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Question ID:PT14 S2 Q23 Passage:Government-subsidized insurance available to homeowners makes it feasible for anyone to build a house on a section of coastline regularly struck by hurricanes. Each major storm causes billions of dollars worth of damage in such coastal areas, after which owners who have insurance are abl... | PT14 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT14 S2 Q24 Passage:Between 1951 and 1963, it was illegal in the country of Geronia to manufacture, sell, or transport any alcoholic beverages. Despite this prohibition, however, the death rate from diseases related to excessive alcohol consumption was higher during the first five years of the period than i... | PT14 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT14 S2 Q25 Passage:A letter submitted to the editor of a national newsmagazine was written and signed by a Dr. Shirley Martin who, in the text of the letter, mentions being a professor at a major North American medical school. Knowing that fewer than 5 percent of the professors at such schools are women, t... | PT14 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q1 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q2 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q3 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q4 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q5 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q6 Passage:It is a fundamental tenet of geophysics that the Earth’s magnetic field can exist in either of two polarity states: a “normal” state, in which north-seeking compass needles point to the geographic north, and a “reverse” state, in which they point to the geographic south. Geological eviden... | PT14 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q7 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This s... | PT14 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q8 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This s... | PT14 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q9 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This s... | PT14 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q10 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This ... | PT14 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q11 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This ... | PT14 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q12 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This ... | PT14 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q13 Passage:Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used for familiar things change, or words for new things enter the language, they are usually borrowed or adapted from stock. Assuming new roles, they drag their old meanings along behind them like flickering shadows. This ... | PT14 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q14 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q15 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q16 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q17 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q18 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q19 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q20 Passage:(The following passage was written in 1986.) The legislature of a country recently considered a bill designed to reduce the uncertainty inherent in the ownership of art by specifying certain conditions that must be met before an allegedly stolen work of art can be reclaimed by a plaintif... | PT14 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q21 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q22 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q23 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q24 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q25 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q26 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q26 |
Question ID:PT14 S3 Q27 Passage:Until recently, few historians were interested in analyzing the similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States. Even Alexis de Tocqueville, who recognized the significant comparability of the two nations, never compared their systems of servitude,... | PT14 S3 Q27 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q1 Passage:In a yearlong study, half of the participants were given a simple kit to use at home for measuring the cholesterol level of their blood. They reduced their cholesterol levels on average 15 percent more than did participants without the kit. Participants were selected at random from among ... | PT14 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q2 Passage:You should not praise an act of apparent generosity unless you believe it is actually performed out of selfless motives, and you should not condemn an act of apparent selfishness unless you believe it is actually performed out of self-centered motives. Stem:Which one of the following judg... | PT14 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q3 Passage:The government recently released a study of drinking water, in which it was reported that consumers who bought bottled water were in many cases getting water that was less safe than what they could obtain much more cheaply from the public water supply. In spite of the enormous publicity t... | PT14 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q4 Passage:Many economically useful raw materials are nonrenewable and in limited supply on Earth. Therefore, unless those materials can be obtained somewhere other than Earth, people will eventually be unable to accomplish what they now accomplish using those materials. Stem:Which one of the follow... | PT14 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q5 Passage:Only some strains of the tobacco plant are naturally resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, never becoming diseased even when infected. When resistant strains were experimentally infected with the virus, levels of naturally occurring salicylic acid in these plants increased fivefold; no such ... | PT14 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q6 Passage:The number of hospital emergency room visits by heroin users grew by more than 25 percent during the 1980s. Clearly, then, the use of heroin rose in that decade. