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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q7 Passage:Baxe Interiors, one of the largest interior design companies in existence, currently has a near monopoly in the corporate market. Several small design companies have won prestigious awards for their corporate work, while Baxe has won none. Nonetheless, the corporate managers who solicit d...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q8 Passage:The giant Chicxulub crater in Mexico provides indisputable evidence that a huge asteroid, about six miles across, struck Earth around the time many of the last dinosaur species were becoming extinct. But this catastrophe was probably not responsible for most of these extinctions. Any majo...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q9 Passage:In a sample containing 1,000 peanuts from lot A and 1,000 peanuts from lot B, 50 of the peanuts from lot A were found to be infected with Aspergillus. Two hundred of the peanuts from lot B were found to be infected with Aspergillus. Therefore, infection with Aspergillus is more widespread...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q10 Passage:Economist: If the belief were to become widespread that losing one's job is not a sign of personal shortcomings but instead an effect of impersonal social forces (which is surely correct), there would be growth in the societal demand for more government control of the economy to protect...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q11 Passage:A development company has proposed building an airport near the city of Dalton. If the majority of Dalton's residents favor the proposal, the airport will be built. However, it is unlikely that a majority of Dalton's residents would favor the proposal, for most of them believe that the a...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q12 Passage:After the rush-hour speed limit on the British M25 motorway was lowered from 70 miles per hour (115 kilometers per hour) to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour), rush-hour travel times decreased by approximately 15 percent. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to ex...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q13 Passage:An art critic, by ridiculing an artwork, can undermine the pleasure one takes in it; conversely, by lavishing praise upon an artwork, an art critic can render the experience of viewing the artwork more pleasurable. So an artwork's artistic merit can depend not only on the person who crea...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q14 Passage:The number of automobile thefts has declined steadily during the past five years, and it is more likely now than it was five years ago that someone who steals a car will be convicted of the crime. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the facts cited above? Corr...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q15 Passage:Legislator: My staff conducted a poll in which my constituents were asked whether they favor high taxes. More than 97 percent answered "no." Clearly, then, my constituents would support the bill I recently introduced, which reduces the corporate income tax. Stem:The reasoning in the leg...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q16 Passage:Many nursing homes have prohibitions against having pets, and these should be lifted. The presence of an animal companion can yield health benefits by reducing a person's stress. A pet can also make one's time at a home more rewarding, which will be important to more people as the averag...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q17 Passage:Near many cities, contamination of lakes and rivers from pollutants in rainwater runoff exceeds that from industrial discharge. As the runoff washes over buildings and pavements, it picks up oil and other pollutants. Thus, water itself is among the biggest water polluters. Stem:The state...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q18 Passage:Wong: Although all countries are better off as democracies, a transitional autocratic stage is sometimes required before a country can become democratic.Tate: The freedom and autonomy that democracy provides are of genuine value, but the simple material needs of people are more important...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q19 Passage:Principle: When none of the fully qualified candidates for a new position at Arvue Corporation currently works for that company, it should hire the candidate who would be most productive in that position.Application: Arvue should not hire Krall for the new position, because Delacruz is a...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q20 Passage:Many important types of medicine have been developed from substances discovered in plants that grow only in tropical rain forests. There are thousands of plant species in these rain forests that have not yet been studied by scientists, and it is very likely that many such plants also con...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q21 Passage:In modern deep-diving marine mammals, such as whales, the outer shell of the bones is porous. This has the effect of making the bones light enough so that it is easy for the animals to swim back to the surface after a deep dive. The outer shell of the bones was also porous in the ichthyo...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q22 Passage:Librarian: Some argue that the preservation grant we received should be used to restore our original copy of our town's charter, since if the charter is not restored, it will soon deteriorate beyond repair. But this document, although sentimentally important, has no scholarly value. Cop...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q23 Passage:Columnist: Although much has been learned, we are still largely ignorant of the intricate interrelationships among species of living organisms. We should, therefore, try to preserve the maximum number of species if we have an interest in preserving any, since allowing species toward whi...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q24 Passage:One is likely to feel comfortable approaching a stranger if the stranger is of one's approximate age. Therefore, long-term friends are probably of the same approximate age as each other since most long-term friendships begin because someone felt comfortable approaching a stranger. Stem:T...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q25 Passage:There can be no individual freedom without the rule of law, for there is no individual freedom without social integrity, and pursuing the good life is not possible without social integrity. Stem:The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? Correc...
