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Question ID:PT19 S3 Q4 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q5 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q6 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q7 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q8 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q9 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if ... | PT19 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q10 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if... | PT19 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q11 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if... | PT19 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q12 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if... | PT19 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q13 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if... | PT19 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q14 Passage:Many Native Americans view the archaeological excavation and museum display of ancestral skeletal remains and items buried with them as a spiritual desecration. A number of legal remedies that either prohibit or regulate such activities may be available to Native American communities, if... | PT19 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q15 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q16 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q17 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q18 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q19 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q20 Passage:When the same habitat types (forests, oceans, grasslands, etc.) in regions of different latitudes are compared, it becomes apparent that the overall number of species increases from pole to equator. This latitudinal gradient is probably even more pronounced than current records indicate,... | PT19 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q21 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q22 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q23 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q24 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q25 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q26 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q27 Passage:Two impressive studies have reexamined Eric Williams' conclusion that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and its emancipation of slaves in its colonies in 1834 were driven primarily by economic rather than humanitarian motives. Blighted by depleted soil, indebtedness, and the... | PT19 S3 Q27 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q1 Passage:Three-year-old Sara and her playmate Michael are both ill and have the same symptoms. Since they play together every afternoon, Sara probably has the same illness as Michael does. Since Michael definitely does not have a streptococcal infection, despite his having some symptoms of one, ... | PT19 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q2 Passage:Lambert: The proposal to raise gasoline taxes to support mass transit networks is unfair. Why should drivers who will never use train or bus lines be forced to pay for them?Keziah: You have misunderstood. The government has always spent far more, per user, from general revenue sources... | PT19 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q3 Passage:The number of calories in a gram of refined cane sugar is the same as in an equal amount of fructose, the natural sugar found in fruits and vegetables. Therefore, a piece of candy made with a given amount of refined cane sugar is no higher in calories than a piece of fruit that contains ... | PT19 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q4 Passage:In order to increase production, ABC Company should implement a flextime schedule, which would allow individual employees some flexibility in deciding when to begin and end their workday. Studies have shown that working under flextime schedules is associated with increased employee moral... | PT19 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q5 Passage:Attorneys for a criminal defendant charged that the government, in a coverup, had destroyed evidence that would have supported the defendant in a case. The government replied that there is no evidence that would even tend to support the defendant in the case. Stem:Which one of the follow... | PT19 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q6 Passage:Videocassette recorders (VCRs) enable people to watch movies at home on videotape. People who own VCRs go to movie theaters more often than do people who do not own VCRs. Contrary to popular belief, therefore, owning a VCR actually stimulates people to go to movie theaters more often th... | PT19 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q7 Passage:The cumbersome spears that were the principal weapons used by certain tribes in the early Bronze Age precluded widespread casualties during intertribal conflicts. But the comparatively high number of warrior tombs found in recent excavations of the same tribes' late Bronze Age settlement... | PT19 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q8 Passage:Based on data collected from policyholders, life insurance companies have developed tables that list standard weight ranges for various heights. Policyholders whose weight fell within the range given for their height lived longer than those whose weight fell outside their given range. T... | PT19 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q9 Passage:Measurements of the motion of the planet Uranus seem to show Uranus being tugged by a force pulling it away from the Sun and the inner planets. Neptune and Pluto, the two known planets whose orbits are farther from the Sun than is the orbit of Uranus, do not have enough mass to exert the... | PT19 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q10 Passage:Audiences find a speaker more convincing if the speaker begins a speech by arguing briefly against his or her position before providing reasons for accepting it. The reason this technique is so effective is that it makes the speaker appear fair-minded and trustworthy. Therefore, candid... | PT19 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q11 Passage:Five thousand of the 50,000 books published in country Z in 1991 were novels. Exactly 25 of the films released in country Z in 1992 were