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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q15 Passage:Letter to the editor: You say that if the government were to confiscate a portion of the wages of convicted burglars when they reenter the workforce, it would be a form of stealing, hence an abuse of power. Yet under the proposal now being considered, the government would confiscate suc...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q16 Passage:Some heartburn-medication advertisements imply that unrelieved heartburn is likely to cause esophageal cancer. This is simply false. The fact is that only about 5 percent of people with severe heartburn have a condition called Barrett's esophagus, in which cells similar to those in the s...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q17 Passage:We can be sure that at least some halogen lamps are well crafted, because halogen lamps from most major manufacturers are on display at Furniture Labyrinth. Any item on display at Furniture Labyrinth is well crafted. Stem:Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reason...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q18 Passage:Psychologists have found that the implementation of policies allowing work schedules to be tailored to individuals' needs does not typically increase managers' job satisfaction or their efficiency‚ although this may be because most managers already have the autonomy to adjust their own s...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q19 Passage:Viewers surveyed immediately after the televised political debate last year between Lopez and Tanner tended to think that Lopez had made the better arguments, but the survey respondents who reported that Lopez's arguments were better may have been biased in favor of Lopez. After all, Lop...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q20 Passage:Recent medical and anthropological data show that prohibitions on the use of certain foods served important social, economic, and medical functions in ancient cultures. But these data cannot explain the origin of the prohibitions involved, since those who originally adopted and enforced ...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q21 Passage:Editor: Most of the books of fiction we have published were submitted by literary agents for writers they represented; the rest were received directly from fiction writers from whom we requested submissions. No nonfiction manuscript has been given serious attention, let alone been publi...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q22 Passage:If the budget does not allow for more dairy inspectors to be hired, most of the large dairies in the central valley will not meet federal standards governing the disposal of natural wastes, which can seep into streams and groundwater. The new district budget, however, does not allow for ...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q23 Passage:Company president: Almost every really successful product introduced in the last ten years has been launched by a massive television advertising campaign. We are using a massive television advertising campaign to introduce the Vegetaste Burger. So the Vegetaste Burger will probably be ve...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q24 Passage:Biologist: Scientists have discovered fossilized bacteria in rocks 3.5 billion years old. The fossils indicate that these bacteria were quite complex and so must have already had a long evolutionary history when fossilized 3.5 billion years ago. However, Earth is only 4.6 billion years o...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q25 Passage:At one time, many astronomers assumed that Earth remains motionless while the stars revolve around it. They concluded from this that the stars were not more than a few million miles from Earth. They reasoned that if the stars were farther away, they would have to move at tremendously gre...
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Question ID:PT70 S4 Q26 Passage:People may praise the talent of a painter capable of realistically portraying a scene and dismiss as artistically worthless the efforts of abstract expressionists, but obviously an exact replica of the scene depicted is not the only thing people appreciate in a painting, for otherwise ph...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q1 Passage:Police chief: This department's officers are, of course, prohibited from drinking on the job. However, there is one exception: it is extremely valuable for officers to work undercover to investigate nightclubs that have chronic crime problems, and officers may drink in moderation during s...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q2 Passage:Jake: Companies have recently introduced antibacterial household cleaning products that kill common bacteria on surfaces like countertops and floors. It's clear that people who want to minimize the amount of bacteria in their homes should use cleaning products that contain antibacterial ...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q3 Passage:A study of the dietary habits of a group of people who had recently developed cancer and a group without cancer found that during the previous five years the diets of the two groups' members closely matched each other in the amount of yogurt they contained. Yogurt contains galactose, whi...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q4 Passage:Chemical-company employee: A conservation group's study of the pollutants released into the environment by 30 small chemical companies reveals that our company and four other companies together account for 60 percent of the total. Clearly, our company releases more pollutants than most ch...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q5 Passage:Journalist: A recent study showed that people who drink three cups of decaffeinated coffee per day are twice as likely to develop arthritis‚ inflammation of joints resulting from damage to connective tissue‚ as those who drink three cups of regular coffee per day. Clearly, decaffeinated c...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q6 Passage:A company that imports and sells collectibles sought to have some of its collectible figurines classified as toys, which are subject to lower import tariffs than collectibles. The company argued that the figurines amuse customers, just as toys do. However, the government agency responsibl...