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Question ID:PT35 S3 Q16 Passage:Quentin, Robert, Shiro, Tony, and Umeko are the only members of the Kim family who attend an opera. Each of them sits in a separate seat in either row G or row H, and each sits in a seat numbered 1, 2, or 3. Consecutively numbered seats within each row are adjacent.Each member of the Ki... | PT35 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q17 Passage:Quentin, Robert, Shiro, Tony, and Umeko are the only members of the Kim family who attend an opera. Each of them sits in a separate seat in either row G or row H, and each sits in a seat numbered 1, 2, or 3. Consecutively numbered seats within each row are adjacent.Each member of the Ki... | PT35 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q18 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q19 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q20 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q21 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q22 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT35 S3 Q23 Passage:Exactly seven professors‚ Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo‚ were hired in the years 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The profe... | PT35 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q1 Passage:The graphical illustrations mathematics teachers use enable students to learn geometry more easily by providing them with an intuitive understanding of geometric concepts, which makes it easier to acquire the ability to manipulate symbols for the purpose of calculation. Illustrating algeb... | PT35 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q2 Passage:Bureaucratic mechanisms are engineered to resist change. Thus, despite growing dissatisfaction with complex bureaucratic systems, it is unlikely that bureaucracies will be simplified. Stem:The claim that bureaucratic mechanisms are engineered to resist change plays which one of the foll... | PT35 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q3 Passage:In speech, when words or sentences are ambiguous, gesture and tone of voice are used to indicate the intended meaning. Writers, of course, cannot use gesture or tone of voice and must rely instead on style; the reader detects the writer's intention from the arrangement of words and senten... | PT35 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q4 Passage:Last year a large firm set a goal of decreasing its workforce by 25 percent. Three divisions, totaling 25 percent of its workforce at that time, were to be eliminated and no new people hired. These divisions have since been eliminated and no new people have joined the firm, but its workfo... | PT35 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q5 Passage:One of the advantages of Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) toxins over chemical insecticides results from their specificity for pest insects. The toxins have no known detrimental effects on mammals or birds. In addition, the limited range of activity of the toxins toward insects means that o... | PT35 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q6 Passage:Many people are alarmed about the population explosion. They fail to appreciate that the present rise in population has in fact been followed by equally potent economic growth. Because of this connection between an increase in population and an increase in economic activity, population ... | PT35 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q7 Passage:Attorney: I ask you to find Mr. Smith guilty of assaulting Mr. Jackson. Regrettably, there were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but Mr. Smith has a violent character: Ms. Lopez testified earlier that Mr. Smith, shouting loudly, had threatened her. Smith never refuted this testimony. Stem:... | PT35 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q8 Passage:It is widely believed that by age 80, perception and memory are each significantly reduced from their functioning levels at age 30. However, a recent study showed no difference in the abilities of 80-year-olds and 30-year-olds to play a card game devised to test perception and memory. The... | PT35 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q9 Passage:Moralist: Humans have a natural disposition to altruism‚ that is, to behavior that serves the needs of others regardless of one's own needs‚ but that very disposition prevents some acts of altruism from counting as moral. Reason plays an essential role in any moral behavior. Only behav... | PT35 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q10 Passage:A recent study suggests that Alzheimer's disease, which attacks the human brain, may be caused by a virus. In the study, blood from 11 volunteers, each of whom had the disease, was injected into rats. The rats eventually exhibited symptoms of another degenerative neurological disorder,... | PT35 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q11 Passage:One approach to the question of which objects discussed by a science are real is to designate as real all and only those entities posited by the most explanatorily powerful theory of the science. But since most scientific theories contain entities posited solely on theoretical grounds, t... | PT35 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q12 Passage:Most doctors recommend that pregnant women eat a nutritious diet to promote the health of their babies. However, most babies who are born to women who ate nutritious diets while pregnant still develop at least one medical problem in their first year. Stem:Which one of the following, if t... | PT35 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q13 Passage:Mayor: The law prohibiting pedestrians from crossing against red lights serves no useful purpose. After all, in order to serve a useful purpose, a law must deter the kind of behavior it prohibits. But pedestrians who invariably violate this law are clearly not dissuaded by it; and thos... | PT35 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q14 Passage:Marian Anderson, the famous contralto, did not take success for granted. We know this because Anderson had to struggle early in life, and anyone who has to struggle early in life is able to keep a good perspective on the world. Stem:The conclusion of the argument follows logically if wh... | PT35 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q15 Passage:Geneticist: Ethicists have fears, many of them reasonable, about the prospect of cloning human beings, that is, producing exact genetic duplicates. But the horror-movie image of a wealthy person creating an army of exact duplicates is completely unrealistic. Clones must be raised and ed... | PT35 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q16 Passage:Publicity campaigns for endangered species are unlikely to have much impact on the most important environmental problems, for while the ease of attributing feelings to large mammals facilitates evoking sympathy for them, it is more difficult to elicit sympathy for other kinds of