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Question ID:PT58 S4 Q4 Passage:Linguist: Most people can tell whether a sequence of words in their own dialect is grammatical. Yet few people who can do so are able to specify the relevant grammatical rules. Stem:Which one of the following best illustrates the principle underlying the linguist's statements? Correct ... | PT58 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q5 Passage:Company president: For the management consultant position, we shall interview only those applicants who have worked for management consulting firms generally recognized as in the top 1 percent of firms worldwide. When we finally select somebody, then, we can be sure to have selected one ... | PT58 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q6 Passage:Beginners typically decide each chess move by considering the consequences. Expert players, in contrast, primarily use pattern-recognition techniques. That is, such a player recognizes having been in a similar position before and makes a decision based on information recalled about the co... | PT58 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q7 Passage:Farmer: Because water content is what makes popcorn pop, the kernels must dry at just the right speed to trap the correct amount of water. The best way to achieve this effect is to have the sun dry the corn while the corn is still in the field, but I always dry the ears on a screen in a ... | PT58 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q8 Passage:Factory manager: One reason the automobile parts this factory produces are expensive is that our manufacturing equipment is outdated and inefficient. Our products would be more competitively priced if we were to refurbish the factory completely with new, more efficient equipment. There... | PT58 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q9 Passage:Two months ago a major shipment of pythons arrived from Africa, resulting in a great number of inexpensive pythons in pet stores. Anyone interested in buying a python, however, should beware: many pythons hatched in Africa are afflicted with a deadly liver disease. Although a few pythons... | PT58 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q10 Passage:Nutritionists believe that a person's daily requirement for vitamins can readily be met by eating five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. However, most people eat far less than this. Thus, most people need to take vitamin pills. Stem:Which one of the following statements, if true, ... | PT58 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q11 Passage:Researcher: This fall I returned to a research site to recover the armadillos I had tagged there the previous spring. Since a large majority of the armadillos I recaptured were found within a few hundred yards of the location of their tagging last spring, I concluded that armadillos do ... | PT58 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q12 Passage:Sahira: To make a living from their art, artists of great potential would have to produce work that would gain widespread popular acclaim, instead of their best work. That is why governments are justified in subsidizing artists. Rahima: Your argument for subsidizing art depends on clai... | PT58 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q13 Passage:Adult frogs are vulnerable to dehydration because of their highly permeable skins. Unlike large adult frogs, small adult frogs have such a low ratio of body weight to skin surface area that they cannot survive in arid climates. The animals' moisture requirements constitute the most imp... | PT58 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q14 Passage:Editorial: A recent survey shows that 77 percent of people feel that crime is increasing and that 87 percent feel the judicial system should be handing out tougher sentences. Therefore, the government must firmly address the rising crime rate. Stem:The reasoning in the editorial's argum... | PT58 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q15 Passage:Proofs relying crucially on computers provide less certainty than do proofs not requiring computers. Human cognition alone cannot verify computer-dependent proofs; such proofs can never provide the degree of certainty that attends our judgments concerning, for instance, simple arithmetic... | PT58 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q16 Passage:Madden: Industrialists address problems by simplifying them, but in farming that strategy usually leads to oversimplification. For example, industrialists see water retention and drainage as different and opposite functions‚ that good topsoil both drains and retains water is a fact alie... | PT58 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q17 Passage:Critic: Works of modern literature cannot be tragedies as those of ancient playwrights and storytellers were unless their protagonists are seen as possessing nobility, which endures through the calamities that befall one. In an age that no longer takes seriously the belief that human en... | PT58 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q18 Passage:Despite the efforts of a small minority of graduate students at one university to unionize, the majority of graduate students there remain unaware of the attempt. Most of those who are aware believe that a union would not represent their interests or that, if it did, it would not effecti... | PT58 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q19 Passage:Anyone who believes in democracy has a high regard for the wisdom of the masses. Griley, however, is an elitist who believes that any artwork that is popular is unlikely to be good. Thus, Griley does not believe in democracy. Stem:The conclusion follows logically if which one of the foll... | PT58 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q20 Passage:A recent study confirmed that salt intake tends to increase blood pressure and found that, as a result, people with high blood pressure who significantly cut their salt intake during the study had lower blood pressure by the end of the study. However, it was also found that some people w... | PT58 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q21 Passage:The odds of winning any major lottery jackpot are extremely slight. However, the very few people who do win major jackpots receive a great deal of attention