326. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.
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(A) unmanageable
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1 B$ D6 h+ e" n" O, Q, k1 |' I% H8 R327. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild-and the accumulated knowledge of lens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.+ b' g( l& o0 e! ]. K
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328. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends.
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(C) clarified
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6 N, X" V9 Z) ~7 I6 g329. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers-the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table-is itself far from innate.
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(A) reason
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(C) requirement
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330. The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The effect of gravity on them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
$ x8 a( x/ D( ^% s; l: {2 ^- ZThe word "minute" is closest in meaning to which of following?! X) ^% t; _' I1 x6 s
(A) second
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(D) steady
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