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Question ID:PT88 S1 Q5 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... | PT88 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q6 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... | PT88 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q7 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The d... | PT88 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q8 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The d... | PT88 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q9 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The d... | PT88 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q10 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The ... | PT88 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q11 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The ... | PT88 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q12 Passage:A museum will display seven artifacts‚ a goblet, a helmet, a javelin, a mask, a necklace, a pot, and a scythe‚ in individual display cases, one artifact per case. The seven display cases will be arranged in a circle and numbered in order from 1 through 7, with case 7 next to case 1. The ... | PT88 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q13 Passage:Solomon, Tabitha, Ursula, Will, and Zepi each make an arrangement of exactly four individual flowers, selecting from gardenias, hyacinths, lilies, and roses. Each person uses exactly three kinds of flowers. The following conditions must apply:Solomon and no one else uses two roses.Tabith... | PT88 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q14 Passage:Solomon, Tabitha, Ursula, Will, and Zepi each make an arrangement of exactly four individual flowers, selecting from gardenias, hyacinths, lilies, and roses. Each person uses exactly three kinds of flowers. The following conditions must apply:Solomon and no one else uses two roses.Tabith... | PT88 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q15 Passage:Solomon, Tabitha, Ursula, Will, and Zepi each make an arrangement of exactly four individual flowers, selecting from gardenias, hyacinths, lilies, and roses. Each person uses exactly three kinds of flowers. The following conditions must apply:Solomon and no one else uses two roses.Tabith... | PT88 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q16 Passage:Solomon, Tabitha, Ursula, Will, and Zepi each make an arrangement of exactly four individual flowers, selecting from gardenias, hyacinths, lilies, and roses. Each person uses exactly three kinds of flowers. The following conditions must apply:Solomon and no one else uses two roses.Tabith... | PT88 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q17 Passage:Solomon, Tabitha, Ursula, Will, and Zepi each make an arrangement of exactly four individual flowers, selecting from gardenias, hyacinths, lilies, and roses. Each person uses exactly three kinds of flowers. The following conditions must apply:Solomon and no one else uses two roses.Tabith... | PT88 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q18 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q19 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q20 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q21 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q22 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT88 S1 Q23 Passage:On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week, an accountant will hold exactly five meetings, each with a different client‚ Garvey, Hosnani, Juarez, Kallin, or Lemmon. Six slots are available: one each morning and one each afternoon. The schedule for the meetings is subject to the foll... | PT88 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q1 Passage:Activist: The average CEO is paid many times more than the average worker is paid at the same company. But it is certain that no CEO works many times harder than the average worker. Therefore the high pay of CEOs is wholly unjustified. Stem:Which one of the following principles, if valid,... | PT88 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q2 Passage:The poet E. E. Cummings stood for the individual human being against regimentation and standardization of any sort. Yet in doing so Cummings stood against something essential to the work he did, since metaphor presupposes literal language, and literal language essentially involves regimen... | PT88 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q3 Passage:Horses, although descended from a forest-dwelling ancestor, thrive in grasslands. In the last 2 million years, horses have gone through three cycles of population increase followed by a rapid decline in population. The most recent cycle peaked 25,000 years ago during a cold period that pr... | PT88 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q4 Passage:Editorial: Some primary schools' early education reading programs encourage children to read by paying them for each book they read outside of class. Such programs should be viewed with suspicion. While paying kids to read might get them to read more, it also might teach them to regard re... | PT88 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q5 Passage:Salmon farmer: Farm-raised salmon is preferable to wild salmon due to its year-round availability, consistent quality, and cheaper price. But the best reason to prefer farmed salmon is ecological: as consumers' desire for farmed salmon increases, the market for threatened wild salmon drop... | PT88 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q6 Passage:Video games are commonly criticized as morally corrupting in that they allow people to imagine themselves transgressing conventional morality. But it is telling that precisely this criticism was leveled against many forms of popular culture in their early stages of development, including ... | PT88 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q7 Passage:Library policy: For a book to be removed from circulation, the book must be badly damaged and must not have been checked out for over two years. Books that are either written by local authors or are considered to be of significance to local history can only be removed from circulation if ... | PT88 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q8 Passage:Editorial: If current trends continue, obesity will soon be the leading cause of preventable illness in our country. Yet a recent survey found that 45 percent of doctors said they did not feel qualified to advise their patients about weight-related issues. Clearly, therefore, doctors need... | PT88 