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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q12 Passage:Mexican Americans share with speakers of Spanish throughout the world a rich and varied repertoire of proverbs as well as a vital tradition of proverb use. The term "proverb" refers to a self-contained saying that can be understood independent of a specific verbal context and that has as...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q13 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q14 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q15 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q16 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q17 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q18 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q19 Passage:Passage A Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from the standpoint of the theory of evolution‚ to explain a given type of human behavior by examining how it contributes to the reproductive success of individuals exhibiting the behavior, and thereby to the ...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q20 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q21 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q22 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q23 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q24 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q25 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q26 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT64 S4 Q27 Passage:During Dostoyevsky's time there were two significant and opposing directions in Russian literary criticism. One position maintained that art stood high above the present and the everyday, while the radical view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it found its sources in conc...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q1 Passage:Backyard gardeners who want to increase the yields of their potato plants should try growing stinging nettles alongside the plants, since stinging nettles attract insects that kill a wide array of insect pests that damage potato plants. It is true that stinging nettles also attract aphids...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q2 Passage:Jocko, a chimpanzee, was once given a large bunch of bananas by a zookeeper after the more dominant members of the chimpanzee's troop had wandered off. In his excitement, Jocko uttered some loud "food barks." The other chimpanzees returned and took the bananas away. The next day, Jocko wa...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q3 Passage:A recent survey quizzed journalism students about the sorts of stories they themselves wished to read. A significant majority said they wanted to see stories dealing with serious governmental and political issues and had little tolerance for the present popularity of stories covering life...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q4 Passage:Electric bug zappers, which work by attracting insects to light, are a very effective means of ridding an area of flying insects. Despite this, most pest control experts now advise against their use, recommending instead such remedies as insect-eating birds or insecticide sprays. Stem:Whi...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q5 Passage:Gardener: The design of Japanese gardens should display harmony with nature. Hence, rocks chosen for placement in such gardens should vary widely in appearance, since rocks found in nature also vary widely in appearance. Stem:The gardener's argument depends on assuming which one of the fo...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q6 Passage:Small experimental vacuum tubes can operate in heat that makes semiconductor components fail. Any component whose resistance to heat is greater than that of semiconductors would be preferable for use in digital circuits, but only if that component were also comparable to semiconductors in...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q7 Passage:The cause of the epidemic that devastated Athens in 430 B.C. can finally be identified. Accounts of the epidemic mention the hiccups experienced by many victims, a symptom of no known disease except that caused by the recently discovered Ebola virus. Moreover, other symptoms of the diseas...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q8 Passage:Letter to the editor: Your article was unjustified in criticizing environmentalists for claiming that more wolves on Vancouver Island are killed by hunters than are born each year. You stated that this claim was disproven by recent studies that indicate that the total number of wolves on ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q9 Passage:Computer scientist: For several decades, the number of transistors on new computer microchips, and hence the microchips' computing speed, has doubled about every 18 months. However, from the mid-1990s into the next decade, each such doubling in a microchip's computing speed was accompanie...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q10 Passage:Ms. Sandstrom's newspaper column describing a strange natural phenomenon on the Mendels' farm led many people to trespass on and extensively damage their property. Thus, Ms. Sandstrom should pay for this damage if, as the Mendels claim, she could have reasonably expected that the column ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q11 Passage:Meyer was found by his employer to have committed scientific fraud by falsifying data. The University of Williamstown, from which Meyer held a PhD, validated this finding and subsequently investigated whether he had falsified data in his doctoral thesis, finding no evidence that he had. ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q12 Passage:Aerobics instructor: Compared to many forms of exercise, kickboxing aerobics is highly risky. Overextending when kicking often leads to hip, knee, or lower-back injuries. Such overextension is very likely to occur when beginners try to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners. ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q13 Passage:A large company has been convicted of engaging in monopolistic practices. The penalty imposed on the company will probably have little if any effect on its behavior. Still, the trial was worthwhile, since it provided useful information about the company's practices. After all, this infor...