What are the two leading causes of death in North America?

Questions 4-6 refer to the passage below. “The purpose of the geography curriculum was to come to know the narrower and broader Fatherland and to awaken one’s love of it. . . . From the many rivers and mountains one will not see all the Serbian lands, not even the heroic and unfortunate field of Kosovo ; from the many rivers and mountains children do not see that there are more Serbs living outside Serbia than in Serbia; they do not see that Serbia is surrounded on all sides by Serbian lands; from the many mountains and rivers we do not see that, were it not for the surrounding Serbs, Serbia would be a small island that foreign waves would quickly inundate and destroy; and, if there were no Serbia, the remainder of Serfdom would feel as though it did not have a heart.” Report to the Serbian Teachers’ Association, 1911-1912 4.  The report best reflects which of the following goals of public education systems in the period before the First World War?

Exercise has many beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Questions 48-50 refer to the passage below.  “Unfortunately, Americans focus more on Soviet military hardware than on limited political prestige. That is responsible for your overestimation of Soviet power, as if power in history is the same asforce of arms! What myopia and short-sightedness. There is more power in rock music, videos, blue jeans, fast food, news networks and TV satellites than in the entire Red Army.” Régis Debray, leftist French philosopher, 1986 49.  The cultural trends referenced by Debray were mostly a result of which of the following?

Research indicates that there is a selective loss of fast twitch fibers with aging.

A circuit breaker is designed to prevent

An FM radio station broadcasts radio waves with a frequency of 100 MHz. The wavelength of these waves is closest to

Questions 46-47 refer to the following two charts, showing economic data for England from 1500 to the present.    47.  For the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, which of the following best explains the relationship between the trends reflected in the two charts?

According to Archimedes’ Principle, the buoyant force experienced by an object floating in water is

Questions 7-10  refer to the passage below. “As soon as their preparations were complete, they encouraged a subservient ally to declare war against Serbia at forty-eight hours’ notice, knowing full well that a conflict involving the control of the Balkans could not be localized and almost certainly meant a general war.  In order to make doubly sure, they refused every attempt at conciliation and conference until it was too late, and the world war was inevitable for which they had plotted, and for which alone among the nations they were fully equipped and prepared. Germany’s responsibility, however, is not confined to having planned and started the war.  She is no less responsible for the savage and inhuman manner in which it was conducted.  Though Germany was herself a guarantor of Belgium, the ruler of Germany violated, after a solemn promise to respect it, the neutrality of this unoffending people.  Not content with this, they deliberately carried out a series of promiscuous shootings and burnings with the sole object of terrifying the inhabitants into submission by the very frightfulness of their action. They were the first to use poisonous gas, notwithstanding the appalling suffering it entailed.  They began the bombing and long distance shelling of towns for no military object, but solely for the purpose of reducing the morale of their opponents by striking at their women and children.  They commenced the submarine campaign with its piratical challenge to international law, and its destruction of great numbers of innocent passengers and sailors, in mid-ocean, far from succour, at the mercy of the winds and the waves, and the yet more ruthless submarine crews.” — Georges Clemenceau, Letter of Reply to the Objections of the German Peace Delegation regarding the Versailles settlement, May 1919   10.  Which of the following was a result of the First World War and the Versailles peace settlement?