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Question ID:PT32 S3 Q13 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q14 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q15 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q16 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q17 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q18 Passage:At a concert, exactly eight compositions‚ F, H, L, O, P, R, S, and T‚ are to be performed exactly once each, consecutively and one composition at a time. The order of their performance must satisfy the following conditions:T is performed either immediately before F or immediately after ... | PT32 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q19 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q20 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q21 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q22 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q23 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT32 S3 Q24 Passage:On each of exactly seven consecutive days (day 1 through day 7), a pet shop features exactly one of three breeds of kitten‚ Himalayan, Manx, Siamese‚ and exactly one of three breeds of puppy‚ Greyhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler. The following conditions must apply:Greyhounds are featured... | PT32 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q1 Passage:Yuriko: Our city's campaign to persuade parents to have their children vaccinated ought to be imitated by your city. In the 16 months since the enactment of legislation authorizing the campaign, vaccinations in our city have increased by 30 percent.Susan: But the major part of that inc... | PT32 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q2 Passage:The process by which nylon is manufactured releases large amounts of the gas nitrous oxide, which is harmful to the environment. Since the processing of cotton fiber does not release environmentally harmful gases, there would be less environmental damage done if cotton fiber rather than ... | PT32 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q3 Passage:John: It was wrong of you to blame me for that traffic accident. You know full well that the accident was due to my poor vision, and I certainly cannot be held responsible for the fact that my vision has deteriorated.Michiko: But I can hold you responsible for your hazardous driving, b... | PT32 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q4 Passage:Psychiatrist: Take any visceral emotion you care to consider. There are always situations in which it is healthy to try to express that emotion. So, there are always situations in which it is healthy to try to express one's anger. Stem:The conclusion of the argument follows logically if ... | PT32 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q5 Passage:Cigarette companies claim that manufacturing both low- and high-nicotine cigarettes allows smokers to choose how much nicotine they want. However, a recent study has shown that the levels of nicotine found in the blood of smokers who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day are identical at t... | PT32 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q6 Passage:Editorial: The premier's economic advisor assures her that with the elimination of wasteful spending the goal of reducing taxes while not significantly decreasing government services can be met. But the premier should not listen to this advisor, who in his youth was convicted of embezzl... | PT32 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q7 Passage:Figorian Wildlife Commission: The development of wetlands in industrialized nations for residential and commercial uses has endangered many species. To protect wildlife we must regulate such development in Figoria: future wetland development must be offset by the construction of replac... | PT32 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q8 Passage:Figorian Wildlife Commission: The development of wetlands in industrialized nations for residential and commercial uses has endangered many species. To protect wildlife we must regulate such development in Figoria: future wetland development must be offset by the construction of replac... | PT32 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q9 Passage:High blood cholesterol levels are bad for the heart. Like meat, eggs, and poultry, shellfish contains cholesterol. But shellfish is not necessarily bad for the heart; it is very low in saturated fat, which affects blood cholesterol levels much more than dietary cholesterol does. Stem:Whi... | PT32 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q10 Passage:Every moral theory developed in the Western tradition purports to tell us what a good life is. However, most people would judge someone who perfectly embodied the ideals of any one of these theories not to be living a good life‚ the kind of life they would want for themselves and their c... | PT32 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q11 Passage:Biologist: Humans have five fingers because we descended from a fish with five phalanges in its fins. Despite our prejudices to the contrary, our configuration of fingers is no more or less useful than several other possible configurations, e.g., six per hand. So, if humans had descende... | PT32 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q12 Passage:Surrealist: Many artists mistakenly think that models need be taken only from outside the psyche. Although human sensibility can confer beauty upon even the most vulgar external objects, using the power of artistic representation solely to preserve and reinforce objects that would exist... | PT32 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q13 Passage:Harrold Foods is attempting to dominate the soft-drink market by promoting "Hero," its most popular carbonated drink product, with a costly new advertising campaign. But survey results show that, in the opinion of 72 percent of all consumers, "Hero" already dominates the market. Since a... | PT32 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q14 Passage:Theoretically, analog systems are superior to digital systems. A signal in a pure analog system can be infinitely detailed, while digital systems cannot produce signals that are more precise than their digital units. With this theoretical advantage there is a practical disadvantage, howe... | PT32 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q15 Passage:Psychologist: Doctors should never prescribe sedatives for people with insomnia. Most cases of insomnia that psychologists treat are known to be caused by psychological stress. This suggests that insomniacs do not need drugs that alter their biochemistry, but rather need psychotherapy t... | PT32 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q16 Passage:Numerous paintings and engravings representing warfare can be found in remains of all civilizations going back to and including the Neolithic period, when agriculture was first developed. However, no