from the media. Thus, since most people come to have at least some awareness of events that receive extensive media coverage, it is... | PT58 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q22 Passage:A book tour will be successful if it is well publicized and the author is an established writer. Julia is an established writer, and her book tour was successful. So her book tour must have been well publicized. Stem:Which one of the following exhibits a pattern of flawed reasoning most ... | PT58 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q23 Passage:Eight large craters run in a long straight line across a geographical region. Although some of the craters contain rocks that have undergone high-pressure shocks characteristic of meteorites slamming into Earth, these shocks could also have been caused by extreme volcanic events. Because... | PT58 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q24 Passage:The genuine creative genius is someone who is dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs; thus these rare innovators tend to anger the majority. Those who are dissatisfied with merely habitual assent to widely held beliefs tend to seek out controversy, and controvers... | PT58 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT58 S4 Q25 Passage:Claude: When I'm having lunch with job candidates, I watch to see if they salt their food without first tasting it. If they do, I count that against them, because they're making decisions based on inadequate information.Larissa: That's silly. It's perfectly reasonable for me to wear a ... | PT58 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q1 Passage:On a particular Saturday, a student will perform six activities‚ grocery shopping, hedge trimming, jogging, kitchen cleaning, laundry, and motorbike servicing. Each activity will be performed once, one at a time. The order in which the activities are performed is subject to the following ... | PT57 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q2 Passage:On a particular Saturday, a student will perform six activities‚ grocery shopping, hedge trimming, jogging, kitchen cleaning, laundry, and motorbike servicing. Each activity will be performed once, one at a time. The order in which the activities are performed is subject to the following ... | PT57 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q3 Passage:On a particular Saturday, a student will perform six activities‚ grocery shopping, hedge trimming, jogging, kitchen cleaning, laundry, and motorbike servicing. Each activity will be performed once, one at a time. The order in which the activities are performed is subject to the following ... | PT57 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q4 Passage:On a particular Saturday, a student will perform six activities‚ grocery shopping, hedge trimming, jogging, kitchen cleaning, laundry, and motorbike servicing. Each activity will be performed once, one at a time. The order in which the activities are performed is subject to the following ... | PT57 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q5 Passage:On a particular Saturday, a student will perform six activities‚ grocery shopping, hedge trimming, jogging, kitchen cleaning, laundry, and motorbike servicing. Each activity will be performed once, one at a time. The order in which the activities are performed is subject to the following ... | PT57 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q6 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mus... | PT57 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q7 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mus... | PT57 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q8 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mus... | PT57 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q9 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mus... | PT57 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q10 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mu... | PT57 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q11 Passage:Each of exactly three actors‚ Gombrich, Otto, and Raines‚ auditions for parts on exactly two of the following days of a particular week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days at least one of the actors auditions for parts. The order of that week's auditions mu... | PT57 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q12 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q13 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q14 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q15 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q16 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q17 Passage:Each of seven toy dinosaurs‚ an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor‚ is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of these toys. The display must meet the foll... | PT57 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q18 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q19 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q20 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q21 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q22 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT57 S1 Q23 Passage:A charitable foundation awards grants in exactly four areas‚ medical services, theater arts, wildlife preservation, and youth services‚ each grant being in one of these areas. One or more grants are awarded in each of the four quarters of a calendar year. Additionally, over the course of... | PT57 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q1 Passage:Many doctors cater to patients' demands that they be prescribed antibiotics for their colds. However, colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics have no effect on viruses, and so antibiotics have no effect on colds. Such treatments are also problematic because antibiotics can have dange... | PT57 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q2 Passage:Long-distance runners use two different kinds of cognitive strategies: "associative" and "dissociative." Associative strategies involve attending closely to physical sensations, while dissociative strategies involve mostly ignoring physical sensations. Associative strategies, unlike diss... | PT57 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q3 Passage:MetroBank made loans to ten small