Vocabulary in context
When a female’s brain is young and malleable, she tunes into her father’s song, memorizes it, and then stores it as a template for evaluating a mate’s song later.
In this context, “stores” most nearly means
A) remembers.
B) stockpiles.
C) conceals.
D) guards.
A) remembers.
Sylvia had only laughed when she came upon Mistress Moolly at the swamp side and urged her affectionately homeward with a twig of birch leaves The old cow was not inclined to wander farther; she even turned in the right direction for once as they left the pasture, and stepped along the road at a good pace. She was quite ready to be milked now and seldom stopped to browse.
It can most reasonably be inferred from the passage that Mistress Moolly heads straight home after being discovered because:
A. she knows it is past milking time.
B.she does not want to be whipped by Sylvia’s birch twig.
C. she follows the sound of the bell.
D. she likes playing hide and seek with Sylvia.
A. she knows it is past milking time.
Among many noteworthy ways in which biomedical engineers have improved our general health, a group of Portuguese engineers are responsible for developing angiography, which uses X-rays to examine blood vessels and thus helps in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
A) NO CHANGE
B) is
C) was
D) were
B) is
More like a fair then an actual café, the first Repair Café took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A) NO CHANGE
B) fair than
C) fare than
D) fair, then
B) fair than
The fairness measurements included; funding level, funding distribution, effort, and coverage
A) NO CHANGE
B) included:
C) included
D) including
B) included:
The variety of mice which is known as the Japanese dancing or waltzing mouse has been of special interest to biologists and to lovers of pets because of its curious movements.
in this context “curious” most nearly means
A) prying.
B) active.
C) unusual.
D) interested
C) unusual.
Many believe that the question of whether an act is right or wrong is to be settled by a religious doctrine; but the difficulties are still greater in this direction.
The author’s attitude toward the views of the “many” can be described as
A) apathetic.
B) curious.
C) puzzled.
D) skeptical.
D) skeptical.
Scientists have long known that soot particles facilitate melting by darkening snow and ice, limiting it’s ability to reflect the Sun’s rays.
A) NO CHANGE
B) its
C) there
D) their
D) their
On the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), for example, students intending to study philosophy in graduate school has scored higher than students in all but four other majors.
A) NO CHANGE
B) have scored
C) scores
D) scoring
B) have scored
Many bugs also carry aldehyde chemicals on their skin. It is this chemical that is responsible for the well-known and universally loathed aroma of the stink bug.
A) NO CHANGE
B) skin, it is this
C) skin, it is this:
D) skin. It is this—
A) NO CHANGE
A hotter climate certainly helped send the non-avian dinosaurs to their early grave, says Paul Renne. That’s because the uptick in temperature was immediately followed by a cold snap—a drastic change that likely set the stage for planet-wide disaster.
In this context, “snap” most nearly means
A) clip.
B) ease.
C) crack.
D) period.
D) period.
“Anything. I would walk around and I had no power of how and when to remember her. you think you can put up a kind of shield. But remembering don’t come to a man face forward—it corners around sideways.
The old man speaks of putting up a “shield” in order to protect himself from:
A. memories that arise at undesirable times.
B. the pain of banging his head against a lamppost.
C. being chased by the woman he is trying to forget.
D. those who are unreceptive to his new science.
A. memories that arise at undesirable times.
In most economies, the older generation is supported by the younger generation. The older generation earned this support when they worked to support their elders.
A) NO CHANGE
B) they worked to support its
C) it worked to support their
D) it worked to support its
D) it worked to support its
By the end of the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer had begun to write his famous collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales, which are still recognized as the gold standard of Middle English literature.
A) NO CHANGE
B) are still noticed
C) is still recognized
D) was still recognized
C) is still recognized
The boys, evaluated in the study, showed signs of obesity in terms of body mass index and triceps skin?fold measurements.
A) NO CHANGE
B) boys—evaluated in the study—
C) boys evaluated in the study
D) boys evaluated, in the study,
C) boys evaluated in the study
The last reply seems like a logical and straightforward answer. Yet, on reflection, it clearly doesn’t explain the process at all, and the sense that the skill of drawing is a vaguely magical ability persists.
In this context, the word magical most nearly means A. supernatural.
B. mysterious.
C false.
D. exciting
B. mysterious.
“I mean,” the boy asked timidly, “have you fallen in love with a woman again?”
The old man loosened his grasp on the boy’s collar. He turned away and for the first time, lifted the mug from the counter, and drank down the yellow beer. Then finally he answered: “No, son. You see that is the last step in my science. I go cautious. And I am not quite ready yet.”
It can be reasonably inferred that the old man says he is “not quite ready yet” because he:
A.still does not understand his scientific theory.
B. is still in love with trees, rocks, and clouds.
C. has not yet fallen in love again with a woman.
D. is too cautious to continue developing his theory
C. has not yet fallen in love again with a woman.
Since 1959, human activity have been emitting at least 350 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
A) NO CHANGE
B) emit
C) has emitted
D) emits
C) has emitted
English is a living language, and its history is a living history, regardless of any attempts to halt such constant transformation.
A) NO CHANGE
B) it.
C) them.
D) that.
A) NO CHANGE
She began to feel better, she was able to return to school the following day.
A) NO CHANGE
B) better, and
C) better, but
D) better and
B) better, and
The command, “Thou shalt not kill,” seems plain, but does even this furnish an infallible rule of conduct?
In this context, “furnish” most nearly means
A) clothe.
B) decorate.
C) provide.
D) complicate
C) provide.
Landois further remarks, with reason, that the name dancing mouse is ill-chosen since the human dance movement is rather a rhythmic hopping motion than a regular movement in a circle.
According to the information in the passage, the author’s attitude toward Landois’ claim can best be described as one of
A) skepticism.
B) approval.
C) bewilderment.
D) indifference.
B) approval.
One of the fascinating differences the study demonstrated was that, despite the fact that apes have the same social and physical capabilities that humans have, we did not evolve to the same extent.
A) NO CHANGE
B) species
C) they
D) apes
D) apes
According to Box, a leading Greenland expert, tundra fires in 2012 from as far away as North America produced great amounts of soot, some of it drifted over Greenland in giant plumes of smoke and then fell as particles onto the ice sheet.
A) NO CHANGE
B) soot
C) of which
D) DELETE the underlined portion
C) of which
Without equal numbers of healthy young people paying into an insurance program, the costs of older peoples health care cannot be met
A) NO CHANGE
B) costs’ of older peoples
C) costs of older people’s
D) costs of older peoples’
C) costs of older people’s