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Question ID:PT16 S3 Q1 Passage:The painted spider spins webs that are much stickier than the webs spun by the other species of spiders that share the same habitat. Stickier webs are more efficient at trapping insects that fly into them. Spiders prey on insects by trapping them in their webs; therefore, it can be conclu... | PT16 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q2 Passage:Despite the best efforts of astronomers, no one has yet succeeded in exchanging messages with intelligent life on other planets or in other solar systems. In fact, no one has even managed to prove that any kind of extraterrestrial life exists. Thus, there is clearly no intelligent life an... | PT16 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q3 Passage:Bart: A mathematical problem that defied solution for hundreds of years has finally yielded to a supercomputer. The process by which the supercomputer derived the result is so complex, however, that no one can fully comprehend it. Consequently, the result is unacceptable.Anne: In scientif... | PT16 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q4 Passage:Bart: A mathematical problem that defied solution for hundreds of years has finally yielded to a supercomputer. The process by which the supercomputer derived the result is so complex, however, that no one can fully comprehend it. Consequently, the result is unacceptable.Anne: In scientif... | PT16 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q5 Passage:It is commonly held among marketing experts that in a nonexpanding market a company’s best strategy is to go after a bigger share of the market and that the best way to do this is to run comparative advertisements that emphasize weaknesses in the products of rivals. In the stagnant market... | PT16 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q6 Passage:Recent unexpectedly heavy rainfalls in the metropolitan area have filled the reservoirs and streams; water rationing, therefore, will not be necessary this summer. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most undermines the author’s prediction? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Water rati... | PT16 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q7 Passage:John: In 80 percent of car accidents, the driver at fault was within five miles of home, so people evidently drive less safely near home than they do on long trips.Judy: But people do 80 percent of their driving within five miles of home. Stem:How is Judy’s response related to John’s argu... | PT16 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q8 Passage:Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world; unreasonable people persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on unreasonable people. Stem:If all of the statements in the passage above are true, which one of the following statements must also be ... | PT16 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q9 Passage:Theater critic: The theater is in a dismal state. Audiences are sparse and revenue is down. Without the audience and the revenue, the talented and creative people who are the lifeblood of the theater are abandoning it. No wonder standards are deteriorating.Producer: It’s not true that the... | PT16 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q10 Passage:Michelangelo’s sixteenth-century Sistine Chapel paintings are currently being restored. A goal of the restorers is to uncover Michelangelo’s original work, and so additions made to Michelangelo’s paintings by later artists are being removed. However, the restorers have decided to make on... | PT16 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q11 Passage:A controversial program rewards prison inmates who behave particularly well in prison by giving them the chance to receive free cosmetic plastic surgery performed by medical students. The program is obviously morally questionable, both in its assumptions about what inmates might want and... | PT16 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q12 Passage:The retina scanner, a machine that scans the web of tiny blood vessels in the retina, stores information about the pattern formed by the blood vessels. This information allows it to recognize any pattern it has previously scanned. No two eyes have identical patterns of blood vessels in t... | PT16 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q13 Passage:There are just two ways a moon could have been formed from the planet around which it travels: either part of the planet’s outer shell spun off into orbit around the planet or else a large object such as a comet or meteoroid, struck the planet so violently that it dislodged a mass of mat... | PT16 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q14 Passage:Caffeine can kill or inhibit the growth of the larvae of several species of insects. One recent experiment showed that tobacco hornworm larvae die when they ingest a preparation that consists, in part, of finely powdered tea leaves, which contain caffeine. This result is evidence for the... | PT16 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q15 Passage:The only plants in the garden were tulips, but they were tall tulips. So the only plants in the garden were tall plants. Stem:Which one of the following exhibits faulty reasoning most similar to the faulty reasoning in the argument above? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:The only dogs in ... | PT16 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q16 Passage:Scientific research will be properly channeled whenever those who decide which research to fund give due weight to the scientific merits of all proposed research. But when government agencies control these funding decisions, political considerations play a major role in determining which... | PT16 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q17 Passage:A new silencing device for domestic appliances operates by producing sound waves that cancel out the sound waves produced by the appliance. The device, unlike conventional silencers, actively eliminates the noise the appliance makes, and for that reason vacuum cleaners designed to incorp... | PT16 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q18 Passage:Because dinosaurs were reptiles, scientists once assumed that, like all reptiles alive today, dinosaurs were cold-blooded. The recent discovery of dinosaur fossils in the northern arctic, however, has led a number of researchers to conclude that at least some dinosaurs might have been wa... | PT16 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q19 Passage:Maria: Calling any state totalitarian is misleading: it implies total state control of all aspects of life. The real world contains no political entity exercising literally total control over even one such aspect. This is because any system of control is inefficient, and, therefore, its ... | PT16 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q20 Passage:Maria: Calling any state totalitarian is misleading: it implies total state control of all aspects of life. The real world contains no political entity exercising literally total control over even one such aspect. This is because any system of control is inefficient, and, therefore, its ... | PT16 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q21 Passage:The similarity between ichthyosaurs and fish is an example of convergence, a process by which different classes of organisms adapt to the same environment by independently developing one or more similar external body features. Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles and thus do not belong to t... | PT16 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q22 Passage:Further evidence bearing on Jamison’s activities must have come to light. On the basis of previously available evidence alone, it would have been impossible to prove that Jamison was a party to the fraud, and Jamison’s active involvement in the fraud has now been definitively established... | PT16 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q23 Passage:Reporting on a civil war, a journalist encountered evidence that refugees were starving because the government would not permit food shipments to a rebel-held area. Government censors deleted all mention of the government’s role in the starvation from the journalist’s report, which had n... | PT16 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q24 Passage:A birth is more likely to be difficult when the mother is over the age of 40 than when she is younger. Regardless of the mother’s age, a person whose birth was difficult is more likely to be ambidextrous than is a person whose birth was not difficult. Since other causes of ambidexterity ... | PT16 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q25 Passage:The government has no right to tax earnings from labor. Taxation of this kind requires the laborer to devote a certain percentage of hours worked to earning money for the government. Thus, such taxation forces the laborer to work, in part, for another’s purpose. Since involuntary servitu... | PT16 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT16 S3 Q26 Passage:The government has no right to tax earnings from labor. Taxation of this kind requires the laborer to devote a certain percentage of hours worked to earning money for the government. Thus, such taxation forces the laborer to work, in part, for another’s purpose. Since involuntary servitu... | PT16 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q1 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q2 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q3 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q4 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q5 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q6 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q7 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q8 Passage:Three kinds of study have been performed on Byron. There is the biographical study—the very valuable examination of Byron’s psychology and the events in his life; Escarpit’s 1958 work is an example of this kind of study, and biographers to this day continue to speculate about Byron’s life... | PT16 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q9 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princi... | PT16 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q10 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q11 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q12 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q13 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q14 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q15 Passage:The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues of concern to Native Americans in a manner that has pleased the Indian nations. Many of the Court’s decisions have been products of political compromise that looked more to the temper of the times than to enduring princ... | PT16 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q16 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q17 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q18 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q19 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q20 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q21 Passage:When catastrophe strikes, analysts typically blame some combination of powerful mechanisms. An earthquake is traced to an immense instability along a fault line; a stock market crash is blamed on the destabilizing effect of computer trading. These explanations may well be correct. But sy... | PT16 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q22 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q23 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q24 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q25 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q26 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT16 S4 Q27 Passage:Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists’ own nineteenth-century daughters and g... | PT16 S4 Q27 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q1 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q2 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q3 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q4 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q5 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q6 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q7 Passage:Until the 1980s, most scientists believed that noncatastrophic geological processes caused the extinction of dinosaurs that occurred approximately 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. Geologists argued that a dramatic drop in sea level coincided with the extinction o... | PT15 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q8 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cul... | PT15 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q9 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cul... | PT15 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q10 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q11 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q12 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q13 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q14 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q15 Passage:It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until recently the lore was more often studied than the folk. That is, folklorists concentrated on the folklore—the songs, tales, and proverbs themselves—and ignored the people who transmitted that lore as part of their oral cu... | PT15 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q16 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q17 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q18 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q19 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q20 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q21 Passage:J. G. A. Pocock’s numerous investigations have all revolved around the fruitful assumption that a work of political thought can only be understood in light of the linguistic constraints to which its author was subject, for these prescribed both the choice of subject matter and the author... | PT15 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q22 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q23 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q24 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q25 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q25 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q26 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q26 |
