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Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q10 Passage:Double-blind techniques should be used whenever possible in scientific experiments. They help prevent the misinterpretations that often arise due to expectations and opinions that scientists already hold, and clearly scientists should be extremely diligent in trying to avoid such misi... | PTJ2007 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q11 Passage:It is now a common complaint that the electronic media have corroded the intellectual skills required and fostered by the literary media. But several centuries ago the complaint was that certain intellectual skills, such as the powerful memory and extemporaneous eloquence that were in... | PTJ2007 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q12 Passage:Suppose I have promised to keep a confidence and someone asks me a question that I cannot answer truthfully without thereby breaking the promise. Obviously, I cannot both keep and break the same promise. Therefore, one cannot be obliged both to answer all questions truthfully and to k... | PTJ2007 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q13 Passage:Standard aluminum soft-drink cans do not vary in the amount of aluminum that they contain. Fifty percent of the aluminum contained in a certain group (M) of standard aluminum soft-drink cans was recycled from another group (L) of used, standard aluminum soft-drink cans. Since all th... | PTJ2007 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q14 Passage:A cup of raw milk, after being heated in a microwave oven to 50 degrees Celsius, contains half its initial concentration of a particular enzyme, lysozyme. If, however, the milk reaches that temperature through exposure to a conventional heat source of 50 degrees Celsius, it will conta... | PTJ2007 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q15 Passage:A new government policy has been developed to avoid many serious cases of influenza. This goal will be accomplished by the annual vaccination of high-risk individuals: everyone 65 and older as well as anyone with a chronic disease that might cause them to experience complications fr... | PTJ2007 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q16 Passage:Taylor: Researchers at a local university claim that 61 percent of the information transferred during a conversation is communicated through nonverbal signals. But this claim, like all such mathematically precise claims, is suspect, because claims of such exactitude could never be es... | PTJ2007 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q17 Passage:Hospital executive: At a recent conference on nonprofit management, several computer experts maintained that the most significant threat faced by large institutions such as universities and hospitals is unauthorized access to confidential data. In light of this testimony, we should ma... | PTJ2007 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q18 Passage:Modern science is built on the process of posing hypotheses and testing them against observations‚ in essence, attempting to show that the hypotheses are incorrect. Nothing brings more recognition than overthrowing conventional wisdom. It is accordingly unsurprising that some scientis... | PTJ2007 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q19 Passage:Historian: The Land Party achieved its only national victory in Banestria in 1935. It received most of its support that year in rural and semirural areas, where the bulk of Banestria's population lived at the time. The economic woes of the years surrounding that election hit agricult... | PTJ2007 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q20 Passage:Gamba: Muñoz claims that the Southwest Hopeville Neighbors Association overwhelmingly opposes the new water system, citing this as evidence of citywide opposition. The association did pass a resolution opposing the new water system, but only 25 of 350 members voted, with 10 in favor... | PTJ2007 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q21 Passage:Driver: My friends say I will one day have an accident because I drive my sports car recklessly. But I have done some research, and apparently minivans and larger sedans have very low accident rates compared to sports cars. So trading my sports car in for a minivan would lower my risk... | PTJ2007 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q22 Passage:Editorialist: News media rarely cover local politics thoroughly, and local political business is usually conducted secretively. These factors each tend to isolate local politicians from their electorates. This has the effect of reducing the chance that any particular act of resident ... | PTJ2007 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q23 Passage:Philosopher: An action is morally right if it would be reasonably expected to increase the aggregate well-being of the people affected by it. An action is morally wrong if and only if it would be reasonably expected to reduce the aggregate well-being of the people affected by it. Thu... | PTJ2007 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q24 Passage:Car companies solicit consumer information on such human factors as whether a seat is comfortable or whether a set of controls is easy to use. However, designer interaction with consumers is superior to survey data; the data may tell the designer why a feature on last year's model wa... | PTJ2007 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S2 Q25 Passage:During the nineteenth century, the French academy of art was a major financial sponsor of painting and sculpture in France; sponsorship by private individuals had decreased dramatically by this time. Because the academy discouraged innovation in the arts, there was little innovation i... | PTJ2007 S2 Q25 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q1 