Manhattan Prep - 5 Lb. Book of Gre Practice Problems 1,800 Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep 5 lb Series (2019 Edition))-Manhattan Prep (2019)
“The specific wavelength absorbed by a given chromophore is determined by the discrete quantal amounts of energy that are required to excite electrons between the energy levels or its molecules.” In order to
select a chromophore for a particular sunscreen, you would need to know
which light waves the sunscreen needs to block and which chromophore
would block those waves. This sentence identifies which feature of a
chromophore determines which light waves it absorbs. The next sentence in
the passage might seem like a good match, but it only specifies how to select
a chromophore that would absorb UVB radiation, not UVA radiation.
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3rd only. The first statement is not true because the author points out in
the first paragraph that “[for] all we know, the story may have been
‘Christianized’ in its oral form long before the poet set it into writing.” The
second statement is incorrect because the leap from “the story of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight has its foundation in Arthurian legend” to “Sir Gawain
was a knight in King Arthur’s court” is too large to make. The third statement
is true, and a good match for the final sentence of the first paragraph, which
posits that the tale may be “a pagan interpretation of Christian ideals” or “an
externally imposed Christianization of pagan codes of behavior.”
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(E). Choices (C) and (D) are directly contradicted by the passage.
Nothing suggests that the religious outlook of the interpreter influenced the
interpretation of the story, so choice (A) is also wrong. Choice (B) is too
strong: the passage only states that, according to its interpretation of the story,
Gawain’s motives are not Christian. But this doesn’t show that they could not
be. Choice (E), on the other hand, follows directly from the claim that while
Gawain’s actions and words are Christian, his motives are not.
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(B). The theory in the final sentence is that the poet associates Gawain
with a pagan symbol and then portrays his “Christian” virtues as superficial in
order to criticize the pagan interpretation of Christianity. Choice (B), if true,
would show that the poet was, at very least, inconsistent in this message (or,
possibly, the part about Gawain being superficial in his virtues is really just
about Gawain). Choice (A) is true and described in the passage, so it would
not “undermine” the theory. Choices (C), (D), and (E) do not address the
interplay between paganism and Christianity and thus have no bearing on the
theory.
151.