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Question ID:PT18 S3 Q3 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 Q3 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q4 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 Q4 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q5 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 Q5 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q6 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 Q6 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q7 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 Q7 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q8 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorical... | PT18 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q9 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorical... | PT18 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q10 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q11 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q12 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q13 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q14 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q15 Passage:A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorica... | PT18 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q16 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q17 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q18 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q19 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q20 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q21 Passage:Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “... | PT18 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q22 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q23 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q24 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q25 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q26 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q27 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q27 |
Question ID:PT18 S3 Q28 Passage:In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United States, the Luminists are distinguished by their focus on atmosphere and light. The accepted view of Luminist paintings is that they are basically spiritual and imply a tranquil mysticism that contrasts with earlier Am... | PT18 S3 Q28 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q1 Passage:Biotechnology companies say that voluntary guidelines for their industry are sufficient to ensure that no harm will result when a genetically altered organism is released into the environment. It is foolish, however, to rely on assurances from producers of genetically altered organisms th... | PT18 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q2 Passage:Zoo director: The city is in a financial crisis and must reduce its spending. Nevertheless, at least one reduction measure in next year’s budget, cutting City Zoo’s funding in half, is false economy. The zoo’s current budget equals less than 1 percent of the city’s deficit, so withdrawing... | PT18 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q3 Passage:A cat will not be affectionate toward people unless it is handled when it is a kitten. Since the cat that Paula plans to give to her friend was handled when it was a kitten, that cat will be affectionate toward people. Stem:The flawed reasoning in the argument above most closely parallels... | PT18 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q4 Passage:Until recently, anthropologists generally agreed that higher primates originated about 30 million years ago in the Al Fayyum region of Egypt. However, a 40- million-year-old fossilized fragment of a lower jawbone discovered in Burma (now called Myanmar) in 1978 was used to support the the... | PT18 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q5 Passage:The ends of modern centuries have been greeted with both apocalyptic anxieties and utopian fantasies. It is not surprising that both reactions have consistently proven to be misplaced. After all, the precise time when a century happens to end cannot have any special significance, since th... | PT18 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q6 Passage:People who listen to certain recordings of music are in danger of being unduly influenced by spoken messages that have been recorded backwards on the records or tapes. Stem:A consequence of the view above is that Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:the spoken messages must be louder than the ... | PT18 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q7 Passage:Advertisement: Over 80 percent of the people who test-drive a Zenith car end up buying one. So be warned: you should not test-drive a Zenith unless you are prepared to buy one, because if you so much as drive a Zenith around the block, there is a better than 80 percent chance you will cho... | PT18 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q8 Passage:In Malsenia sales of classical records are soaring. The buyers responsible for this boom are quite new to classical music and were drawn to it either by classical scores from television commercials or by theme tunes introducing major sports events on television. Audiences at classical con... | PT18 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q9 Passage:Brain scans of people exposed to certain neurotoxins reveal brain damage identical to that found in people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. This fact shows not only that these neurotoxins cause this type of brain damage, but also that the brain damage itself causes Parkinson’s disease.... | PT18 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q10 Passage:Almost all of the books published in the past 150 years were printed on acidic paper. Unfortunately, every kind of acidic paper gradually destroys itself due to its very acidity. This process of deterioration can be slowed if the books are stored in a cool, dry environment. Techniques, w... | PT18 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q11 Passage:Civil libertarian: The categorical prohibition of any nonviolent means of expression inevitably poisons a society’s intellectual atmosphere. Therefore, those advocating censorship of all potentially offensive art are pursuing a course that is harmful to society.Censorship