There is a rather________ reason for astronomers sudden interest in comets: most other bodies in the solar system have been explored already.

A. pedantic

B. prosaic

C. controversial

D. untenable

E. mysterious

Female Korean shellfish divers, known as haemyeo. are (i)_________the (ii)_________the international seafood market: since they export most of their products, even consistent harvests translate into unreliable earnings.

A. unfamiliar with

B. vulnerable to

C. responsible for

D. information about

E. vicissitudes of

F. opportunities beyond

Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly_________.

A. anarchic

B. cerebral

C. opportunistic

D. speculative

E. competitive

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the period of the American Revolution and the early republic, political poems appeared regularly in newspapers and pamphlets. commenting on the issues and controversies engaging the new nation. Given the sheer number of poems that engaged explicitly with politics, one might wonder why the form has remained largely ignored by scholars of early American literature even as many other once obscure forms-sentimental novels, diaries, travelogues, belles letters--have enjoyed unprecedented scholarly interest in recent decades. Part of the reason may stem from frustrations involved with reading poems that are so highly topical--often requiring, even as a condition of first-level comprehension, a familiarity with names and references that, while wholly recognizable in their own time, are obscure to modem readers. Yet beyond this is the fact that American political verse from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has never fully shaken off the verdict, delivered by its earliest generation of scholarly readers. that it is simply unworthy of serious attention as literature. Even the term commonly used to describe it--"verse." as opposed to "poetry"-- suggests an occasional or forgettable, rather than enduring, form of expression, not quite deserving the designation of poetry. Nor was such verse considered by early critics as worthy of the designation "American." as the tendency of eighteenth-century American poets to model their works on those of British precursors suggested an unforgivable failure, as one critic described it. to declare their "literary independence" from Britain.

Though_________in his musical expression, the American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus

eventually developed a personal voice that proved to be much more than a simple mixture of jazz styles.

A. eclectic

B. idiosyncratic

C. uncompromising

D. virtuosic

E. wide-ranging

F. relentless

As originally formulated, the selfish-herd theory of prey species aggregation assumed that predatory attacks were equally likely to be launched from any position within the environment. In some circumstances (e.g.. avian predators attacking prey from above), such an approach is appropriate. However, as James et al. argue, in many predator-prey associations, attacks are unlikely to occur from positions within the group. For example, it is likely that an ambushing predator waiting in the path of a group would be detected before the group moves over its position. Hence, in many ecological situations, predatory attacks on grouped prey will occur exclusively from outside the group. In such circumstances, there is a strong premium to a group member in being in the interior of the group. James would most likely describe the original formulation of the selfish-herd theory as

A. completely untenable in its explanation of predator-prey associations

B. ill-equipped to explain exceptions to standard predator-prey associations

C. insufficiently attentive to the diversity of predator-prey associations

D. excessively concerned with the outcomes of predator-prey associations

E. problematically neglectful of the cooperative elements of predator-prey associations

The author mentions "sentimental novels" primarily to

A. account for the increased attention being paid to certain kinds of writing

B. explain the relative obscurity of some categories of literature

C. question an assumption shared by certain scholars

D. emphasize the apparent incongruity of a scholarly omission

E. note the literary diversity of a particular historical period

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

E. Option E

Exhibit.

For what number of pets per household is the total number of households the least?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

E. or more

Exhibit.

A. Quantity A is greater.

B. Quantity B is greater.

C. The two quantities are equal.

D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

Chloe spent a total of x dollars last August on clothes, transportation, and college textbooks. She spent 23 percent of the total on college textbooks, of which 13 percent was spent on her college mathematics textbook. Chloe spent a total of $450 on the college textbooks that were not her college mathematics textbook. Which of the following is closest to the value of x ?

A. 1250

B. 1,500

C. 1.750

D. 2,000

E. 2,250