Question ID:PT15 S1 Q27 Passage:In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to eliminate racial discrimination in employment and wages: the United States Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting employers from making employment decisions on the basis of race. In 1965 President Joh... | PT15 S1 Q27 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q1 Passage:Walter: Although cigarette smoking is legal, it should be banned on all airline flights. Cigarette smoking in the confines of an aircraft exposes nonsmokers to harmful secondhand smoke that they cannot avoid. Stem:Which one of the following principles, if established, would justify the pr... | PT15 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q2 Passage:Physicist: The claim that low-temperature nuclear fusion can be achieved entirely by chemical means is based on chemical experiments in which the measurements and calculations are inaccurate.Chemist: But your challenge is ineffectual, since you are simply jealous at the thought that chemi... | PT15 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q3 Passage:A certain strain of bacteria was found in the stomachs of ulcer patients. A medical researcher with no history of ulcers inadvertently ingested some of the bacteria and within weeks developed an ulcer. Therefore, it is highly likely that the bacteria strain induces ulcers. Stem:Which one ... | PT15 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q4 Passage:A recent study monitored the blood pressure of people petting domestic animals in the laboratory. The blood pressure of some of these people lowered while petting the animals. Therefore, for any one of the people so affected, owning a pet would result in that person having a lower average... | PT15 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q5 Passage:Of the five bill collectors at Apex Collection Agency, Mr. Young has the highest rate of unsuccessful collections. Yet Mr. Young is the best bill collector on the agency’s staff. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy? Correct Answer Choic... | PT15 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q6 Passage:A primate jawbone found in Namibia in southern Africa has been identified by anthropologists as that of an ape that lived between 10 million and 15 million years ago. Researchers generally agree that such ancient primates lived only in dense forests. Consequently, the dry, treeless expans... | PT15 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q7 Passage:Workers may complain about many things at work, but stress is not high on the list. In fact, in a recent survey a majority placed boredom at the top of their list of complaints. The assumption that job-related stress is the most serious problem for workers in the corporate world is thus s... | PT15 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q8 Passage:Would it be right for the government to abandon efforts to determine at what levels to allow toxic substances in our food supply? Only if it can reasonably be argued that the only acceptable level of toxic substances in food is zero. However, virtually all foods contain perfectly natural ... | PT15 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q9 Passage:Over the past twenty-five years the introduction of laborsaving technologies has greatly reduced the average amount of time a worker needs to produce a given output, potentially both reducing the number of hours each worker works each week and increasing workers’ leisure time correspondin... | PT15 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q10 Passage:Ten thousand years ago many communities in western Asia stopped procuring food by hunting and gathering and began instead to cultivate food. Archaeological evidence reveals that compared to their hunter-gatherer forebears, the early agricultural peoples ate a poorly balanced diet and had... | PT15 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q11 Passage:Should a journalist’s story begin with the set phrase “in a surprise development,” as routinely happens? Well, not if the surprise was merely the journalist’s, since journalists should not intrude themselves into their stories, and not if the surprise was someone else’s, because if some ... | PT15 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q12 Passage:Individual pyrrole molecules readily join together into larger molecules called polypyrroles. If polypyrroles form from pyrrole in the presence of zeolites, they do so by attaching to the zeolite either in lumps on the outer surface of the zeolite or in delicate chains within the zeolite... | PT15 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q13 Passage:Pedigreed dogs, including those officially classified as working dogs, must conform to standards set by organizations that issue pedigrees. Those standards generally specify the physical appearance necessary for a dog to be recognized as belonging to a breed but stipulate nothing about o... | PT15 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q14 Passage:Pedigreed dogs, including those officially classified as working dogs, must conform to standards set by organizations that issue pedigrees. Those standards generally specify the physical appearance necessary for a dog to be recognized as belonging to a breed but stipulate nothing about o... | PT15 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q15 Passage:In rheumatoid arthritis, the body’s immune system misfunctions by attacking healthy cells in the joints causing the release of a hormone that in turn causes pain and swelling. This hormone is normally activated only in reaction to injury or infection. A new arthritis medication will cont... | PT15 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q16 Passage:In their native habitat, amaryllis plants go dormant when the soil in which they are growing dries out during the dry season. Therefore, if amaryllis plants kept as houseplants are to thrive, water should be withheld from them during part of the year so that the plants go dormant. Stem:W... | PT15 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q17 Passage:Most people believe that yawning is most powerfully triggered by seeing someone else yawn. This belief about yawning is widespread not only today, but also has been commonplace in many parts of the world in the past, if we are to believe historians of popular culture. Thus, seeing someon... | PT15 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q18 Passage:Everyone who is a gourmet cook enjoys a wide variety of foods and spices. Since no one who enjoys a wide variety of foods and spices prefers bland foods to all other foods, it follows that anyone who prefers bland foods to all other foods is not a gourmet cook Stem:The pattern of reasoni... | PT15 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q19 Passage:Without information that could only have come from someone present at the secret meeting between the finance minister and the leader of the opposition party, the newspaper story that forced the finance minister to resign could not have been written. No one witnessed the meeting, however,... | PT15 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT15 S2 Q20 Passage:S. R. Evans: A few critics have dismissed my poems as not being poems and have dismissed me as not being a poet. But one principle of criticism has it that only true poets can recognize poetic creativity or function as critics of poetry—and that the only true poets are those whose work c... | PT15 S2 Q20 |
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