Passage:Situation: Someone living in a cold climate buys a winter coat that is stylish but not warm in order to appear sophisticated. Analysis: People are sometimes willing to sacrifice sensual comfort or pleasure for the sake of appearances. Stem:The analysis provided for the situation above ... | PTJ2007 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q2 Passage:After replacing his old gas water heater with a new, pilotless, gas water heater that is rated as highly efficient, Jimmy's gas bills increased. Stem:Each of the following, if true, contributes to an explanation of the increase mentioned above EXCEPT: Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A:Th... | PTJ2007 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q3 Passage:Carolyn: The artist Marc Quinn has displayed, behind a glass plate, biologically replicated fragments of Sir John Sulston's DNA, calling it a "conceptual portrait" of Sulston. But to be a portrait, something must bear a recognizable resemblance to its subject.Arnold: I disagree. Quinn'... | PTJ2007 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q4 Passage:Many corporations have begun decorating their halls with motivational posters in hopes of boosting their employees' motivation to work productively. However, almost all employees at these corporations are already motivated to work productively. So these corporations' use of motivationa... | PTJ2007 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q5 Passage:Atrens: An early entomologist observed ants carrying particles to neighboring ant colonies and inferred that the ants were bringing food to their neighbors. Further research, however, revealed that the ants were emptying their own colony's dumping site. Thus, the early entomologist wa... | PTJ2007 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q6 Passage:Jablonski, who owns a car dealership, has donated cars to driver education programs at area schools for over five years. She found the statistics on car accidents to be disturbing, and she wanted to do something to encourage better driving in young drivers. Some members of the communit... | PTJ2007 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q7 Passage:Antonio: One can live a life of moderation by never deviating from the middle course. But then one loses the joy of spontaneity and misses the opportunities that come to those who are occasionally willing to take great chances, or to go too far.Marla: But one who, in the interests of... | PTJ2007 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q8 Passage:Advertisement: Fabric-Soft leaves clothes soft and fluffy, and its fresh scent is a delight. We conducted a test using over 100 consumers to prove Fabric-Soft is best. Each consumer was given one towel washed with Fabric-Soft and one towel washed without it. Ninety-nine percent of the... | PTJ2007 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q9 Passage:Naturalist: The recent claims that the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct are false. The Tasmanian tiger's natural habitat was taken over by sheep farming decades ago, resulting in the animal's systematic elimination from the area. Since then naturalists working in the region have discove... | PTJ2007 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q10 Passage:Advertisers have learned that people are more easily encouraged to develop positive attitudes about things toward which they originally have neutral or even negative attitudes if those things are linked, with pictorial help rather than exclusively through prose, to things about which ... | PTJ2007 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q11 Passage:Feathers recently taken from seabirds stuffed and preserved in the 1880s have been found to contain only half as much mercury as feathers recently taken from living birds of the same species. Since mercury that accumulates in a seabird's feathers as the feathers grow is derived from ... | PTJ2007 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q12 Passage:Novel X and Novel Y are both semiautobiographical novels and contain many very similar themes and situations, which might lead one to suspect plagiarism on the part of one of the authors. However, it is more likely that the similarity of themes and situations in the two novels is mere... | PTJ2007 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q13 Passage:Therapist: Cognitive psychotherapy focuses on changing a patient's conscious beliefs. Thus, cognitive psychotherapy is likely to be more effective at helping patients overcome psychological problems than are forms of psychotherapy that focus on changing unconscious beliefs and desire... | PTJ2007 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q14 Passage:Commentator: In academic scholarship, sources are always cited, and methodology and theoretical assumptions are set out, so as to allow critical study, replication, and expansion of scholarship. In open-source software, the code in which the program is written can be viewed and modif... | PTJ2007 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q15 Passage:A consumer magazine surveyed people who had sought a psychologist's help with a personal problem. Of those responding who had received treatment for 6 months or less, 20 percent claimed that treatment "made things a lot better." Of those responding who had received longer treatment, 3... | PTJ2007 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q16 Passage:Philosopher: Nations are not literally persons; they have no thoughts or feelings, and, literally speaking, they perform no actions. Thus they have no moral rights or responsibilities. But no nation can survive unless many of its citizens attribute such rights and responsibilities to... | PTJ2007 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q17 Passage:When exercising the muscles in one's back, it is important, in order to maintain