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• Question 81:

  HOTSPOT Archaeologists have excavated two ancient sites, Site A and Site B, each containing bowls and dishes. A third site containing similar vessels (bowls and dishes), Site C, Is known to have existed but has not yet been located. The vessels have

  been dated to three successive 40-vear-long time periods (Mil). The dishes that were found are small and plain and were made primarily for everyday use. For each site, the average population at the site for a period is known to be roughly proportional to the number of dishes found that were dated to that period.

  The bowls are more elaborate, decorated In either a curvy or a rectilinear style. They were made primarily for ritual use. The numbers of bowls found indicate the level of wealth of the site's inhabitants during the period to which the bowls were dated (with greater numbers indicating greater wealth). Documents found at Sites A and B establish that exactly 18 of the dishes found at Site A were manufactured at Site C; otherwise, all of the vessels were made at the sites where they were found. For each of Sites A through C, select Yes If the Information provided Indicates that the population at that site was both greater in Period II than Period I and greater in Period III than in Period II. Otherwise, select No.

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• Question 82:

  Which of the following statements concerning the valence model and the approach- withdrawal model most accurately reflects information provided in the Passage?

  A. Each of the two models implicates both hemispheres of the human brain in the processing of emotion.
  B. Both models suggest that cognitive information is processed by only one brain hemisphere in humans.
  C. Each of the two models explains how emotional information affects the processing of cognitive information in the human brain.
  D. Both models seek primarily to describe how emotion is expressed in behavior.
  E. The assumptions of both models concerning the processing of visuospatial information are identical with those made by Karev.
  A. Each of the two models implicates both hemispheres of the human brain in the processing of emotion.

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  Despite overall physiological bilateral symmetry, many species exhibit lateralized biases, i.e., preferences for right- or left-oriented behavior. When approaching prey, for example, some predator species favor their right eye; some prey species respond more quickly when their left eye detects a predator. Similar behavioral asymmetries occur in humans. Most notable is right- and lefthandedness; less notable is the tendency to turn right when entering a room. Paul Farnsworth found that more successful students tended to choose seats near the front, a little to the right. He argued that external factors such as teacher location might have affected this lateral bias. But it is now known that processing differences between the two brain hemispheres can also contribute to behavioral asymmetries. George Karev found that when presented with a movie theater seating diagram, right-handed people were more likely than left-handed people to choose a seat on the right, facing front. But he hypothesized that, since the right hemisphere processes visuospatial and emotional information, the people who chose right- side seats did so because that would put the screen in their left visual field, optimizing information flow to the right hemisphere. Although the right hemisphere is thought to be dominant in processing emotion, some evidence suggests that the left hemisphere plays a role. The valence model proposes that the left and right hemispheres process positive and negative emotion respectively, while the approach-withdrawal model posits that the left hemisphere processes emotion expressed in approach behavior and the right hemisphere processes emotion expressed in withdrawal behavior. Victoria Harms and colleagues suggested that since a paper seating plan was used in the theater-seating studies by Karev and others, the exhibited preference might be due simply to handedness: people choose the same side of the paper as their favored hand. Consequently, the Harms research was designed to study choices in an actual movie theater. Also, hoping to distinguish between various explanations, they studied seating choices for comedies (presumed to contain Positive emotional content), dramas (presumed to contain negative emotional content), and documentaries (presumed to have balanced emotional content). They found significant--though not universal-- preference for seats on the right, facing front, regardless of movie genre and of handedness.

• Question 83:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

• Question 84:

  Which one of the following is the total number of bowls found at Site B that have no Identified artisan?

  A. 15
  B. 22
  C. 31
  D. 45
  E. 57
  E. 57

• Question 85:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (2) alone Is not sufficient
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.

• Question 86:

  The author of the passage most clearly agrees with the claim that the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

  A. transmitted some of its vocabulary to a language ancestral to Finnish
  B. split into its daughter languages no more than 5,500 years ago
  C. probably spread from Anatolia to the steppes north of the Black Sea
  D. probably originated before chariots and wagons were invented
  E. had the same word for "bee" as some of its daughter languages have
  A. transmitted some of its vocabulary to a language ancestral to Finnish

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The following is based on an article published in 2012. Most linguists believe proto-Indo- European, the ancestor of all Indo-European languages, was the language of chariot-driving pastoralists who spread through Eurasia from steppes north of the Black Sea about 4,000 years ago. But a competing theory is that proto-Indo-European was spoken by farmers in Anatolia (Asia Minor) about 9,000 years ago, and spread from there along with agriculture. To evaluate these hypotheses, researchers statistically compared IndoEuropean languages' vocabularies. Languages with more similar vocabularies are probably more closely related, sharing more recent common ancestors. Combining the vocabulary statistics with the known dates when certain languages split, and with their known geographical ranges, a computer calculated the most likely relationships among all Indo-European languages and concluded that protoIndo- European probably originated in Anatolia 9,000 years ago. Disputing this conclusion, skeptics argue that most Indo-European languages are similar in their words pertaining to chariots and wagons, suggesting protoIndo- European split into daughter languages only after chariots and wagons were invented. No archaeological evidence indicates that chariots and wagons existed before 5,500 years ago. Furthermore, proto-Indo-European had words for "horse" and "bee" and lent many words to proto-Uralic, the mother language of Finnish and Hungarian. The steppes north of the Black Sea were far closer than Anatolia to areas where proto-Uralic was spoken, and had more abundant wild horses and bees.

• Question 87:

  If n is positive integer, which of the following could be equal to (n+1)3 - (n3+1)3?

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  E. Option E
  D. Option D

• Question 88:

  Although abundant in many areas of the southern United States, the evening bat has always been uncommon to rare across the northern part of its range--most of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio--their already small populations decreasing even further during the latter part of the twentieth century.

  A. their already small populations decreasing
  B. and already low populations decreased
  C. and their already small populations decreased
  D. their already low numbers decreasing
  E. and its already low numbers decreased
  D. their already low numbers decreasing

• Question 89:

  HOTSPOT

  The table gives Information about teacher absenteeism in 21 school systems worldwide for 2012-2013. For each school system, the table gives the country where It Is located, the number of teachers It employed m 2012-2013, the average number of days those teachers were absent, and the percent of those teachers who were chronically absent (absent 18 or more days).

  

  For each of the following statements, select Yes if, based on the information provided, it can be inferred that the statement is true. Otherwise, select NO.

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• Question 90:

  

  A. 2
  B. 3
  C. 7
  D. 8
  E. 10
  C. 7