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The first coins to appear in the Western world were issued by the Lydians and the Ionian Greeks in the eighth century B.C. These coins, which were made of electrum, a natural combination of gold and silver, were irregular in weight and quality and apparently of private issue. The pure gold and silver coins with related values which appeared during the reign of Croesus (560-546 B.C) provide the first undoubted evidence of standard coinage by state authority. The coins were not perfectly shaped, however, for they were struck with a hand-wielded hammer. The trend toward complete mathematical symmetry did not, in fact, begin until the coining press, invented by Leonardo da Vinci in the sixteenth century, was generally adopted in the middle of the seventeenth century.One should not assume, however, that only machine-made coins are prized for their workmanship. The silver dekadrachm from Syracuse, struck about 413 B.C., is considered one of the finest Greek coins and is worth more than a thousand dollars today. An artistic masterpiece of a much later period is the silver taler minted in Ratisbon, southern Germany, in 1754.The value of a coin is not primarily determined by its age, as many people seem to think. Many Greek and Roman coins that were issued in abundance can be purchased for a moderate price. On the other hand, a German coin made of shrapnel during the First World War is very rare and valuable. Among the especially rare United States coins are the 1804 silver dollar, the 1822 five-dollar gold piece, and the 1894 silver dime.46. Which of the following statements may NOT be right about the coins made in Lydia during the reign of Croesus?47. The authority specifically mentions all of the following specific features of the Syracusedekadrachm EXCEPT its ______.48. The author makes it clear that the Syracusan dekadrachm and the German taler mentioned in the passage are ______.49. Leonardo de Vinci is mentioned in the passage in connection with ______.50. The author makes it clear that coins made by machine are ______.

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In most countries, the law on organ transplantation is poorly defined, as legislation has not yet been created to cope with this advance in surgery. The existing framework relating to physical assault and care of the dead has no provision for organ transplantation. It is customary to ask the permission of the relatives, but because organ removal must take place immediately after death, it may be impossible to reach the relatives in time. It has been suggested that there should be a widespread campaign to encourage persons to provide in their wills that their organs be used for transplantation. An alternative is to provide by law that permission is assumed unless removal has been forbidden by the individual in his lifetime. Such laws have been passed in Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, and Israel. Compulsory postmortem examination, a far more extensive procedure than organ removal for grafting, is required in most countries after unexpected death, and this compulsion is not a matter of public concern and debate.There would seem to be no reason why organ removal for transplantation purposes should not also be acceptable to public opinion, provided there is a mechanism by which individuals in their lifetime can refuse this permission. This, of course, requires an efficient register of those who indicate their refusal; the register would be consulted before any organs would be removed. It is important that there be public reassurance that consideration of transplantation would not impair normal resuscitative efforts of the potential donor.Transplantation has obviously raised important ethical considerations concerning the diagnosis of death, and particularly, how far resuscitation should be continued. Every effort must be made to restore the heartbeat to someone who has had a sudden cardiac arrest or breathing to someone who cannot breathe. Artificial respiration and massage of the heart, the standard methods of resuscitation, are continued until it is clear that the brain is dead. Most physicians consider that beyond this point efforts at resuscitation are useless.41. According to the author, which of the following is NOT true?42. Which of the following is NOT a suggestion made in the passage?43. The word “impair” at the end of Paragraph 2 can be best replaced by ______.44. It is believed that efforts at resuscitation are useless when ______.45. Which of the following sentences can best sum up the passage?

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Fifty volunteers were alphabetically divided into two equal groups, Group A to participate in a 7 week exercise program, and Group B to avoid deliberate exercise of any sort during those 7 weeks. On the day before the exercise program began, all 50 men participated in a step-test. This consisted of stepping up and down on a 16-inch bench at 30 steps a minute for 5 minutes. One minute after completion of the step-test, the pulse rate of each subject was taken and recorded. This served as the protest for the experiment. For the next 7 weeks, subjects in the experiment group (Group A) rode an exercycle (a motor-driven bicycle-type exercise machine) for 15 minutes each day. The exercise schedule called for riders to ride relaxed during the first day’s ride, merely holding on to the handle bars and foot pedals as the machine moved. Then, for the next 3 days, they rode relaxed for 50 seconds of each minute, and pushed, pulled, and pedaled actively for 10 seconds of each minute. The ratio of active riding was increased every few days, so that by the third week it was half of each minute, and by the seventh week the riders were performing 15 solid minutes of active riding.At the end of the 7 weeks, the step-test was again given to both groups of subjects, and their pulses taken. The post-exercise pulse rates of subjects in the experimental group were found to have decreased an average of 30 heart beats per minute, with the lowest decrease 28 and the highest decrease 46. The pulse rates of subjects in the control group remained the same or changed no more than 4 beats, with an average difference between the initial and final tests of zero.36. The step-test was given ______.37. When were pulse rates taken?38. The exercise schedule was planned so that the amount of active riding ______.39. What did Group A do in their program?40. The post-exercise pulse rates of Group B were found on the average to have ______.

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Between about 1910 and 1930, new artistic movements in European art were making themselves felt in the United States. American artists became acquainted with the new art on their trips to Paris and at the exhibitions in the famous New York gallery “291” (named after its address on the Fifth Avenue) of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. But the most important in the spread of the modern movements in the United States was the sensational Armory Show of 1913 held in New York, in which the works of many of the leading European artists were seen along with the works of a number of progressive American painters.Several of the American modernists who were influenced by the Armory Show found the urban landscape, especially New York, an appealing subject. Compared with the works of the realist painters, the works of American modernists were much further removed from the actual appearance of the city. They were more interested in the “feel” of the city, more concerned with the meaning behind appearance. However, both the painters of the “Ash Can School” and the later realists were still tied to nineteenth century or earlier styles, while the early modernists shared in the international breakthroughs of the art of the twentieth century.The greatest of these breakthroughs was Cubism, developed most fully in France between 1907 and 1914, which brought about a major revolution since the Renaissance. In Cubism natural forms were broken down analytically into geometric shapes. No longer was a clear differentiation made between the figure and the background of a painting. The objects represented and the surface on which they were painted became one. The Cubists abandoned the conventional single vantage point of the viewer, and objects depicted from multiple viewpoints were shown at the same time.31. With what topic is the passage primarily concerned?32. Which of the following is not mentioned as a means through which American artists learned about new movements?33. Why does the author mention Alfred Stieglitz?34. According to the passage, which of the following was a major new movement in the twentieth-century art?35. According to the author, which of the following was a favorite subject for American modernists?

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It you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or failure, in you work would depend, to 21 great extent, on your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. 22 the utmost importance is your attitude. A person who begins a job convinced that he isn’t going to like it or is 23 that he is going to all ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure in his belief that he is probably as capable of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 24 it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. 25 the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can’t add, or a carpenter who can’t cut a straight line with a saw 26 hopeless cases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize 27 the strength and overcome the weakness that you bring to the job of learning. But in groups to measure your development, you must first 28 stock of somewhere your stand now. As we get further along m the book, we’ll be 29 with, specific processes for developing and strengthening learning skills. However, to begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failure in school; your 30, your reading and communication skills, and, your study habits.

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