advocate: You’r... | PT18 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q12 Passage:Although most species of nondomestic mammals in Australia are marsupials, over 100 species—including seals, bats, and mice—are not marsupials but placentals. It is clear, however, that these placentals are not native to this island continent: all nonhuman placentals except the dingo, a d... | PT18 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q13 Passage:I. Room air conditioners produced by Japanese manufacturers tend to be more reliable than those produced by United States manufacturers.II. The average lifetime of room air conditioners produced by United States manufacturers is about fifteen years, the same as that of room air condition... | PT18 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q14 Passage:In 1980 there was growing concern that the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic might be decreasing and thereby allowing so much harmful ultraviolet radiation to reach the Earth that polar marine life would be damaged. Some government officials dismissed these concerns, since statis... | PT18 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q15 Passage:Goodbody, Inc., is in the process of finding tenants for its newly completed Parrot Quay commercial development, which will make available hundreds of thousands of square feet of new office space on what was formerly derelict property outside the financial center of the city. Surprisingl... | PT18 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q16 Passage:Dr. Kim: Electronic fetal monitors, now routinely used in hospital delivery rooms to check fetal heartbeat, are more intrusive than ordinary stethoscopes and do no more to improve the chances that a healthy baby will be born. Therefore, the additional cost of electronic monitoring is unj... | PT18 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q17 Passage:Dr. Kim: Electronic fetal monitors, now routinely used in hospital delivery rooms to check fetal heartbeat, are more intrusive than ordinary stethoscopes and do no more to improve the chances that a healthy baby will be born. Therefore, the additional cost of electronic monitoring is unj... | PT18 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q18 Passage:Professor Hartley’s new book on moral philosophy contains numerous passages that can be found verbatim in an earlier published work by Hartley’s colleague, Professor Lawrence. Therefore, in view of the fact that these passages were unattributed in Hartley’s book, Hartley has been dishone... | PT18 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q19 Passage:People who receive unsolicited advice from someone whose advantage would be served if that advice is taken should regard the proffered advice with skepticism unless there is good reason to think that their interests substantially coincide with those of the advice giver in the circumstanc... | PT18 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q20 Passage:Last year the county park system failed to generate enough revenue to cover its costs. Any business should be closed if it is unprofitable, but county parks are not businesses. Therefore, the fact that county parks are unprofitable does not by itself justify closing them. Stem:The patter... | PT18 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q21 Passage:Jane: Professor Harper’s ideas for modifying the design of guitars are of no value because there is no general agreement among musicians as to what a guitar should sound like and, consequently, no widely accepted basis for evaluating the merits of a guitar’s sound.Mark: What’s more, Harp... | PT18 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q22 Passage:Doctors in Britain have long suspected that patients who wear tinted eyeglasses are abnormally prone to depression and hypochondria. Psychological tests given there to hospital patients admitted for physical complaints like heart pain and digestive distress confirmed such a relationship.... | PT18 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q23 Passage:Doctors in Britain have long suspected that patients who wear tinted eyeglasses are abnormally prone to depression and hypochondria. Psychological tests given there to hospital patients admitted for physical complaints like heart pain and digestive distress confirmed such a relationship.... | PT18 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q24 Passage:The only fossilized bones of large prey found in and around settlements of early humans bear teeth marks of nonhuman predators on areas of the skeleton that had the most meat, and cut marks made by humans on the areas that had the least meat. The predators that hunted large prey invariab... | PT18 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT18 S4 Q25 Passage:George: A well-known educator claims that children who are read to when they are very young are more likely to enjoy reading when they grow up than are children who were not read to. But this claim is clearly false. My cousin Emory was regularly read to as a child and as an adult he seld... | PT18 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q1 Passage:On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments, chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:Q’s appointment is at some time before W’s appointment.U’s... | PT17 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q2 Passage:On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments, chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:Q’s appointment is at some time before W’s appointment.U’s... | PT17 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q3 Passage:On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments, chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:Q’s appointment is at some time before W’s appointment.U’s... | PT17 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q4 Passage:On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments, chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:Q’s appointment is at some time before W’s appointment.U’s... | PT17 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q5 Passage:On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments, chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:Q’s appointment is at some time before W’s appointment.U’s... | PT17 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q6 