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q7 Passage:The photographs that the store developed were quite unsatisfactory. The customer claims to have handled the film correctly. Neither the film nor the camera was defective. If a store does not process pictures properly, the customer is owed a refund, so if the customer's claim is correct, t...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q8 Passage:When weeding a vegetable garden, one should not try to remove all the weeds. It is true that the more weeds, the less productive the garden. Nevertheless, avoiding the painstaking effort of finding and pulling every single weed more than compensates for the slight productivity loss result...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q9 Passage:Doctor: It would benefit public health if junk food were taxed. Not only in this country but in many other countries as well, the excessive proportion of junk food in people's diets contributes to many common and serious health problems. If junk food were much more expensive than healthfu...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q10 Passage:Large deposits of the rare mineral nahcolite formed in salty lakes 50 million to 52 million years ago during the Eocene epoch. Laboratory tests found that, in salty water, nahcolite can form only when the atmosphere contains at least 1,125 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Stem:The st...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q11 Passage:Editor: When asked to name a poet contemporaneous with Shakespeare, 60 percent of high school students picked a twentieth-century poet. Admittedly, it is hard to interpret this result accurately. Does it show that most high school students do not know any poets of Shakespeare's era, or ...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q12 Passage:One should apologize only to a person one has wronged, and only for having wronged that person. To apologize sincerely is to acknowledge that one has acted wrongfully. One cannot apologize sincerely unless one intends not to repeat that wrongful act. To accept an apology sincerely is to ...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q13 Passage:A small collection of copper-alloy kitchen implements was found in an abandoned Roman-era well. Beneath them was a cache of coins, some of which dated to 375 A.D. The implements, therefore, were dropped into the well no earlier than 375 A.D. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q14 Passage:Investigators have not proved that the forest fire was started by campers. Nor have they proved that lightning triggered the fire. So the investigators have not proved that the blaze was caused by campers or lightning. Stem:The flawed pattern of reasoning in which one of the following ar...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q15 Passage:To reduce the mosquito population in a resort area, hundreds of trees were planted that bear fruit attractive to birds. Over the years, as the trees matured, they attracted a variety of bird species and greatly increased the summer bird population in the area. As expected, the birds ate ...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q16 Passage:Roxanne promised Luke that she would finish their report while he was on vacation; however, the deadline for that report was postponed. Clearly, if you promised a friend that you would meet them for lunch but just before lunch you felt ill, it would not be wrong for you to miss the lunch...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q17 Passage:Politician: A major social problem is children hurting other children. The results of a recent experiment by psychologists establish that watching violent films is at least partly responsible for this aggressive behavior. The psychologists conducted an experiment in which one group of ch...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q18 Passage:Editorial: In order to encourage personal responsibility in adults, society should not restrict the performance of any of the actions of adults or interfere with the likely results except to prevent negative effects on others. Stem:Which one of the following expresses a view that is inc...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q19 Passage:The goblin fern, which requires a thick layer of leaf litter on the forest floor, is disappearing from North American forests. In spots where it has recently vanished, the leaf litter is unusually thin and, unlike those places where this fern still thrives, is teeming with the European e...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q20 Passage:Medical reporter: Studies have consistently found that taking an aspirin a day thins the blood slightly, thereby helping to prevent or reduce the severity of heart disease. Since heart disease is one of the most common types of ill health in industrialized nations, most people in such na...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q21 Passage:Essayist: Winners of a Nobel prize for science, who are typically professional scientists, have all made significant contributions to science. But amateur scientists have also provided many significant contributions. And unlike professional scientists, who are often motivated by economi...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q22 Passage:Company president: Most of our best sales representatives came to the job with a degree in engineering but little or no sales experience. Thus, when we hire sales representatives, we should favor applicants who have engineering degrees but little or no sales experience over applicants w...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q23 Passage:Anthropologist: Every human culture has taboos against eating certain animals. Some researchers have argued that such taboos originated solely for practical reasons, pointing out, for example, that in many cultures it is taboo to eat domestic animals that provide labor and that are ther...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q24 Passage:In an effort to reduce underage drinking, the Department of Health has been encouraging adolescents to take a pledge not to drink alcohol until they reach the legal age. This seems to be successful. A survey of seventeen-year-olds has found that many who do not drink report having taken ...