based on those novels. Since 100 films were released in country Z in 1992, no more than one-quarter of them were based on books published in country ... | PT19 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q12 Passage:On their way from their nest to a food source, ants of most species leave a trail of chemicals called pheromones. The ants use the scent of the pheromones to guide themselves between the food and their nest. All pheromones evaporate without a trace almost immediately when temperatures ... | PT19 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q13 Passage:Some people think that in every barrel of politicians there are only a few rotten ones. But if deceit is a quality of rottenness, I believe all effective politicians are rotten. They must be deceitful in order to do the job properly. Someone who is scrupulously honest about obeying th... | PT19 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q14 Passage:The Biocarb Company wants to build a sterilization plant to treat contaminated medical waste in a city neighborhood where residents and environmental activists fear that such a facility will pollute the area. Biocarb's president argues that the operation of the plant cannot cause pollut... | PT19 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q15 Passage:Grow-Again ointment is a proven treatment for reversing male hereditary baldness. Five drops daily is the recommended dose, and exceeding this quantity does not increase the product's effectiveness. Therefore, offering a manufacturer's rebate on the purchase price of Grow-Again will no... | PT19 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q16 Passage:Henry: Some scientists explain the dance of honeybees as the means by which honeybees communicate the location of whatever food source they have just visited to other members of the hive. But honeybees do not need so complicated a mechanism to communicate that information. Forager hon... | PT19 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q17 Passage:Henry: Some scientists explain the dance of honeybees as the means by which honeybees communicate the location of whatever food source they have just visited to other members of the hive. But honeybees do not need so complicated a mechanism to communicate that information. Forager hon... | PT19 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q18 Passage:Politician: A government that taxes incomes at a rate of 100 percent will generate no revenue because all economic activity will cease. So it follows that the lower the rate of income tax, the more revenue the government will generate by that tax.Economist: Your conclusion cannot be c... | PT19 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q19 Passage:Sponges attach to the ocean floor, continually filtering seawater for food and ejecting water they have just filtered to avoid reingesting it. Tubular and vase-shaped sponges can eject filtered water without assistance from surrounding ocean currents and thus are adapted to slow-moving,... | PT19 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q20 Passage:There is strong evidence that the cause of migraines (severe recurrent headaches) is not psychological but instead is purely physiological. Yet several studies have found that people being professionally treated for migraines rate higher on a standard psychological scale of anxiety than... | PT19 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q21 Passage:Not all tenured faculty are full professors. Therefore, although every faculty member in the linguistics department has tenure, it must be the case that not all of the faculty members in the linguistics department are full professors. Stem:The flawed pattern of reasoning exhibited by th... | PT19 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q22 Passage:When a planetary system forms, the chances that a planet capable of supporting life will be formed are high. The chances that a large planet the size of Jupiter or Saturn will be formed, however, are low. Without Jupiter and Saturn, whose gravitational forces have prevented Earth from ... | PT19 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q23 Passage:Construction contractors working on the cutting edge of technology nearly always work on a "cost-plus" basis only. One kind of cost-plus contract stipulates the contractor's profit as a fixed percentage of the contractor's costs; the other kind stipulates a fixed amount of profit over a... | PT19 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q24 Passage:That wall is supported by several joists. The only thing that can have caused the bulge that the wall now has is a broken joist. Therefore, at least one of the joists is broken. Stem:Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its logical features to the argument above? Cor... | PT19 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q25 Passage:Sasha: Handwriting analysis should be banned in court as evidence of a person's character: handwriting analysts called as witnesses habitually exaggerate the reliability of their analyses.Gregory: You are right that the current use of handwriting analysis as evidence is problematic. ... | PT19 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT19 S4 Q26 Passage:Sasha: Handwriting analysis should be banned in court as evidence of a person's character: handwriting analysts called as witnesses habitually exaggerate the reliability of their analyses.Gregory: You are right that the current use of handwriting analysis as evidence is problematic. ... | PT19 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q1 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q2 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q3 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q4 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q5 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q6 Passage:Each of five students—Hubert, Lori, Paul, Regina, and Sharon—will visit exactly one of three cities—Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver—for the month of March, according to the following conditions:Sharon visits a different city than Paul.Hubert visits the same city as Regina.Lori visits Mont... | PT18 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q7 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are missi... | PT18 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q8 