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, would account for the statistic above without supporting the author’s conclusion? Cor... | PT14 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q7 Passage:The number of hospital emergency room visits by heroin users grew by more than 25 percent during the 1980s. Clearly, then, the use of heroin rose in that decade. Stem:The author’s conclusion is properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:Those ... | PT14 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q8 Passage:The years 1917, 1937, 1956, 1968, 1979, and 1990 are all notable for the occurrence of both popular uprisings and near-maximum sunspot activity. During heavy sunspot activity, there is a sharp rise in positively charged ions in the air people breathe, and positively charged ions are known... | PT14 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q9 Passage:Since anyone who supports the new tax plan has no chance of being elected, and anyone who truly understands economics would not support the tax plan, only someone who truly understands economics would have any chance of being elected. Stem:The reasoning in the argument is flawed because t... | PT14 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q10 Passage:Interviewer: You have shown that biofeedback, dietary changes, and adoption of proper sleep habits all succeed in curing insomnia. You go so far as to claim that, with rigorous adherence to the proper treatment, any case of insomnia is curable. Yet in fact some patients suffering from in... | PT14 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q11 Passage:Conservative: Socialists begin their arguments with an analysis of history, from which they claim to derive certain trends leading inevitably to a socialist future. But in the day-to-day progress of history there are never such discernible trends. Only in retrospect does inevitability ap... | PT14 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q12 Passage:Conservative: Socialists begin their arguments with an analysis of history, from which they claim to derive certain trends leading inevitably to a socialist future. But in the day-to-day progress of history there are never such discernible trends. Only in retrospect does inevitability ap... | PT14 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q13 Passage:“Addiction” has been defined as “dependence on and abuse of a psychoactive substance.” Dependence and abuse do not always go hand in hand, however. For example, cancer patients can become dependent on morphine to relieve their pain, but this is not abusing the drug. Correspondingly, a pe... | PT14 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q14 Passage:The commissioner has announced that Judge Khalid, who was on the seven-member panel appointed to resolve the Amlec labor dispute, will have sole responsibility for resolving the Simdon labor dispute. Since in its decision the Amlec panel showed itself both reasonable and fair, the two si... | PT14 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q15 Passage:Magazine article: The Environmental Commissioner’s new proposals are called “Fresh Thinking on the Environment,” and a nationwide debate on them has been announced. Well, “fresh thinking” from such an unlikely source as the commissioner does deserve closer inspection. Unfortunately we di... | PT14 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q16 Passage:It is not reasonable to search out “organic” foods— those grown without the application of synthetic chemicals—as the only natural foods. A plant will take up the molecules it needs from the soil and turn them into the same natural compounds, whether or not those molecules come from chem... | PT14 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q17 Passage:On completing both the course in experimental design and the developmental psychology course, Angela will have earned a degree in psychology. Since experimental design, which must be completed before taking developmental psychology, will not be offered until next term, it will be at leas... | PT14 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q18 Passage:According to a government official involved in overseeing airplane safety during the last year, over 75 percent of the voice-recorder tapes taken from small airplanes involved in relatively minor accidents record the whistling of the pilot during the fifteen minutes immediately preceding... | PT14 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q19 Passage:When permits for the discharge of chemicals into a waterway are issued, they are issued in terms of the number of pounds of each chemical that can be discharged into the waterway per day. These figures, calculated separately for each chemical for which a permit is issued, are based on an... | PT14 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q20 Passage:Monroe, despite his generally poor appetite thoroughly enjoyed the three meals he ate at the Tip-Top Restaurant, but, unfortunately, after each meal he became ill. The first time he ate an extra-large sausage pizza with a side order of hot peppers; the second time he took full advantage ... | PT14 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q21 Passage:Monroe, despite his generally poor appetite thoroughly enjoyed the three meals he ate at the Tip-Top Restaurant, but, unfortunately, after each meal he became ill. The first time he ate an extra-large sausage pizza with a side order of hot peppers; the second time he took full advantage ... | PT14 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q22 Passage:“This company will not be training any more pilots in the foreseeable future, since we have 400 trained pilots on our waiting list who are seeking employment. The other five major companies each have roughly the same number of trained pilots on their waiting lists, and since the projecte... | PT14 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q23 Passage:A car’s antitheft alarm that sounds in the middle of the night in a crowded city neighborhood may stop an attempted car