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Question ID:PT27 S3 Q10 Passage:Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. In philosophy and linguistics, John Stuart Mill's formulation that "proper names are meaningless marks set upon . . . persons to distinguish ... | PT27 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q11 Passage:Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. In philosophy and linguistics, John Stuart Mill's formulation that "proper names are meaningless marks set upon . . . persons to distinguish ... | PT27 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q12 Passage:Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. In philosophy and linguistics, John Stuart Mill's formulation that "proper names are meaningless marks set upon . . . persons to distinguish ... | PT27 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q13 Passage:Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. In philosophy and linguistics, John Stuart Mill's formulation that "proper names are meaningless marks set upon . . . persons to distinguish ... | PT27 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q14 Passage:Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two major ways, both of which deny that names have any significant semantic content. In philosophy and linguistics, John Stuart Mill's formulation that "proper names are meaningless marks set upon . . . persons to distinguish ... | PT27 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q15 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q16 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q17 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q18 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q19 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q20 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q21 Passage:Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds of kilometers in covered cages to unfamiliar sites and yet, when released, be able to choose fairly accurate homeward bearings within a minute and fly home. Aside from reading the minds of the experimenters (a possibil... | PT27 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q22 Passage:Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. This apprehension of a beyond or of a d√¶monic‚ a sense of transcendence‚ appears in literature or life, according to Freud, when we feel that something uncanny i... | PT27 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q23 Passage:Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. This apprehension of a beyond or of a d√¶monic‚ a sense of transcendence‚ appears in literature or life, according to Freud, when we feel that something uncanny i... | PT27 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q24 Passage:Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. This apprehension of a beyond or of a d√¶monic‚ a sense of transcendence‚ appears in literature or life, according to Freud, when we feel that something uncanny i... | PT27 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q25 Passage:Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. This apprehension of a beyond or of a d√¶monic‚ a sense of transcendence‚ appears in literature or life, according to Freud, when we feel that something uncanny i... | PT27 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT27 S3 Q26 Passage:Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. This apprehension of a beyond or of a d√¶monic‚ a sense of transcendence‚ appears in literature or life, according to Freud, when we feel that something uncanny i... | PT27 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q1 Passage:Politician: Governments should tax any harmful substance that is available to the general public at a level that the tax would discourage continued use of the substance. Stem:Which one of the following is an application of the politician's principle of taxation? Correct Answer Choice:CCh... | PT27 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q2 Passage:The average cable television company offers its customers 50 channels, but new fiber-optic lines will enable telephone companies to provide 100 to 150 television channels to their customers for the same price as cable companies charge for 50. Therefore, cable companies will be displaced ... | PT27 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q3 Passage:A just government never restricts the right of its citizens to act upon their desires except when their acting upon their desires is a direct threat to the health or property of other of its citizens. Stem:Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the principle cited a... | PT27 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q4 Passage:Mayor: Citing the severity of the city's winters, the city road commissioner has suggested paving our roads with rubberized asphalt, since the pressure of passing vehicles would cause the rubber to flex, breaking up ice on roads and so making ice removal easier and less of a strain on th... | PT27 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q5 Passage:Ticks attach themselves to host animals to feed. Having fed to capacity, and not before then, the ticks drop off their host. Deer ticks feeding off white-footed mice invariably drop off their hosts between noon and sunset, regardless of time of attachment. White-footed mice are strictl... | PT27 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q6 Passage:Monarch butterflies spend the winter hibernating on trees in certain forests. Local environmental groups have organized tours of the forests in an effort to protect the butterflies' habitat against woodcutters. Unfortunately, the tourists trample most of the small shrubs that are necess... | PT27 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q7 Passage:If you know a lot about history, it will be easy for you to impress people who are intellectuals. But unfortunately, you will not know much about history if you have not, for example, read a large number of history books. Therefore, if you are not well versed in history due to a lack of r... | PT27 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q8 Passage:People always seem to associate high prices of products with high quality. But price is not necessarily an indicator of quality. The best teas are often no more expensive than the lower-quality teas. