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Question ID:PT56 S4 Q5 Passage:With his first published works in the 1950s, Amos Tutuola became the first Nigerian writer to receive wide international recognition. Written in a mix of standard English, idiomatic Nigerian English, and literal translation of his native language, Yoruba, Tutuola's works were quick to be ... | PT56 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q6 Passage:With his first published works in the 1950s, Amos Tutuola became the first Nigerian writer to receive wide international recognition. Written in a mix of standard English, idiomatic Nigerian English, and literal translation of his native language, Yoruba, Tutuola's works were quick to be ... | PT56 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q7 Passage:With his first published works in the 1950s, Amos Tutuola became the first Nigerian writer to receive wide international recognition. Written in a mix of standard English, idiomatic Nigerian English, and literal translation of his native language, Yoruba, Tutuola's works were quick to be ... | PT56 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q8 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs at... | PT56 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q9 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs at... | PT56 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q10 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q11 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q12 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q13 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q14 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q15 Passage:Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, regardless of an organism's social or mental complexity. Improvements in the general understanding of these mechanisms have turned some biologists' attention to the question of why kin recognition occurs ... | PT56 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q16 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q17 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q18 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q19 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q20 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q21 Passage:Passage AThere is no universally accepted definition within international law for the term "national minority." It is most commonly applied to (1) groups of persons‚ not necessarily citizens‚ under the jurisdiction of one country who have ethnic ties to another "homeland" country, or (2... | PT56 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q22 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q23 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q24 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q25 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q26 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT56 S4 Q27 Passage:During most of the nineteenth century, many French women continued to be educated according to models long established by custom and religious tradition. One recent observer has termed the failure to institute real and lasting educational reform at the end of the eighteenth century a "m... | PT56 S4 Q27 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q1 Passage:The editor of a magazine has pointed out several errors of spelling and grammar committed on a recent TV program. But she can hardly be trusted to pass judgment on such matters: similar errors have been found in her own magazine. Stem:The flawed reasoning in the argument above is most sim... | PT55 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q2 Passage:Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without presoaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked. Stem:Which one of the following... | PT55 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q3 Passage:Durth: Increasingly, businesses use direct mail advertising instead of paying for advertising space in newspapers, in magazines, or on billboards. This practice is annoying and also immoral. Most direct mail advertisements are thrown out without ever being read, and the paper on which the... | PT55 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q4 Passage:Among the various models of Delta vacuum cleaners, one cannot accurately predict how effectively a particular model cleans simply by determining how powerful its motor is. The efficiency of dust filtration systems varies significantly, even between models of Delta vacuum cleaners equipped... | PT55 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q5 Passage:Many scientists believe that bipedal locomotion (walking on two feet) evolved in early hominids in response to the move from life in dense forests to life in open grasslands. Bipedalism would have allowed early hominids to see over tall grasses, helping them to locate food and to detect a... | PT55 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q6 Passage:Mathematics teacher: Teaching students calculus before they attend university may significantly benefit them. Yet if students are taught calculus before they are ready for the level of abstraction involved, they may abandon the study of mathematics altogether. So if we are going to teach ... | PT55 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q7 Passage:In 1955, legislation in a certain country gave the government increased control over industrial workplace safety conditions. Among the high-risk industries in that country, the likelihood that a worker will suffer a serious injury has decreased since 1955. The legislation, therefore, has ... | PT55 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q8 Passage:Economist: Historically, sunflower seed was one of the largest production crops in Kalotopia, and it continues to be a major source of income for several countries. The renewed growing of sunflowers would provide relief to Kalotopia's farming industry, which is quite unstable. Further, su... | PT55 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q9 Passage:Several major earthquakes have occurred in