After leaving the Pentagon, MacTaggart could have profited from his connections with defense contractors, but he refused to do so.
After leaving the Pentagon, MacTaggart could have profited from his connections with defense contractors, but he refused to do so.
B. MacTaggart could have profited from his connections with defense contractors after leaving the Pentagon, but he refused to do it.
C. MacTaggart could have profited after leaving the Pentagon from his connections with defense contractors, but he refused to do so.
D. Having left the Pentagon, MacTaggart could have used his connections with defense contractors to profit, but he refused to do it.
E. Refusing to profit from his connections with defense contractors, MacTaggart could have done so after leaving the Pentagon.
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No giant squid has ever survived in captivity because these giant animals of the deeps require extremely high water pressure for the purpose of maintaining its internal osmotic balance.
A. deeps require extremely high water pressure for the purpose of maintaining its
B. deep requires extremely high water pressure to maintain its
C. deep require extremely high water pressure in order to maintain their
D. deeps requires extremely high water pressure so that it can maintain its
E. deep require for maintenance extremely high water pressure for their
The cypress trees of the Louisiana wetlands are threatened by the exploding population of
A. Past attempts to control the nutria population through traps and poison have resulted in limited and temporary population reductions.
B. A program in Florida found that the best way to conserve the root systems of wetland trees such as cypresses is to surround the trees' roots with tough plastic barriers.
C. The jaguar is a large and deadly predator that, if introduced, could kill livestock, pets, or even humans that it encounters in the Louisiana wetlands.
During the past year an unusually cold winter killed an estimated 35 percent of the nutria population in the Louisiana wetlands.
E. The South American jaguar is a predator of the ferret, which is currently the chief predator of the nutria in the Louisiana wetlands.
The author's tone can best be described as which of the following?
Angry and subjective
B. Calm and objective
C. Analytic and ambivalent
D. Grim and self-satisfied
E. Tentative and biased
Who is the most likely intended audience for this passage?
A. Insurance professionals at a company seminar
B. University professors of English literature at a symposium on twentieth-century Irish playwrights
C. High school students in Ireland studying their nation's traditional folklore
D. College students studying twentieth-century English literature
Elementary school students studying the Odyssey