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are missi... | PT18 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q9 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are missi... | PT18 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q10 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are miss... | PT18 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q11 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are miss... | PT18 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q12 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are miss... | PT18 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q13 Passage:A college offers one course in each of three subjects—mathematics, nutrition, and oceanography—in the fall and again in the spring. Students’ book orders for these course offerings are kept in six folders, numbered 1 through 6, from which labels identifying the folders’ contents are miss... | PT18 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q14 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q15 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q16 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q17 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q18 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q19 Passage:Greenburg has exactly five subway lines: Ll, L2, L3, L4, and L5. Along each of the lines, trains run in both directions, stopping at every station.Ll runs in a loop connecting exactly seven stations, their order being Rincon-Tonka-French-Semplain-Urstine-Quetzal-Park-Rincon in one direct... | PT18 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q20 Passage:Prior to this year’s annual promotion review, the staff of a law firm consisted of partners Harrison and Rafael, associate Olivos, and assistants Ganz, Johnson, Lowry, Stefano, Turner, and Wilford. During each annual review, each assistant and associate is considered for promotion to the... | PT18 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q21 Passage:Prior to this year’s annual promotion review, the staff of a law firm consisted of partners Harrison and Rafael, associate Olivos, and assistants Ganz, Johnson, Lowry, Stefano, Turner, and Wilford. During each annual review, each assistant and associate is considered for promotion to the... | PT18 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q22 Passage:Prior to this year’s annual promotion review, the staff of a law firm consisted of partners Harrison and Rafael, associate Olivos, and assistants Ganz, Johnson, Lowry, Stefano, Turner, and Wilford. During each annual review, each assistant and associate is considered for promotion to the... | PT18 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q23 Passage:Prior to this year’s annual promotion review, the staff of a law firm consisted of partners Harrison and Rafael, associate Olivos, and assistants Ganz, Johnson, Lowry, Stefano, Turner, and Wilford. During each annual review, each assistant and associate is considered for promotion to the... | PT18 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT18 S1 Q24 Passage:Prior to this year’s annual promotion review, the staff of a law firm consisted of partners Harrison and Rafael, associate Olivos, and assistants Ganz, Johnson, Lowry, Stefano, Turner, and Wilford. During each annual review, each assistant and associate is considered for promotion to the... | PT18 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q1 Passage:Parent 1: Ten years ago, children in communities like ours did not date until they were thirteen to fifteen years old. Now our nine to eleven year olds are dating. Obviously, children in communities like ours are becoming romantically interested in members of the opposite sex at an earlie... | PT18 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q2 Passage:All cattle ranchers dislike long winters.All ski resort owners like long winters because long winters mean increased profits.Some lawyers are cattle ranchers. Stem:Which one of the following statements, if true and added to those above, most supports the conclusion that no ski resort owne... | PT18 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q3 Passage:Citizen of Mooresville: Mooresville’s current city council is having a ruinous effect on municipal finances. Since a majority of the incumbents are running for reelection, I am going to campaign against all these incumbents in the upcoming city council election. The only incumbent I will ... | PT18 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q4 Passage:Marianna: The problem of drunk driving has been somewhat ameliorated by public education and stricter laws. Additional measures are nevertheless needed. People still drive after drinking, and when they do the probability is greatly increased that they will cause an accident involving deat... | PT18 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q5 Passage:From a magazine article: Self-confidence is a dangerous virtue: it often degenerates into the vice of arrogance. The danger of arrogance is evident to all who care to look. How much more humane the twentieth century would have been without the arrogant self-confidence of a Hitler or a Sta... | PT18 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q6 Passage:A study was designed to establish what effect, if any, the long-term operation of offshore oil rigs had on animal life on the bottom of the sea. The study compared the sea-bottom communities near rigs with those located in control sites several miles from any rig and found no significant ... | PT18 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q7 Passage:Scientists are sometimes said to assume that something is not the case until there is proof that it is the case. Now suppose the question arises whether a given food additive is safe. At that point, it would be neither known to be safe nor known not to be safe. By the characterization abo... | PT18 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q8 Passage:During the 1980s the homicide rate in Britain rose by 50 percent. The weapon used usually was a knife. Potentially lethal knives are sold openly and legally in many shops. Most homicide deaths occur as a result of unpremeditated assaults within the family. Even if these are increasing, th... | PT18 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q9 Passage:Nutritionist: Vitamins synthesized by chemists are exactly the same as vitamins that occur naturally in foods. Therefore, it is a waste of money to pay extra for brands of vitamin pills that are advertised as made of higher-quality ingredients or more natural ingredients than other brands... | PT18 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q10 Passage:Most people are indignant at the suggestion that they are not reliable authorities about their real wants. Such self-knowledge, however, is not the easiest kind of knowledge to acquire. Indeed, acquiring it often requires hard and even potentially risky work. To avoid such effort, people... | PT18 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q11 Passage:Since 1945 pesticide use in the United States has increased tenfold despite an overall stability in number of acres planted. During the same period, crop loss from insects has approximately doubled, from about seven to thirteen percent. