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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q6 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each vegeta...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q7 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each vegeta...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q8 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each vegeta...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q9 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each vegeta...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q10 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each veget...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q11 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each veget...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q12 Passage:In creating a soup recipe, a chef is deciding which of seven vegetables‚ garlic, jalape√±o, kale, onion, potato, tomato, and yam‚ to include among the ingredients. The chef has decided that the vegetables she includes will be added one at a time to a pot of liquid ingredients. Each veget...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q13 Passage:A computer forensics laboratory is assigning five technicians‚ Ruiz, Smith, Tapia, Weeks, and Xie‚ to examine the data on three computers‚ F, G, and H. Each technician will be assigned to at least one computer, and each computer will be examined by exactly two technicians. The assignment...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q14 Passage:A computer forensics laboratory is assigning five technicians‚ Ruiz, Smith, Tapia, Weeks, and Xie‚ to examine the data on three computers‚ F, G, and H. Each technician will be assigned to at least one computer, and each computer will be examined by exactly two technicians. The assignment...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q15 Passage:A computer forensics laboratory is assigning five technicians‚ Ruiz, Smith, Tapia, Weeks, and Xie‚ to examine the data on three computers‚ F, G, and H. Each technician will be assigned to at least one computer, and each computer will be examined by exactly two technicians. The assignment...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q16 Passage:A computer forensics laboratory is assigning five technicians‚ Ruiz, Smith, Tapia, Weeks, and Xie‚ to examine the data on three computers‚ F, G, and H. Each technician will be assigned to at least one computer, and each computer will be examined by exactly two technicians. The assignment...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q17 Passage:A computer forensics laboratory is assigning five technicians‚ Ruiz, Smith, Tapia, Weeks, and Xie‚ to examine the data on three computers‚ F, G, and H. Each technician will be assigned to at least one computer, and each computer will be examined by exactly two technicians. The assignment...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q18 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q19 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q20 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q21 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q22 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S1 Q23 Passage:During the next four months, three factory sites‚ one in France, one in Ghana, and one in India‚ will be visited by a company's representatives, exactly one representative for each site in each month. The visits will be made by four representatives‚ Velez, Watts, Yamamoto, and Zuhur‚ eac...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q1 Passage:CEO: While we only have the sales reports for the first 9 months of this year, I feel confident in concluding that this will be a good year for us in terms of sales. In each of the last 5 years, our monthly sales average was less than $30 million. However, our monthly sales average so far...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q2 Passage:Javier: Government workers are paid higher hourly wages than comparable private sector employees. So the government could save money by hiring private contractors to perform services now performed by government employees.Mykayla: An analysis of government contracts showed that, on average...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q3 Passage:Biologist: DNA analysis shows that Acacia heterophylla, a tree native to the Indian Ocean's Réunion Island, is descended from the Hawaiian tree Acacia koa. Some think this occurred because A. koa seeds floated from Hawaii to Réunion, but that explanation is implausible, since the seeds ...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q4 Passage:Although smaller class sizes are popular with parents and teachers, the evidence shows that large scale reductions in class size lead to only slight improvements in student performance. Because school finances are limited, the cost-benefit test that any educational policy must pass is not...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q5 Passage:Seasonal allergy symptoms are the immune system's response to pollen in the air. When large amounts of pollen are inhaled, it can trigger an inflammatory response that causes allergy symptoms. While there are medicines that minimize those symptoms, a more effective‚ though often impractic...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q6 Passage:Saturn‚ s moon Enceladus has a rocky core and an icy surface. Between these two layers, there must be a lake of liquid water. The Cassini space probe was used to measure the density of matter composing Enceladus. These measurements revealed something denser than ice between the core and s...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q7 Passage:Thousands of fossils from the long-extinct dire wolf have been found in a cluster of natural tar pits in which animals became trapped and were preserved for millennia. None of these fossils came from dire wolf pups under six months old. Pups under six months old, therefore, probably did n...