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The "cold fusion" phenomenon may be attributed to experimental errors mistakenly indicating an excess production of energy. Those theories explaining cold fusion require revisions in existing theories, and scientific skepticism Line requires that unless the experimental evidence justifies belief in these miracles,one must conclude that experimental errors are being misinterpreted as positive proof of cold fusion’s possibility. One would expect half of all careful energy-balance measurements in cold fusion experiments to indicate excess energy, and about half to show an energy deficit, because experimental error spreads the results around the expected outcome. The recent preponderance of results showing excess energy might indicate something new, but if one is deliberately searching for excess energy, then one may be able to "optimize" a complicated system to yield large amounts of apparent excess energy by fooling the measurement apparatus somehow. Whether a given excess-heat result represents a physical "miracle" or an experimental error is very difficult to determine if the amount of excess heat is small or if the fraction of excess power to total input power is simply too low. According to the passage, the major reason that the evidence for the cold fusion phenomenon is suspect is()

A. no existing theory can explain the evidence produced by cold fusion experiments
B. the excess production of energy associated with certain cold fusion experiments owe primarily to experimental error
C. too many energy-balance measurements have indicated excess energy, instead of evenly distributed experimental error
D. the total input power in cold fusion experiments has been too low to draw solid conclusions about the fraction of excess power
E. scientists too often regard these experiments as proof of "miracles"

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When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we______the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, ______ , a demigod walking the earth.()

A. hymned … a nonpareil
B. exasperated … a dabbler
C. inveighed … a genius
D. lauded … an obscurantist
E. apostatized … a commoner

It has been argued that art does not reproduce the visible-it makes things visible-but this does not go far enough. In fact, visual art explores and reveals the brain’s perceptual capabilities and the laws governing it, among which two Line stand supreme: law of constancy and law of abstraction. According to the law of constancy, the visual brain’s function is to seek knowledge of the constant properties of objects and surfaces: the distance, the viewing point, and the illumination conditions change continually, yet the brain is able to discard these changes in categorizing an object. It was an unacknowledged attempt to mimic the perceptual abilities of the brain that led the founders of Cubism, Picasso and Braque, to alter the point of view, the distance and the lighting conditions in their early, analytic period.The second law is that of abstraction, the process in which the particular is subordinated to the general, so that the representation is applicable to many particulars. This second law has strong affinities with the first, because without it, the brain would be enslaved to the particular; the capacity to abstract is also probably imposed on the brain by the limitations of its memory system, because it eliminates the need to recall every detail. Art, too, abstracts and thus externalizes the inner workings of the brain, so that its primordial function is areflection of the function of the brain.Through a process that has yet to be physiologically charted, cells in the brain seem to be able to recognize objects in a view-invariant manner after brief exposure to several distinct views synthesized by them. The artist, too, formsabstractions, through a process that may share similarities with the physiological processes now being unraveled but certainly goes beyond them, in that the abstract idea itself mutates with the artist’s development. But abstraction, a key feature of an efficient knowledge-acquiring system, also exacts a heavy price on the individual, for which art may be a refuge and the abstract "ideal" can lead to a deep discontent, because the daily experience is that of particulars. Michelangelo left three-fifths of his sculptures unfinished, but he had not abandoned them in haste: he often worked on them for years,because time and again the sublimity of his ideas lay beyond the reach of his hands, impressing on him the hopelessness of translating into a single work or a series of sculptures the synthetic ideals formed in his brain. Critics have written in emotional and lyrical terms about these unfinished works, perhaps because, being unfinished, the spectator can finish them and thus satisfy the ideals of his or her brain. This is only qualitatively different from finished works with the inestimable quality of ambiguity-a characteristic of all great art-that allows the brain of the viewer to interpret the work in a number of ways, all of them equally valid. According to the passage, Michelangelo was unable to finish three-fifths of his artworks for which of the following reasons()

A. He possessed a deep sense of ambiguity toward his own ideas that caused him to lose confidence in them.
B. He displayed a tendency to work quickly on one project and then abandon it in haste for another.
C. He generally felt a dissatisfaction with the ideals that served as the model for his art works.
D. He frequently felt unable to express his general ideals through a particular art work.
E. A heavy price was exacted upon him as an artist by the process of continual abstraction.

Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news. About ______ of foreign-owned companies avoided federal taxes altogether.

A. 60 percent
B. 10 percent
C. 70 percent
D. 50 percent

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