theft. On the other hand, the alarm might signal only a fault in the device, or a response to some harmless contact, such as a tree branch brushing the car. But whateve... | PT14 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q24 Passage:In Peru, ancient disturbances in the dark surface material of a desert show up as light-colored lines that are the width of a footpath and stretch for long distances. One group of lines branching out like rays from a single point crosses over curved lines that form a very large bird figu... | PT14 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT14 S4 Q25 Passage:In Peru, ancient disturbances in the dark surface material of a desert show up as light-colored lines that are the width of a footpath and stretch for long distances. One group of lines branching out like rays from a single point crosses over curved lines that form a very large bird figu... | PT14 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q1 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q2 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q3 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q4 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q5 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q6 Passage:Exactly eight consumers—F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N—will be interviewed by market researchers. The eight will be divided into exactly two 4-person groups—group 1 and group 2—before interviews begin. Each person is assigned to exactly one of the two groups according to the following conditi... | PT13 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q7 Passage:Five people—Harry, Iris, Kate, Nancy, and Victor—are to be scheduled as contestants on a television show, one contestant per day, for five consecutive days from Monday through Friday. The following restrictions governing the scheduling of contestants must be observed: Nancy is not schedul... | PT13 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q8 Passage:Five people—Harry, Iris, Kate, Nancy, and Victor—are to be scheduled as contestants on a television show, one contestant per day, for five consecutive days from Monday through Friday. The following restrictions governing the scheduling of contestants must be observed: Nancy is not schedul... | PT13 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q9 Passage:Five people—Harry, Iris, Kate, Nancy, and Victor—are to be scheduled as contestants on a television show, one contestant per day, for five consecutive days from Monday through Friday. The following restrictions governing the scheduling of contestants must be observed: Nancy is not schedul... | PT13 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q10 Passage:Five people—Harry, Iris, Kate, Nancy, and Victor—are to be scheduled as contestants on a television show, one contestant per day, for five consecutive days from Monday through Friday. The following restrictions governing the scheduling of contestants must be observed: Nancy is not schedu... | PT13 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q11 Passage:Five people—Harry, Iris, Kate, Nancy, and Victor—are to be scheduled as contestants on a television show, one contestant per day, for five consecutive days from Monday through Friday. The following restrictions governing the scheduling of contestants must be observed: Nancy is not schedu... | PT13 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q12 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q13 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q14 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q15 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q16 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q17 Passage:An art teacher will schedule exactly six of eight lectures— fresco, history, lithography, naturalism, oils, pastels, sculpture, and watercolors—for three days—1, 2, and 3. There will be exactly two lectures each day—morning and afternoon. Scheduling is governed by the following condition... | PT13 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q18 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q19 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q20 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q21 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q22 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q23 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT13 S1 Q24 Passage:The population of a small country is organized into five clans—N, O, P, S, and T. Each year exactly three of the five clans participate in the annual harvest ceremonies. The rules specifying the order of participation of the clans in the ceremonies are as follows: Each clan must particip... | PT13 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q1 Passage:Paperback books wear out more quickly than hardcover books do, but paperback books cost much less. Therefore, users of public libraries would be better served if public libraries bought only paperback books, since by so doing these libraries could increase the number of new book titles ad... | PT13 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q2 Passage:Garbage in this neighborhood probably will not be collected until Thursday this week. Garbage is usually collected here on Wednesdays, and the garbage collectors in this city are extremely reliable. However, Monday was a public holiday, and after a public holiday that falls on a Monday, g... | PT13 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q3 Passage:When compact discs first entered the market, they were priced significantly higher than vinyl records. Manufacturers attributed the difference in price to the difference in production costs, saying that compact disc production was expensive because the technology was new and unfamiliar. A... | PT13 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q4 Passage:Conservationists have established land reserves to preserve the last remaining habitat for certain species whose survival depends on the existence of such habitat. A grove of trees in Mexico that provide habitat for North American monarch butterflies in winter is a typical example of such... | PT13 