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Question ID:PT26 S3 Q10 Passage:Tires may be either underinflated, overinflated, or neither. We are pretty safe in assuming that underinflation or overinflation of tires harms their tread. After all, no one has been able to show that these do not harm tire tread. Stem:Which one of the following most accurately describ... | PT26 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q11 Passage:Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter simply because her lyrics typically are disjointed and subjective. This judgment is ill founded, however, since the writings of many modern novelists typically are disjointed and subjective and yet these novelists are widely held to be good ... | PT26 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q12 Passage:The Levant‚ the area that borders the eastern Mediterranean‚ was heavily populated in prehistoric times. The southern Levant was abandoned about 6,000 years ago, although the northern Levant, which shared the same climate, remained heavily populated. Recently archaeologists have hypothe... | PT26 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q13 Passage:Using rational argument in advertisements does not persuade people to buy the products being advertised. Therefore, advertisers who replace rational argument with nonrational appeals to emotion in advertisements will persuade people to buy the products being advertised. Stem:Which one o... | PT26 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q14 Passage:A commercial insect trap consists of a small box containing pesticide mixed with glucose, a sweet substance known to attract insect pests. Yet in households where this type of trap has been used regularly for the past several years, recently installed traps are far less effective in eli... | PT26 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q15 Passage:A person's dietary consumption of cholesterol and fat is one of the most important factors determining the level of cholesterol in the person's blood (serum cholesterol). Serum cholesterol levels rise proportionally to increased cholesterol and fat consumption until that consumption rea... | PT26 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q16 Passage:The recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States is misnamed, because it would not result in truly free trade. Adam Smith, the economist who first articulated the principles of free trade, held that any obstacle placed in the way of... | PT26 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q17 Passage:Parents who wish to provide a strong foundation for the musical ability of their children should provide them with a good musical education. Since formal instruction is often a part of a good musical education, parents who wish to provide this strong foundation need to ensure that their ... | PT26 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q18 Passage:A stingray without parasites is healthier than it would be if it had parasites. Nevertheless, the lack of parasites in stingrays is an indicator that the ecosystem in which the stingrays live is under environmental stress such as pollution. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most... | PT26 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q19 Passage:Over the past 20 years, skiing has become a relatively safe sport due to improvements in ski equipment. There has been a 50 percent drop in the number of ski injuries over the last 20 years. Clearly, however, there have not been decreases in the number of injuries in all categories, as... | PT26 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q20 Passage:Only poetry cannot be translated well, and therefore it is poets who preserve languages, for we would not bother to learn a language if we could get everything written in it from translation. So, since we cannot witness the beauty of poetry except in the language in which it is composed,... | PT26 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q21 Passage:The companies that are the prime purchasers of computer software will not buy a software package if the costs of training staff to use it are high, and we know that it is expensive to teach people a software package that demands the memorization of unfamiliar commands. As a result, to b... | PT26 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q22 Passage:Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate for a position and there is at least one issue important to her, Kay uses the following principle in choosing which course of action to take: it is acceptable for me to vote for a candidate whose opinions differ from m... | PT26 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q23 Passage:Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate for a position and there is at least one issue important to her, Kay uses the following principle in choosing which course of action to take: it is acceptable for me to vote for a candidate whose opinions differ from m... | PT26 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q24 Passage:Over the last 25 years, the average price paid for a new car has steadily increased in relation to average individual income. This increase indicates that individuals who buy new cars today spend, on average, a larger amount relative to their incomes buying a car than their counterparts ... | PT26 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT26 S3 Q25 Passage:Credit card companies justify charging cardholders additional fees for late payments by asserting the principle that those who expose other individuals, companies, or institutions to financial risk should pay for that risk, and by pointing out that late-paying cardholders present a great... | PT26 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q1 Passage:Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is not in keeping with the liberal principles upon which Western democracies are founded. This reasoning is reminiscent of the argument that a tax on one's income is undemocratic because it violates one's right to property... | PT26 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q2 Passage:Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is not in keeping with the liberal principles upon which Western democracies are founded. This reasoning is reminiscent of the argument that a tax on one's income is undemocratic because it violates one's right to property... | PT26 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q3 Passage:Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is not in keeping with the liberal principles upon which Western democracies are founded. This reasoning is reminiscent of the argument that a tax on one's income is undemocratic because it violates one's right to property... | PT26 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q4 Passage:Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is not in keeping with the liberal principles upon which Western democracies are founded. This reasoning is reminiscent of the argument that a tax on one's income is undemocratic because it violates one's right to property... | PT26 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q5 Passage:Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is not in keeping with the liberal principles upon which Western democracies are founded. This reasoning is reminiscent of the argument that a tax on one's income is undemocratic because it violates one's right to property... | PT26 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q6 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter an... | PT26 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q7 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter an... | PT26 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q8 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter an... | PT26 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q9 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter an... | PT26 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q10 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter a... | PT26 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q11 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter a... | PT26 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q12 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter a... | PT26 