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Question ID:PT61 S4 Q26 Passage:Economist: Countries with an uneducated population are destined to be weak economically and politically, whereas those with an educated population have governments that display a serious financial commitment to public education. So any nation with a government that has made such a commi...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q1 Passage:Jim's teacher asked him to determine whether a sample of a substance contained iron. Jim knew that magnets attract iron, so he placed a magnet near the substance. Jim concluded that the substance did contain iron, because the substance became attached to the magnet. Stem:Jim's reasoning i...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q2 Passage:All the books in the library have their proper shelf locations recorded in the catalog. The book Horatio wants is missing from its place on the library shelves, and no one in the library is using it. Since it is not checked out to a borrower nor awaiting shelving nor part of a special di...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q3 Passage:The level of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere is slightly higher than it was ten years ago. This increase is troubling because ten years ago the Interior Ministry imposed new, stricter regulations on emissions from coal-burning power plants. If these regulations had been followed, then th...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q4 Passage:Ecologist: Landfills are generally designed to hold ten years' worth of waste. Some people maintain that as the number of active landfills consequently dwindles over the coming decade, there will inevitably be a crisis in landfill availability. However, their prediction obviously relies ...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q5 Passage:Recent epidemiological studies report that Country X has the lowest incidence of disease P of any country. Nevertheless, residents of Country X who are reported to have contracted disease P are much more likely to die from it than are residents of any other country. Stem:Which one of the ...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q6 Passage:After an oil spill, rehabilitation centers were set up to save sea otters by removing oil from them. The effort was not worthwhile, however, since 357 affected live otters and 900 that had died were counted, but only 222 affected otters, or 18 percent of those counted, were successfully ...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q7 Passage:Psychologist: Research has shown that a weakened immune system increases vulnerability to cancer. So, cancer-patient support groups, though derided by those who believe that disease is a purely biochemical phenomenon, may indeed have genuine therapeutic value, as it is clear that partici...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q8 Passage:Adobe is an ideal material for building in desert environments. It conducts heat very slowly. As a result, a house built of adobe retains the warmth of the desert sun during the cool evenings and then remains cool during the heat of the day, thereby helping to maintain a pleasant temperat...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q9 Passage:In one study of a particular plant species, 70 percent of the plants studied were reported as having patterned stems. In a second study, which covered approximately the same geographical area, only 40 percent of the plants of that species were reported as having patterned stems. Stem:Whic...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q10 Passage:Letter to the editor: Sites are needed for disposal of contaminated dredge spoils from the local harbor. However, the approach you propose would damage commercial fishing operations. One indication of this is that over 20,000 people have signed petitions opposing your approach and favo...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q11 Passage:Most universities today offer students a more in-depth and cosmopolitan education than ever before. Until recently, for example, most university history courses required only the reading of textbooks that hardly mentioned the history of Africa or Asia after the ancient periods, or the hi...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q12 Passage:The government has recently adopted a policy of publishing airline statistics, including statistics about each airline's number of near collisions and its fines for safety violations. However, such disclosure actually undermines the government's goal of making the public more informed ab...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q13 Passage:Many economists claim that financial rewards provide the strongest incentive for people to choose one job over another. But in many surveys, most people do not name high salary as the most desirable feature of a job. This shows that these economists overestimate the degree to which peopl...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q14 Passage:Editorial: A proposed new law would limit elementary school class sizes to a maximum of 20 students. Most parents support this measure and argue that making classes smaller allows teachers to devote more time to each student, with the result that students become more engaged in the lear...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q15 Passage:Camille: Manufacturers of water-saving faucets exaggerate the amount of money such faucets can save. Because the faucets handle such a low volume of water, people using them often let the water run longer than they would otherwise. Rebecca: It is true that showering now takes longer. N...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q16 Passage:Company spokesperson: In lieu of redesigning our plants, our company recently launched an environmental protection campaign to buy and dispose of old cars, which are generally highly pollutive. Our plants account for just 4 percent of the local air pollution, while automobiles that pre...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q17 Passage:Humankind would not have survived, as it clearly has, if our ancestors had not been motivated by the desire to sacrifice themselves when doing so would ensure the survival of their children or other close relatives. But since even this kind of sacrifice is a form of altruism, it follows ...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q18 Passage:Bus driver: Had the garbage truck not been exceeding the speed limit, it would not have collided with the bus I was driving. I, on the other hand, was abiding by all traffic regulations‚ as the police report confirms. Therefore, although I might have been able to avoid the collision had ...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q19 Passage: Stem:Item removed from scoring. Correct Answer Choice:Choice A: Choice B: Choice C: Choice D: Choice E:
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q20 Passage:Historian: Radio drama requires its listeners to think about what they hear, picturing for themselves such dramatic elements as characters' physical appearances and spatial relationships. Hence, while earlier generations, for whom radio drama was the dominant form of popular entertainme...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q21 Passage:Each of the candidates in this year's mayoral election is a small-business owner. Most small-business owners are competent managers. Moreover, no competent manager lacks the skills necessary to be a good mayor. So, most of the candidates in this year's mayoral election have the skills ne...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q22 Passage:One of the most useful social conventions is money, whose universality across societies is matched only by language. Unlike language, which is rooted in an innate ability, money is an artificial, human invention. Hence, it seems probable that the invention of money occurred independently...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q23 Passage:Libel is defined as damaging the reputation of someone by making false statements. Ironically, strong laws against libel can make it impossible for anyone in the public eye to have a good reputation. For the result of strong libel laws is that, for fear of lawsuits, no one will say anyth...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q24 Passage:Mammals cannot digest cellulose and therefore cannot directly obtain glucose from wood. Mushrooms can, however; and some mushrooms use cellulose to make highly branched polymers, the branches of which are a form of glucose called beta-glucans. Beta-glucan extracts from various types of m...