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q14 Passage:Waller: If there were really such a thing as extrasensory perception, it would generally be accepted by the public since anyone with extrasensory powers would be able to convince the general public of its existence by clearly demonstrating those powers. Indeed, anyone who was recognized ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q15 Passage:Counselor: Hagerle sincerely apologized to the physician for lying to her. So Hagerle owes me a sincere apology as well, because Hagerle told the same lie to both of us. Stem:Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the counselor's reasoning? Correct Answer ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q16 Passage:A survey of address changes filed with post offices and driver's license bureaus over the last ten years has established that households moving out of the city of Weston outnumbered households moving into the city two to one. Therefore, we can expect that next year's census, which counts...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q17 Passage:Psychologist: People tend to make certain cognitive errors when they predict how a given event would affect their future happiness. But people should not necessarily try to rid themselves of this tendency. After all, in a visual context, lines that are actually parallel often appear to p...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q18 Passage:Principle: Even if an art auction house identifies the descriptions in its catalog as opinions, it is guilty of misrepresentation if such a description is a deliberate attempt to mislead bidders.Application: Although Healy's, an art auction house, states that all descriptions in its cata...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q19 Passage:Anthropologist: It was formerly believed that prehistoric Homo sapiens ancestors of contemporary humans interbred with Neanderthals, but DNA testing of a Neanderthal's remains indicates that this is not the case. The DNA of contemporary humans is significantly different from that of the ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q20 Passage:Council member: The profits of downtown businesses will increase if more consumers live in the downtown area, and a decrease in the cost of living in the downtown area will guarantee that the number of consumers living there will increase. However, the profits of downtown businesses will...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q21 Passage:On the Discount Phoneline, any domestic long-distance call starting between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. costs 15 cents a minute, and any other domestic long-distance call costs 10 cents a minute. So any domestic long-distance call on the Discount Phoneline that does not cost 10 cents a minute cost...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q22 Passage:One child pushed another child from behind, injuring the second child. The first child clearly understands the difference between right and wrong, so what was done was wrong if it was intended to injure the second child. Stem:Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q23 Passage:Researcher: Each subject in this experiment owns one car, and was asked to estimate what proportion of all automobiles registered in the nation are the same make as the subject's car. The estimate of nearly every subject has been significantly higher than the actual national statistic fo...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q24 Passage:In university towns, police issue far more parking citations during the school year than they do during the times when the students are out of town. Therefore, we know that most parking citations in university towns are issued to students. Stem:Which one of the following is most similar ...
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Question ID:PT63 S1 Q25 Passage:Counselor: Those who believe that criticism should be gentle rather than harsh should consider the following: change requires a motive, and criticism that is unpleasant provides a motive. Since harsh criticism is unpleasant, harsh criticism provides a motive. Therefore, only harsh critic...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q1 Passage:Each of seven candidates for the position of judge‚ Hamadi, Jefferson, Kurtz, Li, McDonnell, Ortiz, and Perkins‚ will be appointed to an open position on one of two courts‚ the appellate court or the trial court. There are three open positions on the appellate court and six open positions...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q2 Passage:Each of seven candidates for the position of judge‚ Hamadi, Jefferson, Kurtz, Li, McDonnell, Ortiz, and Perkins‚ will be appointed to an open position on one of two courts‚ the appellate court or the trial court. There are three open positions on the appellate court and six open positions...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q3 Passage:Each of seven candidates for the position of judge‚ Hamadi, Jefferson, Kurtz, Li, McDonnell, Ortiz, and Perkins‚ will be appointed to an open position on one of two courts‚ the appellate court or the trial court. There are three open positions on the appellate court and six open positions...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q4 Passage:Each of seven candidates for the position of judge‚ Hamadi, Jefferson, Kurtz, Li, McDonnell, Ortiz, and Perkins‚ will be appointed to an open position on one of two courts‚ the appellate court or the trial court. There are three open positions on the appellate court and six open positions...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q5 Passage:Each of seven candidates for the position of judge‚ Hamadi, Jefferson, Kurtz, Li, McDonnell, Ortiz, and Perkins‚ will be appointed to an open position on one of two courts‚ the appellate court or the trial court. There are three open positions on the appellate court and six open positions...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q6 Passage:Exactly six members of a skydiving team‚ Larue, Ohba, Pei, Trevi√±o, Weiss, and Zacny‚ each dive exactly once, one at a time, from a plane, consistent with the following conditions:Trevi√±o dives from the plane at some time before Weiss does.Larue dives from the plane either first or last...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q7 Passage:Exactly six members of a skydiving team‚ Larue, Ohba, Pei, Trevi√±o, Weiss, and Zacny‚ each dive exactly once, one at a time, from a plane, consistent with the following conditions:Trevi√±o dives from the plane at some time before Weiss does.Larue dives from the plane either first or last...