... multiple-choice questions about each passage Each question will have five answer choices; you must choose the best answer Types of Passages The reading comprehension passages onthe GMAT exam are usually ... Questions The GMAT Verbal section has essentially four types of reading comprehension questions: ■ ■ ■ Basic comprehension questions test your ability to understand the words and ideas expressed in the ... comprehension questions Analysis questions test your ability to see the structure of a passage and the relationship between the ideas in the passage You may be asked to identify the main idea, to distinguish...
... standards for items covered by federal WEQ standards or establish local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The ... lawsuits against polluters.135 This is unlike the United States, where persons or environmental groups can demonstrate standing to bring a lawsuit by showing harm to their interests in recreation ... technological conditions, the State Council shall establish national standards for discharge of water pollution.81 These concentration standards are somewhat of a “hybrid of technology-based and water...
... Physical Exposures 19 and asbestos, which cause pneumoconiosis In addition to causing pneumoconioses, silica and asbestos are known as carcinogens, inducing lung cancer and mesothelioma Asbestos ... made new suggestions on how to address the risks faced by miners, those working with metals, and those exposed to dusts and vapors Prevention has also long been prescribed Pliny the Elder is known ... exposed to asbestos in the United States (Steenland and Stayner, 1997) By 1997, dust-related lung diseases, including silicosis, asbestosis, and coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, accounted for only...
... PARTICULAR INDUSTRY 1st 2nd 3rd Nursing Medical Assisting Services Medical Technologies Technicians Special Needs Education Construction Services Treatment Therapy Professions Elementary Education Nuclear, ... Other Service = OS Professional Services = PROF Public Administration = PUB Real Estate = RE Retail Trade = RETL Sales = SALES Social Science = SS Transportation = TRAN Utilities = UTIL Wholesale ... STUDIES STATISTICS AND DECISION SCIENCE • Table of Major Groups COMPOSITION & SPEECH INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING 31 • Comparison Across Major Groups Comparison Across Major Groups 32...
... Point Theory and Applications The special issue contains 38 papers accepted Most of the papers touched on all applications of Kirk s fixed point theorem Mohamed A Khamsi Tomas Dominguez-Benavides...
... the first class or to the second, and it is respectively the greatest of the first or the least of the second class In each case the separation of the system R into the two classes A1 , A2 is such ... that either among the numbers of the first class there exists a greatest or among the numbers of the second class a least number And conversely, if a cut possesses this property, then it is produced ... element t of the system T there corresponds the same transform φ(t), which t possesses as element of S; at the same time the system consisting of all transforms φ(t) shall be called the transform of...
... example This question asks you to determine which assumption the conclusion is not based upon: Morning Glory, the coffee shop onthe corner, has lost nearly 50% of its business because a national retail ... existing premise and conclusion together What must be true (assumed) in order for the conclusion to be true? This missing premise is a necessary transition or bridge between the premise and conclusion, ... wrong.] [Therefore, she should be punished.] Here is another example Notice how the unstated premise links the premise to the conclusion in the second version: I promised to clean the garage on...
... treasurer s argument? a The treasurer belongs to the same political party as Carson b The treasurer has known Carson for less than one year c The treasurer once lost an election against Carson ... is a strong inclination or preference for one person, position, or point of view over others As discussed earlier, surveys can be loaded so that the answers will favor particular responses; similarly, ... its conclusion and premise Argument is much stronger because it uses the word most to qualify its conclusion and premise But it is still telling you to disbelieve most of what politicians say,...
... Don’t Get Personal Remember that onthe GMAT exam, you must assess arguments and answer questions based only onthe information presented onthe test For the moment, forget what you might ... about the topic or issue Base your answer only onthe argument and evidence in front of you The best reason to reject this argument is the one that shows us this is an apples-to-oranges comparison ... concern of the opponents, but is it their only, or even their main, concern? Is that the real reason why they don’t support it? Chances are their position stems from a number of issues of which...
... possible common cause The correct answer is b: The argument reverses cause and effect Successful business people can afford expensive cars because they are successful; the success comes first, then ... is a it assumes all successful business people drive expensive cars b it reverses cause and effect c it is not a testable explanation d it ignores the possibility of coincidence e it ignores ... extra-sensory perception (ESP) exists, tests remain inconclusive And how could you test whether or not this was true? If you test him for ESP and he fails, he could claim that he only uses his ESP...