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q9 Passage:Editor: It is a myth that a significant amount of music on the Internet is the result of people downloading others‚ music and reworking it into new music of their own. We know this because it has been shown that 99 percent of Internet users who download music do not publish new music of ... | PT88 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q10 Passage:Wei: A respected automobile expert claims that most cars will develop transmission problems unless their transmissions are serviced at least once every three years. But this claim is false. I have owned both of my cars for over twelve years, I have never had the transmission serviced on ... | PT88 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q11 Passage:A part of the brain called the amygdala is involved in sensing fear. People who have Urbach-Wiethe disease, which destroys the amygdala, generally do not experience fear. They do, however, experience extreme fear when given a breath that is very high in carbon dioxide, just as some peopl... | PT88 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q12 Passage:Bauer: It is a mistake to criticize the city for being overzealous in its issuance of parking tickets. Can you imagine how much worse parking would be if parking regulations were not enforced? Stem:The reasoning in Bauer‚ s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the... | PT88 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q13 Passage:Advertisers typically prohibit graphic designers from signing their works because the purpose of a graphic design is to draw attention to an advertised product or service, not to the designer. Nonetheless, it is better that graphic designers not remain anonymous. Anonymity undermines eff... | PT88 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q14 Passage:Superintendent: Within the school district overall, 11 percent of high school students drop out. However, of the high school students who participate in work internships, only 1 percent drop out. Clearly, then, participation in a work internship decreases the chance that a student will ... | PT88 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q15 Passage:Journalist: Despite the recent spate of depressing political news, many investors are putting money into stocks. Clearly, these investors are confident of increased growth in the country's economy. Thus, since voter confidence in the economy tends to favor incumbent political leaders, it... | PT88 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q16 Passage:Archaeologist: The people who lived in this area deposited their rubbish in pits near their dwellings. Some claim that the rubbish found in those pits provides great insight into the possessions these people had, but this rubbish by itself actually tells us relatively little about thos... | PT88 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q17 Passage:Consultant: The mayor shouldn't adopt her rival's controversial proposal for solving the city's budget problem. If she adopts the proposal and it succeeds, she risks increasing her rival's credibility. If it fails, she will get blamed for wasting time on such an unconventional idea. Stem... | PT88 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q18 Passage:Anthropologists have long debated whether the customs of a culture invariably function to preserve it. According to one proposed definition, a culture is the totality of the customs practiced by those whose culture it is. If this definition is correct, then the customs of a culture neces... | PT88 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q19 Passage:Doctor: The patient had been experiencing back and leg pain. A computerized scan suggested that there was pressure on a nerve exiting to the leg from a lower vertebra. Such pressure can cause nerve inflammation, which can in turn cause pain. I decided that if the nerve was inflamed, the ... | PT88 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q20 Passage:The public's welfare can be undermined by its own tastes. Journalists tend to focus on stories that will stimulate their readers' interest. Because sensation and drama serve this purpose more successfully than do matter-of-fact descriptions of political or social developments of far-reac... | PT88 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q21 Passage:A study of 30 years of weather pattern records of several industrialized urban areas found that weekend days tend to be cloudier than weekdays. Thus it can no longer be denied that human activity has appreciable, large-scale effects on weather, because the few seven-day cycles that occur... | PT88 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q22 Passage:Art critic: All of Dolores Albarran's oil paintings are highly original, though few of them are critically acclaimed or popular with collectors. Remarkably, Albarran produced no highly original works until late in her career, and few of her abstract works demonstrate much originality. St... | PT88 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q23 Passage:The effects of global warming on the polar ice caps have been studied with computer models. According to some models, if the global temperature increases by as little as two degrees Celsius, the seawater will rise to a temperature that could melt the ice caps considerably. However, those... | PT88 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q24 Passage:Until recently, experts have been unable to identify the artist who created a Renaissance painting depicting aristocrats in a historic battle. But the mystery has been solved by the discovery of a self-portrait of a well-known artist from very early in his career, dated to the same year ... | PT88 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT88 S2 Q25 Passage:Babson: The idea of charging people a dollar to read individual articles and essays online, while novel, will succeed if the quality of the articles and essays is high enough. A dollar isn't much money: in many countries people routinely reward quality service with tips of much more than... | PT88 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q1 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q2 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q3 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q4 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q5 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q6 Passage:Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa from the ninth through sixteenth centuries. Their regional political centers, called zimbabwes, were