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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q16 Passage:Ethicist: In a recent judicial decision, a contractor was ordered to make restitution to a company because of a bungled construction job, even though the company had signed a written agreement prior to entering into the contract that the contractor would not be financially liable should...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q17 Passage:Zoologist: Animals can certainly signal each other with sounds and gestures. However, this does not confirm the thesis that animals possess language, for it does not prove that animals possess the ability to use sounds or gestures to refer to concrete objects or abstract ideas. Stem:Whi...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q18 Passage:A person is more likely to become disabled as that person ages. Among adults in the country of East Wendell, however, the proportion receiving disability benefit payments shrinks from 4 percent among 55 to 64 year olds to 2 percent for those aged 65 to 74 and 1 percent for those aged 75...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q19 Passage:Light is registered in the retina when photons hit molecules of the pigment rhodopsin and change the molecules' shape. Even when they have not been struck by photons of light, rhodopsin molecules sometimes change shape because of normal molecular motion, thereby introducing error into t...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q20 Passage:Critic: Political utility determines the popularity of a metaphor. In authoritarian societies, the metaphor of society as a human body governed by a head is pervasive. Therefore, the society-as-body metaphor, with its connection between society's proper functioning and governance by a h...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q21 Passage:Thirty years ago, the percentage of their income that single persons spent on food was twice what it is today. Given that incomes have risen over the past thirty years, we can conclude that incomes have risen at a greater rate than the price of food in that period. Stem:Which one of the ...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q22 Passage:Viruses can have beneficial effects. For example, some kill more-complex microorganisms, some of which are deadly to humans. But viruses have such simple structures that replacing just a few of a beneficial virus's several million atoms can make it deadly to humans. Clearly, since altera...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q23 Passage:Societies in which value is measured primarily in financial terms invariably fragment into isolated social units. But since money is not the main measure of value in nonindustrial societies, they must tend in contrast to be socially unified. Stem:The flawed reasoning in which one of the ...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q24 Passage:Ringtail opossums are an Australian wildlife species that is potentially endangered. A number of ringtail opossums that had been orphaned and subsequently raised in captivity were monitored after being returned to the wild. Seventy-five percent of these opossums were killed by foxes, a...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q25 Passage:Jordan: If a business invests the money necessary to implement ecologically sound practices, its market share will decrease. But if it doesn't implement these practices, it pollutes the environment and wastes resources.Terry: But if consumers demand environmental responsibility of all ...
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Question ID:PT34 S3 Q26 Passage:The media now devote more coverage to crime than they did ten years ago. Yet this is not because the crime rate has increased, but rather because the public is now more interested in reading and hearing about crime. After all, a crucial factor in the media's decisions about what issues t...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q1 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q2 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q3 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q4 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q5 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q6 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q7 Passage:Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga are the clerks in a supermarket. The supermarket has exactly nine parallel aisles, numbered consecutively 1 through 9 from one end of the store to the other. Each aisle is stocked by exactly one clerk and no clerk stocks more than two aisles. Stocking a...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q8 Passage:A five-week adult education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:Each speaker lect...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q9 Passage:A five-week adult education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:Each speaker lect...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q10 Passage:A five-week adult education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:Each speaker lec...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q11 Passage:A five-week adult education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:Each speaker lec...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q12 Passage:A five-week adult education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:Each speaker lec...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q13 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q14 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q15 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q16 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q17 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q18 Passage:Exactly seven different trains‚ Quigley, Rockville, Sunnydale, Tilbury, Victoria, Wooster, and York‚ arrive at Middlebrook Station on Saturday. The following conditions govern their arrivals:The trains arrive one at a time.Either the York or the Wooster arrives fourth.The Sunnydale arriv...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q19 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q20 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q21 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q22 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q23 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT34 S4 Q24 Passage:Each of exactly six doctors‚ Juarez, Kudrow, Longtree, Nance, Onawa, and Palermo‚ is at exactly one of two clinics: Souderton or Randsborough. The following conditions must be satisfied:Kudrow is at Randsborough if Juarez is at Souderton.Onawa is at Souderton if Juarez is at Randsboroug...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q1 Passage:Marmosets are the only primates other than humans known to display a preference for using one hand rather than the other. Significantly more marmosets are left-handed than are right-handed. Since infant marmosets engage in much imitative behavior, researchers hypothesize that it is by i...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q2 Passage:Sheila: It has been argued that using computer technology to add color to a movie originally filmed in black and white damages the integrity of the original film. But no one argues that we should not base a movie on a novel or a short story because doing so would erode the value of the ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q3 Passage:Juan: Unlike the ancient Olympic games on which they are based, the modern Olympics include professional as well as amateur athletes. But since amateurs rarely have the financial or material resources available to professionals, it is unlikely that the amateurs will ever offer a serious...