paintings or engravings of warfare are found dating from before the Neolithic period. Th... | PT32 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q17 Passage:An antidote for chicken pox has been developed, but researchers warn that its widespread use could be dangerous, despite the fact that this drug has no serious side effects and is currently very effective at limiting the duration and severity of chicken pox. Stem:Which one of the followi... | PT32 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q18 Passage:The tendency toward overspecialization in the study of artifacts is unfortunate. Scholars can enhance their understanding of a certain artistic period by studying art from earlier periods that had a significant influence on it. For instance, because of its influence on Spanish artisans, ... | PT32 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q19 Passage:Editorial: Medical schools spend one hour teaching preventive medicine for every ten hours spent teaching curative medicine, even though doctors' use of the techniques of preventive medicine cuts down medical costs greatly. Therefore, if their goal is to make medicine more cost-effectiv... | PT32 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q20 Passage:Dana: It is wrong to think that the same educational methods should be used with all children. Many children have been raised in more communal environments than others and would therefore learn better through group, rather than individual, activities. A child's accustomed style of learn... | PT32 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q21 Passage:Experimental psychology requires the application of statistics to interpret empirical data and assess their significance. A person will not be able to understand such applications without training in statistics. Therefore, the more training one has in statistics, the better one will be... | PT32 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q22 Passage: Stem:Item removed from scoring. Correct Answer Choice:Choice A: Choice B: Choice C: Choice D: Choice E: | PT32 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q23 Passage:Some vegetarians have argued that there are two individually sufficient reasons for not eating meat‚ one based on health considerations, and the other based on the aversion to living at the expense of other conscious creatures. But suppose that eating meat were essential to good health f... | PT32 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q24 Passage:The increasing complexity of scientific inquiry has led to a proliferation of multiauthored technical articles. Reports of clinical trials involving patients from several hospitals are usually coauthored by physicians from each participating hospital. Likewise, physics papers reporting r... | PT32 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT32 S4 Q25 Passage:Helena: Extroversion, or sociability, is not biologically determined. Children whose biological parents are introverted, when adopted by extroverts, tend to be more sociable than children of introverted parents who are not adopted.Jay: Your conclusion does not follow. Some of these chi... | PT32 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q1 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q2 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q3 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q4 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q5 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q6 Passage:Four boys‚ Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul‚ and three girls‚ Nita, Rachel, and Trisha‚ will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each l... | PT31 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q7 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all soul... | PT31 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q8 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all soul... | PT31 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q9 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all soul... | PT31 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q10 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all sou... | PT31 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q11 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all sou... | PT31 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q12 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all sou... | PT31 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q13 Passage:A music store carries exactly ten types of CDs‚ both new and used of each of jazz, opera, pop, rap, and soul. The store is having a sale on some of these types of CDs. The following conditions must apply:Used pop is on sale; new opera is not.If both types of pop are on sale, then all sou... | PT31 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q14 Passage:During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions‚ Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:Each divi... | PT31 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q15 Passage:During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions‚ Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:Each divi... | PT31 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q16 Passage:During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions‚ Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:Each divi... | PT31 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q17 Passage:During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions‚ Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:Each divi... | PT31 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q18 Passage:During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions‚ Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:Each divi... | PT31 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q19 Passage:A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:George: tapin... | PT31 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q20 Passage:A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:George: tapin... | PT31 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q21 Passage:A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:George: tapin... | PT31 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q22 Passage:A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:George: tapin... | PT31 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT31 S1 Q23 Passage:A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:George: tapin... | PT31 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q1 Passage:Moralist: TV talk shows are contributing to the moral decline in our country. By constantly being shown the least moral people in our society, viewers begin to think that such people are the norm, and that there is something wrong with being morally upright.TV talk show host: Well, if t... | PT31 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q2 Passage:For the last three years, entomologists have been searching for a parasite to help control a whitefly that has recently become a serious crop pest. Believing this new pest to be a variety of sweet-potato whitefly, the entomologists confined their search to parasites of the sweet-potato w... | PT31 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q3 Passage:Announcement for a television program: Are female physicians more sensitive than male physicians to the needs of women patients? To get the answer, we'll ask physicians of both sexes this question. Tune in tomorrow. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, identifies a flaw in the pla... | PT31 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q4 Passage:Doctor: The practice of using this therapy to treat the illness cannot be adequately supported by the claim that any therapy for treating the illness is more effective than no therapy at all. What must also be taken into account is that this therapy is expensive and complicated. Stem:Whi... | PT31 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q5 Passage:Television executives recently announced that advertising time on television will cost 10 to 15 percent more next fall than it cost last fall. The executives argued that in spite of this increase, advertisers will continue to profit from television advertising, and so advertising time wi... | PT31 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q6 Passage:It is proposed to allow the sale, without prescription, of a medication that physicians currently prescribe to treat the common ear inflammation called "swimmer's ear." The principal objection is that most people lack the expertise for proper self-diagnosis and might not seek medical hel... | PT31 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q7 Passage:Social critic: The whole debate over the legal right of rock singers to utter violent lyrics misses the point. Legally, there is very little that may not be said. But not everything that may legally be said, ought to be said. Granted, violence predates the rise in popularity of such musi... | PT31 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q8 Passage:For all species of higher animals, reproduction requires the production of eggs but not necessarily the production of sperm. There are some species whose members are all female; the eggs produced by a rare female-only species of salamander hatch without fertilization. This has the drawbac... | PT31 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q9 Passage:As part of a survey, approximately 10,000 randomly selected individuals were telephoned and asked a number of questions about their income and savings. Those conducting the survey observed that the older the person being queried, the more likely it was that he or she would refuse to answ... | PT31 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q10 Passage:If something would have been justifiably regretted if it had occurred, then it is something that one should not have desired in the first place. It follows that many forgone pleasures should not have been desired in the first place. Stem:The conclusion above follows logically if which o... | PT31 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q11 Passage:Several thousand years ago, people in what is now North America began to grow corn, which grows faster and produces more food per unit of land than do the grains these people had grown previously. Corn is less nutritious than those other grains, however, and soon after these people esta... | PT31 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q12 Passage:Some biologists believe that the capacity for flight first developed in marine reptiles, claiming that feathers are clearly developed from scales. Other biologists rightly reject this suggestion, pointing out that bats have no scales and that nonmarine reptiles also have scales. Those wh... | PT31 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q13 Passage:Studies have shown that, contrary to popular belief, middle-aged people have more fear of dying than do elderly people. Stem:Each of the following, if true, contributes to an explanation of the phenomenon shown by the studies EXCEPT: Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:The longer one lives, ... | PT31 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q14 Passage:Historian: Leibniz, the seventeenth-century philosopher, published his version of calculus before Newton did. But then Newton revealed his private notebooks, which showed he had been using these ideas for at least a decade before Leibniz's publication. Newton also claimed that he had di... | PT31 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q15 Passage:For a ten-month period, the total monthly sales of new cars within the country of Calistan remained constant. During this period the monthly sales of new cars manufactured by Marvel Automobile Company doubled, and its share of the new car market within Calistan increased correspondingly... | PT31 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q16 Passage:Because addictive drugs are physically harmful, their use by athletes is never justified. Purists, however, claim that taking massive doses of even such nonaddictive drugs as aspirin and vitamins before competing should also be prohibited because they are unnatural. This is ridiculous;... | PT31 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q17 Passage:Because addictive drugs are physically harmful, their use by athletes is never justified. Purists, however, claim that taking massive doses of even such nonaddictive drugs as aspirin and vitamins before competing should also be prohibited because they are unnatural. This is ridiculous;... | PT31 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q18 Passage:Not all works of art represent something, but some do, and their doing so is relevant to our aesthetic experience of them; representation is therefore an aesthetically relevant property. Whether a work of art possesses this property is dependent upon context. Yet there are no clear crite... | PT31 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q19 Passage:If the flowers Drew received today had been sent by someone who knows Drew well, that person would have known that Drew prefers violets to roses. Yet Drew received roses. On the other hand, if the flowers had been sent by someone who does not know Drew well, then that person would have s... | PT31 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q20 Passage:One of the most vexing problems in historiography is dating an event when the usual sources offer conflicting chronologies of the event. Historians should attempt to minimize the number of competing sources, perhaps by eliminating the less credible ones. Once this is achieved and severa... | PT31 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q21 Passage:Bank deposits are credited on the date of the transaction only when they are made before 3 P.M. Alicia knows that the bank deposit was made before 3 P.M. So, Alicia knows that the bank deposit was