[单项选择]According to the passage, Anderson's theory explains the longevity of British colonial authority in India because the British
A. (A) offered great flexibility and authority to the local elites with whom they were obliged to negotiate
B. (B) felt a great temptation to act unilaterally and exercise military authority of their Indian possessions
C. (C) became more deeply enmeshed in the politics of the Indian subcontinent than was strategically appropriate
D. (D) managed to convince the local elites that submission to the British would be economically advantageous for all parties
E. (E) resisted successfully the attempts of local power brokers to revise the terms of their negotiations

[单项选择]According to the passage, Anderson's theory explains the longevity of British colonial authority in India because the British
A. (A) offered great flexibility and authority to the local elites with whom they were obliged to negotiate
B. (B) felt a great temptation to act unilaterally and exercise military authority of their Indian possessions
C. (C) became more deeply enmeshed in the politics of the Indian subcontinent than was strategically appropriate
D. (D) managed to convince the local elites that submission to the British would be economically advantageous for all parties
E. (E) resisted successfully the attempts of local power brokers to revise the terms of their negotiations

[单项选择]According to the passage, scientists cannot explain which of the following aspects of squirrel behavior
A. Where squirrels store their acorn caches
B. Why squirrels prefer acorns over other seeds
C. Why squirrels eat only a portion of each acorn they retrieve
D. Why squirrels prefer acorns from a particular species of oak trees

[单项选择]According to the passage, Julian Huxley's theory suggests that______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, Pfaffman's theory differs from that which has been most recently considered by scientists in that it
A. (A) postulates that peripheral neurons do not respond to a greater extent to stimuli representing a single taste quality
B. (B) ignores the crucial difference between central and peripheral gustatory neurons in their role as mechanisms of taste
C. (C) implies that the activity of any individual taste cell, taken by itself, is ambiguous
D. (D) fails to acknowledge that specific gustatory neurons are associated with particular tastes
E. (E) relies primarily upon research data that has come from human, rather than animal, subjects

[单项选择]According to the passage, Ware's theory of the role of weather in the Anasazi evacuation differs from the position traditionally held by anthropologists in which of the following ways
A. (A) Ware relies upon a different body of evidence than previous anthropologist have, but reaches the same conclusions.
B. (B) Ware ascribes a less dominant role to weather than had been traditionally posited by anthropologists.
C. (C) Ware ascribes a more dominant role to weather than had been traditionally posited by anthropologists.
D. (D) Ware believes weather played a role in the evacuation, but not the one traditionally cited.
E. (E) Ware believes that another factor besides weather was responsible for the Great Drought.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that Quine's theory differs from that of linguistic expressivism in that Quine's theory does NOT
A. (A) emphasize the importance of so-called "constitutive activities"
B. (B) reject the notion that labor is the primary source of the category of meaning
C. (C) question that the products of labor are intelligible prior to the acquisition of language
D. (D) encourage the claim that outsiders, including researchers and laymen, can understand foreign cultures
E. (E) embrace certain basic premises of dialectical materialism

[单项选择]According to the passage, the General Theory describes gravity as a function of______.


A. time
B. mass
C. curvature
D. unknown forces

[单项选择]According to the passage, the corpuscular theory of light ______.
A. was never accepted by the Royal Society
B. was finally accepted by Hooke and Huygens
C. was the most popular during the eighteenth century
D. was rejected by Hooke and Huygens but accepted for the next hundred yeas

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that culture shock may be overcome by ______.
A. adjustment to its phases
B. learning the language of the culture
C. social intercourse
D. broad-mindedness and good will

[单项选择]The level of information in the passage above is suited to the needs of all of the following people except ______.
A. an official of a research foundation who identifies research projects for potential funding
B. a state official whose position requires her to alert farmers about possible innovations in farming
C. a researcher whose job is to identify potentially profitable areas for research and product development
D. a botanist Conducting experiments to determine the relationship between degree of mycorrhizal infection and expected uptake of phosphate

[单项选择]As is indicated in the passage, game theory ______.
A. is a tentative finding
B. is not appropriately used
C. can be applied in service industries
D. is not originally meant for studies of shifting international alliances