14. E
    A chimney is used to conduct smoke, just as a pipe is used to conduct water, or smoke is funneled out of a chimney; water is funneled out of a pipe.
    
    B Incorrect. Fan: Air  this is close, but air is funneled through a fan in a cyclical fasion ( the air is recycled)
    
    
15. B
    Talking  is much less intense than howling. Similarly damage is less intense degree of destruction than demolish.
    
    
16. B
    To stumble impedes walking, to stammer impedes talkingor stumble is an abnormal walk; stammer is an abnormal form of talking.
    
    
17. C
    Resist is not to surrender; fret is not relax.
    
    
18. C
    A kitten is a young cat; a sapling is a young tree.
    
    
19. B
    A bed is a place to rest. Similarly rink is a place to skate.
    
    
20. D
    A subject is bound to the bidding of his or her monarch; a servant is bound to the bidding of his or her master.
    
    
21. C
    A rung  is one of several like components of a ladder and a spoke is one of several like componenets of a wheel.
    
    
22. E
    A swarm is a group of bees. A gaggle is a group of gees.
    
    
23. C
    The body of a bird is covered with feathers. The body of a fish is covered with scales.
    
    
24. D
    The period after the geological period is called the Cambrian.( see lines #20-21)
    
    
25. C
    And none of the fitful starts was more dramatic, more productive or more than the one that occurred shortly after Erwin’s worm-like creature slithered through the primordial seas. Pimordial means "primative" in this context.
    
    A Incorrect. The seas were also ancient, but life-forms became much more complex later on. The answer requires a description of the complexity of life-forms.
    
    
26. B
    The Cambrian is a period distinguished by the abrupt appearance of an astonishing array of multi-celled animals.
    
    
27. C
    The word 'spawned' means produced.
    
    
28. A
    A paleontologist is a person who does research work on the life of past geological periods as known from fossil remains.( see line #128)
    
    B Incorrect. Is close. Paleontologists work with rocks but they are concerned with the fossils found in rocks.
    
    
29. B
    The third paragraph has this information.
    
    A Incorrect. Is close to being right. Lines #168 reveals that scientists have found layers of late precambrian rock, but the passage does not say if this rock is younger than Erwin's find.
    
    
30. B
    The word 'innovation' means change.
    
    
31. B
    The fourth paragraph has this information.( see lines #105-111)
    
    
32. E
    This primitive chordate is named after the Chinese Province in which it was found.
    
    
33. C
    This title best summarizes the content of the passage.
    
    
34. E
    The fourth paragraph contains this information.
    ( see lines #74-76)
    
    
35. A
    The first and the last paragraphs have this information.(see lines #161)

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