credited on the date of the transaction. Stem:Which one of the following exhibits both of t... | PT31 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q22 Passage:On the surface, Melville's Billy Budd is a simple story with a simple theme. However, if one views the novel as a religious allegory, then it assumes a richness and profundity that place it among the great novels of the nineteenth century. However, the central question remains: Did Melv... | PT31 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q23 Passage:Town councillor: The only reason for the town to have ordinances restricting where skateboarding can be done would be to protect children from danger. Skateboarding in the town's River Park is undoubtedly dangerous, but we should not pass an ordinance prohibiting it. If children canno... | PT31 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT31 S2 Q24 Passage:Town councillor: The only reason for the town to have ordinances restricting where skateboarding can be done would be to protect children from danger. Skateboarding in the town's River Park is undoubtedly dangerous, but we should not pass an ordinance prohibiting it. If children canno... | PT31 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q1 Passage:Journalist: One reason many people believe in extrasensory perception (ESP) is that they have heard of controlled experiments in which ESP is purportedly demonstrated. However, ESP is a myth and the public is deluded by these experiments, for a prominent researcher has admitted to falsi... | PT31 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q2 Passage:One way kidney stones can form is when urine produced in the kidneys is overly concentrated with calcium or oxalate. Reducing dietary calcium has been thought, therefore, to decrease the likelihood that calcium will concentrate and form additional stones. Oddly enough, for many people th... | PT31 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q3 Passage:David: Forbidding companies from hiring permanent replacements for striking employees would be profoundly unfair. Such companies would have little leverage in their negotiations with strikers.Lin: No, the companies would still have sufficient leverage in negotiations if they hired tempo... | PT31 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q4 Passage:A favorable biography of a politician omits certain incriminating facts about the politician that were available to anyone when the book was written. The book's author claims that, because he was unaware of these facts when he wrote the book, he is not accountable for the fact that reade... | PT31 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q5 Passage:Logician: I have studied and thoroughly mastered the laws of logic. So to argue that I sometimes violate the laws of logic in ordinary conversation would be like arguing that some physicist circumvents the laws of physics in everyday life. Stem:The reasoning in the logician's argument is... | PT31 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q6 Passage:One thousand people in Denmark were questioned about their views on banning cigarette advertising. The sample comprised adults who are representative of the general population, and who, ten years previously, had been questioned on the same issue. Interestingly, their opinions changed li... | PT31 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q7 Passage:Passenger volume in the airline industry has declined dramatically over the past two years, and thus fewer travelers and fewer planes are using airports. Since airport expansion can be warranted only by increases in air traffic volume, and since it will probably be at least five years be... | PT31 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q8 Passage:Books updating the classification systems used by many libraries are not free‚ in fact they are very expensive. The only way to sell copies of them is to make the potential buyers believe they need to adopt the most recent system. Thus, these frequent changes in the classification system... | PT31 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q9 Passage:During the three months before and the three months after a major earthquake in California, students at a college there happened to be keeping a record of their dreams. After experiencing the earthquake, half of the students reported dreaming about earthquakes. During the same six months,... | PT31 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q10 Passage:It is wrong to waste our natural resources, and it is an incredible waste of resources to burn huge amounts of trash in incinerators. When trash is recycled, fewer resources are wasted. Because less trash will be recycled if an incinerator is built, the city should not build an inciner... | PT31 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q11 Passage:Human intelligence is not possible without human emotions. A computer is something that can never have emotions, so for that reason alone a computer will never be able to display intelligence. Stem:Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? Correct Answer... | PT31 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q12 Passage:Several recent studies establish that most people would want to be informed if they had any serious medical condition. In each study, over 80 percent of the people surveyed indicated that they would want to be told. Stem:Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument EXCEPT: Correc... | PT31 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q13 Passage:Historian: Political regimes that routinely censor various forms of expression on the grounds that they undermine public morality inevitably attempt to expand the categories of proscribed expression to include criticisms that these regimes perceive to threaten their power. Accordingly, ... | PT31 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q14 Passage:Ethicist: Both ASA and TPA are clot-dissolving agents. Recent studies show that the more expensive agent, TPA, would save at most two more lives than would ASA out of every 50 cardiac patients to whom they are postoperatively administered. However, since the relatives of the patients w... | PT31 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q15 Passage:Ashley: Words like "of" and "upon," unlike "pencil" and "shirt," do not refer to anything.Joshua: I agree; and since such words are meaningless, they should be abandoned. Stem:Joshua's remarks indicate that he interpreted Ashley's statement to imply that Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A... | PT31 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT31 S3 Q16 Passage:Ethicist: Some would ban cloning on the grounds that clones would be subpeople, existing to indulge the vanity of their "originals." It is not illegal, however, to use one person as a vehicle for the ambitions of another. Some people push their children to achieve in academics or athlet... | PT31 S3 Q16 |
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