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(#M40151693) GRE QUESTION Question based on passage Keep an EYE

Questions 1 to 3 are based on this passage.
Historian F. W. Maitland observed that legal documents are the best—indeed, often the only—available evidence about the economic and social history of a given period. Why, then, has it taken so long for historians to focus systematically on the civil (noncriminal) law of early modern (sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) England? Maitland offered one reason: the subject requires researchers to “master an extremely formal system of pleading and procedure.” Yet the complexities that confront those who would study such materials are not wholly different from those recently surmounted by historians of criminal law in England during the same period. Another possible explanation for historians’ neglect of the subject is their widespread assumption that most people in early modern England had little contact with civil law. If that were so, the history of legal matters would be of little relevance to general historical scholarship. But recent research suggests that civil litigation during the period involved artisans, merchants, professionals, shopkeepers, and farmers, and not merely a narrow, propertied, male elite. Moreover, the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries saw an extraordinary explosion in civil litigation by both women and men, making this the most litigious era in English history on a per capita basis.

Question 1
The passage suggests that the history of criminal law in early modern England differs from the history of civil law during that same period in that the history of criminal law
(A) is of more intellectual interest to historians and their readers
(B) has been studied more thoroughly by historians
(C) is more relevant to general social history
(D) involves the study of a larger proportion of the population
(E) does not require the mastery of an extremely formal system of procedures

Question 2
The author of the passage mentions the occupations of those involved in civil litigation in early modern England most likely in order to
(A) suggest that most historians’ assumptions about the participants in the civil legal system during that period are probably correct
(B) support the theory that more people participated in the civil legal system than the criminal legal system in England during that period
(C) counter the claim that legal issues reveal more about a country’s ordinary citizens than about its elite
(D) illustrate the wide range of people who used the civil legal system in England during that period
(E) suggest that recent data on people who participated in early modern England’s legal system may not be correct

Question 3
The author of the passage suggests which of the following about the “widespread assumption” ( )?
(A) Because it is true, the history of civil law is of as much interest to historians focusing on general social history as to those specializing in legal history.
(B) Because it is inaccurate, the history of civil law in early modern England should enrich the general historical scholarship of that period.
(C) It is based on inaccurate data about the propertied male elite of early modern England.
(D) It does not provide a plausible explanation for historians’ failure to study the civil law of early modern England.
(E) It is based on an analogy with criminal law in early modern England.

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(#M40151690) GRE QUESTION Fit the meaning of the sentence Keep an EYE

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The slower-learning monkeys searched …………….. but unintelligently: although they worked closely together, they checked only the most obvious hiding places.
(A) competitively
(B) impulsively
(C) cooperatively
(D) deviously
(E) craftily
(F) harmoniously

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By about age eight, children’s phonetic capacities are fully developed but still …………………; thus children at that age can learn to speak a new language with a native speaker’s accent.
(A) plastic
(B) vestigial
(C) inarticulate
(D) unformed
(E) nascent
(F) malleable

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This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters: her films are known for their aesthetic qualities rather than for their ……………… ones.
(A) polemical
(B) cinematic
(C) narrative
(D) commercial
(E) dramatic

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James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great modern biographer; yet the claim of …………………. could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage.
(A) partisanship
(B) omniscience
(C) precedence
(D) opportunism
(E) perseverance

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Critics charge that the regulatory agency, having never defined what constitutes an untenable risk, has grown (i)…………….. outside influences on that issue: several experts have (ii)…………… it recently for allowing one power plant to delay an inspection for more than six weeks despite compelling safety concerns.
Blank (i)
(A) susceptible to
(B) unaware of
(C) irritated at
Blank (ii)
(D) complimented
(E) panned
(F) overlooked

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Television promotes (i)………… of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes, of different and (ii)……….. feelings.
Blank (i)
(A) a withdrawal
(B) an obscuring
(C) a discontinuity
Blank (ii)
(D) incompatible
(E) sympathetic
(F) interminable

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Because we assume the (i)………….. of natural design, nature can often (ii)………….. us: as the Wright brothers noted, the birds initially misled them in almost every particular, but their Flyer eventually succeeded by being the least avian of the early flying machines.
Blank (i)
(A) quirkiness
(B) preeminence
(C) maladroitness
Blank (ii)
(D) galvanize
(E) befriend
(F) beguile

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Colleagues describe Padgett as both forthright and reticent, humble and (i)…………. , good-natured and (ii)…………… . And in her behavior as a businesswoman, Padgett herself does little to (iii)……………… these contradictions. She says she is proemployee but is avowedly antiunion. She calls herself procustomer but acknowledges that she runs a store with higher profit margins and prices than almost any other grocer.
Blank (i)
(A) diffident
(B) eccentric
(C) arrogant
Blank (ii)
(D) prickly
E) solicitous
(F) phlegmatic
Blank (iii)
(G) dispel
(H) fulfill I accentuate

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Historical research makes two somewhat antithetical truths that sounded (i)…………. come to seem profound: knowledge of the past comes entirely from written documents, giving written words great (ii)…………. , and the more material you uncover, the more (iii)…….. your subject becomes.
Blank (i)
(A) deep
(B) portentous
(C) banal
Blank (ii)
(D) consequence
(E) antiquity
(F) simultaneity
Blank (iii)
(G) elusive
(H) contemporary
(I) circumstantial

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