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The author of the passage mentions the British government's shares in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company most probably in order toA.demonstrate the British enterprise in Iran was controlled by the British governmentB.contrast British-run businesses in Iran with Iranian-run businesses in IranC.show how joint British and Iranian enterprises were encouraged by the British governmentD.illustrate a point about the financial difficulties faced by British businesses in AsiaE.suggest a reason for Iranians' perception of the role British government played in British business题型判断
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In the 1930's and 1940's, African American industrial workers in the southern United States, who constituted 80 percent of the unskilled factory labor force there, strongly supported unionization. While the American Federation of Labor (AFL) either excluded African Americans or maintained racially segregated unions, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) organized integrated unions nationwide on the basis of a stated policy of equal rights for all, and African American unionists provided the CIO's backbone. Yet it can be argued that through contracts negotiated and enforced by White union members, unions—CIO unions not excluded—were often instrumental in maintaining the occupational segregation and other forms of racial discrimination that kept African Americans socially and economically oppressed during this period. However, recognizing employers' power over workers as a central factor in African Americans' economic marginalization, African American workers saw the need to join with White workers in seeking change despite White unionists' toleration of or support for racial discrimination. The persistent efforts of African American unionists eventually paid off: many became highly effective organizers, gaining the respect of even racist White unionists by winning victories for White as well as African American workers. African American unionists thus succeeded in strengthening the unions while using them as instruments of African Americans' economic empowerment.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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According to the passage, which of the following was true of many racist White unionists during the period discussed in the passage?
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PREP07 Test 1 PREP08 Test 1
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The passage suggests that which of the following would best explain why, in a developing country, some firms that have raised their productivity continue to pay low wages?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The author of the passage implies which of the following about the poetry mentioned in the first paragraph?
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According to the passage, which of the following is true about the idea mentioned in highlight text?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in one of every six civil cases, the vast majority of which were debt-related. Women's participation dropped to one in ten cases after 1719, and to one in twenty by the 1770's. However, as Cornelia Hughes Dayton notes in Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789, these statistics are somewhat deceptive: in fact, both the absolute numbers and the percentage of adult women participating in civil cases grew steadily throughout the eighteenth century, but the legal activity of men also increased dramatically, and at a much faster rate. Single, married, and widowed women continued to pursue their own and their husbands' debtors through legal action much as they had done in the previous century, but despite this continuity, their place in the legal system shifted dramatically. Men's commercial interests and credit networks became increasingly far-flung, owing in part to the ability of creditors to buy and sell promissory notes (legal promises to pay debts). At the same time, women's networks of credit and debt remained primarily local and personal. Dayton contends that, although still performing crucial economic services in their communities—services that contributed to the commercialization of the colonial economy—women remained for the most part outside the new economic and legal culture of the eighteenth century.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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GWD PREP2012
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The passage suggests which of the following about urbanization in Switzerland and the United States by 1920?
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By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile. While most of the Incas were self-sufficient agriculturists, the inhabitants of the highland basins above 9,000 feet were constrained by the kinds of crops they could cultivate. Whereas 95 percent of the principal Andean food crops can be cultivated below 3,000 feet, only 20 percent reproduce readily above 9,000 feet. Given this unequal resource distribution, highland Incas needed access to the products of lower, warmer climatic zones in order to enlarge the variety and quantity of their foodstuffs. [hl:1]In most of the preindustrial world, the problem of different resource distribution was resolved by long-distance trade networks over which the end consumer exercised little control.[/hl:1] Although the peoples of the Andean highlands participated in such networks, they relied primarily on the maintenance of autonomous production forces in as many ecological zones as possible. The commodities produced in these zones were extracted, processed, and transported entirely by members of a single group.This strategy of direct access to a maximum number of ecological zones by a single group is called vertical economy. Even today, one can see Andean communities maintaining use rights simultaneously to pasturelands above 12,000 feet, to potato fields in basins over 9,000 feet, and to plots of warm-land crops in regions below 6,000 feet. This strategy has two principal variations. The first is “compressed verticality,” in which a single village resides in a location that permits easy access to closely located ecological zones. Different crop zones or pasturelands are located within a few days walk of the parent community. Community members may reside temporarily in one of the lower zones to manage the extraction of products unavailable in the homeland. In the second variation, called the “vertical archipelago,” the village exploits resources in widely dispersed locations, constituting a series of independent production “islands.” In certain pre-Columbian Inca societies, groups were sent from the home territory to establish permanent satellite communities or colonies in distant tropical forests or coastal locations. There the colonists grew crops and extracted products for their own use and for transshipment back to their high-altitude compatriots. In contrast to the compressed verticality system, in this system, commodities rather than people circulated through the archipelago."
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The passage suggests that as a way of addressing the problem of different resource distribution in the preindustrial world, the practice of vertical economy differed from the use of long-distance trade networks in that vertical economy allowed
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PREP07 Test 1
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To furnish a room in a model home, an interior decorator is to select 2 chairs and 2 tables from a collection of chairs and tables in a warehouse that are all different from each other. If there are 5 chairs in the warehouse and if 150 different combinations are possible,how many tables are in the warehouse?
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PREP07 Test 1
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The perimeter of a certain isosceles right triangle is 16+16$$\sqrt{2}$$. What is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle?
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PREP07 Test 1
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Committee X has 4 members, committee Y has 5 members, and these committees have no members in common. If a task force is to be formed consisting of one member of X and one member of Y, how many different task forces are possible?
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PREP07 Test 1
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If n and y are positive integers and 450y = $${n}^{3}$$, which of the following must be an integer?I.$$\frac{y}{{3}*{2}^{2}*{5}}$$II.$$\frac{y}{{3}^{2}*{2}*{5}}$$III.$$\frac{y}{{3}*{2}*{5}^{2}}$$
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PREP07 Test 1
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The architects of a certain type of building estimate construction costs to be $2.0 million per floor for each of the first 5 floors, $2.5 million per floor for each of the next 3 floors, and $3.5 million per floor for any additional floors. What would the architects estimate the construction costs to be for a building of this type with 10 floors?
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PREP07 Test 1
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Julia purchased a car on an installment plan. She made a down payment of $2,550 and then made n monthly payments of $155 each. If Julia paid a total of $9,060 for the car,how many monthly payments did she make?
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