- Many of us scowl at coworkers who refuse to break, for our convenience, some rule of the firm. We may even complain to them vociferously, but we are wasting our efforts, for they are not empowered to change any regulations. If we really believe that the rule should be altered, we can act most effectively by taking our complaints to an executive of the firm who
Your answer:
is authorized to change the rule
is used to complaints
will fire the minor employee
heartily dislikes the rule
- The ancient Greeks supposed that the northern part of the earth was inhabited by a happy people called the Hyperboreans. These people were never subjected to disease, old age, warfare, or work. Indeed, they dwelt in their land with everlasting
Your answer:
warmth
contentment
misery
cold
- Whenever power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death. Its moral brake becomes slacker every day without its knowing it, and its slippery path of ease
Your answer:
becomes its road to success
leads to a high moral order
becomes its path of doom
leads to an ultimate triumph
- The United States Constitution orginally provided that the representatives to the House be elected directly by the people and that the representatives to the Senate be elected by their state legislatures. As a result, senators generally represented their state governments rather than the people. But after the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, which provided that senators be elected by direct popular vote, the members of both houses of Congress have represented the
Your answer:
people
state governments
amendments
Constitution
- In many respects, the literature of the Romantic period is a direct reaction to the literature of the Augustan period that preceded it. Whereas the poetry of the Augustans was classical and regular, Romantic poets often wrote experimental and erratic verse. While the Augustans eschewed excess in any form, the Romantics revelled in extremes. Augustan respect for polished and refined skill was replaced by Romantic emphasis on individual creative impulse and inspiration. Indeed, the relationship between the Augustans and Romantics might meaningfully be described as one of
Your answer:
purpose
influence
contrast
similarity
- In the democracy of the dead, all are at last equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the
Your answer:
living
old
grave
sick
- The author of the editorial is thoroughly pessimistic because no one seems to be really concerned that the government is spending huge amounts of money to send tanks, planes, and weapons to several small nations, trusting that, if war comes, these nations will
Your answer:
stay out of it
evacuate their cities
pay for them when they can
aim them in the right direction
- With the development of modern methods of transport and communication, the rural areas and even many of the previously inaccessible areas of the world have become less
Your answer:
isolated
necessary
valuable
developed
- To be successful at sales, a person must have a lawyer's clear expression, a minister's sincerity, a teacher's power of explanation, a parent's understanding, and a senator's diplomacy. True ability at selling is, in a manner of speaking, a combination of
Your answer:
quality products
good explanations
mass production
many abilities
- John Keats, the great English poet, lived only to express the beauty of the world through his writings. After seven years of studying surgery, he decided that his true calling was elsewhere. He said, "I find I cannot exist without
Your answer:
medicine."
friends."
money."
poetry."