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q8 Passage:If a garden does not receive plenty of water and sunlight and is not planted in rich soil, then it will not be productive. Patricia has located her garden in an area that is ideal for receiving water and sunlight, and has made sure the soil is rich by adding fertilizer and compost. Hence,...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q9 Passage:Rodents are small, gnawing mammals characterized by their chisel-like incisor teeth. Although most North American mammal species are not rodent species, most of the individual mammals in North America are rodents. Stem:Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the informati...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q10 Passage:Toning shoes‚ walking shoes with a specially rounded sole‚ are popular with fitness enthusiasts. Research shows that the major leg muscles of people walking in toning shoes receive no more exercise than those of people walking in ordinary walking shoes. Nevertheless, many people experien...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q11 Passage:Psychologist: Specialists naturally tend to view their own specialties as fundamentally important. We are therefore amply justified in being skeptical when geneticists claim that personality traits not traditionally thought to be genetically determined are, in fact, genetically determine...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q12 Passage:After the disastrous 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the surrounding area was contaminated with radiation. Wild animals that are now there have very high levels of radiation in their muscles and bones. And yet since the disaster, wildlife populations in the region have expa...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q13 Passage:Commentator: The worldwide oil crisis of 1973 was not due to any real shortage of oil, but was the result of collusion between international oil companies and oil-producing countries to artificially restrict the supply of oil in order to profit from higher prices. This is shown by the fa...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q14 Passage:In a study, six medical students were each separately presented with the same patient, whose symptoms could be the result of any one of several medical conditions. The attending physician asked each student a leading question of the form, "What tests should we order to try to rule out a ...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q15 Passage:Few, if any, carbonated beverages contain calcium. Some very popular ones, however, contain significant amounts of caffeine, and consuming caffeine causes people to excrete significantly more calcium than they would otherwise. Interestingly, teenagers who drink large amounts of carbonate...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q16 Passage:Philosopher: Groups are not the type of entity that can be worthy of praise or blame. Blameworthiness implies conscience and agency. Nations do not have consciences. Families are not agents. Hence, any ascription of praise or blame to a group must be translated into some statement about...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q17 Passage:Psychiatrist: Psychological stress is known both to cause negative emotions and to impair physical health. This suggests that overcoming such negative emotions when they arise could cause one's health to improve. Stem:The psychiatrist's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which ...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q18 Passage:Some potential anticancer drugs work by depriving growing tumors of needed blood vessels. The creation of blood vessels is called angiogenesis, and the experimental drugs work by inhibiting this process. The same drugs have been found to prevent obesity in rodents. Stem:The statements ab...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q19 Passage:Although the slightest difference in shades of paint is noticeable, it is pointless to spend much time trying to match an old paint precisely when repainting only part of the interior of a house. This is because paint fades somewhat in the months after it has been applied. Thus, even if ...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q20 Passage:Social observer: Advertising agencies are willfully neglecting the most profitable segment of the market: older adults. Older adults control more of this nation's personal disposable income than does the rest of the population combined. Therefore, advertising agencies can maximize their...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q21 Passage:Professor: It has been argued that all judges should be elected rather than appointed to their positions. But this is a bad idea. If judges ran for election, they would have to raise campaign funds. Thus, they would be likely to accept campaign contributions from special interests. It is...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q22 Passage:Merle: Usually when I insert a dollar bill into the change machine at the office it makes a squeaking sound before it produces change. But the machine can make the sound only when the electric outlet it is plugged into is turned on. Therefore, it must be that the electric outlet usually...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q23 Passage:Kira: It would be unwise for you to buy that insurance policy. It's designed to make money for the company that sells it to you. They set the prices to ensure profits.Binh: Undeniably, the insurer is in business to make money. But the mere fact that an insurer draws a profit in no way im...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q24 Passage:Economist: The increase in the minimum wage in Country X will quickly lead to a decrease in Country X's rate of unemployment. Raising the minimum wage will lead to more disposable income for a large segment of the working population. Much of this increased income will be spent on consume...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q25 Passage:Art critic: An arrangement of objects tends to be aesthetically pleasing to the extent that it gives the impression that the person who arranged the objects succeeded at what he or she was attempting to do. Stem:The generalization expressed by the art critic, if correct, most helps to ju...
