It is no longer needful to labor Dickens’ power as a
portrayer of modern society nor the seriousness of his
“criticism of life.” But we are still learning to appreciate
his supreme attainment as an artist. Richness of poetic
imagery, modulations of emotional tone, subtleties of implication, complex unities of structure, intensities of psychological
insight, a panoply of achievement, mount up to overwhelming
triumph. Though contemporary readers perhaps still feel
somewhat queasy about Dickens’ sentiment, his comedy
and his drama sweep all before them. Even his elaborate
and multistranded plots are now seen as great symphonic
compositions driving forward through theme and variation
to the resolving chords on which they close.

According to the passage, readers most recently
have begun to appreciate Dickens’

Plutarch admired those who could use life for grand
purposes and depart from it as grandly, but he would not
pass over weaknesses and vices that marred the grandeur. His hero of heroes was Alexander the Great; he admired
him above all other men, while his abomination of abominations was bad faith, dishonorable action. Nevertheless he tells
with no attempt to extenuate how Alexander promised a
safe conduct to a brave Persian army if they surrendered,
but then, “even as they were marching away he fell upon
them and put them all to the sword,” “a breach of his
word,” Plutarch says sadly, “which is a lasting blemish to
his achievements.” He adds piteously, “but the only one.”
He hated to tell that story.

Which of the following conclusions is least justified
by the passage?

In this paragraph, taken from Mary W. Shelley’s science fiction classic, Frankenstein, the narrator describes a being to whom she is growing increasingly attached.
Line:1 Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more
deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The
starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these
wonderful regions seem still to have the power of
Line5:elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double
existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by
disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself,
he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo
around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
It can be inferred from the description of the man in lines 6–9 that the author
regards him as

It is no longer needful to labor Dickens’ power as a
portrayer of modern society nor the seriousness of his
“criticism of life.” But we are still learning to appreciate
his supreme attainment as an artist. Richness of poetic
imagery, modulations of emotional tone, subtleties of implication, complex unities of structure, intensities of psychological
insight, a panoply of achievement, mount up to overwhelming
triumph. Though contemporary readers perhaps still feel
somewhat queasy about Dickens’ sentiment, his comedy
and his drama sweep all before them. Even his elaborate
and multistranded plots are now seen as great symphonic
compositions driving forward through theme and variation
to the resolving chords on which they close.

According to the passage, the endings of Dickens’
works are most probably characterized by____________

Homoeopathy is strictly a scientific system of medicine. It is based upon
a law of nature—“Similia similibus curantur,” or the law that remedies
will cure symptoms and diseases similar to those which they will cause
when taken by healthy persons. It is wonderful with what care, skill,
and perseverance the new Materia Medica has been developed, mostly by
intelligent physicians, commencing with Hahnemann, taking the different
remedies in varying doses, and carefully and patiently watching the
symptoms that follow, and writing them down day after day; and then, when
similar symptoms occur in case of disease, giving the remedies and
carefully watching and writing down the results. Allopathic physicians, as
a rule, have not the slightest conception of the vast amount of patient and
persevering labor in this direction which has been done by physicians as
well educated as they are, and most of whom have graduated in the same
schools, who have devoted their lives to this work. Are not these facts
worthy of the consideration of every physician in the world who desires the
highest good of his fellow men?.
Based on the information presented in this passage, you can infer that Materia
Medica most likely refers to

Sometimes the meaning of glowing water is ominous. Off
the Pacific Coast of North America, it may mean that the
sea is filled with a minute plant that contains a poison of
strange and terrible virulence. About four days after this
minute plant comes to alter the coastal plankton, some of
the fishes and shellfish in the vicinity become toxic. This
is because in their normal feeding, they have strained the
poisonous plankton out of the water.
The paragraph preceding the one in the passage
most probably discussed the