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Question ID:PT60 S1 Q25 Passage:A law is successful primarily because the behavior it prescribes has attained the status of custom. Just as manners are observed not because of sanctions attached to them but because, through repetition, contrary behavior becomes unthinkable, so societal laws are obeyed not because the b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q1 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q2 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q3 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q4 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q5 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q6 Passage:A community center will host six arts-and-crafts workshops‚ Jewelry, Kite-making, Needlepoint, Quilting, Rug-making, and Scrapbooking. The workshops will be given on three consecutive days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Each workshop will be given once, and exactly two workshops will b...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q7 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which t...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q8 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which t...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q9 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which t...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q10 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q11 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q12 Passage:Exactly six actors‚ Geyer, Henson, Jhalani, Lin, Mitchell, and Paredes‚ will appear one after another in the opening credits of a television program. Their contracts contain certain restrictions that affect the order in which they can appear. Given these restrictions, the order in which ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q13 Passage:Over the course of one day, a landscaper will use a truck to haul exactly seven loads‚ three loads of mulch and four loads of stone. The truck's cargo bed will be cleaned in between carrying any two loads of different materials. To meet the landscaper's needs as efficiently as possible, ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q14 Passage:Over the course of one day, a landscaper will use a truck to haul exactly seven loads‚ three loads of mulch and four loads of stone. The truck's cargo bed will be cleaned in between carrying any two loads of different materials. To meet the landscaper's needs as efficiently as possible, ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q15 Passage:Over the course of one day, a landscaper will use a truck to haul exactly seven loads‚ three loads of mulch and four loads of stone. The truck's cargo bed will be cleaned in between carrying any two loads of different materials. To meet the landscaper's needs as efficiently as possible, ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q16 Passage:Over the course of one day, a landscaper will use a truck to haul exactly seven loads‚ three loads of mulch and four loads of stone. The truck's cargo bed will be cleaned in between carrying any two loads of different materials. To meet the landscaper's needs as efficiently as possible, ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q17 Passage:Over the course of one day, a landscaper will use a truck to haul exactly seven loads‚ three loads of mulch and four loads of stone. The truck's cargo bed will be cleaned in between carrying any two loads of different materials. To meet the landscaper's needs as efficiently as possible, ...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q18 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q19 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q20 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q21 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q22 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S2 Q23 Passage:A travel magazine has hired six interns‚ Farber, Gombarick, Hall, Jackson, Kanze, and Lha‚ to assist in covering three stories‚ Romania, Spain, and Tuscany. Each intern will be trained either as a photographer's assistant or as a writer's assistant. Each story is assigned a team of two i...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q1 Passage:A research study revealed that, in most cases, once existing highways near urban areas are widened and extended in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion and resulting delays for motorists, these problems actually increase rather than decrease. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, m...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q2 Passage:A study found that consumers reaching supermarket checkout lines within 40 minutes after the airing of an advertisement for a given product over the store's audio system were significantly more likely to purchase the product advertised than were consumers who checked out prior to the airi...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q3 Passage:Unless the building permit is obtained by February 1 of this year or some of the other activities necessary for construction of the new library can be completed in less time than originally planned, the new library will not be completed on schedule. It is now clear that the building permi...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q4 Passage:In a study of patients who enrolled at a sleep clinic because of insomnia, those who inhaled the scent of peppermint before going to bed were more likely to have difficulty falling asleep than were patients who inhaled the scent of bitter orange. Since it is known that inhaling bitter ora...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q5 Passage:Dogs learn best when they are trained using both voice commands and hand signals. After all, a recent study shows that dogs who were trained using both voice commands and hand signals were twice as likely to obey as were dogs who were trained using only voice commands. Stem:The claim that...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q6 Passage:Of the many test pilots who have flown the new plane, none has found it difficult to operate. So it is unlikely that the test pilot flying the plane tomorrow will find it difficult to operate. Stem:The reasoning in which one of the following arguments is most similar to the reasoning in t...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q7 Passage:Scientist: Any theory that is to be taken seriously must affect our perception of the world. Of course, this is not, in itself, enough for a theory to be taken seriously. To see this, one need only consider astrology. Stem:The point of the scientist's mentioning astrology in the argument ...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q8 Passage:Clark: Our local community theater often produces plays by critically acclaimed playwrights. In fact, the production director says that critical acclaim is one of the main factors considered in the selection of plays to perform. So, since my neighbor Michaela's new play will be performed...