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Questions 6 and 7 are based on the following passage.
Towards the middle and the end of the six-
teenth century there were many students and
scholars possessing a great deal of erudition,
but very little means of subsistence. Nor were
their prospects very encouraging. They first
went through that bitter experience, which,
since then, so many have made after them—
that whoever seeks a home in the realm of in-
tellect runs the risk of losing the solid ground
on which the fruits for maintaining human life
grow. The eye directed towards the Parnassus
is not the most apt to spy out the small tortu-
ous paths of daily gain. To get quick returns of
interest, even though it be small, from the capi-
tal of knowledge and learning has always been,
and still is, a question of difficult solution.- The “fruits” mentioned in line 10 represent
(A) spiritual growth
(B) artistic skill
(C) technological progress
(D) the means of acquiring food and shelter
(E) scientific knowledge
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- Much research in neuroscience today endeav-
ors to ------- the mechanisms by which our
brains turn the ------- data from our sense
organs into coherent and understandable
information.
(A) enhance.. quality of
(B) restore.. absence of
(C) enlighten.. source of
(D) attenuate.. dearth of
(E) elucidate.. deluge of
7. The “question” in line 16 is whether
(A) money can buy happiness
(B) intellectuals can earn a good living
(C) society can construct effective schools
(D) old ideas are relevant to modern society
(E) scholars are happier than merchants
Questions 8 and 9 are based on the following passage.When there exists an inherited or instinctive
tendency to the performance of an action, or
an inherited taste for certain kinds of food,
some degree of habit in the individual is often
or generally requisite. We find this in the
paces of the horse, and to a certain extent in
the pointing of dogs; although some young
dogs point excellently the first time they are
taken out, yet they often associate the proper
inherited attitude with a wrong odour, and
even with eyesight. I have heard it asserted
that if a calf be allowed to suck its mother
only once, it is much more difficult afterwards
to rear it by hand. Caterpillars which have
been fed on the leaves of one kind of tree,
have been known to perish from hunger
rather than to eat the leaves of another tree,
although this afforded them their proper food,
under a state of nature.- The “pointing of dogs” (line 7) is mentioned
primarily as an example of
(A) an innate habit
(B) a behavior that humans find useful
(C) a skill that is hard to learn
(D) an ability that many other animals also
have
(E) a skill that helps animals to find food
First passage: Jacob Feis. Shakespeare and Montaigne,c. 1890.
Public domain
Second passage: Charles Darwin. The Expression of the
Emotions in Man and Animals.1872. Public domainLine510
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The passages below are followed by questions
based on their content. Answer the questions
on the basis of what is statedor impliedin the
passage and in any introductory material that
may be provided.