companies, in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $100,000. These ten loans all had graduated payment plans, i.e., the scheduled monthly loan payment increased slightly each month over the five-year term of the loan. Nonetheless, the average payment received b... | PT57 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q4 Passage:Professor: A guest speaker recently delivered a talk entitled "The Functions of Democratic Governments" to a Political Ideologies class at this university. The talk was carefully researched and theoretical in nature. But two students who disagreed with the theory hurled vicious taunts at... | PT57 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q5 Passage:Studies reveal that most people select the foods they eat primarily on the basis of flavor, and that nutrition is usually a secondary concern at best. This suggests that health experts would have more success in encouraging people to eat wholesome foods if they emphasized how flavorful th... | PT57 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q6 Passage:Studies show that individuals with a high propensity for taking risks tend to have fewer ethical principles to which they consciously adhere in their business interactions than do most people. On the other hand, individuals with a strong desire to be accepted socially tend to have more su... | PT57 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q7 Passage:Essayist: Lessing contended that an art form's medium dictates the kind of representation the art form must employ in order to be legitimate; painting, for example, must represent simultaneous arrays of colored shapes, while literature, consisting of words read in succession, must repres... | PT57 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q8 Passage:A psychiatrist argued that there is no such thing as a multiple personality disorder on the grounds that in all her years of clinical practice, she had never encountered one case of this type. Stem:Which one of the following most closely parallels the questionable reasoning cited above? C... | PT57 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q9 Passage:Even if many more people in the world excluded meat from their diet, world hunger would not thereby be significantly reduced. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most calls into question the claim above? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Hunger often results from natural disasters lik... | PT57 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q10 Passage:Dairy farmer: On our farm, we have great concern for our cows' environmental conditions. We have recently made improvements that increase their comfort, such as providing them with special sleeping mattresses. These changes are intended to increase blood flow to the udder. This increase... | PT57 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q11 Passage:Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers to self-revelation. This promotes a degree of intimacy with strangers that would otherwise take years of direct personal contact to attain. Amar: Frankness is not intimacy. Intimacy requires a real social bond, and social bonds can... | PT57 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q12 Passage:Criminologist: The main purpose of most criminal organizations is to generate profits. The ongoing revolutions in biotechnology and information technology promise to generate enormous profits. Therefore, criminal organizations will undoubtedly try to become increasingly involved in thes... | PT57 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q13 Passage:Administrators of educational institutions are enthusiastic about the educational use of computers because they believe that it will enable schools to teach far more courses with far fewer teachers than traditional methods allow. Many teachers fear computers for the same reason. But this... | PT57 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q14 Passage:Scientists have shown that older bees, which usually forage outside the hive for food, tend to have larger brains than do younger bees, which usually do not forage but instead remain in the hive to tend to newly hatched bees. Since foraging requires greater cognitive ability than does te... | PT57 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q15 Passage:Carla: Professors at public universities should receive paid leaves of absence to allow them to engage in research. Research not only advances human knowledge, but also improves professors' teaching by keeping them abreast of the latest information in their fields.David: But even if yo... | PT57 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q16 Passage:Software reviewer: Dictation software allows a computer to produce a written version of sentences that are spoken to it. Although dictation software has been promoted as a labor-saving invention, it fails to live up to its billing. The laborious part of writing is in the thinking and th... | PT57 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q17 Passage:Poetry journal patron: Everybody who publishes in The Brick Wall Review has to agree in advance that if a poem is printed in one of its regular issues, the magazine also has the right to reprint it, without monetary compensation, in its annual anthology. The Brick Wall Review makes enou... | PT57 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q18 Passage:No one with a serious medical problem would rely on the average person to prescribe treatment. Similarly, since a good public servant has the interest of the public at heart, _______. Stem:Which one of the following statements would most reasonably complete the argument? Correct Answer C... | PT57 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q19 Passage:Team captain: Winning requires the willingness to cooperate, which in turn requires motivation. So you will not win if you are not motivated. Stem:The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following is most similar to that in the argument above? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Being ... | PT57 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q20 Passage:In the past, when there was no highway speed limit, the highway accident rate increased yearly, peaking a decade ago. At that time, the speed limit on highways was set at 90 kilometers per hour (kph) (55 miles per hour). Every year since the introduction of the highway speed limit, the h... | PT57 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q21 Passage:Editorial: It is a travesty of justice, social critics say, that we can launch rockets into outer space but cannot solve social problems that have plagued humanity. The assumption underlying this assertion is that there are greater difficulties involved in a space launch than are involv... | PT57 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q22 Passage:Archaeologist: After the last ice age, groups of paleohumans left Siberia and crossed the Bering land bridge, which no longer exists, into North America. Archaeologists have discovered in Siberia a cache of Clovis points‚ the distinctive stone spear points made by paleohumans. This show... | PT57 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q23 Passage:Taxi drivers, whose income is based on the fares they receive, usually decide when to finish work each day by setting a daily income target; they stop when they reach that target. This means that they typically work fewer hours on a busy day than on a slow day. Stem:The facts described a... | PT57 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q24 Passage:Sometimes one reads a poem and believes that the poem expresses contradictory ideas, even if it is a great poem. So it is wrong to think that the meaning of a poem is whatever the author intends to communicate to the reader by means of the poem. No one who is writing a great poem intends... | PT57 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q25 Passage:The law of the city of Weston regarding contributions to mayoral campaigns is as follows: all contributions to these campaigns in excess of $100 made by nonresidents of Weston who are not former residents of Weston must be registered with the city council. Brimley's mayoral campaign cle... | PT57 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT57 S2 Q26 Passage:Historian: Flavius, an ancient Roman governor who believed deeply in the virtues of manual labor and moral temperance, actively sought to discourage the arts by removing state financial support for them. Also, Flavius was widely unpopular among his subjects, as we can conclude from the ... | PT57 S2 Q26 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q1 Passage:Educators studied the performance of 200 students in a university's history classes. They found that those students who performed the best had either part-time jobs or full-time jobs, had their history classes early in the morning, and had a very limited social life, whereas those student... | PT57 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q2 Passage:Politician: Most of those at the meeting were not persuaded by Kuyler's argument, nor should they have been, for Kuyler's argument implied that it would be improper to enter into a contract with the government; and yet‚ as many people know‚ Kuyler's company has had numerous lucrative con... | PT57 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q3 Passage:Although free international trade allows countries to specialize, which in turn increases productivity, such specialization carries risks. After all, small countries often rely on one or two products for the bulk of their exports. If those products are raw materials, the supply is finite ... | PT57 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q4 Passage:Two randomly selected groups of 30 adults each were asked to write short stories on a particular topic. One group was told that the best stories would be awarded cash prizes, while the other group was not told of any prizes. Each story was evaluated by a team of judges who were given no ... | PT57 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q5 Passage:Hernandez: I recommend that staff cars be replaced every four years instead of every three years. Three-year-old cars are still in good condition and this would result in big savings.Green: I disagree. Some of our salespeople with big territories wear out their cars in three years.Her... | PT57 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q6 Passage:Economist: As should be obvious, raising the minimum wage significantly would make it more expensive for businesses to pay workers for minimum-wage jobs. Therefore, businesses could not afford to continue to employ as many workers for such jobs. So raising the minimum wage significantly ... | PT57 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q7 Passage:Scientists removed all viruses from a seawater sample and then measured the growth rate of the plankton population in the water. They expected the rate to increase dramatically, but the population actually got smaller. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the un... | PT57 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q8 Passage:City council member: The Senior Guild has asked for a temporary exception to the ordinance prohibiting automobiles in municipal parks. Their case does appear to deserve the exception. However, if we grant this exception, we will find ourselves granting many other exceptions to this ordin... | PT57 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q9 Passage:Physician: In comparing our country with two other countries of roughly the same population size, I found that even though we face the same dietary, bacterial, and stress-related causes of ulcers as they do, prescriptions for ulcer medicines in all socioeconomic strata are much rarer her... | PT57 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q10 Passage:Columnist: The failure of bicyclists to obey traffic regulations is a causal factor in more than one quarter of the traffic accidents involving bicycles. Since inadequate bicycle safety equipment is also a factor in more than a quarter of such accidents, bicyclists are at least partiall... | PT57 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q11 Passage:Many vaccines create immunity to viral diseases by introducing a certain portion of the disease-causing virus's outer coating into the body. Exposure to that part of a virus is as effective as exposure to the whole virus in stimulating production of antibodies that will subsequently rec... | PT57 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q12 Passage:Editorial: To qualify as an effective law, as opposed to merely an impressive declaration, a