city-states enclosed within stone walls, which still exist as archaeological monuments. Great Zimbabwe, the largest o... | PT88 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q7 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well a... | PT88 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q8 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well a... | PT88 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q9 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well a... | PT88 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q10 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well ... | PT88 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q11 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well ... | PT88 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q12 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well ... | PT88 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q13 Passage:Passage AThe path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by dangers. One cannot have medieval characters using correct period language because no one would find the speech readable. Similarly, in depicting the lives of real individuals, authors must invent dialogue, as well ... | PT88 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q14 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q15 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q16 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q17 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q18 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q19 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q20 Passage:For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causes cholera, scientists believed that it traveled to new geographic regions only via human hosts and that epidemics typically occurred when the bacteria spread through contamination, by human wast... | PT88 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q21 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q22 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q23 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q24 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q25 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q26 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT88 S3 Q27 Passage:In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from causing each other environmental damage, scholars of international environmental law typically focus on trying to identify and clarify norms of "customary international law": that body of commonly accepted‚ but not formali... | PT88 S3 Q27 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q1 Passage:One reason swimming immediately after eating is thought to be dangerous is that it could cause muscle cramps. But there is no reason to believe this. Muscle cramps are usually caused by muscle fatigue and dehydration, which are unrelated to eating. Reduced blood flow to muscles during dig... | PT88 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q2 Passage:Flores: The behavior of the character Gawain in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur fluctuates radically and without apparent reason between heroic and criminal. Malory's portrayal of Gawain is incoherent in this way because Malory based his book on earlier sources from different eras, and Gawain'... | PT88 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q3 Passage:Audiologist: What is often considered age-related hearing loss is really the accumulated damage of long-term exposure to loud noise. This is demonstrated by studies of remote populations, who have little exposure to loud noise. These studies found that age-related hearing loss in these po... | PT88 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q4 Passage:A rare Roman bronze helmet was recently discovered in England and sold to a private collector. An English law that requires finders of valuable antiquities to offer them to English museums at reasonable prices did not apply to the Roman helmet because it is neither prehistoric nor made of... | PT88 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q5 Passage:Professor: During election years, voters often feel that they are insufficiently informed about election issues. And studies have revealed the surprising fact that regular subscribers to the few newspapers that do provide extensive coverage of election issues are no better informed about ... | PT88 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q6 Passage:Historian: Much of what made medieval European communities as close-knit as they usually were was the way they went about meeting basic needs. In medieval communities, in order to get crops harvested or a well dug, people had to come together in respectful cooperation, suspending any pri... | PT88 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q7 Passage:Late blight is a disease affecting tomato plants that causes blue-grey patches to appear on the leaves. Applying a copper solution to the blighted plants is an effective treatment for the disease. Therefore, late blight must be caused by a deficiency of copper in the plant‚ s mineral inta... | PT88 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q8 Passage:Advertisement: At BigFoods, we compare prices for you. We recently determined which items our shoppers buy most often. A varied sample of these items cost 10 percent more at Grocerytown than at BigFoods! None of these regularly purchased grocery items were on sale at BigFoods‚ these are o... | PT88 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q9 Passage:Martin: I have heard it argued that, because changes in diet and exercise rarely result in weight loss, doctors should stop advising their patients to eat less and exercise more. But this is no reason for doctors to abandon their advice, even supposing that weight loss is rare. Changes in... | PT88 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q10 Passage:Columnist: The dangers of mountain climbing have been greatly exaggerated by the popular media. In the 80 years from 1922 to 2002, there were fewer than 200 climbing fatalities on Mount Everest, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. Contrast that with the more than 7,000 traf... | PT88 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q11 Passage:Gyms and fitness centers are sometimes good places to buy used exercise machines. When gyms and fitness centers upgrade machines, they often sell the old machines at reasonable prices. Although these exercise machines have generally seen considerable use, they are also built better than ... | PT88 