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one ... | PT17 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q7 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one ... | PT17 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q8 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one ... | PT17 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q9 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one ... | PT17 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q10 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one... | PT17 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q11 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one... | PT17 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q12 Passage:Exactly six employees—officers F, G, and H, and supervisors K, L, and M—must be assigned to exactly three committees—Policy, Quality, and Sales—with exactly three employees per committee. Committee assignments must conform to the following conditions:Each committee must have at least one... | PT17 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q13 Passage:On Tuesday Vladimir and Wendy each eat exactly four separate meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack. The following is all that is known about what they eat during that day:At no meal does Vladimir eat the same kind of food as Wendy.Neither of them eats the same kind of food more th... | PT17 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q14 Passage:On Tuesday Vladimir and Wendy each eat exactly four separate meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack. The following is all that is known about what they eat during that day:At no meal does Vladimir eat the same kind of food as Wendy.Neither of them eats the same kind of food more th... | PT17 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q15 Passage:On Tuesday Vladimir and Wendy each eat exactly four separate meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack. The following is all that is known about what they eat during that day:At no meal does Vladimir eat the same kind of food as Wendy.Neither of them eats the same kind of food more th... | PT17 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q16 Passage:On Tuesday Vladimir and Wendy each eat exactly four separate meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack. The following is all that is known about what they eat during that day:At no meal does Vladimir eat the same kind of food as Wendy.Neither of them eats the same kind of food more th... | PT17 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q17 Passage:On Tuesday Vladimir and Wendy each eat exactly four separate meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack. The following is all that is known about what they eat during that day:At no meal does Vladimir eat the same kind of food as Wendy.Neither of them eats the same kind of food more th... | PT17 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q18 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q19 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q20 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q21 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q22 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q23 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT17 S1 Q24 Passage:Eight people—Jack, Karen, Laura, Mark, Nick, Owen, Peggy, and Ruth—will be placed on two four-person teams—X and Y—for a relay race that is run in four successive legs: first, second, third, and fourth. The teams race concurrently. Each team member runs exactly one of the legs, one team ... | PT17 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q1 Passage:The basic ingredients from which cement is made are both cheap and plentiful. Materials as common as limestone and clay will do. Nevertheless, the price of cement is influenced by the price of oil, because turning the basic ingredients into cement in high-temperature kilns uses large amou... | PT17 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q2 Passage:Many people do not understand themselves, nor do they try to gain self-understanding. These people might try to understand others, but these attempts are sure to fail, because without self-understanding it is impossible to understand others. It is clear from this that anyone who lacks sel... | PT17 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q3 Passage:Wife: The work of the artist who painted the portrait of my grandparents 50 years ago has become quite popular lately, so the portrait has recently become valuable. But since these sorts of artistic fads fade rapidly, the practical thing to do would be to sell the portrait while it is sti... | PT17 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q4 Passage:Wife: The work of the artist who painted the portrait of my grandparents 50 years ago has become quite popular lately, so the portrait has recently become valuable. But since these sorts of artistic fads fade rapidly, the practical thing to do would be to sell the portrait while it is sti... | PT17 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q5 Passage:Questions have arisen regarding the accuracy of the reports the university’s archaeological museum issues on its sales and acquisitions for the year. To forestall controversy, this year’s report is being reviewed by three archaeologists from other universities. Since these archaeologists ... | PT17 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q6 Passage:Engineer: Some people argue that the world’s energy problems could be solved by mining the Moon for helium-3, which could be used for fuel in fusion reactors. But this is nonsense. Even if it were possible to mine the Moon for helium-3, the technology needed to build viable fusion reactor... | PT17 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q7 Passage:The fishing industry cannot currently be relied upon to help the government count the seabirds killed by net fishing, since an accurate count might result in restriction of net fishing. The government should therefore institute a program under which tissue samples from the dead birds are ... | PT17 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q8 Passage:The fishing industry cannot currently be relied upon to help the government count the seabirds killed by net fishing, since an accurate