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q8 Passage:Exactly six members of a skydiving team‚ Larue, Ohba, Pei, Trevi√±o, Weiss, and Zacny‚ each dive exactly once, one at a time, from a plane, consistent with the following conditions:Trevi√±o dives from the plane at some time before Weiss does.Larue dives from the plane either first or last...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q9 Passage:Exactly six members of a skydiving team‚ Larue, Ohba, Pei, Trevi√±o, Weiss, and Zacny‚ each dive exactly once, one at a time, from a plane, consistent with the following conditions:Trevi√±o dives from the plane at some time before Weiss does.Larue dives from the plane either first or last...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q10 Passage:Exactly six members of a skydiving team‚ Larue, Ohba, Pei, Trevi√±o, Weiss, and Zacny‚ each dive exactly once, one at a time, from a plane, consistent with the following conditions:Trevi√±o dives from the plane at some time before Weiss does.Larue dives from the plane either first or las...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q11 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q12 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q13 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q14 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q15 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q16 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q17 Passage:A company's six vehicles‚ a hatchback, a limousine, a pickup, a roadster, a sedan, and a van‚ are serviced during a certain week‚ Monday through Saturday‚ one vehicle per day. The following conditions must apply:At least one of the vehicles is serviced later in the week than the hatchbac...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q18 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q19 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q20 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q21 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q22 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S2 Q23 Passage:A street entertainer has six boxes stacked one on top of the other and numbered consecutively 1 through 6, from the lowest box up to the highest. Each box contains a single ball, and each ball is one of three colors‚ green, red, or white. Onlookers are to guess the color of each ball in ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q1 Passage:Commentator: In last week's wreck involving one of Acme Engines' older locomotives, the engineer lost control of the train when his knee accidentally struck a fuel shut-down switch. Acme claims it is not liable because it never realized that the knee-level switches were a safety hazard. W...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q2 Passage:Artist: Almost everyone in this country really wants to be an artist even though they may have to work other jobs to pay the rent. After all, just about everyone I know hopes to someday be able to make a living as a painter, musician, or poet even if they currently work as dishwashers or ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q3 Passage:The qwerty keyboard became the standard keyboard with the invention of the typewriter and remains the standard for typing devices today. If an alternative known as the Dvorak keyboard were today's standard, typists would type significantly faster. Nevertheless, it is not practical to swit...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q4 Passage:Sam: Mountain lions, a protected species, are preying on bighorn sheep, another protected species. We must let nature take its course and hope the bighorns survive.Meli: Nonsense. We must do what we can to ensure the survival of the bighorn, even if that means limiting the mountain lion p...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q5 Passage:Parent: Pushing very young children into rigorous study in an effort to make our nation more competitive does more harm than good. Curricula for these young students must address their special developmental needs, and while rigorous work in secondary school makes sense, the same approach ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q6 Passage:A transit company's bus drivers are evaluated by supervisors riding with each driver. Drivers complain that this affects their performance, but because the supervisor's presence affects every driver's performance, those drivers performing best with a supervisor aboard will likely also be ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q7 Passage:Economic growth accelerates business demand for the development of new technologies. Businesses supplying these new technologies are relatively few, while those wishing to buy them are many. Yet an acceleration of technological change can cause suppliers as well as buyers of new technolog...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q8 Passage:Energy analyst: During this record-breaking heat wave, air conditioner use has overloaded the region's electrical power grid, resulting in frequent power blackouts throughout the region. For this reason, residents have been asked to cut back voluntarily on air conditioner use in their hom...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q9 Passage:Long-term and short-term relaxation training are two common forms of treatment for individuals experiencing problematic levels of anxiety. Yet studies show that on average, regardless of which form of treatment one receives, symptoms of anxiety decrease to a normal level within the short-...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q10 Passage:Editorial: Many critics of consumerism insist that advertising persuades people that they need certain consumer goods when they merely desire them. However, this accusation rests on a fuzzy distinction, that between wants and needs. In life, it is often impossible to determine whether so...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q11 Passage:People who browse the web for medical information often cannot discriminate between scientifically valid information and quackery. Much of the quackery is particularly appealing to readers with no medical background because it is usually written more clearly than scientific papers. Thus,...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q12 Passage:When adults toss balls to very young children they generally try to toss them as slowly as possible to compensate for the children's developing coordination. But recent studies show that despite their developing coordination, children actually have an easier time catching balls that are ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q13 Passage:Like a genetic profile, a functional magnetic-resonance image (fMRI) of the brain can contain information that a patient wishes to keep private. An fMRI of a brain also contains enough information about a patient's skull to create a recognizable image of that patient's face. A genetic pr...