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q9 Passage:Legal theorist: Governments should not be allowed to use the personal diaries of an individual who is the subject of a criminal prosecution as evidence against that individual. A diary is a silent conversation with oneself and there is no relevant difference between speaking to oneself, w...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q10 Passage:A ring of gas emitting X-rays flickering 450 times per second has been observed in a stable orbit around a black hole. In light of certain widely accepted physical theories, that rate of flickering can best be explained if the ring of gas has a radius of 49 kilometers. But the gas ring c...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q11 Passage:A mass of "black water" containing noxious organic material swept through Laurel Bay last year. Some scientists believe that this event was a naturally occurring but infrequent phenomenon. The black water completely wiped out five species of coral in the bay, including mounds of coral th...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q12 Passage:Many nurseries sell fruit trees that they label "miniature." Not all nurseries, however, use this term in the same way. While some nurseries label any nectarine trees of the Stark Sweet Melody variety as "miniature," for example, others do not. One thing that is clear is that if a variet...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q13 Passage:Psychologist: Identical twins are virtually the same genetically. Moreover, according to some studies, identical twins separated at birth and brought up in vastly different environments show a strong tendency to report similar ethical beliefs, dress in the same way, and have similar care...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q14 Passage:Human beings can live happily only in a society where love and friendship are the primary motives for actions. Yet economic needs can be satisfied in the absence of this condition, as, for example, in a merchant society where only economic utility motivates action. It is obvious then tha...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q15 Passage:Technologically, it is already possible to produce nonpolluting cars that burn hydrogen rather than gasoline. But the national system of fuel stations that would be needed to provide the hydrogen fuel for such cars does not yet exist. However, this infrastructure is likely to appear and ...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q16 Passage:Wildlife management experts should not interfere with the natural habitats of creatures in the wild, because manipulating the environment to make it easier for an endangered species to survive in a habitat invariably makes it harder for nonendangered species to survive in that habitat. S...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q17 Passage:Any food that is not sterilized and sealed can contain disease-causing bacteria. Once sterilized and properly sealed, however, it contains no bacteria. There are many different acceptable food-preservation techniques; each involves either sterilizing and sealing food or else at least slo...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q18 Passage:Activities that pose risks to life are acceptable if and only if each person who bears the risks either gains some net benefit that cannot be had without such risks, or bears the risks voluntarily. Stem:Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the principle above? Co...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q19 Passage:Ecologist: One theory attributes the ability of sea butterflies to avoid predation to their appearance, while another attributes this ability to various chemical compounds they produce. Recently we added each of the compounds to food pellets, one compound per pellet. Predators ate the p...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q20 Passage:Principle: One should criticize the works or actions of another person only if the criticism will not seriously harm the person criticized and one does so in the hope or expectation of benefiting someone other than oneself.Application: Jarrett should not have criticized Ostertag's essay ...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q21 Passage:Safety consultant: Judged by the number of injuries per licensed vehicle, minivans are the safest vehicles on the road. However, in carefully designed crash tests, minivans show no greater ability to protect their occupants than other vehicles of similar size do. Thus, the reason miniva...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q22 Passage:Consumer advocate: There is no doubt that the government is responsible for the increased cost of gasoline, because the government's policies have significantly increased consumer demand for fuel, and as a result of increasing demand, the price of gasoline has risen steadily. Stem:Which...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q23 Passage:A species in which mutations frequently occur will develop new evolutionary adaptations in each generation. Since species survive dramatic environmental changes only if they develop new evolutionary adaptations in each generation, a species in which mutations frequently occur will surviv...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q24 Passage:Music critic: How well an underground rock group's recordings sell is no mark of that group's success as an underground group. After all, if a recording sells well, it may be because some of the music on the recording is too trendy to be authentically underground; accordingly, many unde...
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Question ID:PT60 S3 Q25 Passage:Graham: The defeat of the world's chess champion by a computer shows that any type of human intellectual activity governed by fixed principles can be mastered by machines and thus that a truly intelligent machine will inevitably be devised.Adelaide: But you are overlooking the fact tha...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q1 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q2 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q3 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q4 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q5 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q6 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
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Question ID:PT60 S4 Q7 Passage:Over the past 50 years, expansive, low-density communities have proliferated at the edges of many cities in the United States and Canada, creating a phenomenon known as suburban sprawl. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, a group of prominent town planners belonging to ...
PT60 S4 Q7