The tone of the passage suggests that the author is most optimistic about the economic development potential of which of the following groups?

The passage suggests which of the following about the majority of United States manufacturing industries before the high-technology development era of the 1980s?

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following best describes the relation of the first paragraph to the passage as a whole?

The alignment of producers of VHS format VCRs with producers of prerecorded videotapes is most similar to which of the following?

The author implies that one way that VHS producers won control over the VCR market was by

According to the passage, consumers began to develop a preference for VCRs in the VHS format because they believed which of the following?

According to the passage, today's successful firms, unlike successful firms in the past, may earn the greatest profits by

The passage is primarily concerned with which of the following?

According to the passage, if the researchers had NOT found that two extinct carnivore species were free of tooth breakage, the researchers would have concluded that