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q5 Passage:Financial success does not guarantee happiness. This claim is not mere proverbial wisdom but a fact verified by statistics. In a recently concluded survey, only one-third of the respondents who claimed to have achieved financial success reported that they were happy. Stem:Which one of the... | PT13 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q6 Passage:The distance that animals travel each day and the size of the groups in which they live are highly correlated with their diets. And diet itself depends in large part on the sizes and shapes of animals’ teeth and faces. Stem:The statements above provide the most support for which one of th... | PT13 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q7 Passage:It is not correct that the people of the United States, relative to comparable countries, are the most lightly taxed. True, the United States has the lowest tax, as percent of gross domestic product, of the Western industrialized countries, but tax rates alone do not tell the whole story.... | PT13 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q8 Passage:Various mid-fourteenth-century European writers show an interest in games, but no writer of this period mentions the playing of cards. Nor do any of the mid-fourteenth-century statutes that proscribe or limit the play of games mention cards, though they do mention dice, chess, and other g... | PT13 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q9 Passage:In a mature tourist market such as Bellaria there are only two ways hotel owners can increase profits: by building more rooms or by improving what is already there. Rigid land-use laws in Bellaria rule out construction of new hotels or, indeed, any expansion of hotel capacity. It follows ... | PT13 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q10 Passage:Every political philosopher of the early twentieth century who was either a socialist or a communist was influenced by Rosa Luxemburg. No one who was influenced by Rosa Luxemburg advocated a totalitarian state. Stem:If the statements above are true, which one of the following must on the... | PT13 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q11 Passage:Harris: Currently, hybrid animals are not protected by international endangered-species regulations. But new techniques in genetic research suggest that the red wolf, long thought to be an independent species, is a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf. Hence, since the red wolf clearly... | PT13 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q12 Passage:Harris: Currently, hybrid animals are not protected by international endangered-species regulations. But new techniques in genetic research suggest that the red wolf, long thought to be an independent species, is a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf. Hence, since the red wolf clearly... | PT13 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q13 Passage:From an analysis of broken pottery and statuary, archaeologists have estimated that an ancient settlement in southwestern Arabia was established around 1000 B.C. However, new evidence suggests that the settlement is considerably older: tests show that a piece of building timber recently ... | PT13 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q14 Passage:The book To Save the Earth is so persuasive that no one who reads it can fail to heed its environmentalist message. Members of the Earth Association have given away 2,000 copies in the last month. Thus the Earth Association can justly claim credit for at least 2,000 people in one month c... | PT13 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q15 Passage:Smokers of pipes or cigars run a distinctly lower risk to their health than do cigarette smokers. However, whereas cigarette smokers who quit smoking altogether sharply reduce their risk of smoking related health problems, those who give up cigarettes and take up pipes or cigars remain i... | PT13 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q16 Passage:Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet industry safety codes but pose some safety risk. Since we have recently developed the technology to make a safer version of our product, we should stop producing our current product and sell only the safer version in order t... | PT13 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q17 Passage:Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet industry safety codes but pose some safety risk. Since we have recently developed the technology to make a safer version of our product, we should stop producing our current product and sell only the safer version in order t... | PT13 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q18 Passage:Each year, an official estimate of the stock of cod in the Grand Banks is announced. This estimate is obtained by averaging two separate estimates of how many cod are available, one based on the number of cod caught by research vessels during a once-yearly sampling of the area and the ot... | PT13 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q19 Passage:Each year, an official estimate of the stock of cod in the Grand Banks is announced. This estimate is obtained by averaging two separate estimates of how many cod are available, one based on the number of cod caught by research vessels during a once-yearly sampling of the area and the ot... | PT13 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q20 Passage:Pretzels can cause cavities. Interestingly, the longer that a pretzel remains in contact with the teeth when it is being eaten, the greater the likelihood that a cavity will result. What is true of pretzels in this regard is also true of caramels. Therefore, since caramels dissolve more ... | PT13 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT13 S2 Q21 Passage:Mark: Plastic-foam cups, which contain environmentally harmful chlorofluorocarbons, should no longer be used; paper cups are preferable. Styrene, a carcinogenic by-product, is generated in foam production, and foam cups, once used, persist indefinitely in the environment. Tina: You overl... | PT13 S2 Q21 |
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