Forum: GMAT Reading Comprehension

Behavior is one of two general responses available to endothermic (endothermic: adj.吸热(性)的,动]温血的)(warm-blooded) species for the regulation of body temperature, the other being innate (reflexive) mechanisms of heat production and heat loss. Human beings rely primarily on the first to provide a...

Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as Line 99 percent of the value of (5) any useful product can be attributed to “the effects of labor.” For Locke’s intellec- tual heirs it was only a short step to the “labor theory of (10) value,” whose formulators

Ecoefficiency (measures to minimize environmental impact through the reduction Line or elimination of waste from (5) production processes) has become a goal for companies worldwide, with many realizing significant cost savings from such innovations. Peter Senge (10) and Goran Carstedt see...

The earth’s resources are being depleted much too fast. To correct this, the United States must keep its resource consumption at present levels for many years to come. 13. The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions? (A) Per capita resource consumption in the United...

Despite its 1989 designation as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act, the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, has declined in numbers by ninety percent since the 1980s. Although federal protection made it illegal to harm desert tortoises or remove them from the wild of the...

Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of the tales’ meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales...

The hypothesis of an expanding Earth has never attracted notable support, and if it were not for the historical example of continental drift, such indifference might be a legitimate response to an apparently improbable concept. It should be remembered, however, that drift too was once regarded as...

Typically the queen honeybee is mother to all the bees in a hive; after mating with several male drones from other colonies, she lays fertilized eggs that develop into all-female worker bees and lays unfertilized eggs that become all-male drones. When a queen dies, workers often lay unfertilized...

This has to be one of the weakest threads on the forum, but this is something that most of us need help on and that most of can control. I see that a thread will 100 viewers but zero posts. This makes no sense. If you take the time to read a 60-liner, post a comment or suggestion. If we want others...

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the “equal protection of the laws.” Although precisely what the framers of the amendment meant by this equal protection clause remains unclear, all interpreters agree that...

New observations about the age of some globular clusters in our Milky Way galaxy have cast doubt on a long-held theory about how the galaxy was formed. The Milky Way contains about 125 globular clusters (compact groups of anywhere from several tens of thousands to perhaps a million stars)...

One often hears that biographies are autobiographies, that the biographer is always writing about himself. On the contrary, serious biographers seek and welcome the unfamiliar, however troublesome to account for. Ron Chernow, the author of rich biographies of the American businessmen J.P. Morgan...

Three basic adaptive responses-regulatory, acclimatory, and developmental-may occur in organisms as they react to changing environmental conditions. In all three, adjustment of biological features (morphological adjustment) or of their use (functional adjustment) may occur. Regulatory responses...

Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented opportunities—as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing...

It can be argued that much consumer dissatisfaction with marketing strategies arises from an inability to aim advertising at only the likely buyers of a given product. There are three groups of consumers who are affected by the marketing process. First, there is the market segment—people who...

As the economic role of multinational, global corporations expands, the international economic environment will be shaped increasingly not by governments or international institutions, but by the interaction between governments and global corporations, especially in the United States, Europe, and...

The Fact that superior service can generate a competitive advantage for a company does not mean that every attempt at improving service will create such an advantage. Investments in service like thos in production and distribution, must be balanced against other types of investments on the basis of...

When A. Philip Randolph assumed the leadership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, he began a ten-year battle to win recognition from the Pullman Company, the largest private employer of Black people in the United (5) States and the company that controlled the railroad industry’s...

The traditional historical account of the rise of Islam credits an elaborate trading network in Mecca with providing the crucial background setting for the successful creation of the Islamic religion. Few scholars had questioned the logic behind this assumption until Professor Patricia Crone...