... the raise; the raise receives the action of being given.) The student / asked the professor a question (The professor receives the question; the question receives the action of being asked.) Rule ... modify Use parallel structure for any series of actions or items or the not only/but also construction Make sure verbs agree in number with their subjects Keep verb tenses consistent Use the correct ... expression It consists of two essential parts—a subject and a predicate—and it must express a complete thought The subject of a sentence tells the reader who or whatthe sentence is about—who or what...
... make the mistake of thinking that pronouns use apostrophes for possession, too But possessive pronouns not take apostrophes When a pronoun has an apostrophe, it always shows contraction POSSESSIVE ... functioning as a subject or object in the sentence 121 – SENTENCE CORRECTION – P OSSESSIVE P RONOUNS The possessive pronouns its, your, their, and whose are often confused with the contractions it s ... #9: Use apostrophes with pronouns to show contraction only Pronouns not need apostrophes to show possession The pronouns who, that, and which are also often confused The following lists the general...
... idiom P REPOSITIONAL I DIOMS Prepositional idioms are the specific word/preposition combinations that English speakers use, such as take care of and according to Unless English is your second language, ... to see through the slack The correct answer is c, which correctly uses the idiom pick up the slack, meaning to someone else s work, or fill in All of the other versions use incorrect forms of the ... modifiers For longer words, use more/most or less/least before the modifier D OUBLE C OMPARISONS AND D OUBLE N EGATIVES Be sure to avoid double comparisons Don’t use both -er/-est and more/less or most/least...
... away—so the whole second half of the sentence repeats unnecessarily Similarly, “freedom” and “liberties” are essentially the same thing, so only one of those words is necessary Here is the revised ... (6 words) 129 – SENTENCE CORRECTION – ■ There is, it is The there is and it is constructions avoid directly approaching the subject and use unnecessary words in the process Instead, use a clear ... will use the active voice as much as possible In an active sentence, the subject directly performs the action: James filed the papers yesterday Jin Lee sang the song beautifully In a passive sentence,...
... examples: ■ ■ The location was deemed suitable by the commission (Here, the passive voice emphasizes the action of the commission rather than the commission itself.) He was fired (The passive voice ... second layer, the cytoplasm, contains water, salt, enzymes, and proteins as well as organelles like mitochondria This revised version combines sentences and uses introduction phrases and appositives ... passages are only one sentence long, issues of variety in sentence structure may come into play as you consider the various versions of the sentence Sentence variety means that a text uses a combination...
... inequalities, is not simple, but was proved seventy years ago [1] The proof of the “only if” part in Theorem(2.3) is not difficult and short G .S Shephard first considers the case of positive coefficients, ... reading of the original version of this paper Their corrections and suggestions are reflected in the current version I would like to thank the U .S DOE for financial support through Los Alamos National ... The (relatively simple) fact that the convolution of logconcave sequences is also logconcave was proved in [3] in 1949 We present in this paper a short proof of Theorem(1.1) The Minkowski sum...
... vertices in total, so he controls no more than m(ds + msds−1 ) + (d + − m)(msds−1 ) ≤ 3msds escaping paths Since there are c cops in the game, the cops control at most 3msds c escaping paths By controlling ... controls at most 3msds escaping paths Proof We first prove that every vertex v is on at most ds + msds−1 escaping paths, and if v ∈ X, then v is on at most msds−1 escaping paths Let u1 u2 u3 us+1 ... nontrivial linear combination of them has almost the same number of zeros and ones (see [9]) (ii) This is clear as |S| = d (iii) This follows from the fact that each member of S has as its first...
... To assess the satisfaction of statisticians onthe quality of statistics dissemination onthe website of the General Statistics Office, the thesis consists of five chapters and is presented as ... role of statisticians as the customers using the service The research will assess the level of satisfaction of statisticians on GSO s services Results of the research will enable GSO to further ... dissemination onthe GSO 's website" is really essential in theory and practice Research Purposes and objectives 3.1 The question of the thesis To assess the level of satisfaction of the statistics and services...
... interrelations amongst the variables Multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses of this study In each set of multiple regressions, the dependent variables were regressed against the independent ... members in Vingroup questionnaires distributed By correlations and regression analysis measures using SPSS software, to determine there are significant relationships between the variables With the ... analysis using Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) First, this is followed by the examination and presentation of demographic profile of respondents using Descriptive Statistic...