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Question ID:PT89 S2 Q26 Passage:The three-spine stickleback is a small fish that lives both in oceans and in freshwater lakes. While ocean stickleback are covered with armor to protect them from their predators, lake stickleback have virtually no armor. Since armor limits the speed of a stickleback's growth, this indic...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q1 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q2 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q3 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q4 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q5 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q6 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q7 Passage:The following passage is adapted from a 2001 article by a film historian.In exhibiting works of art‚ whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere else‚ the primary question usually is: which works should be exhibited together? In many exhibitions the selection is often tied to the creator ...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q8 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potenti...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q9 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potenti...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q10 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q11 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q12 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q13 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q14 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q15 Passage:With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, and dwindling water supplies on national and regional levels, water is fast replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource. Meanwhile, the growing importance of water in geopolitical affairs has increased the potent...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q16 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q17 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q18 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q19 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q20 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q21 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q22 Passage:This passage was adapted from an article published in 2000.Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster and more efficient has driven a technological revolution, fueled economic growth, and rapidly made successive generations of computers obsolete. Yet at the curr...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q23 Passage:Passage AIn 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. In particular, Whorf announced, Hopi and English impose different pictures of reality on their speakers, impeding mutual understanding. Eventually, i...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q24 Passage:Passage AIn 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. In particular, Whorf announced, Hopi and English impose different pictures of reality on their speakers, impeding mutual understanding. Eventually, i...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q25 Passage:Passage AIn 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. In particular, Whorf announced, Hopi and English impose different pictures of reality on their speakers, impeding mutual understanding. Eventually, i...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q26 Passage:Passage AIn 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. In particular, Whorf announced, Hopi and English impose different pictures of reality on their speakers, impeding mutual understanding. Eventually, i...
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Question ID:PT89 S3 Q27 Passage:Passage AIn 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. In particular, Whorf announced, Hopi and English impose different pictures of reality on their speakers, impeding mutual understanding. Eventually, i...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q1 Passage:A company produced a small car that costs much less‚ but is also much less safe‚ than any car previously available. However, most customers of the new car increased their safety on the roads by buying it. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent paradox...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q2 Passage:Brian: I used to eat cheeseburgers from fast-food restaurants almost every day. But then I read that eating bread and meat in the same meal interferes with digestion. So I stopped eating cheeseburgers and switched to a diet of lean meats, fruits, and vegetables. Since starting this new di...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q3 Passage:Researcher: Newly formed neurons can help to heal an injured brain but only if they develop into the type of neurons that are most common in the injured area. Studies have shown that when a part of the brain called the striatum is injured, newly formed neurons in the striatum never become...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q4 Passage:Leona: Thompson's article on the novel Emily's Trials is intriguing but ultimately puzzling. In discussing one scene, Thompson says that a character's "furrowed brow" and grim expression indicate deep inner turmoil and anxiety. Later, however, Thompson refers to the same scene and describ...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q5 Passage:An online auction site conducted a study of auction techniques involving 8,000 used cars, divided into two equal groups. Each car's listing in the first group included a brief description of its condition. The description of each car in the other half additionally listed defects of the ca...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q6 Passage:Critic: Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter simply because her lyrics typically are disjointed and subjective. This judgment is ill founded, however, since the writings of many modern novelists typically are disjointed and subjective, and yet these novelists are widely held to b...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q7 Passage:Computer security experts correctly maintain that computer passwords are a less secure means of protecting one's information than are alternative security options like fingerprint scanners. But computer passwords are not going to be replaced by these other options anytime soon. The altern...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q8 Passage:Statistics show clearly that in those countries with the most severe penalties for driving while intoxicated, a smaller percentage of drivers have traffic accidents involving alcohol use than in other countries. This refutes those who claim that would-be drunk drivers will not be deterred...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q9 Passage:Many airlines offer, for a fee, to "offset" the carbon emissions produced when you fly, but such schemes are almost entirely ineffective. Although the fees are usually invested in projects that directly reduce carbon emissions, in most cases these projects would have proceeded even withou...