Forum: GMAT Reading Comprehension

During the Victorian period, women writers were measured against a social rather than a literary ideal. Hence, it was widely thought that novels by women should be modest, religious, (5) sensitive, guileless, and chase, like their authors. Many Victorian women writers took exception to...

:hmm: American economists continually attempt to gauge the health of the economy, both for the gain of the private sector as well as for the global standing of the United States. Different elements of the economy react differently to changes in prosperity. Some elements rise and fall as the...

Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it would survive and develop as two normal embryos. This led them to believe that the

Shaw’s defense of a theater of ideas brought him up against (bring up against: v.遭遇) both his great bugbears—commercialized art on the one hand and Art for Art’s Sake on the other. His teaching is that beauty is a by-product of other activity; that the artist writes out of moral passion (in forms...

Surprisingly enough, modern historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively “Southern”—the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain’s North American empire in...

Social learning in animals is said to occur when direct or indirect social interaction Line facilitates the acquisition (5) of a novel behavior. It usually takes the form of an experienced animal (the demonstrator) performing a behavior such that the naive (10) animal (the observer)...

I have a big problem with RCs. There are some RCs which I crack 100% and there are few which takes my wicket. Any suggestions on how to handle such situation? Just to let you know, I have tried following - 1. Its not the case of familier topic or area.. I have solved some nasty ones pretty...

More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily destroy only unwanted species, biocontrol. Line agents (such as insects, fungi, and (5) viruses) eat, infect, or parasitize targeted plant or animal pests. However, biocontrol agents can negatively affect nontarget species...

Linda Kerber argued in the mid- 1980’s that after the American Revolution (1775-1783), an ideology of “republican Line motherhood” resulted in a surge of edu- (5) cational opportunities for women in the United States. Kerber maintained that the leaders of...

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Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but one of imposing constraints—ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that...

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empire staged (to produce or cause to happen for public view or public effect “stage a track meet” “stage a hunger strike”) an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery that is all the more striking because it...

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In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords’ failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the...

Why firms adhere to or deviate from their strategic plans is poorly understood. However, theory and Line limited research suggest that the (5) process through which such plans emerge may play a part. In particular, top management...

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...

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Behavior science courses should be gaining prominence in business school curricula. Recent theoretical Line work convincingly shows why behav- (5) ioral factors such as organizational

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