a certain region over the last ten years. But a new earthquake prediction method promises to aid local civil defense officials in deciding exactly when to evacuate various towns. Detected before each of these major quakes were certain changes in ... | PT55 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q10 Passage:Unlike many machines that are perfectly useful in isolation from others, fax machines must work with other fax machines. Thus, in the fax industry, the proliferation of incompatible formats, which resulted from the large number of competing manufacturers, severely limited the usefulness... | PT55 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q11 Passage:In comparing different methods by which a teacher's performance can be evaluated and educational outcomes improved, researchers found that a critique of teacher performance leads to enhanced educational outcomes if the critique is accompanied by the information that teacher performance ... | PT55 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q12 Passage:Critic: A novel cannot be of the highest quality unless most readers become emotionally engaged with the imaginary world it describes. Thus shifts of narrative point of view within a novel, either between first and third person or of some other sort, detract from the merit of the work, ... | PT55 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q13 Passage:People aged 46 to 55 spend more money per capita than people of any other age group. So it is puzzling that when companies advertise consumer products on television, they focus almost exclusively on people aged 25 and under. Indeed, those who make decisions about television advertising ... | PT55 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q14 Passage:Eighteenth-century moralist: You should never make an effort to acquire expensive new tastes, since they are a drain on your purse and in the course of acquiring them you may expose yourself to sensations that are obnoxious to you. Furthermore, the very effort that must be expended in t... | PT55 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q15 Passage:Zack's Coffeehouse schedules free poetry readings almost every Wednesday. Zack's offers half-priced coffee all day on every day that a poetry reading is scheduled. Stem:Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the information above? Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:Wednes... | PT55 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q16 Passage:Philosopher: An event is intentional if it is a human action performed on the basis of a specific motivation. An event is random if it is not performed on the basis of a specific motivation and it is not explainable by normal physical processes. Stem:Which one of the following inference... | PT55 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q17 Passage:It is a mistake to conclude, as some have, that ancient people did not know what moral rights were simply because no known ancient language has an expression correctly translatable as "a moral right." This would be like saying that a person who discovers a wild fruit tree and returns re... | PT55 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q18 Passage:There is little plausibility to the claim that it is absurd to criticize anyone for being critical. Obviously, people must assess one another and not all assessments will be positive. However, there is wisdom behind the injunction against being judgmental. To be judgmental is not merely... | PT55 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q19 Passage:Even those who believe that the art of each age and culture has its own standards of beauty must admit that some painters are simply superior to others in the execution of their artistic visions. But this superiority must be measured in light of the artist's purposes, since the high mer... | PT55 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q20 Passage:A study of rabbits in the 1940s convinced many biologists that parthenogenesis‚ reproduction without fertilization of an egg‚ sometimes occurs in mammals. However, the study's methods have since been shown to be flawed, and no other studies have succeeded in demonstrating mammalian part... | PT55 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q21 Passage:Advertiser: Most TV shows depend on funding from advertisers and would be canceled without such funding. However, advertisers will not pay to have their commercials aired during a TV show unless many people watching the show buy the advertised products as a result. So if people generall... | PT55 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q22 Passage:Psychologist: It is well known that becoming angry often induces temporary incidents of high blood pressure. A recent study further showed, however, that people who are easily angered are significantly more likely to have permanently high blood pressure than are people who have more tra... | PT55 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q23 Passage:A professor of business placed a case-study assignment for her class on her university's computer network. She later found out that instead of reading the assignment on the computer screen, 50 out of the 70 students printed it out on paper. Thus, it is not the case that books delivered ... | PT55 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q24 Passage:Advertisement: Researchers studied a group of people trying to lose weight and discovered that those in the group who lost the most weight got more calories from protein than from carbohydrates and ate their biggest meal early in the day. So anyone who follows our diet, which provides m... | PT55 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT55 S1 Q25 Passage:Some twentieth-century art is great art. All great art involves original ideas, and any art that is not influential cannot be great art. Stem:Each of the following statements follows logically from the set of statements above EXCEPT: Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Some influential art ... | PT55 S1 Q25 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q1 