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q14 Passage:Council member: I recommend that the abandoned shoe factory be used as a municipal emergency shelter. Some council members assert that the courthouse would be a better shelter site, but they have provided no evidence of this. Thus, the shoe factory would be a better shelter site. Stem:A ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q15 Passage:It was misleading for James to tell the Core Curriculum Committee that the chair of the Anthropology Department had endorsed his proposal. The chair of the Anthropology Department had told James that his proposal had her endorsement, but only if the draft proposal she saw included all th...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q16 Passage:Travaillier Corporation has recently hired employees with experience in the bus tour industry, and its executives have also been negotiating with charter bus companies that subcontract with bus tour companies. But Travaillier has traditionally focused on serving consumers who travel prim...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q17 Passage:Educator: Traditional classroom education is ineffective because education in such an environment is not truly a social process and only social processes can develop students' insights. In the traditional classroom, the teacher acts from outside the group and interaction between teachers...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q18 Passage:The probability of avoiding heart disease is increased if one avoids fat in one's diet. Furthermore, one is less likely to eat fat if one avoids eating dairy foods. Thus the probability of maintaining good health is increased by avoiding dairy foods. Stem:The reasoning in the argument i...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q19 Passage:Professor: One cannot frame an accurate conception of one's physical environment on the basis of a single momentary perception, since each such glimpse occurs from only one particular perspective. Similarly, any history book gives only a distorted view of the past, since it reflects the ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q20 Passage:To date, most of the proposals that have been endorsed by the Citizens League have been passed by the city council. Thus, any future proposal that is endorsed by the Citizens League will probably be passed as well. Stem:The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following arguments is ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q21 Passage:Chemist: The molecules of a certain weed-killer are always present in two forms, one the mirror image of the other. One form of the molecule kills weeds, while the other has no effect on them. As a result, the effectiveness of the weed-killer in a given situation is heavily influenced by...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q22 Passage:Principle: A police officer is eligible for a Mayor's Commendation if the officer has an exemplary record, but not otherwise; an officer eligible for the award who did something this year that exceeded what could be reasonably expected of a police officer should receive the award if the ...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q23 Passage:Essayist: It is much less difficult to live an enjoyable life if one is able to make lifestyle choices that accord with one's personal beliefs and then see those choices accepted by others. It is possible for people to find this kind of acceptance by choosing friends and associates who s...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q24 Passage:Physician: The rise in blood pressure that commonly accompanies aging often results from a calcium deficiency. This deficiency is frequently caused by a deficiency in the active form of vitamin D needed in order for the body to absorb calcium. Since the calcium in one glass of milk per d...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q25 Passage:Political philosopher: A just system of taxation would require each person's contribution to correspond directly to the amount the society as a whole contributes to serve that person's interests. For purposes of taxation, wealth is the most objective way to determine how well the society...
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Question ID:PT63 S3 Q26 Passage:A recent poll showed that almost half of the city's residents believe that Mayor Walker is guilty of ethics violations. Surprisingly, however, 52 percent of those surveyed judged Walker's performance as mayor to be good or excellent, which is no lower than it was before anyone accused hi...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q1 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q2 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q3 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q4 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q5 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q6 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q7 Passage:In Alaska, tradition is a powerful legal concept, appearing in a wide variety of legal contexts relating to natural-resource and public-lands activities. Both state and federal laws in the United States assign privileges and exemptions to individuals engaged in "traditional" activities us...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q8 Passage:The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening (1899), took her through several phases of nineteenth-century women's fiction. Born in 1850, Chopin grew up with the sentimental novels that formed the bulk of the fiction of the mid‚ nineteenth century. In these works, auth...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q9 Passage:The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening (1899), took her through several phases of nineteenth-century women's fiction. Born in 1850, Chopin grew up with the sentimental novels that formed the bulk of the fiction of the mid‚ nineteenth century. In these works, auth...
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Question ID:PT63 S4 Q10 Passage:The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening (1899), took her through several phases of nineteenth-century women's fiction. Born in 1850, Chopin grew up with the sentimental novels that formed the bulk of the fiction of the mid‚ nineteenth century. In these works, aut...
PT63 S4 Q10