Passage adapted from The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville (1857) At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared suddenly a man in cream-colors at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger. In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidèle, on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting nor shunning regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to a placard nigh the captain’s office, offering a reward for the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, though wherein his originality consisted was not clearly given; but what purported to be a careful description of his person followed. As if it had been a theatre-bill, crowds were gathered about the announcement, and among them certain chevaliers, whose eyes, it was plain, were on the capitals, or, at least, earnestly seeking sight of them from behind intervening coats; but as for their fingers, they were enveloped in some myth; though, during a chance interval, one of these chevaliers somewhat showed his hand in purchasing from another chevalier, ex-officio a peddler of money-belts, one of his popular safe-guards, while another peddler, who was still another versatile chevalier, hawked, in the thick of the throng, the lives of Measan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of the Mississippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, in Kentucky—creatures, with others of the sort, one and all exterminated at the time, and for the most part, like the hunted generations of wolves in the same regions, leaving comparatively few successors; which would seem cause for unalloyed gratulation, and is such to all except those who think that in new countries, where the wolves are killed off, the foxes increase. Pausing at this spot, the stranger so far succeeded in threading his way, as at last to plant himself just beside the placard, when, producing a small slate and tracing some words upon it, he held it up before him on a level with the placard, so that they who read the one might read the other. The words were these:— “Charity thinketh no evil.”   The narrator’s tone in the underlined description of “the man in cream-colors” is best described as _________________.             

Traveling medicine shows were a major form of entertainment in nineteenth-century, small-town America. To hard-working people who saw too little of the broader world, the shows’ comedy and musical skits provided a welcome diversion from daily routines. Once a crowd had assembled, a distinguished-looking gentleman who invariably bore the title of “doctor” began his sales pitch for some concoction or another made from “nature’s elixirs” that promised to cure everything from warts to the common cold. Despite the obvious exaggeration of such claims, business was often good. Though traveling medicine shows are now a thing of the past, medical trickery is not. Like their nineteenth-century counterparts, modern-day quacks seek to take advantage of common fears of pain and death through the promotion of a “miracle treatment.” It is, therefore, essential that consumers be able to assess reports about various drugs and medical procedures. ____________________________________ ________________________ Common sense also helps. Remember: if a report sounds too good to be true, it is usually just that.   Which of the following is the best meaning of the word quacks as it is used in the second paragraph of the passage?     

My family traveled everywhere in that battered 1959 Volkswagen van, ballasted by several gray boulders of unknown origin. That rocks would be used to steady the vehicle did not seem strange, since my father was a geologist. What was surprising was that his geologic zeal did not land us in the hospital. Whenever my father spotted an interesting rock formation, he forgot about everything else. The van would hesitate, as if caught in a stiff crosswind, then slowly drift toward the shoulder. “Early Devonian shale sediments,” he might mutter, as the van slowly wandered from the road to the shoulder and back to the road again. Turning to the four of us—the van now headed for the center lane—he would wave his hands for emphasis. We learned early not to ask for explanations.   Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?                            

 One ampere is the amount of current through a one-ohm resistance that has one volt of potential difference applied across it. 

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 What piece of equipment provides a variable dc output voltage to electronic circuits under test? 

In a parallel circuit, the branch with the highest resistance always has the

 When the applied voltage is constant, the current is more with 

With over $10,000 in scholarship money awarded, Christopher deserved all the adulation he received for his hard work, good grades, and volunteer work. What is the best meaning of the bold-faced word, “adulation”?

A device which serves to protect the circuit components and wiring in the event of a short circuit is a