count might result in restriction of net fishing. The government should therefore institute a program under which tissue samples from the dead birds are ... | PT17 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q9 Passage:Some people claim that elected officials must avoid even the appearance of impropriety in office. Yet since actions that give the appearance of impropriety are not necessarily improper, the only reason for an elected official to avoid the appearance of impropriety is to maintain public ap... | PT17 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q10 Passage:Cafeteria patron: The apples sold in this cafeteria are greasy. The cashier told me that the apples are in that condition when they are delivered to the cafeteria and that the cafeteria does not wash the apples it sells. Most fruit is sprayed with dangerous pesticides before it is harves... | PT17 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q11 Passage:P: Because an elected official needs the support of a political party to be effective, the independent candidate for the legislature cannot possibly be an effective legislator is she wins.Q: I disagree. By your reasoning, our current legislator, who has the support of a political party, ... | PT17 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q12 Passage:Public health will improve more quickly in the wake of new medical discoveries if medical researchers abandon their practice of waiting until their findings are published in peer-reviewed journals before informing the press of important research results. This is because the public releas... | PT17 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q13 Passage:Public health will improve more quickly in the wake of new medical discoveries if medical researchers abandon their practice of waiting until their findings are published in peer-reviewed journals before informing the press of important research results. This is because the public releas... | PT17 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q14 Passage:Between 1977 and 1987, the country of Ravonia lost about 12,000 jobs in logging and wood processing, representing a 15 percent decrease in employment in the country’s timber industry. Paradoxically, this loss of jobs occurred even as the amount of wood taken from the forests of Ravoinia ... | PT17 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q15 Passage:To perform an act that is morally wrong is to offend against humanity, and all offenses against humanity are equally bad. Because murder is morally wrong, it is just as bad to have murdered one person by setting off a bomb as it would have been to have murdered a hundred people by settin... | PT17 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q16 Passage:In yesterday’s council election a majority of voters supported conservative candidates, and a majority of voters supported candidates who voted in favor of the antipollution act. Therefore, it must be that a majority of voters in yesterday’s council election supported conservative candid... | PT17 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q17 Passage:Politician: Critics of the wetlands-protection bill are delaying passage of this important legislation merely on the grounds that they disagree with its new, more restrictive definition of the term “wetlands.” But this bill will place stricter limits on the development of wetlands than t... | PT17 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q18 Passage:Dillworth: More and more people are deciding not to have children because of the personal and economic sacrifices children require and because so often children are ungrateful for the considerable sacrifices their parents do make for them. However, such considerations have no bearing on ... | PT17 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q19 Passage:Dillworth: More and more people are deciding not to have children because of the personal and economic sacrifices children require and because so often children are ungrateful for the considerable sacrifices their parents do make for them. However, such considerations have no bearing on ... | PT17 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q20 Passage:Until about 400 million years ago, fishes—the first true swimmers—were jawless. Their feeding methods were limited to either sucking in surface plankton or sucking in food particles from bottom mud. With the development of biting jaws, however, the life of fishes changed dramatically, si... | PT17 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q21 Passage:Nuclear reactors are sometimes built in “geologically quiet” regions, so called by geologists because such regions are distant from plate boundaries and contain only minor faults. Since no minor fault in a geologically quiet region produces an earthquake more often than once in any given... | PT17 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q22 Passage:Magazine editor: I know that some of our regular advertisers have been pressuring us to give favorable mention to their products in our articles, but they should realize that for us to yield to their wishes would actually be against their interests. To remain an effective advertising veh... | PT17 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q23 Passage:Magazine editor: I know that some of our regular advertisers have been pressuring us to give favorable mention to their products in our articles, but they should realize that for us to yield to their wishes would actually be against their interests. To remain an effective advertising veh... | PT17 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q24 Passage:Public policy dictates the health risks the public routinely takes. Statistical arguments about health risks are used primarily to deflect public fears, while contributing little to policy debate. For example, statistics are cited to imply that wearing a seat belt reduces one’s risk of d... | PT17 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT17 S2 Q25 Passage:S: It would be premature to act to halt the threatened “global warming trend,” since that alleged trend might not be real. After all, scientists disagree about it, some predicting over twice as much warming as others, so clearly their predictions cannot be based on firm evidence.W: Most ... | PT17 S2 Q25 |
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