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When people have a personal stake in something, they think about it, care about it, work to make it prosper. At the National Freight Consortium, the new employee-owners grew so concerned about their company’s profits that during wage negotiations they actually pressed their union to lower its wage demands.
131. The primary purpose of the passage is to (A) enumerate reason why both traditional scholarly methods and newer scholarly methods have limitations (B) identify a shortcoming in a scholarly approach and describe an alternative approach (C) provide empirical data to support a long-held scholarly assumption (D) compare two scholarly publications on the basis of their authors’ backgrounds (E) attempt to provide a partial answer to a long-standing scholarly dilemma
The amount of energy that can be produced anaerobically is a function of the amount of glycogen present—in all vertebrates about 0.5 percent of their muscles’ wet weight.
The presence of women physicians in Canton mission hospitals led many Chinese women to avail themselves of Western medicine who might otherwise have failed to do so because of their culture’s emphasis on physical modesty.
6. Which one of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? (A) The traditional view of medieval women as legally excluded from many public offices fails to consider thirteenth-century women in England who were exempted from such restrictions. (B) The economic independence of women in thirteenth-century England was primarily determined not by their marital status, but by their status as heirs to their parents’ estates. (C) The laws and customs of the feudal system in thirteenth-century England enabled some women to exercise a certain amount of power despite their legal exclusion from most public roles. (D) During the thirteenth century in England, widows gained greater autonomy and legal rights to their property than they had had in previous centuries. (E) Widows in thirteenth-century England were able to acquire and dispose of lands through a number of different legal processes.
26. The author of the passage implies that which of the following occurred after the Iroquois were resettled on reservations early in the nineteenth century? (A) Chiefs became more involved in their tribes’ religious affairs. (B) The authority of the chiefs’ council over the affairs of individual tribes increased. (C) The political influence of the Iroquois shamans was diminished. (D) Individual tribes coalesced into the Iroquois tribal league. (E) The longhouse because a political rather than a religious institution.
2. It can be inferred that doctors are able to determine hospital policies because (A) it is doctors who generate income for the hospital (B) most of a patient’s bills are paid by his health insurance (C) hospital administrators lack the expertise to question medical decisions (D) a doctor is ultimately responsible for a patient’s health (E) some patients might refuse to accept their physician’s advice
Unless the announced sale could be explained to the public on grounds other than anticipated future losses, the value of the stock would plummet and, like the old-time capitalists, major investors could cut their losses only by helping to restore their companies’ productivity.
1. Which one of the following statements most accurately summarizes the main point of the passage? (A) Until the legal questions surrounding the privacy of electronic mail in both the public and private sectors have been resolved, office workers will need to scramble their electronic mail messages with encryption codes. (B) The legal questions surrounding the privacy of electronic mail in the work place can best be resolved by treating such communications as if they were as private as telephone conversations or face-to-face meetings. (C) Any attempt to resolve the legal questions surrounding the privacy of electronic mail in the workplace must take into account the essential difference between public-sector and private sector business. (D) At present, in both the public and private sectors, there seem to be no clear general answers to the legal questions surrounding the privacy of electronic mail in the workplace. (E) The legal questions surrounding the privacy of electronic mail in the workplace of electronic mail in the workplace can best be resolved by allowing supervisors in public-sector but not private-sector offices to monitor their employees’ communications.
5. The passage suggests that which of the following was an indirect consequence of the collapse of the sugar beet industry in the Pajaro Valley? (A) The Issei formed a permanent, family-based community. (B) Boardinghouses were built to accommodate the Issei. (C) The Issei began to lease land in their children’s names. (D) The Issei adopted a labor contract system similar to that used by Chinese immigrants. (E) The Issei suffered a massive dislocation caused by unemployment.
12. The phrase “in England” (line 30-31) does which one of the following? (A) It suggests that women in other countries also received grants of their husbands’ lands. (B) It identifies a particular code of law affecting women who were surviving daughters. (C) It demonstrates that dower had greater legal importance in one European county than in others. (D) It emphasizes that women in one European country had more means of controlling property than did women in other European countries. (E) It traces a legal term back to the time at which it entered the language.
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