organism... | PT35 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q17 Passage:Politician: All nations that place a high tax on income produce thereby a negative incentive for technological innovation, and all nations in which technological innovation is hampered inevitably fall behind in the international arms race. Those nations that, through historical accident... | PT35 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q18 Passage:Philosopher: Scientists talk about the pursuit of truth, but, like most people, they are self-interested. Accordingly, the professional activities of most scientists are directed toward personal career enhancement, and only incidentally toward the pursuit of truth. Hence, the activities... | PT35 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q19 Passage:Several critics have claimed that any contemporary poet who writes formal poetry‚ poetry that is rhymed and metered‚ is performing a politically conservative act. This is plainly false. Consider Molly Peacock and Marilyn Hacker, two contemporary poets whose poetry is almost exclusively f... | PT35 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q20 Passage:Archaeologist: A skeleton of a North American mastodon that became extinct at the peak of the Ice Age was recently discovered. It contains a human-made projectile dissimilar to any found in that part of Eurasia closest to North America. Thus, since Eurasians did not settle in North Amer... | PT35 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q21 Passage:All social systems are based upon a division of economic roles. The values of a social system are embodied in the prestige accorded persons who fill various economic roles. It is therefore unsurprising that, for any social system, the introduction of labor-saving technology that makes c... | PT35 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q22 Passage:Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease: white blood cells attack the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. Medical science now has a drug that can be used to successfully treat multiple sclerosis, but the path that led medical researchers to this dr... | PT35 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q23 Passage:The higher the altitude, the thinner the air. Since Mexico City's altitude is higher than that of Panama City, the air must be thinner in Mexico City than in Panama City. Stem:Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reasoning to the argument above? Correct Answer Choi... | PT35 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q24 Passage:A recent study of 6,403 people showed that those treated with the drug pravastatin, one of the effects of which is to reduce cholesterol, had about one-third fewer nonfatal heart attacks and one-third fewer deaths from coronary disease than did those not taking the drug. This result is c... | PT35 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q25 Passage:Zachary: The term "fresco" refers to paint that has been applied to wet plaster. Once dried, a fresco indelibly preserves the paint that a painter has applied in this way. Unfortunately, additions known to have been made by later painters have obscured the original fresco work done by... | PT35 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT35 S4 Q26 Passage:Zachary: The term "fresco" refers to paint that has been applied to wet plaster. Once dried, a fresco indelibly preserves the paint that a painter has applied in this way. Unfortunately, additions known to have been made by later painters have obscured the original fresco work done by... | PT35 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q1 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q2 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q3 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q4 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q5 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q6 Passage:Most authoritarian rulers who undertake democratic reforms do so not out of any intrinsic commitment or conversion to democratic ideals, but rather because they foresee or recognize that certain changes and mobilizations in civil society make it impossible for them to hold on indefinitely... | PT34 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q7 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and se... | PT34 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q8 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and se... | PT34 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q9 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and se... | PT34 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q10 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and s... | PT34 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q11 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and s... | PT34 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q12 Passage:The term "blues" is conventionally used to refer to a state of sadness or melancholy, but to conclude from this that the musical genre of the same name is merely an expression of unrelieved sorrow is to miss its deeper meaning. Despite its frequent focus on such themes as suffering and s... | PT34 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q13 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q14 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q15 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q16 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q17 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q18 Passage:In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck believed that an animal's use or disuse of an organ affected that organ's development in the animal's offspring. Lamarck claimed that the giraffe's long neck, for example, resulted from its ancestors stretching to r... | PT34 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q19 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q20 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q21 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q22 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q23 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q24 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q25 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q25 |