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q13 Passage:James Porter (1905‚ 1970) was the first scholar to identify the African influence on visual art in the Americas, and much of what is known about the cultural legacy that African-American artists inherited from their African forebears has come to us by way of his work. Porter, a painter a... | PT26 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q14 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q15 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q16 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q17 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q18 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q19 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q20 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q21 Passage:Between June 1987 and May 1988, the bodies of at least 740 bottlenose dolphins out of a total coastal population of 3,000 to 5,000 washed ashore on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Since some of the dead animals never washed ashore, the overall disaster was presumably worse; perh... | PT26 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q22 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q23 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q24 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q25 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q26 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT26 S4 Q27 Passage:In England before 1660, a husband controlled his wife's property. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the shift from land-based to commercial wealth, marriage began to incorporate certain features of a contract. Historians have traditionally argued that this trend repr... | PT26 S4 Q27 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q1 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q2 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q3 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q4 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q5 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q6 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q7 Passage:Most office workers assume that the messages they send to each other via electronic mail are as private as a telephone call or a face-to-face meeting. That assumption is wrong. Although it is illegal in many areas for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls‚ e... | PT25 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q8 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 and... | PT25 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q9 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 and... | PT25 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q10 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 an... | PT25 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q11 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 an... | PT25 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q12 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 an... | PT25 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q13 Passage:While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 an... | PT25 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q14 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q15 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q16 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q17 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q18 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q19 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q20 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q21 Passage:Even in the midst of its resurgence as a vital tradition, many sociologists have viewed the current form of the powwow, a ceremonial gathering of native Americans, as a sign that tribal culture is in decline. Focusing on the dances and rituals that have recently come to be shared by most... | PT25 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q22 Passage:Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying complex systems: systems are divided into component parts that are investigated separately. But nineteenth-century critics of this method claimed that when a system's parts are isolated its complexity tends to be lost. To addr... | PT25 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q23 Passage:Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying complex systems: systems are divided into component parts that are investigated separately. But nineteenth-century critics of this method claimed that when a system's parts are isolated its complexity tends to be lost. To addr... | PT25 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q24 Passage:Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying complex systems: systems are divided into component parts that are investigated separately. But nineteenth-century critics of this method claimed that when a system's parts are isolated its complexity tends to be lost. To addr... | PT25 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q25 Passage:Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying complex systems: systems are divided into component parts that are investigated separately. But nineteenth-century critics of this method claimed that when a system's parts are isolated its complexity tends to be lost. To addr... | PT25 S1 Q25 |
Question ID:PT25 S1 Q26 Passage:Scientists typically advocate the analytic method of studying complex systems: systems are divided into component parts that are investigated separately. But nineteenth-century critics of this method claimed that when a system's parts are isolated its complexity tends to be lost. To addr... | PT25 S1 Q26 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q1 Passage:Psychiatrist: We are learning that neurochemical imbalances can cause behavior ranging from extreme mental illness to less serious but irritating behavior such as obsessive fantasizing, petulance, or embarrassment. These findings will promote compassion and tolerance when looking at a me... | PT25 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q2 Passage:No one wants this job as much as Joshua does, but he is not applying for it. It follows that there will not be any applicants, no matter how high the salary that is being offered. Stem:The flawed reasoning in the argument above most closely parallels that in which one of the following? C... | PT25 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q3 Passage:Many people limit the intake of calories and cholesterol in their diet in order to lose weight and reduce the level of cholesterol in their blood. When a person loses weight, the fat cells in that person's body decrease in size but not in number. As they decrease in size, fat cells spil... | PT25 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q4 Passage:Advances in photocopying technology allow criminals with no printing expertise to counterfeit paper currency. One standard anticounterfeiting technique, microprinting, prints paper currency with tiny designs that cannot be photocopied distinctly. Although counterfeits of microprinted cur... | PT25 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q5 Passage:Advances in photocopying technology allow criminals with no printing expertise to counterfeit paper currency. One standard anticounterfeiting technique, microprinting, prints paper currency with tiny designs that cannot be photocopied distinctly. Although counterfeits of microprinted cur... | PT25 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q6 Passage:One test to determine whether a person has been infected with tuberculosis consists of injecting the person with proteins extracted from the tuberculosis bacterium. Once a person has been infected by a bacterium, the person's immune system subsequently recognizes certain proteins present... | PT25 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q7 Passage:Generations of European-history students have been taught that a political assassination caused the First World War. Without some qualification, however, this teaching is bound to mislead, since the war would not have happened without the treaties and alliances that were already in effec... | PT25 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q8 Passage:Toddlers are not being malicious when they bite people. For