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q4 Passage:Juan: Unlike the ancient Olympic games on which they are based, the modern Olympics include professional as well as amateur athletes. But since amateurs rarely have the financial or material resources available to professionals, it is unlikely that the amateurs will ever offer a serious...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q5 Passage:A recent national study of the trash discarded in several representative areas confirmed that plastics constitute a smaller proportion of all trash than paper products do, whether the trash is measured by weight or by volume. The damage that a given weight or volume of trash does to the ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q6 Passage:A recent national study of the trash discarded in several representative areas confirmed that plastics constitute a smaller proportion of all trash than paper products do, whether the trash is measured by weight or by volume. The damage that a given weight or volume of trash does to the ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q7 Passage:Consultant: Most workers do not have every item they produce judged for quality, but each piece a freelance writer authors is evaluated. That is why freelance writers produce such high-quality work. Stem:The consultant's statements, if true, most strongly support which one of the followi...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q8 Passage:Few animals brave the midday heat of the Sahara desert. An exception is the silver ant, which chooses this time of day to leave its nest and scout for food, typically the corpses of heat-stricken animals. Even the silver ant, however, must be careful: at such times they can become victim...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q9 Passage:The same task triggers different levels of awareness of one's surroundings, called environmental awareness, in different individuals. Mathematical puzzles, for example, cause most people to increase such an awareness. Some people‚ those who formulate the answer visually, imagining the n...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q10 Passage:Art historian: Great works of art have often elicited outrage when first presented; in Europe, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompted a riot, and Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe elicited outrage and derision. So, since it is clear that art is often shocking, we should not hesitate to use pu...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q11 Passage:Researchers have discovered that caffeine can be as physically addictive as other psychoactive substances. Some people find that they become unusually depressed, drowsy, or even irritable if they do not have their customary dose of caffeine. This is significant because as many people con...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q12 Passage:A nationwide poll of students, parents, and teachers showed that over 90 percent believe that an appropriate percentage of their school's budget is being spent on student counseling programs. It seems, then, that any significant increase in a school's budget should be spent on something ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q13 Passage:Ethicist: Studies have documented the capacity of placebos to reduce pain in patients who believe that they are receiving beneficial drugs. Some doctors say that they administer placebos because medically effective treatment reinforced by the placebo effect sometimes helps patients reco...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q14 Passage:After the United Nations Security Council authorized military intervention by a coalition of armed forces intended to halt civil strife in a certain country, the parliament of one UN member nation passed a resolution condemning its own prime minister for promising to commit military pers...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q15 Passage:People who are good at playing the game Drackedary are invariably skilled with their hands. Mary is a very competent watchmaker. Therefore, Mary would make a good Drackedary player. Stem:The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the fol...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q16 Passage:Notice to subscribers: In order for us to provide you with efficient and reliable newspaper service, please note the following policies. You will be billed for home delivery every four weeks, in advance. If you do not receive delivery, call us promptly to receive a replacement copy. ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q17 Passage:Expert witness: Ten times, and in controlled circumstances, a single drop of the defendant's blood was allowed to fall onto the fabric. And in all ten cases, the stained area was much less than the expected 9.5 cm2. In fact, the stained area was always between 4.5 and 4.8 cm2. I concl...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q18 Passage:The use of space-based satellites to study environmental conditions on Earth is an important development in the conservation movement's history. Environmental problems may now be observed long before they otherwise would be noticed, allowing for intervention before they reach the crisis ...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q19 Passage:Historian: The spread of literacy informs more people of injustices and, in the right circumstances, leads to increased capacity to distinguish true reformers from mere opportunists. However, widespread literacy invariably emerges before any comprehensive system of general education; th...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q20 Passage:Recently discovered prehistoric rock paintings on small islands off the northern coast of Norway have archaeologists puzzled. The predominant theory about northern cave paintings was that they were largely a description of the current diets of the painters. This theory cannot be right, b...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q21 Passage:Attacks on an opponent's character should be avoided in political debates. Such attacks do not confront the opponent's argument; instead they attempt to cast doubt on the opponent's moral right to be in the debate at all. Stem:Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps t...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q22 Passage:Lawyer: Did Congleton assign the best available graphic artist to the project?Witness: Yes.Lawyer: And the best writer?Witness: Yes.Lawyer: In fact everyone she assigned to work on the project was top notch?Witness: That's true.Lawyer: So, you lied to the court when you said, earl...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q23 Passage:An air traveler in Beijing cannot fly to Lhasa without first flying to Chengdu. Unfortunately, an air traveler in Beijing must fly to Xian before flying to Chengdu. Any air traveler who flies from Beijing to Lhasa, therefore, cannot avoid flying to Xian. Stem:The pattern of reasoning e...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q24 Passage:Supervisor: Our next budget proposal will probably be approved, because normally about half of all budget proposals that the vice president considers are approved, and our last five budget proposals have all been turned down. Stem:The supervisor's reasoning is flawed because it presume...