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q12 Passage:A lichen is made up of a photosynthetic organism and a fungus growing in symbiosis on a solid surface. Lichens absorb minerals from air and rainwater but also from the surfaces on which they grow; they cannot excrete the elements they absorb. Some varieties are very vulnerable to toxic c... | PT88 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q13 Passage:Lindsey: There are, of course, many poets with cheerful dispositions; however, those I have met have much more often been disposed to melancholy. Thus, if the poets I have met are representative of poets generally, one can reasonably conclude that many poets are made melancholy by writin... | PT88 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q14 Passage:People's antagonism to development in their neighborhoods can be harmful to a city. For example, nightclubs tend to be unpopular with neighbors because of the late hours they keep. So if neighborhoods are allowed to block new nightclubs, a city will never get new nightclubs. Stem:Which o... | PT88 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q15 Passage:Many popular novels have stylistic elements commonly associated with journalistic writing. Moreover, many authors of popular novels began their careers as journalists. So using a journalistic writing style increases the chances that a novel will be popular. Stem:The reasoning in the argu... | PT88 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q16 Passage:Researchers investigating the accuracy of eyewitness accounts staged and made a video of a crime, and showed it to test subjects. A lineup of "suspects," none of whom was the person playing the criminal in the video, was then shown to the subjects. When the subjects were not told that th... | PT88 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q17 Passage:Advice columnist: Parents should not encourage their children to place great value on outdoing others. Being motivated in this way not only fosters resentment, it makes one less happy because it gives one a desire for achievement that is difficult to satisfy. Stem:Which one of the follow... | PT88 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q18 Passage:Economist: Machinery firms in this country argue that in order to grow big enough to compete successfully with foreign rivals, the protection that they have been receiving from foreign competition must be extended for several more years. Yet these firms have been receiving protection fro... | PT88 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q19 Passage:Store owner: My customers are not worried about crime in this neighborhood; every day I talk to people who shop at my store, and they tell me that they are not worried. So crime is not adversely affecting my business by reducing the number of people willing to shop at my store. Stem:The... | PT88 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q20 Passage:Critic: The more a novel appeals to the general public, the more money its author will make from it. However, since any serious novelist cares about literary style, no serious novelist is motivated primarily by the desire to make money. Stem:The conclusion of the critic's argument follow... | PT88 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q21 Passage:Engineer: Air bags in automobiles occasionally cause injuries by accidentally inflating when no collision has occurred. Automobile manufacturers are attempting to fix the problem by inventing more elaborate computer control systems for air bags. But the more complex such a system is, the... | PT88 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q22 Passage:Educator: Environmental factors clearly have little effect on whether a teenager will participate in sports. Family life is probably the strongest environmental factor, yet it is common for one teenager in a family to participate in sports enthusiastically while other teenagers in the fa... | PT88 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q23 Passage:Safety expert: Conversing on a cell phone while driving is more dangerous than conversing with a passenger in the vehicle. The person talking with the driver on a cell phone is unable to see the driving situation and, hence, cannot immediately recognize situations in which driving become... | PT88 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q24 Passage:People who have experienced a traumatic event but who did not subsequently develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tend to produce higher levels of the hormone cortisol when exposed to stress than do people who have not experienced traumatic events. This suggests that experiencing ... | PT88 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q25 Passage:The technical sophistication of commercial fishing equipment increased steadily from 1960 through 2010, which enabled the commercial fishing industry to harvest a greater percentage of the total amount of fish, by weight, in the world's oceans in each succeeding year during that time. Th... | PT88 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT88 S4 Q26 Passage:Current evidence indicates that there is no methane on Planet 253. If that is the case, it is certain that there is no life on Planet 253. Since microbes always produce methane, if there is no methane then there are no microbes. Stem:The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which ... | PT88 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT87 S1 Q1 Passage:Most writings on the subject of motion pictures, including those scrutinizing the structural characteristics, aesthetic qualities, and effects of motion pictures on audiences, have traditionally been relatively abstract and have not considered what a film's audiences actually see. In fact... | PT87 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT87 S1 Q2 Passage:Most writings on the subject of motion pictures, including those scrutinizing the structural characteristics, aesthetic qualities, and effects of motion pictures on audiences, have traditionally been relatively abstract and have not considered what a film's audiences actually see. In fact... | PT87 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT87 S1 Q3 Passage:Most writings on the subject of motion pictures, including those scrutinizing the structural characteristics, aesthetic qualities, and effects of motion pictures on audiences, have traditionally been relatively abstract and have not considered what a film's audiences actually see. In fact... | PT87 S1 Q3 |
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