Who doesn't dream of giving their house a fresh new look this festive season? But if budget constraints
are stopping you, fret not. Sometimes giving your house a fresh new look is all about making the best
choice. If planned nicely you don't really need to spend a fortune. To give a room a new twist you just
need to focus on any one aspect of the decor -color, lighting or furnishing. Which of the following is mostly
likely the advice of the author of the above paragraph?

• A. Repainting the entire house might cost a bomb, but painting one wall with a bright hue can actually
  spruce the look of the entire room.
• B. Give modern, minimalist interiors a twist with some ethnic artifacts
• C. Nothing adds more drama to the interiors as a planned mix and match of sheers and drapes on the
  windows.
• D. Traditional set-ups can be rehashed with the modern artifacts and given a contemporary edge.
• E. Colorful cushions in varying sizes and shapes can be placed strategically to give a new look to any
  pieces of old furniture.

Most economists in the United States seem captivated by spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing
seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market.
A price that is determined by the seller or for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate
of consumers seems pernicious, accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price fixing (the
determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function. In fact,
price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an
effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that requires, Modern industrial planning
requires and rewards great size. Hence a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for
the same group of consumers. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus
avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of
free-markets economic theories. But each large firm will also act with full consideration of the needs that it
has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus
avoid significant price cutting, because price cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest in a
stable demand for products. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect
it to be brought about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not.
More over those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the
most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the economies of non socialist countries
other than the United States. These economies employ intentional price-fixing usually in an overt fashion.
Formal price fixing by cartel and informal price fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry
are common place. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about
price fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically
in their economic development. There is no indication that they have.
Socialist industry also works within a frame work of controlled prices. In early 1970's, the Soviet Union
began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution
has accorded the capitalist system. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to
the free market. But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by free market over which they
exercise little influenced than are capitalist firms.
In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with

• A. summarizing conflicting opinions
• B. predicting the consequences of a practice
• C. proposing a topic for research
• D. calling attention to recent discoveries
• E. criticizing a point of view

It is said that people come to Alaska for six days and end up staying there for a six years

• A. staying there forasix years
• B. staying there for the six years
• C. staying there for some six years
• D. staying there for six years
• E. slaying there for a six years

Anger is often inevitable, yet what we deal with it can determine if it could result in disaster or yield a calm
even positive outcome.

• A. yet which we deal with it can determine if it could
• B. yet how we deal with it can determine if it could
• C. yet what we deal with it can determine if it could
• D. yet that we deal with it can determine if it could
• E. yet who we deal with it can determine if it could