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q2 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q3 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q4 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q5 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q6 Passage:Often when a highly skilled and experienced employee leaves one company to work for another, there is the potential for a transfer of sensitive information between competitors. Two basic principles in such cases appear irreconcilable: the right of the company to its intellectual property‚... | PT55 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q7 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, arri... | PT55 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q8 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, arri... | PT55 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q9 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, arri... | PT55 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q10 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, ar... | PT55 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q11 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, ar... | PT55 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q12 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, ar... | PT55 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q13 Passage:The following passages concern a plant called purple loosestrife. Passage A is excerpted from a report issued by a prairie research council; passage B from a journal of sociology.Passage APurple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive and invasive perennial of Eurasian origin, ar... | PT55 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q14 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q15 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q16 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q17 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q18 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q19 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q20 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q21 Passage:With their recognition of Maxine Hong Kingston as a major literary figure, some critics have suggested that her works have been produced almost ex nihilo, saying that they lack a large traceable body of direct literary antecedents especially within the Chinese American heritage in which... | PT55 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q22 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q23 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q24 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q25 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q26 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q26 |
Question ID:PT55 S2 Q27 Passage:In economics, the term "speculative bubble" refers to a large upward move in an asset's price driven not by the asset's fundamentals‚ that is, by the earnings derivable from the asset‚ but rather by mere speculation that someone else will be willing to pay a higher price for it. The pri... | PT55 S2 Q27 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q1 Passage:Aristophanes' play The Clouds, which was written when the philosopher Socrates was in his mid-forties, portrays Socrates as an atheistic philosopher primarily concerned with issues in natural science. The only other surviving portrayals of Socrates were written after Socrates' death at ag... | PT55 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q2 Passage:Board member: The J Foundation, a philanthropic organization, gave you this grant on the condition that your resulting work not contain any material detrimental to the J Foundation's reputation. But your resulting work never mentions any of the laudable achievements of our foundation. Hen... | PT55 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q3 Passage:Psychiatrist: Breaking any habit is difficult, especially when it involves an addictive substance. People who break a habit are more likely to be motivated by immediate concerns than by long-term ones. Therefore, people who succeed in breaking their addiction to smoking cigarettes are mor... | PT55 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q4 Passage:Cassie: In order to improve the quality of customer service provided by our real estate agency, we should reduce client loads‚ the number of clients each agent is expected to serve at one time.Melvin: Although smaller client loads are desirable, reducing client loads at our agency is simp... | PT55 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q5 Passage:The star-nosed mole has a nose that ends in a pair of several-pointed stars, or tentacles that are crucial for hunting, as moles are poor-sighted. These tentacles contain receptors that detect electric fields produced by other animals, enabling the moles to detect and catch suitable prey ... | PT55 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q6 Passage:In her recent book a psychologist described several cases that exhibit the following pattern: A child, denied something by its parent, initiates problematic behavior such as screaming; the behavior escalates until finally the exasperated parent acquiesces to the child's demand. At this po... | PT55 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q7 Passage:Scientist: In our study, chemical R did not cause cancer in laboratory rats. But we cannot conclude from this that chemical R is safe for humans. After all, many substances known to be carcinogenic to humans cause no cancer in rats; this is probably because some carcinogens cause cancer o... | PT55 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q8 Passage:Department store manager: There is absolutely no reason to offer our customers free gift wrapping again this holiday season. If most customers take the offer, it will be expensive and time-consuming for us. On the other hand, if only a few customers want it, there is no advantage in offer... | PT55 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q9 Passage:Among people who have a history of chronic