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, does most to explain the apparent counterexampl... | PT27 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q9 Passage:The only physical factor preventing a human journey to Mars has been weight. Carrying enough fuel to propel a conventional spacecraft to Mars and back would make even the lightest craft too heavy to be launched from Earth. A device has recently been invented, however, that allows an oth... | PT27 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q10 Passage:Unplugging a peripheral component such as a "mouse" from a personal computer renders all of the software programs that require that component unusable on that computer. On Fred's personal computer, a software program that requires a mouse has become unusable. So it must be that the mou... | PT27 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q11 Passage:P: Complying with the new safety regulations is useless. Even if the new regulations had been in effect before last year's laboratory fire, they would not have prevented the fire or the injuries resulting from it because they do not address its underlying causes.Q: But any regulations... | PT27 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q12 Passage:P: Complying with the new safety regulations is useless. Even if the new regulations had been in effect before last year's laboratory fire, they would not have prevented the fire or the injuries resulting from it because they do not address its underlying causes.Q: But any regulations... | PT27 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q13 Passage:Historian: The ancient Greeks failed to recognize that, morally, democracy is no improvement over monarchy. It is wrong for an individual to have the power to choose the course of action for a government, so it is no less wrong to grant this power to society, which is just a collection ... | PT27 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q14 Passage:In 1712 the government of Country Y appointed a censor to prohibit the publication of any book critical of Country Y's government; all new books legally published in the country after 1712 were approved by a censor. Under the first censor, one half of the book manuscripts submitted to t... | PT27 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q15 Passage:It is often said that beauty is subjective. But this judgment has to be false. If one tries to glean the standard of beauty of earlier cultures from the artistic works they considered most beautiful, one cannot but be impressed by its similarity to our own standard. In many fundamental w... | PT27 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q16 Passage:Nutrition education in schools once promoted daily consumption of food from each of the "four food groups": milk, meat, fruit and vegetables, and breads and cereals. This recommendation was, however, dangerous to health. Stem:Each of the following, if true, provides support for the cri... | PT27 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q17 Passage:The Green Ensemble, a nonprofit theater group, has always been financially dependent on contributions from corporations and would have been forced to disband this year if any of its corporate sponsors had withdrawn their financial support. But the Green Ensemble has not only been able t... | PT27 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q18 Passage:Book publishers have traditionally published a few books that they thought were of intrinsic merit even though these books were unlikely to make a profit. Nowadays, however, fewer of these books are being published. It seems, therefore, that publishers now, more than ever, are more inter... | PT27 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q19 Passage:Most people feel that they are being confused by the information from broadcast news. This could be the effect of the information's being delivered too quickly or of its being poorly organized. Analysis of the information content of a typical broadcast news story shows that news stories ... | PT27 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q20 Passage:Art historian: Robbins cannot pass judgment on Stuart's art. While Robbins understands the art of Stuart too well to dismiss it, she does not understand it well enough to praise it. Stem:The art historian's argument depends on the assumption that Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A:in order... | PT27 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q21 Passage:Words like "employee," "payee," and "detainee" support the generalization, crudely stated, that words with the ending -ee designate the person affected in the specified way by an action performed by someone else. The word "absentee" seems to be a direct counterexample: it ends in -ee, ... | PT27 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q22 Passage:Words like "employee," "payee," and "detainee" support the generalization, crudely stated, that words with the ending -ee designate the person affected in the specified way by an action performed by someone else. The word "absentee" seems to be a direct counterexample: it ends in -ee, ... | PT27 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q23 Passage:Much of today's literature is inferior: most of our authors are intellectually and emotionally inexperienced, and their works lack both the intricacy and the focus on the significant that characterize good literature. However, Hypatia's latest novel is promising; it shows a maturity, co... | PT27 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q24 Passage:Scientists, puzzled about the development of penicillin-resistant bacteria in patients who had not been taking penicillin, believe they have found an explanation. The relevant group of patients have dental fillings made of mercury-containing amalgam, and the bacteria the patients develo... | PT27 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT27 S4 Q25 Passage:All any reporter knows about the accident is what the press agent has said. Therefore, if the press agent told every reporter everything about the accident, then no reporter knows any more about it than any other reporter. If no reporter knows any more about the accident than any other r... | PT27 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q1 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q2 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q3 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q4 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q5 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q6 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q7 Passage:Eight physics students‚ four majors: Frank, Gwen, Henry, and Joan; and four nonmajors: Victor, Wanda, Xavier, and Yvette‚ are being assigned to four laboratory benches, numbered 1 through 4. Each student is assigned to exactly one bench, and exactly two students are assigned to each ben... | PT26 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q8 Passage:A messenger will deliver exactly seven packages‚ L, M, N, O, P, S, and T‚ one at a time, not necessarily in that order. The seven deliveries must be made according to the following conditions:P is delivered either first or seventh.The messenger delivers N at some time after delivering L.... | PT26 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q9 Passage:A messenger will deliver exactly seven packages‚ L, M, N, O, P, S, and T‚ one at a time, not necessarily in that order. The seven deliveries must be made according to the following conditions:P is delivered either first or seventh.The messenger delivers N at some time after delivering L.... | PT26 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q10 Passage:A messenger will deliver exactly seven packages‚ L, M, N, O, P, S, and T‚ one at a time, not necessarily in that order. The seven deliveries must be made according to the following conditions:P is delivered either first or seventh.The messenger delivers N