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Question ID:PT69 S1 Q25 Passage:Literary critic: A folktale is a traditional story told in an entertaining way, which may lead some to think that folktales lack deeper meaning. But this is not the case. A folktale is passed along by a culture for generations, and each storyteller adds something of his or her own to the...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q1 Passage:A researcher is studying seven manuscripts‚ F, G, H, L, M, P, and S‚ to determine their relative ages. It is known that no two manuscripts were written at the same time. The researcher has also determined the following:H was written earlier than S but later than F.P was the next manuscrip...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q2 Passage:A researcher is studying seven manuscripts‚ F, G, H, L, M, P, and S‚ to determine their relative ages. It is known that no two manuscripts were written at the same time. The researcher has also determined the following:H was written earlier than S but later than F.P was the next manuscrip...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q3 Passage:A researcher is studying seven manuscripts‚ F, G, H, L, M, P, and S‚ to determine their relative ages. It is known that no two manuscripts were written at the same time. The researcher has also determined the following:H was written earlier than S but later than F.P was the next manuscrip...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q4 Passage:A researcher is studying seven manuscripts‚ F, G, H, L, M, P, and S‚ to determine their relative ages. It is known that no two manuscripts were written at the same time. The researcher has also determined the following:H was written earlier than S but later than F.P was the next manuscrip...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q5 Passage:A researcher is studying seven manuscripts‚ F, G, H, L, M, P, and S‚ to determine their relative ages. It is known that no two manuscripts were written at the same time. The researcher has also determined the following:H was written earlier than S but later than F.P was the next manuscrip...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q6 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more th...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q7 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more th...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q8 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more th...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q9 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more th...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q10 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q11 Passage:Exactly six petri dishes‚ labeled dish 1 through dish 6‚ are to be stored in an otherwise empty refrigerator. There are three available shelves‚ the bottom shelf, the middle shelf, and the top shelf. The placement of the dishes must be consistent with the following conditions:No more t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q12 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q13 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q14 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q15 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q16 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q17 Passage:A company operates vending machines in four schools: Ferndale, Gladstone, Hafford, and Isley. The company delivers juices in one of its two trucks and snacks in the other truck. Each week, exactly one delivery of juices and exactly one delivery of snacks is made to each school, subject t...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q18 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q19 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q20 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q21 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q22 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S2 Q23 Passage:Each of five paralegals‚ Frank, Gina, Hiro, Kevin, and Laurie‚ is being assigned to exactly one of three cases‚ the Raimes, Sicoli, or Thompson case. At least one paralegal will be assigned to each case. The following conditions must apply: Either Frank is assigned to Raimes and Kevin is...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q1 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q2 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q3 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q4 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q5 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q6 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q7 Passage:The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and highly mechanized production, with its heavy dependence on debt and credit as a means of raising capital, has been linked to the growing problem of bankruptcy among small farms. African American horticulturalist Booker T. Whatley has ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q8 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q9 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but ...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q10 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q11 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q12 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q13 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q14 Passage:When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype, she was so struck by its rich creamy tones that she could hardly believe this photographic process had been abandoned. She set out to revive it. Bidaut had been searching for a way to photograph insects from her entomological collection, but...