Question ID:PT34 S1 Q26 Passage:When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely to be eligible for asylum. Persecution is the linchpin of the definition of a refugee set out in the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In this document, a refugee is defined as any person fa... | PT34 S1 Q26 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q1 Passage:In his new book on his complex scientific research, R frequently imputes bad faith to researchers disagreeing with him. A troubling aspect of R's book is his stated conviction that other investigators' funding sources often determine what "findings" those investigators report. Add to th... | PT34 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q2 Passage:Having an efficient, attractive subway system makes good economic sense. So, the city needs to purchase new subway cars, since the city should always do what makes good economic sense. Stem:The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? Correct Answ... | PT34 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q3 Passage:Restaurant manager: In response to requests from our patrons for vegetarian main dishes, we recently introduced three: an eggplant and zucchini casserole with tomatoes, brown rice with mushrooms, and potatoes baked with cheese. The first two are frequently ordered, but no one orders th... | PT34 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q4 Passage:For newborns of age four to six weeks whose mothers have been the primary caregivers, the following is true: When the newborns are crying due to hunger or other similar discomfort, merely hearing the mother's voice will lead to a temporary halt in crying, while the voices of others do no... | PT34 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q5 Passage:Many elementary schools have recently offered computer-assisted educational programs. Students' reactions after several years have been decidedly mixed. Whereas students have found computers very useful in studying arithmetic, they have found them of little help in studying science, and o... | PT34 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q6 Passage:The notion that one might be justified in behaving irrationally in the service of a sufficiently worthy end is incoherent. For if such an action is justified, then one would be behaving rationally, not irrationally. Stem:Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its reasonin... | PT34 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q7 Passage:A certain moral system holds that performing good actions is praiseworthy only when one overcomes a powerful temptation in order to perform them. Yet this same moral system also holds that performing good actions out of habit is sometimes praiseworthy. Stem:Which one of the following, if... | PT34 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q8 Passage:Conservationist: The risk to airplane passengers from collisions between airplanes using the airport and birds from the wildlife refuge is negligible. In the 10 years since the refuge was established, only 20 planes have been damaged in collisions with birds, and no passenger has been i... | PT34 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q9 Passage:A university study reported that between 1975 and 1983 the length of the average workweek in a certain country increased significantly. A governmental study, on the other hand, shows a significant decline in the length of the average workweek for the same period. Examination of the studie... | PT34 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q10 Passage:Although the charter of Westside School states that the student body must include some students with special educational needs, no students with learning disabilities have yet enrolled in the school. Therefore, the school is currently in violation of its charter. Stem:The conclusion of ... | PT34 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q11 Passage:Some psychologists claim that, in theory, the best way to understand another person would be through deep empathy, whereby one would gain a direct and complete grasp of that person's motivations. But suppose they are right; then there would be no way at all to achieve understanding, sinc... | PT34 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q12 Passage:The five senses have traditionally been viewed as distinct yet complementary. Each sense is thought to have its own range of stimuli that are incapable of stimulating the other senses. However, recent research has discovered that some people taste a banana and claim that they are tasting... | PT34 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q13 Passage:Essayist: One of the claims of laissez-faire economics is that increasing the minimum wage reduces the total number of minimum-wage jobs available. In a recent study, however, it was found that after an increase in the minimum wage, fast-food restaurants kept on roughly the same number ... | PT34 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q14 Passage:Some people claim that every human discovery or invention is an instance of self-expression. But what they seem to ignore is that, trivially, anything we do is self-expressive. So, until they can give us a more interesting interpretation of their claim, we are not obliged to take their c... | PT34 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q15 Passage:Camera manufacturers typically advertise their products by citing the resolution of their cameras' lenses, the resolution of a lens being the degree of detail the lens is capable of reproducing in the image it projects onto the film. Differences between cameras in this respect are irrel... | PT34 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q16 Passage:Camera manufacturers typically advertise their products by citing the resolution of their cameras' lenses, the resolution of a lens being the degree of detail the lens is capable of reproducing in the image it projects onto the film. Differences between cameras in this respect are irrel... | PT34 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q17 Passage:Dietary researcher: A recent study reports that laboratory animals that were fed reduced-calorie diets lived longer than laboratory animals whose caloric intake was not reduced. In response, some doctors are advocating reduced-calorie diets, in the belief that North Americans' life spa... | PT34 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q18 Passage:Editorialist: The positions advanced by radical environmentalists often contain hypotheses that are false and proposals that are economically infeasible. But there is a positive role to be played even by these extremists, for the social and political inertia that attends environmental i... | PT34 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q19 Passage:People should avoid taking the antacid calcium carbonate in doses larger than half a gram, for despite its capacity to neutralize stomach acids, calcium carbonate can increase the calcium level in the blood and thus impair kidney function. Moreover, just half a gram of it can stimulate t... | PT34 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q20 Passage:Professor Chan: The literature department's undergraduate courses should cover only true literary works, and not such frivolous material as advertisements.Professor Wigmore: Advertisements might or might not be true literary works but they do have a powerfully detrimental effect on soc... | PT34 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q21 Passage:Professor Chan: The literature department's undergraduate courses should cover only true literary works, and not such frivolous material as advertisements.Professor Wigmore: Advertisements might or might not be true literary works but they