【正文】 n a highly acidic river may not only broaden the search for life, or for evidence of past life, on other planets but also show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria.A. show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteriaB. may show that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest onesC. shows a number of forms of microscopic life to be capable to adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteriaD. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteriaE. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest23. GWD28Q23:Goronian lawmaker: Goronia’s Cheese Importation Board, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheese entering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meet specified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that it inspects. Since the health consequences and associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible, whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency’s cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker’s argument?A. Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?B. Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?C. Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?D. Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?E. How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of? 24. GWD28Q24:Until the passage of the Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act in 1982, a firsttime charge of copyright infringement was merely a misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were subject to relatively small penalties.A. charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders wereB. charge, with federal prosecutors who were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, offenders beingC. charge, federal prosecutors unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, while offenders wereD. charge。 therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers and offenders beingE. charge。 therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, and offenders were GWD28Q25 to Q26: Many politicians, business leaders, and scholars discount the role of public policy and emphasize the role of the labor market when explaining employers’ maternityleave policies, arguing that prior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, employers were already providing maternity leave in response to the increase in the number of women workers. Employers did create maternityleave programs in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government mandate. In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that employers who allowed leaves for disabling medical conditions must also allow them for maternity and that failure to do so would constitute sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As early as 1973, a survey found that 58 percent of large employers had responded with new maternityleave policies. Because the 1972 EEOC ruling was contested in court, the ruling won press attention that popularized maternityleave policies. Yet perhaps because the Supreme Court later struck down the ruling, politicians and scholars have failed to recognize its effects, assuming that employers adopted maternityleave policies in response to the growing feminization of the workforce.Q25: It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about government policy?A. Government policy is generally unaffected by pressures in the labor market.B. The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened by sustained press attention.C. It is possible for a particular government policy to continue to have an impact after that policy has been eliminated.D. A given government policy can be counterproductive when that policy has already unofficially been implemented.E. The impact of a given government policy is generally weakened when the ruling is contested in court.Q26:The passage suggests that the relationship between the view of the author with respect to maternity leave policy prior to passage of the FMLA and the view of the politicians, business leaders, and scholars mentioned in lines 12 can best be characterized by w