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q10 Passage:Many species of plants produce nectars known as extrafloral nectories (EFNs), which are known to attract certain ants that defend the plants against leaf-eating insects. Recently, greenhouse experiments have found that jumping spiders jump onto plants with active EFNs six times more ofte...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q11 Passage:When using a manufactured pattern to make clothing, a tailor alters the pattern to accommodate any future distortion of the fabric. Also, unless the clothing is to be worn by a person whose measurements precisely match the pattern size, the tailor alters the pattern to fit the wearer exa...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q12 Passage:Typically, a design that turns out well has gone through many drafts, each an improvement over the previous one. What usually allows a designer to see an idea's advantages and flaws is a sketch of the idea. The ways in which the sketch appears muddled or confused tend to reveal to the de...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q13 Passage:Mayor: Some residents complain that the city has no right to require homeowners to connect to city water services, even though we are doing so in order to ensure public health and safety. But they are wrong. We will charge the homeowners a fair market price for the service, and our plan ...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q14 Passage:Deborra: The art of still photography cannot enable us to understand the world. After all, understanding starts from refusing to accept the world as it looks and inquiring into the world's reality, and the reality of the world is not in its images but in its functions. Functioning take...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q15 Passage:Candidate: In each election in the last ten years, the candidate who supported property tax reform received a significant majority of the votes in the northeastern part of my district. In no other part of my district has there been any discernible pattern of voting for or against propert...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q16 Passage:In an effort to boost milk production, some dairy farmers are treating cows with a genetically engineered hormone called BST. Consumer groups have opposed the use of BST even though the milk of BST-treated cows is identical in nutritional value to that of untreated cows; the treated cows...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q17 Passage:Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. But because teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences, humanities departments bring in more money than they spend while the reverse is ...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q18 Passage:Certain changes in North American residential architecture after World War II are attributable mainly to the increased availability and affordability of air-conditioning. Soon after World War II, many builders found that air-conditioned houses lacking the high ceilings and thick walls th...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q19 Passage:McKee: Heckling the performer is a long-standing tradition of stand-up comedy. The performers know this and learn to respond entertainingly. That's why it's unwise for comedy venues to prevent audience members from heckling. Chapman: Heckling is only a long-standing tradition of comedy b...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q20 Passage:Political scientist: Democracy depends on free choices, and choices cannot be free unless they are made on the basis of well-reasoned opinions. In the Information Age, reading skills have become essential to forming well-reasoned opinions. Thus, in the Information Age, a highly literate...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q21 Passage:All of the students at Harrison University live in one of two residence complexes, either Pulham or Westerville. Although just a small fraction of the classes at Harrison are night classes, 38 percent of Harrison students take at least one night class. That figure is lower for Harrison s...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q22 Passage:The universe as a whole necessarily tends toward greater disorder, or entropy. From this alone, it follows that the earth's biosphere has always been moving toward increased disorder as well, in spite of appearances to the contrary. Stem:Which one of the following is most similar in its ...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q23 Passage:Researcher: Consumption of turmeric, a basic ingredient in curry dishes, probably slows cognitive decline. Our research team analyzed a database of information about the cognitive function, ethnicity, and diet of elderly residents of Singapore. Those who eat curries regularly had higher ...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q24 Passage:A theory cannot properly be regarded as empirical unless there is some conceivable observation that, if the theory were false, would refute it. Stem:The principle above most helps to justify which one of the following? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Since no one was present at the origi...
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Question ID:PT89 S4 Q25 Passage:Shopkeeper: Our city will soon approve the construction of a new shopping center, but I won't be relocating my store there. My store needs to be in a high-visibility site with good growth potential, but the new shopping center will be at either Maple Street or West Avenue. The Maple Stre...
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Question ID:PT88 S1 Q1 Passage:An animal rescue organization is planning a display at an upcoming adoption event. The display will feature five animals available for adoption, each in its own pen. The pens will be arranged one next to another in a single row. The organization has eight animals available to bring to the...
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Question ID:PT88 S1 Q2 Passage:An animal rescue organization is planning a display at an upcoming adoption event. The display will feature five animals available for adoption, each in its own pen. The pens will be arranged one next to another in a single row. The organization has eight animals available to bring to the...
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Question ID:PT88 S1 Q3 Passage:An animal rescue organization is planning a display at an upcoming adoption event. The display will feature five animals available for adoption, each in its own pen. The pens will be arranged one next to another in a single row. The organization has eight animals available to bring to the...
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Question ID:PT88 S1 Q4 Passage:An animal rescue organization is planning a display at an upcoming adoption event. The display will feature five animals available for adoption, each in its own pen. The pens will be arranged one next to another in a single row. The organization has eight animals available to bring to the...
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