example, a child may want a toy, and feel that the person he or she bites is preventing him or her from having it. Stem:The situation as described above most closely conforms to which one of the following generalizations? Correct... | PT25 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q9 Passage:Consumer advocate: Last year's worldwide alarm about a computer "virus"‚ a surreptitiously introduced computer program that can destroy other programs and data‚ was a fraud. Companies selling programs to protect computers against such viruses raised worldwide concern about the possibili... | PT25 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q10 Passage:Insects can see ultraviolet light and are known to identify important food sources and mating sites by sensing the characteristic patterns of ultraviolet light that these things reflect. Insects are also attracted to Glomosus spiderwebs, which reflect ultraviolet light. Thus, insects a... | PT25 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q11 Passage:A Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is based on a law that allows developers to use land inhabited by endangered species in exchange for a promise to preserve critical habitat or provide replacement land nearby. Some individuals of endangered species are lost in return for assurances by th... | PT25 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q12 Passage:It has long been thought that lizards evolved from a group of amphibians called anthracosaurs, no fossils of which have been found in any rocks older than 300 million years. However, a fossil of a lizard was recently found that is estimated to be 340 million years old. Lizards could no... | PT25 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q13 Passage:Numismatist: In medieval Spain, most gold coins were minted from gold mined in West Africa, in the area that is now Senegal. The gold mined in this region was the purest known. Its gold content of 92 percent allowed coins to be minted without refining the gold, and indeed coins minted... | PT25 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q14 Passage:Numismatist: In medieval Spain, most gold coins were minted from gold mined in West Africa, in the area that is now Senegal. The gold mined in this region was the purest known. Its gold content of 92 percent allowed coins to be minted without refining the gold, and indeed coins minted... | PT25 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q15 Passage:Some plants have extremely sensitive biological thermometers. For example, the leaves of rhododendrons curl when the temperature of the air around them is below 0(C (Celsius). Similarly, mature crocus blossoms open in temperatures above 2(C. So someone who simultaneously observed rhod... | PT25 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q16 Passage:Political scientist: The dissemination of political theories is in principle able to cause change in existing social structures. However, all political theories are formulated in the educationally privileged setting of the university, leading to convoluted language that is alienating to... | PT25 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q17 Passage:Nicotine has long been known to cause heart attacks and high blood pressure. Yet a recent study has shown that the incidence of heart attacks and high blood pressure is significantly higher among cigarette smokers who do not chew tobacco than among nonsmokers exposed to an equal amount ... | PT25 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q18 Passage:President of Central Supply Company: Profits are at an all-time low this fiscal year because of decreased demand for our products. If this situation continues, the company may have to declare bankruptcy. So it is important to prevent any further decrease in profits. Consequently, the o... | PT25 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q19 Passage:In all mammalian species, the period of a young mammal's life in which it is most frequently playful coincides with the period of most rapid growth of the neural connections in the mammal's brain that give rise to various complex patterns of movement, posture, and social response. Indee... | PT25 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q20 Passage:Physicist: Determinism is the view that every event has a preceding cause sufficient for its occurrence. That is, if determinism is true, then the events that are presently occurring could not have failed to occur given the state of the universe a moment ago. Determinism, however, is f... | PT25 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q21 Passage:If this parking policy is unpopular with the faculty, then we should modify it. If it is unpopular among students, we should adopt a new policy. And, it is bound to be unpopular either with the faculty or among students. Stem:If the statements above are true, which one of the following m... | PT25 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q22 Passage:It is an absurd idea that whatever artistic endeavor the government refuses to support it does not allow, as one can see by rephrasing the statement to read: No one is allowed to create art without a government subsidy. Stem:The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following is most... | PT25 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q23 Passage:Politician: Nobody can deny that homelessness is a problem, yet there seems to be little agreement on how to solve it. One thing, however, is clear: ignoring the problem will not make it go away. Only if the government steps in and provides the homeless with housing will this problem ... | PT25 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q24 Passage:Trade official: Country X deserves economic retribution for its protectionism. However, it is crucial that we recognize that there are overriding considerations in this case. We should still sell to X the agricultural equipment it ordered; there is high demand in our country for agricul... | PT25 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT25 S2 Q25 Passage:Jack's aunt gave him her will, asking him to make it public when she died; he promised to do so. After her death, Jack looked at the will; it stipulated that all her money go to her friend George. Jack knew that if he made the will public, George would squander the money, benefiting neit... | PT25 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q1 Passage:The members of two committees, a planting committee and a trails committee, are to be selected from among seven volunteers‚ F, G, H, J, K, L, and M. The following conditions govern the composition of the committees:Each committee must have at least three members.F cannot be on the same c... | PT25 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q2 Passage:The members of two committees, a planting committee and a trails committee, are to be selected from among seven volunteers‚ F, G, H, J, K, L, and M. The following conditions govern the composition of the committees:Each committee must have at least three members.F cannot be on the same c... | PT25 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q3 Passage:The members of two committees, a planting committee and a trails committee, are to be selected from among seven volunteers‚ F, G, H, J, K, L, and M. The following conditions govern the composition of the committees:Each committee must have at least three members.F cannot be on the same c... | PT25 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q4 Passage:The members of two committees, a planting committee and a trails committee, are to be selected from among seven volunteers‚ F, G, H, J, K, L, and M. The following conditions govern the composition of the committees:Each committee must have at least three members.F cannot be on the same c... | PT25 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q5 Passage:The members of two committees, a planting committee and a trails committee, are to be selected from among seven volunteers‚ F, G, H, J, K, L, and M. The following conditions govern the composition of the committees:Each committee must have at least three members.F cannot be on the same c... | PT25 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT25 S3 Q6 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turki... | PT25 S3 Q6 |
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