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Question ID:PT33 S1 Q25 Passage:The number of airplanes equipped with a new anticollision device has increased steadily during the past two years. During the same period, it has become increasingly common for key information about an airplane's altitude and speed to disappear suddenly from air traffic controllers' scr...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q1 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q2 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q3 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q4 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q5 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q6 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q7 Passage:Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the economic health of a nation is the nation's gross national product (GNP) per capita‚ a figure reached by dividing the total value of the goods produced yearly in a nation by its population and taken to be a measure of th...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q8 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the ...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q9 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the ...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q10 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q11 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q12 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q13 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q14 Passage:The autobiographical narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, a slave of African descent, not only recounts an individual life but also provides, implicitly and explicitly, a perspective on the larger United States culture from the...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q15 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q16 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q17 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q18 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q19 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q20 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q21 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q22 Passage:Experts anticipate that global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) will have doubled by the end of the twenty-first century. It is known that CO2 can contribute to global warming by trapping solar energy that is being reradiated as heat from the Earth's surface. However, s...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q23 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q24 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q25 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q26 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q27 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S2 Q28 Passage:By the time Bentham turned his interest to the subject, late in the eighteenth century, most components of modern evidence law had been assembled. Among common-law doctrines regarding evidence there were, however, principles that today are regarded as bizarre; thus, a well-established (b...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q1 Passage:North American eastern white cedars grow both on cliff faces and in forests. Cedars growing on exposed cliff faces receive very few nutrients, and rarely grow bigger than one-tenth the height of cedars growing in forests, where they benefit from moisture and good soil. Yet few eastern w...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q2 Passage:Brewer: All children should be given the opportunity to participate in competitive sports; these activities provide an unsurpassed opportunity to engage children's emotions and so stimulate them to put maximum effort into attaining high athletic standards. Polanski: I disagree. Competit...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q3 Passage:The most common bird in Stillwater Marsh is a species of marsh hen, yet this species is rarely seen, even by experienced bird-watchers who seek it. In fact, this bird is seen far less frequently than any other bird inhabiting the marsh, including those that are much smaller and much less...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q4 Passage:Limited research indicates that therapeutic intervention before the onset of mental disorders can mitigate factors identified as major contributors to them. But a much more comprehensive research program is needed to verify these results and allow for the design of specific health care m...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q5 Passage:The radiation absorbed by someone during an ordinary commercial airline flight is no more dangerous than that received during an ordinary dental X-ray. Since a dental X-ray does negligible harm to a person, we can conclude that the radiation absorbed by members of commercial airline fligh...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q6 Passage:The recent cleaning of frescoes in the Sistine Chapel has raised important aesthetic issues. Art historians are now acutely aware that the colors of the works they study may differ from the works' original colors. Art historians have concluded from this that interpretations of the frescoe...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q7 Passage:Unlike newspapers in the old days, today's newspapers and televised news programs are full of stories about murders and assaults in our city. One can only conclude from this change that violent crime is now out of control, and, to be safe from personal attack, one should not leave one's ...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q8 Passage:Most people invest in the stock market without doing any research of their own. Some of these people rely solely on their broker's advice, whereas some others make decisions based merely on hunches. Other people do some research of their own, but just as often rely only on their broker or...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q9 Passage:At some point in any discussion of societal justice, the only possible doctrinal defense seems to be "That is the way we do things here." Different communities that each recognize the dignity and equality of all citizens will, for example, nevertheless settle on somewhat different provis...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q10 Passage:The importance of the ozone layer to terrestrial animals is that it entirely filters out some wavelengths of light but lets others through. Holes in the ozone layer and the dangers associated with these holes are well documented. However, one danger that has not been given sufficient att...
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Question ID:PT33 S3 Q11 Passage:Some people claim that the reason herbs are not prescribed as drugs by licensed physicians is that the medical effectiveness of herbs is seriously in doubt. No drug can be offered for sale, however, unless it has regulatory-agency approval for medicinal use in specific illnesses or cond...
PT33 S3 Q11
Question ID:PT33 S3 Q12 Passage:Some people claim that the reason herbs are not prescribed as drugs by licensed physicians is that the medical effectiveness of herbs is seriously in doubt. No drug can be offered for sale, however, unless it has regulatory-agency approval for medicinal use in specific illnesses or cond...
PT33 S3 Q12