and that of a Coke bottle is 1.5 dollars. Bill purchased some burgers and Coke bottles. The cost of these items was 65 dollars and the total number of items he got with him was 20.
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The cost of carpeting a room is 72 dollars and papering the walls at 8 cents per square foot is 81.60 dollars. The length of the room is 18 feet. If the width had been 4 feet less, the cost of the carpet would have been 18 dollars less.
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3.3, r, 5.2, 7.1, 3r
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Number of integers between 24 and 65 that are squares of integers
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