do have a powerfully detrimental effect on soc... | PT34 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q22 Passage:Sociologist: Some people argue that capital punishment for theft was an essential part of the labor discipline of British capitalism. Critics of such a view argue that more people were executed for theft in preindustrial England than were executed in England after industrialization. But... | PT34 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q23 Passage:To be horrific, a monster must be threatening. Whether or not it presents psychological, moral, or social dangers, or triggers enduring infantile fears, if a monster is physically dangerous then it is threatening. In fact, even a physically benign monster is horrific if it inspires revul... | PT34 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q24 Passage:Lawyer: The defendant wanted to clear the snow off his car and in doing so knocked snow on the sidewalk. This same snow melted and refroze, forming ice on which the plaintiff fell, breaking her hip. We argue that the defendant maliciously harmed the plaintiff, because malice is intentio... | PT34 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT34 S2 Q25 Passage:Although wood-burning stoves are more efficient than open fireplaces, they are also more dangerous. The smoke that wood-burning stoves release up the chimney is cooler than the smoke from an open flame. Thus it travels more slowly and deposits more creosote, a flammable substance that ca... | PT34 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q1 Passage:If a doctor gives a patient only a few options for lifestyle modification, the patient is more likely to adhere to the doctor's advice than if the doctor gives the patient many options. Stem:Which one of the following most accurately expresses the principle illustrated above? Correct Answ... | PT34 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q2 Passage:To acquire a better understanding of the structure and development of the human personality, some psychologists study the personalities of animals. Stem:Each of the following, if true, contributes to an explanation of the practice mentioned above EXCEPT: Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:Th... | PT34 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q3 Passage:Sigatoka disease drastically reduces the yield of banana trees and is epidemic throughout the areas of the world where bananas are grown. The fungus that causes the disease can be controlled with fungicides, but the fungicides can pose a health hazard to people living nearby. The fungic... | PT34 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q4 Passage:A group of 1,000 students was randomly selected from three high schools in a medium-sized city and asked the question, "Do you plan to finish your high school education?" More than 89 percent answered "Yes." This shows that the overwhelming majority of students want to finish high school,... | PT34 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q5 Passage:Columnist: A democratic society cannot exist unless its citizens have established strong bonds of mutual trust. Such bonds are formed and strengthened only by participation in civic organizations, political parties, and other groups outside the family. It is obvious then that widespread ... | PT34 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q6 Passage:Standard archaeological techniques make it possible to determine the age of anything containing vegetable matter, but only if the object is free of minerals containing carbon. Prehistoric artists painted on limestone with pigments composed of vegetable matter, but it is impossible to col... | PT34 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q7 Passage:Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed "telemedicine" will provide sustained improvement in at least rural patient care since it allows rural physicians to televise medical examinations to specialists who live at great distances‚ specialists who will thus be able to provide advice the rura... | PT34 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q8 Passage:Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed "telemedicine" will provide sustained improvement in at least rural patient care since it allows rural physicians to televise medical examinations to specialists who live at great distances‚ specialists who will thus be able to provide advice the rura... | PT34 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q9 Passage:Lines can be parallel in a Euclidean system of geometry. But the non-Euclidean system of geometry that has the most empirical verification is regarded by several prominent physicists as correctly describing the universe we inhabit. If these physicists are right, in our universe there are ... | PT34 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q10 Passage:Philosopher: People are not intellectually well suited to live in large, bureaucratic societies. Therefore, people can find happiness, if at all, only in smaller political units such as villages. Stem:The reasoning in the philosopher's argument is flawed because the argument takes for g... | PT34 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q11 Passage:The present goal of the field of medicine seems to be to extend life indefinitely. Increasingly, the ability to transplant such organs as hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys will allow us to live longer. But we can never achieve brain transplants. There are, for a start, ten million ne... | PT34 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q12 Passage:Politician: My opponents argue that the future of our city depends on compromise‚ that unless the city's leaders put aside their differences and work together toward common goals, the city will suffer. However, the founders of this city based the city's charter on definite principles, ... | PT34 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q13 Passage:Though many insects die soon after reproducing for the first time, some may live for years after the survival of the next generation has been secured. Among the latter are some insects that work for the benefit of the ecosystem‚ for example, bees. Stem:Which one of the following can be p... | PT34 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q14 Passage:People's political behavior frequently does not match their rhetoric. Although many complain about government intervention in their lives, they tend not to reelect inactive politicians. But a politician's activity consists largely in the passage of laws whose enforcement affects voters' ... | PT34 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT34 S3 Q15 Passage:Lea: Contemporary art has become big business. Nowadays art has less to do with self-expression than with making money. The work of contemporary artists is utterly bereft of spontaneity and creativity, as a visit to any art gallery demonstrates.Susan: I disagree. One can still find spo... | PT34 S3 Q15 |
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