command must be backed up by an effective enforcement mechanism. That is why societies have police. The power of the police to enforce a society's laws makes those laws effective. But there is c... | PT57 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q13 Passage:Art historian: More than any other genre of representational painting, still-life painting lends itself naturally to art whose goal is the artist's self-expression, rather than merely the reflection of a preexisting external reality. This is because in still-life painting, the artist in... | PT57 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q14 Passage:Food labeling regulation: Food of a type that does not ordinarily contain fat cannot be labeled "nonfat" unless most people mistakenly believe the food ordinarily contains fat. If most people mistakenly believe that a food ordinarily contains fat, the food may be labeled "nonfat" if the... | PT57 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q15 Passage:Medical ethicist: Assuming there is a reasonable chance for a cure, it is acceptable to offer experimental treatments for a disease to patients who suffer from extreme symptoms of that disease. Such patients are best able to weigh a treatment's risks against the benefits of a cure. Ther... | PT57 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q16 Passage:Critic: As modern methods of communication and transportation have continued to improve, the pace of life today has become faster than ever before. This speed has created feelings of impermanence and instability, making us feel as if we never have enough time to achieve what we want‚ or... | PT57 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q17 Passage:Consumer: If you buy a watch at a department store and use it only in the way it was intended to be used, but the watch stops working the next day, then the department store will refund your money. So by this very reasonable standard, Bingham's Jewelry Store should give me a refund even ... | PT57 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q18 Passage:A study found that patients referred by their doctors to psychotherapists practicing a new experimental form of therapy made more progress with respect to their problems than those referred to psychotherapists practicing traditional forms of therapy. Therapists practicing the new form of... | PT57 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q19 Passage:Essayist: One of the drawbacks of extreme personal and political freedom is that free choices are often made for the worst. To expect people to thrive when they are given the freedom to make unwise decisions is frequently unrealistic. Once people see the destructive consequences of extr... | PT57 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q20 Passage:Ethicist: Every moral action is the keeping of an agreement, and keeping an agreement is nothing more than an act of securing mutual benefit. Clearly, however, not all instances of agreement-keeping are moral actions. Therefore, some acts of securing mutual benefit are not moral actions... | PT57 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q21 Passage:Sociologist: The more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members' resistance to technological innovations. This is not surprising, because the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks. Specifically, peop... | PT57 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q22 Passage:To win democratic elections that are not fully subsidized by the government, nonwealthy candidates must be supported by wealthy patrons. This makes plausible the belief that these candidates will compromise their views to win that support. But since the wealthy are dispersed among the va... | PT57 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q23 Passage:In modern "brushless" car washes, cloth strips called mitters have replaced brushes. Mitters are easier on most cars' finishes than brushes are. This is especially important with the new clear-coat finishes found on many cars today, which are more easily scratched than older finishes are... | PT57 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q24 Passage:It is widely believed that lancelets‚ small, primitive sea animals‚ do not have hearts. Each lancelet has a contracting vessel, but this vessel is considered an artery rather than a heart. However, this vessel is indeed a heart. After all, it strongly resembles the structure of the heart... | PT57 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT57 S3 Q25 Passage:Manager: I recommend that our company reconsider the decision to completely abandon our allegedly difficult-to-use computer software and replace it companywide with a new software package advertised as more flexible and easier to use. Several other companies in our region officially re... | PT57 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT57 S4 Q1 Passage:The United States government agency responsible for overseeing television and radio broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), had an early history of addressing only the concerns of parties with an economic interest in broadcasting‚ chiefly broadcasting companies. The rig... | PT57 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT57 S4 Q2 Passage:The United States government agency responsible for overseeing television and radio broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), had an early history of addressing only the concerns of parties with an economic interest in broadcasting‚ chiefly broadcasting companies. The rig... | PT57 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT57 S4 Q3 Passage:The United States government agency responsible for overseeing television and radio broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), had an early history of addressing only the concerns of parties with an economic interest in broadcasting‚ chiefly broadcasting companies. The rig... | PT57 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT57 S4 Q4 Passage:The United States government agency responsible for overseeing television and radio broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), had an early history of addressing only the concerns of parties with an economic interest in broadcasting‚ chiefly broadcasting companies. The rig... | PT57 S4 Q4 |
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