C, E…… defiant, partiality toward

　　Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized text of Captain Clark's journals knows that the Captain was one of the most defiant spellers ever to write in English, but despite this partiality toward orthographical rules, Clark is never unclear.

　　C, F…… defiant, unpretentiousness about

　　Of course anyone who has ever perused an unmodernized text of Captain Clark's journals knows that the Captain was one of the most defiant spellers ever to write in English, but despite this unpretentiousness about orthographical rules, Clark is never unclear.

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　　Indicate your two  answer choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

　　Question 24 has five answer choices, labeled A through E, and is based on the following text.

　　For the past two years at FasCorp, there has been a policy to advertise any job opening to current employees and to give no job to an applicant from outside the company if a FasCorp employee applies who is qualified for the job.  This policy has been strictly followed, yet even though numerous employees of FasCorp have been qualified for any given entry-level position, some entry-level jobs have been filled with people from outside the company.

　　Question 24.

　　If the information provided is true, which of the following must on the basis of it also be true about FasCorp during the past two years?

　　A……  . There have been some open jobs for which no qualified FasCorp employee applied.

　　B……  . Some entry-level job openings have not been advertised to FasCorp employees.

　　C……  . The total number of employees has increased.

　　D……  . FasCorp has hired some people for jobs for which they were not qualified.

　　E……  . All the job openings have been for entry-level jobs.

　　Select and indicate one answer choice from among the choices provided.

　　Questions 25 through 27 are based on the following reading passage.

　　A tall tree can transport a hundred gallons of water a day from its roots deep underground to the treetop.  Is this movement propelled by pulling the water from above or pushing it from below?  The pull mechanism has long been favored by most scientists.  First proposed in the late 1800's, the theory relies on a property of water not commonly associated with fluids:  its tensile strength.  Instead of making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule to molecule all the way down to the roots.  The tree itself does not actually push or pull; all the energy for lifting water comes from the sun's evaporative power.

　　Question 25.

　　This question has five answer choices, labeled A through E. Select and indicate the best answer from among these choices.

　　The passage is primarily concerned with

　　A……  . refuting a hypothesis advanced by scientists