trouble falling asleep, some rely only on sleeping pills to help them fall asleep, and others practice behavior modification techniques and do not take sleeping pills. Those who rely only on behavior modification fall asleep more quickly than do ... | PT55 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q10 Passage:Lawyer: This witness acknowledges being present at the restaurant and watching when my client, a famous television personality, was assaulted. Yet the witness claims to recognize the assailant, but not my famous client. Therefore, the witness's testimony should be excluded. Stem:The law... | PT55 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q11 Passage:Biologist: Many paleontologists have suggested that the difficulty of adapting to ice ages was responsible for the evolution of the human brain. But this suggestion must be rejected, for most other animal species adapted to ice ages with no evolutionary changes to their brains. Stem:The... | PT55 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q12 Passage:The total number of book titles published annually in North America has approximately quadrupled since television first became available. Retail sales of new titles, as measured in copies, increased rapidly in the early days of television, though the rate of increase has slowed in recen... | PT55 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q13 Passage:Botanist: It has long been believed that people with children or pets should keep poinsettia plants out of their homes. Although this belief has been encouraged by child-rearing books, which commonly list poinsettias as poisonous and therefore dangerous, it is mistaken. Our research has... | PT55 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q14 Passage:Archaeologist: An ancient stone building at our excavation site was composed of three kinds of stone‚ quartz, granite, and limestone. Of these, only limestone occurs naturally in the area. Most of the buildings at the site from the same time period had limestone as their only stone comp... | PT55 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q15 Passage:Theodore will be able to file his tax return on time only in the event that he has an accountant prepare his tax return and the accountant does not ask Theodore for any additional documentation of his business expenses. If he does have an accountant prepare his return, the accountant wi... | PT55 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q16 Passage:When a threat to life is common, as are automobile and industrial accidents, only unusual instances tend to be prominently reported by the news media. Instances of rare threats, such as product tampering, however, are seen as news by reporters and are universally reported in featured st... | PT55 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q17 Passage:Real estate agent: Upon selling a home, the sellers are legally entitled to remove any items that are not permanent fixtures. Legally, large appliances like dishwashers are not permanent fixtures. However, since many prospective buyers of the home are likely to assume that large applian... | PT55 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q18 Passage:Many parents rigorously organize their children's activities during playtime, thinking that doing so will enhance their children's cognitive development. But this belief is incorrect. To thoroughly structure a child's playtime and expect this to produce a creative and resourceful child ... | PT55 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q19 Passage:Bureaucrat: The primary, constant goal of an ideal bureaucracy is to define and classify all possible problems and set out regulations regarding each eventuality. Also, an ideal bureaucracy provides an appeal procedure for any complaint. If a complaint reveals an unanticipated problem, ... | PT55 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q20 Passage:Scientists studying a common type of bacteria have discovered that most bacteria of that type are in hibernation at any given time. Some microbiologists have concluded from this that bacteria in general are usually in hibernation. This conclusion would be reasonable if all types of bact... | PT55 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q21 Passage:Any student who is not required to hand in written homework based on the reading assignments in a course will not complete all of the reading assignments. Even highly motivated students will neglect their reading assignments if they are not required to hand in written homework. Therefor... | PT55 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q22 Passage:In a study, one group of volunteers was fed a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet; another group was fed a low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet. Both diets contained the same number of calories, and each volunteer's diet prior to the experiment had contained moderate levels of proteins a... | PT55 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q23 Passage:Essayist: Computers have the capacity to represent and to perform logical transformations on pieces of information. Since exactly the same applies to the human mind, the human mind is a type of computer. Stem:The flawed pattern of reasoning in which one of the following most closely res... | PT55 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q24 Passage:It is popularly believed that a poem has whatever meaning is assigned to it by the reader. But objective evaluation of poetry is possible only if this popular belief is false; for the aesthetic value of a poem cannot be discussed unless it is possible for at least two readers to agree o... | PT55 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT55 S3 Q25 Passage:Dean: The mathematics department at our university has said that it should be given sole responsibility for teaching the course Statistics for the Social Sciences. But this course has no more mathematics in it than high school algebra does. The fact that a course has mathematics in it d... | PT55 S3 Q25 |
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