at some time after delivering L... | PT26 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q11 Passage:A messenger will deliver exactly seven packages‚ L, M, N, O, P, S, and T‚ one at a time, not necessarily in that order. The seven deliveries must be made according to the following conditions:P is delivered either first or seventh.The messenger delivers N at some time after delivering L... | PT26 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q12 Passage:A messenger will deliver exactly seven packages‚ L, M, N, O, P, S, and T‚ one at a time, not necessarily in that order. The seven deliveries must be made according to the following conditions:P is delivered either first or seventh.The messenger delivers N at some time after delivering L... | PT26 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q13 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q14 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q15 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q16 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q17 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q18 Passage:Each of exactly five persons‚ Nguyen, Olson, Pike, Tyner, and Valdez‚ participates in exactly one of three activities: going to a movie, going to a soccer game, or going to a restaurant. The following conditions must apply:Nguyen and Olson do not participate in the same activity as eac... | PT26 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q19 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q20 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q21 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q22 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q23 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT26 S1 Q24 Passage:In each of two years exactly two of four lawmakers‚ Feld, Gibson, Hsu, and Ivins‚ and exactly two of three scientists‚ Vega, Young, and Zapora‚ will serve as members of a four-person panel. In each year, one of the members will be chairperson. The chairperson in the first year cannot s... | PT26 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q1 Passage:Insurance that was to become effective at 9 A.M. on a certain date was taken out on the life of a flight attendant. He died on that date at 10 A.M. local time, which was two hours before 9 A.M. in the time zone where the policy had been purchased. The insurance company contended that th... | PT26 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q2 Passage:Once a child's imagination becomes developed, a host of imaginary creatures may torment the child. But this newly developed cognitive capacity may also be used to render these creatures harmless. For instance, a child's new toy may be imagined as an ally, powerful enough to ward off any i... | PT26 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q3 Passage:Trisha: Today's family is declining in its ability to carry out its functions of child-rearing and providing stability for adult life. There must be a return to the traditional values of commitment and responsibility.Jerod: We ought to leave what is good enough alone. Contemporary fami... | PT26 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q4 Passage:Politician P: My opponent claims that the government is obligated to raise taxes to increase funding for schools and health care. Because raising taxes to increase funding for schools and health care would make taxpayers upset over their loss of buying power, my opponent is simply mistak... | PT26 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q5 Passage:In defending the Hyperion School of Journalism from charges that its program is of little or no value to its students, the dean of the school pointed to its recent success in placing students: 65 percent of its graduates went on to internships or jobs in print or broadcast journalism. St... | PT26 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q6 Passage:The largest volcano on Mars rises 27 kilometers above the surrounding plain and covers an area roughly the size of Romania. Even if the Earth's gravity were as low as the gravity of Mars is, no volcano of such size could exist on Earth, for the Earth's crust, although of essentially the ... | PT26 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q7 Passage:Speakers of the Caronian language constitute a minority of the population in several large countries. An international body has recommended that the regions where Caronian-speakers live be granted autonomy as an independent nation in which Caronian-speakers would form a majority. But Ca... | PT26 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q8 Passage:Sociologist: The welfare state cannot be successfully implemented because it rests on the assumption that human beings are unselfish‚ a seemingly false assumption. The welfare state is feasible only if wage earners are prepared to have their hard-earned funds used to help others in great... | PT26 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q9 Passage:Early pencil leads were made of solid graphite mined in Cumberland, in Britain. Modern methods of manufacturing pencil leads from powdered graphite are the result of research sponsored by the government of France in the 1790s, when France was at war with Britain and thus had no access to... | PT26 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q10 Passage:Commercial passenger airplanes can be equipped with a collision-avoidance radar system that provides pilots with information about the proximity of other airplanes. Because the system warns pilots to take evasive action when it indicates a possible collision, passengers are safer on air... | PT26 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q11 Passage:Commercial passenger airplanes can be equipped with a collision-avoidance radar system that provides pilots with information about the proximity of other airplanes. Because the system warns pilots to take evasive action when it indicates a possible collision, passengers are safer on air... | PT26 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q12 Passage:The higher the average fat intake among the residents of a country, the higher the incidence of cancer in that country; the lower the average fat intake, the lower the incidence of cancer. So individuals who want to reduce their risk of cancer should reduce their fat intake. Stem:Which o... | PT26 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q13 Passage:A local television station is considering a plan to create a panel of child psychologists to review programs in advance of their airing and rate the level of violence. A program that portrays a high level of violence would be listed in newspapers with four guns after the title. On the ... | PT26 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q14 Passage:The common ancestors of Australian land- and tree-dwelling kangaroos had prehensile (grasping) tails and long opposable thumbs, attributes that are well-adapted to tree-dwelling but offer kangaroos few advantages on land. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that land-dwelling kangaroos ... | PT26 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q15 Passage:Editorialist: Society is obliged to bestow the privileges of adulthood upon its members once they are mature enough to accept the corresponding responsibilities. But science has established that physiological development is completed in most persons by age seventeen. Since this maturing... | PT26 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q16 Passage:Every new play that runs for more than three months is either a commercial or a critical success. Last year, all new plays that were critical successes were also commercial successes. Therefore, every new play that ran for more than three months last year was a commercial success. Stem... | PT26 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q17 Passage:Commissioner: I have been incorrectly criticized for having made my decision on the power plant issue prematurely. I based my decision on the report prepared by the neighborhood association and, although I have not studied it thoroughly, I am sure that the information it contains is acc... | PT26 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q18 Passage:Each child in a group of young children read aloud both a short paragraph and a list of randomly ordered words from the paragraph. The more experienced readers among them made fewer pronunciation errors in whichever task they performed second, whether it was the list or the paragraph. ... | PT26 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q19 Passage:Anthropologist: Violence is an extreme form of aggression, and is distinct from the self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions. Human beings in certain situations react to unpleasant stimuli with violence‚ but only because they are conditioned by their culture to re... | PT26 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q20 Passage:Martha's friend, who is very knowledgeable about edible flowers, told Martha that there are no edible daisies, at least not any that are palatable. Martha, however, reasons that since there are daisies that are a kind of chrysanthemum and since there are edible chrysanthemums that are q... | PT26 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q21 Passage:Attorney for Ziegler: My client continued to do consulting work between the time of his arrest for attempted murder and the start of this trial. But I contend that Ziegler was insane at the time that he fired the shot. This is the only reasonable conclusion to draw from the fact that th... | PT26 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q22 Passage:Most students are bored by history courses as they are usually taught, primarily because a large amount of time is spent teaching dates and statistics. The best way to teach history, therefore, is to spend most class time recounting the lives of historical figures and very little on date... | PT26 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q23 Passage:In a certain municipality, a judge overturned a suspect's conviction for possession of an illegal weapon. The suspect had fled upon seeing police and subsequently discarded the illegal weapon after the police gave chase. The judge reasoned as follows: the only cause for the police giv... | PT26 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q24 Passage:Monica: The sculpture commissioned for our town plaza has been scorned by the public ever since it went up. But since the people in our town do not know very much about contemporary art, the unpopularity of the work says nothing about its artistic merit and thus gives no reason for rem... | PT26 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT26 S2 Q25 Passage:Monica: The sculpture commissioned for our town plaza has been scorned by the public ever since it went up. But since the people in our town do not know very much about contemporary art, the unpopularity of the work says nothing about its artistic merit and thus gives no reason for rem... | PT26 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q1 Passage:From the tenth century until around the year 1500, there were Norse settlers living in Greenland. During that time, average yearly temperatures fell slightly worldwide, and some people claim that this temperature drop wiped out the Norse settlements by rendering Greenland too cold for hu... | PT26 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q2 Passage:From the tenth century until around the year 1500, there were Norse settlers living in Greenland. During that time, average yearly temperatures fell slightly worldwide, and some people claim that this temperature drop wiped out the Norse settlements by rendering Greenland too cold for hu... | PT26 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q3 Passage:Even though trading in ivory has been outlawed by international agreement, some piano makers still use ivory, often obtained illegally, to cover piano keys. Recently, experts have devised a synthetic ivory that, unlike earlier ivory substitutes, has found favor with concert pianists thro... | PT26 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q4 Passage:The government has spent heavily to clean groundwater contaminated by toxic chemical spills. Yet not even one spill site has been completely cleaned, and industrial accidents are spilling more toxic chemicals annually than are being cleaned up. More of the government's budget should be ... | PT26 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q5 Passage:Consumer: I would like to have the features contained in the latest upgrade to your computer software package, but I am leery of installing the upgrade because a friend has told me he had a problem with it.Company representative: We have distributed nearly 3,000 copies of the upgrade an... | PT26 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q6 Passage:First legislator: Medical research is predominantly done on groups of patients that include only men. For example, the effects of coffee drinking on health are evaluated only for men, and studies are lacking on hormone treatments for older women. Government-sponsored medical research s... | PT26 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q7 Passage:Lack of exercise produces the same or similar bodily effects as aging. In fact, the physical changes that accompany aging can often be slowed down by appropriate exercise. No drug, however, holds any promise for slowing down the changes associated with aging. Therefore, _______. Stem:W... | PT26 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q8 Passage:Grasses and woody plants are planted on dirt embankments to keep the embankments from eroding. The embankments are mowed to keep the grasses from growing too tall; as a result, clippings pile up. These piles of clippings smother the woody plants, causing their roots, which serve to keep... | PT26 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q9 Passage:Scientific and technological discoveries have considerable effects on the development of any society. It follows that predictions of the future condition of societies in which scientific and technological discovery is particularly frequent are particularly untrustworthy. Stem:The argum... | PT26 S3 Q9 |
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