While Donald O’Connor is perhaps most famous for his work with Gene Kelly, as both a singer and as a dancer in Singin’ in the Rain and other movies, also playing lead roles as an actor in his own right in such comic movie series as Francis the Talking Mule.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Edward Stratemeyer was advertising for writers to help him—people not only who could write children’s mystery books for his popular syndicate, but mimicking his successful formula also in order to continue the many series he had begun but was too busy to continue.

The state highways historically ran from north to south, because that orientation fit the patterns of the existing cart paths through the mountains, but they were later diverted toward the coastal cities, often looping around the suburbs before terminating either in downtown transit centers or airports.

Advertisers evaluate television shows by market share; if they evaluate the market share as higher, the more the shows can expect to charge for commercials.

In order to promote plant growth, experts recommend that gardeners spread a generous amount of mulch around the plants to inhibit weed growth. Accordingly, the director of Sunlight Community Garden instructed volunteers to use plenty of mulch in their yearly landscaping, and the volunteers enthusiastically used up all of the available mulch. Nevertheless, plant productivity later fell somewhat.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why acting on the experts’ recommendation failed to achieve its goal?

City College’s board wants to minimize the college’s expenditures on physical facilities over time and so has asked the physical facilities department to consider choosing double-pane windows when replacing old windows. Compared to single-pane windows, double-pane windows provide much more insulation to a building, thus reducing energy costs. Moreover, the labor and other costs associated with installing double-pane windows are the same as those for single-pane windows.

Which of the following would it be most useful to know in determining whether switching to double-paned windows would be likely to help minimize City College’s physical facilities expenditures?

The script on a recently discovered scroll was used solely by two scribal communities, the Bethel community and the Shemula community. Analysis of the jar in which the scroll was found, whose markings indicate that it is the scroll’s original container, showed that it was made of clay found in the vicinity of the Bethel community but not of the Shemula community, fifty miles away. This shows that the scroll most likely originated in the Bethel community.

Which of the following is an assumption that the argument makes?

Against the Grain, a new carpentry company with a young workforce, has been putting all of its resources into filling custom cabinetry orders. This remains the company’s focus even though greater revenues can be generated by custom door orders, which take less time, than by custom cabinetry orders.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why Against the Grain has been focusing on the less profitable of the two courses of action mentioned above?

Homeowners aged 30 to 40 are more likely to subscribe to a newspaper and are more likely to receive both the daily print and electronic versions than are members of any other demographic group. The popular belief that senior citizens are the age group best informed about current events must, therefore, be false.

The argument is flawed primarily because the author

A city aims to encourage bicycling (and thus improve public health) by converting a lane on a crowded thoroughfare into a bicycle lane. The new design will slow traffic initially, but because the lane is safer the city hopes that more car drivers will switch to bicycling. In the longer term, the city envisions that the street’s traffic will flow more smoothly when a portion of car traffic is reduced.

In assessing the plan’s chances of accomplishing its goal, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?

Hockey arena owner: Private sports facilities are a bargain compared to the public parks and leagues in our county. Remember that these public parks are not really free. It is taxpayers, in the end, who subsidize the maintenance and staffing costs of public parks.

Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the position of the hockey arena owner?

The plaintiff in the civil case claims that the company’s harassment began with a packet of letters over a year ago and has been continuing ever since.

As the quality of sports has come to top the list of reasons students choose to attend a given college, the school has become increasingly willing to invest in athletic programs those funds they would in the past have allocated to academic pursuits.

The author of the passage would be most likely to describe the hypothesis that all of the trends toward rising consumerism in the eighteenth century have traceable roots in the seventeenth century as

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the passage’s argument that some changes to Britain’s consumption patterns indeed began in the eighteenth century?

Amelia Earhart left a lasting legacy in the sense that her achievements inspired a new generation of pilots that were women.

The recent increase in processing power and the usability of certain data analysis programs has inspired some small businesses to adopt a model in which basic tasks are taken care of by computers rather than by human employees.

The artificial dichotomy between history and prehistory that has characterized Americanist archaeology since the 1960s have been seen as shunting historical archaeology to the periphery of a discipline hypocritically borrowing from but declines to acknowledge the methodologies developed within this important yet unrecognized field.

The varieties of semi-precious gemstones considered chalcedony are composed of silica and feature fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite, which themselves consist of silica and are distinguished only by their crystal structures.

Although it is the primary purpose of improving the train system’s infrastructure is to make it be more reliable in winter weather, it is the ridership and therefore also the revenue that the repairs will ultimately help increase.