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q15 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q16 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q17 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q18 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q19 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q20 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q21 Passage:Passage A is from a 2007 article on the United States patent system; passage B is from a corporate statement.Passage ATheoretically, the patent office is only supposed to award patents for "nonobvious" inventions, and the concept of translating between an Internet address and a telephone...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q22 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q23 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q24 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q25 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q26 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S3 Q27 Passage:Calvaria major is a rare but once-abundant tree found on the island of Mauritius, which was also home to the dodo, a large flightless bird that became extinct about three centuries ago. In 1977 Stanley Temple, an ecologist whose investigation of Calvaria major was a sidelight to his rese...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q1 Passage:Scientists generally believe that no deep-sea creature can detect red light, but they need to reassess that view. Researchers recently discovered a foot-long deep-sea creature of the genus Erenna with bioluminescent red lights on some of its tentacles. These red lights, which are shaped l...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q2 Passage:For house painting, acrylic paints are an excellent choice. They provide everything that a good paint should provide: smooth and even coverage, quick drying time, durability, and easy cleanup. Even acrylics, however, cannot correct such surface defects as badly cracked paint. Such conditi...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q3 Passage:Letter to the editor: You have asserted that philanthropists want to make the nonprofit sector as efficient as private business in this country. Philanthropists want no such thing, of course. Why would anyone want to make nonprofits as inefficient as Byworks Corporation, which has posted ...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q4 Passage:Statistical records of crime rates probably often reflect as much about the motives and methods of those who compile or cite them as they do about the actual incidence of crime. The police may underreport crime in order to convey the impression of their own success or overreport crime to ...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q5 Passage:Physiologist: The likelihood of developing osteoporosis is greatly increased by a deficiency of calcium in the diet. Dairy products usually contain more calcium per serving than do fruits and vegetables. Yet in countries where dairy products are rare, and fruits and vegetables are the ma...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q6 Passage:A first-term board member should not be on the finance committee unless he or she is an accountant or his or her membership on the committee is supported by all the members of the board. Stem:Which one of the following arguments most closely conforms to the principle stated above? Correct...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q7 Passage:Most respondents to a magazine survey who had recently listened to a taped reading of a certain best-selling novel said that they had enjoyed the novel, while most respondents who had recently read the novel themselves said they had not enjoyed it. These survey results support the content...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q8 Passage:To qualify as a medical specialist, one must usually graduate from a university, then complete approximately four years of medical school, followed by a residency of two to six years in one's specialty. Finally, a physician who desires to become a recognized specialist must complete an ev...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q9 Passage:Archaeologists are currently analyzing plant remains found at a site that was last occupied more than 10,000 years ago. If the plants were cultivated, then the people who occupied the site discovered agriculture thousands of years before any other people are known to have done so. On the ...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q10 Passage:In a test of fuel efficiency, car X and car Y yielded the same average fuel mileage, even though car X was driven in a less fuel-efficient manner than car Y was. Thus, car X is more fuel efficient than car Y. Stem:Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reasoning to t...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q11 Passage:Plumb-Ace advertises that its plumbers are more qualified than plumbers at any other major plumbing firm in the region because Plumb-Ace plumbers must complete a very difficult certification process. Plumb-Ace plumbers may or may not be more qualified, but clearly the certification proce...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q12 Passage:Historian: The early Egyptian pharaohs spent as much wealth on largely ceremonial and hugely impressive architecture as they did on roads and irrigation systems. This was not mere frivolousness, however, for if people under a pharaoh's rule could be made to realize the extent of their ru...
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Question ID:PT69 S4 Q13 Passage:The proposed change to the patent system is bound to have a chilling effect on scientific research. Under current rules, researchers have one full year after the initial publication of a new discovery to patent the discovery. This allows research results to be shared widely prior to the ...
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