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The primary purpose of the passage is to A Offer a history of third world development strategies and show why one is likely to be the most successful B Suggest that first world governments should not interfere with the development of third world nations C Explain why resource allocation has nothing...
- by pnk
Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:34 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: kknewton vr 20
- Replies: 8
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The poetic expressiveness and creativity of Japanese women poets of the Manyoshu era is generally regarded as a manifestation of the freedom and relatively high political and economic status women of that era enjoyed. During the Heian period (A.D. 794-1185) which followed, Japanese women became inc...
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:58 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Reading Comprehension ..........
- Replies: 44
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Extensive research has shown that the effects of short-term price promotions on sales are themselves Line short-term. Companies’ hopes that (5) promotions might have a positive aftereffect have not been borne out for reasons that researchers have been able to identify. A price promotion entices o...
- by pnk
Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:50 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Price Promotions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4866
(A) It prevented women from making significant contributions to the establishment of industrial unions . I find this answer choice correct for the reasons of bolded part . There is nothing about establishment until this part of the passage. Half part of this choice correct, misleading to make it or...
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Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:22 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: CIO!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6066
Q26: The author includes the quotation in lines 44-47 of the passage most probably in order to A. lend support to the claim that firms utilizing harvest strategies may be more likely to adhere to their strategic plans B. suggest a reason that many managers of large firm prefer harvest strategies to...
- by pnk
Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:37 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Passage
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12908
In those inference questions that use the word "support" we should think about authorial intent and what conclusion the passage was designed to support. Although pnk is right to bring up the fact that choice D doesn't talk about ambidextrous individuals that would be a technical point whi...
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Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:20 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: an old CR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3726
Researchers have concluded from a survey of people aged 65 that emotional well being in adulthood is closely related to intimacy with siblings earlier in life. Those who surveyed who had never had any sibilings or who said that at college age they were emotionally distant from thier sibilings were ...
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Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:35 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: assumption questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7485
Left-handed persons have an advantage over right-handed persons on tasks that are controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain and painting, for most people, is a task mostly governed by the right hemisphere of the brain. However, left-handed persons contract viruses, such as influenza, more freq...
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Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:20 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: an old CR
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3726
P says - Such linkage is probably due to X. Here Linkage is btn human & Ocean eccecntricty and artitistic imagination T: No. Oceans have always been viewed as Y T is refuting the linkage P talking about Only C & E talks about linkage. However, C distorts the causal relationship P is talking ...
- by pnk
Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:13 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Paolo
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4264
BF 1 - conclusion of the author ; BF2 - supports author's view Pick B A.The first is a generalization; the second is a consequence of that generalization - BF 2 is not the consequence of BF2 B.The first is the author's position; the second is a consideration in support of that position. C.The first ...
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Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:25 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: bold faced question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1484
Very tough;
Argument using non-conclusivity of past evidence as evidence that disaster will not occur in future --so should be relicensed.
IMO B (I am suspicious of 'cannot' here ...but I think emphatic conclusion 'should' justify that)
- by pnk
Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:47 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Nuclear Power Plant
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7954
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Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:57 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMATPrep question - federal rules
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7261
The federal rules aimed at protecting human subjects of medical experiments were established to ensure that patients must be warned of potential risks and an independent panel would evaluate the experiment before it was conducted. A. must be warned of potential risks and an independent panel would ...
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:07 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMATPrep question - federal rules
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7261
The new image of Stone Age people as systematic hunters of large animals, rather than merely scavenging for meat, have emerged from the examination of tools found in Germany including , three wooden spears that archaeologists believe to be about 400,000 years old. (A) merely scavenging for meat, ha...
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:01 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Stone Age
- Replies: 44
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A - do not find any connecting word that connects 2 actions (ie made and established)..is it correct ? B - Setence appears ok "The act of Congress...also established the library" E - Setence appears ok "The act of Congress made provision..., also establishing the library" - here ...
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:43 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Congress
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8799