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, contribut... | PT18 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q12 Passage:In discussing the pros and cons of monetary union among several European nations, some politicians have claimed that living standards in the countries concerned would first have to converge if monetary union is not to lead to economic chaos. This claim is plainly false, as is demonstrate... | PT18 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q13 Passage:Because some student demonstrations protesting his scheduled appearance have resulted in violence, the president of the Imperialist Society has been prevented from speaking about politics on campus by the dean of student affairs. Yet to deny anyone the unrestricted freedom to speak is to... | PT18 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q14 Passage:Professor: Members of most species are able to communicate with other members of the same species, but it is not true that all communication can be called “language.” The human communication system unquestionably qualifies as language. In fact, using language is a trait without which we ... | PT18 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q15 Passage:Environmentalist: An increased number of oil spills and the consequent damage to the environment indicate the need for stricter safety standards for the oil industry. Since the industry refuses to take action, it is the national government that must regulate industry safety standards. In... | PT18 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q16 Passage:Environmentalist: An increased number of oil spills and the consequent damage to the environment indicate the need for stricter safety standards for the oil industry. Since the industry refuses to take action, it is the national government that must regulate industry safety standards. In... | PT18 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q17 Passage:Biographer: Arnold’s belief that every offer of assistance on the part of his colleagues was a disguised attempt to make him look inadequate and that no expression of congratulations on his promotion should be taken at face value may seem irrational. In fact, this belief was a consequenc... | PT18 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q18 Passage:The television documentary went beyond the save-the-wildlife pieties of some of those remote from East Africa and showed that in a country pressed for food, the elephant is a pest, and an intelligent pest at that. There appears to be no way to protect East African farms from the voraciou... | PT18 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q19 Passage:Oxygen-18 is a heavier-than-normal isotope of oxygen. In a rain cloud, water molecules containing oxygen-18 are rarer than water molecules containing normal oxygen. But in rainfall, a higher proportion of all water molecules containing oxygen-18 than of all water molecules containing ord... | PT18 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q20 Passage:Oxygen-18 is a heavier-than-normal isotope of oxygen. In a rain cloud, water molecules containing oxygen-18 are rarer than water molecules containing normal oxygen. But in rainfall, a higher proportion of all water molecules containing oxygen-18 than of all water molecules containing ord... | PT18 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q21 Passage:It is very difficult to prove today that a painting done two or three hundred years ago, especially one without a signature or with a questionably authentic signature, is indubitably the work of this or that particular artist. This fact gives the traditional attribution of a disputed pai... | PT18 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q22 Passage:Much of the best scientific research of today shows that many of the results of earlier scientific work that was regarded in its time as good are in fact mistaken. Yet despite the fact that scientists are above all concerned to discover the truth, it is valuable for today’s scientists to... | PT18 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q23 Passage:Teachers are effective only when they help their students become independent learners. Yet not until teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms can they enable their students to make their own decisions. Students’ capability to make their own decisions is essential... | PT18 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT18 S2 Q24 Passage:Dr. Ruiz: Dr. Smith has expressed outspoken antismoking views in public. Even though Dr. Smith is otherwise qualified, clearly she cannot be included on a panel that examines the danger of secondhand cigarette smoke. As an organizer of the panel, I want to ensure that the panel examines ... | PT18 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q1 Passage:The law-and-literature movement claims to have introduced a valuable pedagogical innovation into legal study: instructing students in techniques of literary analysis for the purpose of interpreting laws and in the reciprocal use of legal analysis for the purpose of interpreting literary t... | PT18 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q2 Passage:The law-and-literature movement claims to have introduced a valuable pedagogical innovation into legal study: instructing students in techniques of literary analysis for the purpose of interpreting laws and in the reciprocal use of legal analysis for the purpose of interpreting literary t... | PT18 S3 Q2 |
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