Question: Kyle's Speeches

Comment on Kyle's Speeches

In France cultural subsidies are __________ : producers of just about any film can get an advance from the government against box-office receipts, even though most such loans are never fully repaid.

What does line even though....repaid mean in this sentence?
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Question link: https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/og-vpr-6-in-france-cultural-subsidies-a...

We can reword the part after the semicolon as: "; government will give film producers loans, despite the fact that most of the loans are never paid back."

Does that help?

Cheers,
Brent

Of course we would all like to believe that our every success is of our own manufacture, but to believe that is to neglect the (i) _________ element present in all lives, beginning with a birth lottery that assigns to some such gifts as intelligence and to others such (ii) _________ as wealth.


Please explain
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Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i)__________ because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had (ii)__________ time to evolve toward (iii)__________. Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species.

What is the meaning of the last sentence after yet??
And what follows after yet is the research of Wills?
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VERY tricky!!
Here's my full solution: https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/wills-argues-that-certain-malarial-para...

Cheers,
Brent

Hi Brent,

https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/og-vpr-18-the-remarkable-thing-about-the-mayoral-race-in-2809.html

In this question (although read the explanation) still don't get it. Isn't the clues here are remarkable, everyone wanted the job, how the blank is negative if the clues are pointing toward positive.
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Question link: https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/og-vpr-18-the-remarkable-thing-about-th...

The remarkable thing about the mayoral race, in retrospect, is that so many people wanted the job of managing a municipality so obviously about to _______.
A) materialize
B) disintegrate
C) crumble
D) prosper
E) flourish
F) scuffle

It all comes down to what situation would be REMARKABLE.

We know that everybody wants the job of managing municipality X.
If municipality X were a great/flourishing municipality, then it wouldn't be very surprising/remarkable that everybody would want to manage that municipality.
It would, however, be remarkable if everybody wanted a job managing a municipality that was doing poorly.

Does that help?

Yes, It's clear now, thank you!

Hi Brent, do you mind explaining this question?
https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/og-vpr-17-deacon-attempts-what-seems-impossible-a-book-ri-2838.html
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