a healthy back, to exercise the muscles on opposite sides of the spine equally. After all, balanced muscle development is needed to maintain a healthy back, since the muscles on opposite sides of the spin... | PTJ2007 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q18 Passage:Editorialist: In all cultures, it is almost universally accepted that one has a moral duty to prevent members of one's family from being harmed. Thus, few would deny that if a person is known by the person's parents to be falsely accused of a crime, it would be morally right for the ... | PTJ2007 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q19 Passage:Editor: Many candidates say that if elected they will reduce governmental intrusion into voters' lives. But voters actually elect politicians who instead promise that the government will provide assistance to solve their most pressing problems. Governmental assistance, however, costs... | PTJ2007 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q20 Passage:We should accept the proposal to demolish the old train station, because the local historical society, which vehemently opposes this, is dominated by people who have no commitment to long-term economic well-being. Preserving old buildings creates an impediment to new development, whi... | PTJ2007 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q21 Passage:Ethicist: On average, animals raised on grain must be fed sixteen pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. A pound of meat is more nutritious for humans than a pound of grain, but sixteen pounds of grain could feed many more people than could a pound of meat. With grain yields l... | PTJ2007 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q22 Passage:If the price it pays for coffee beans continues to increase, the Coffee Shoppe will have to increase its prices. In that case, either the Coffee Shoppe will begin selling noncoffee products or its coffee sales will decrease. But selling noncoffee products will decrease the Coffee Shop... | PTJ2007 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q23 Passage:Political candidates' speeches are loaded with promises and with expressions of good intention, but one must not forget that the politicians' purpose in giving these speeches is to get themselves elected. Clearly, then, these speeches are selfishly motivated and the promises made in t... | PTJ2007 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q24 Passage:Sociologist: Romantics who claim that people are not born evil but may be made evil by the imperfect institutions that they form cannot be right, for they misunderstand the causal relationship between people and their institutions. After all, institutions are merely collections of peo... | PTJ2007 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S3 Q25 Passage:Some anthropologists argue that the human species could not have survived prehistoric times if the species had not evolved the ability to cope with diverse natural environments. However, there is considerable evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, a prehistoric species related to e... | PTJ2007 S3 Q25 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q1 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q2 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q3 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q4 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q5 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q6 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q7 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q8 Passage:For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in the United States, especially in academic settings; graduate writing programs in universities, for example, train students as poets or as writers of fiction, but almost never as both. Both poets and writers of fictio... | PTJ2007 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q9 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can ... | PTJ2007 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q10 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can... | PTJ2007 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q11 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can... | PTJ2007 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q12 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can... | PTJ2007 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q13 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can... | PTJ2007 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q14 Passage:The two passages discuss recent scientific research on music. They are adapted from two different papers presented at a scholarly conference.Passage ADid music and human language originate separately or together? Both systems use intonation and rhythm to communicate emotions. Both can... | PTJ2007 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q15 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q16 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q17 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q18 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q19 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q20 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q21 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q22 Passage:The World Wide Web, a network of electronically produced and interconnected (or "linked") sites, called pages, that are accessible via personal computer, raises legal issues about the rights of owners of intellectual property, notably those who create documents for inclusion on Web pa... | PTJ2007 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q23 Passage:In tracing the changing face of the Irish landscape, scholars have traditionally relied primarily on evidence from historical documents. However, such documentary sources provide a fragmentary record at best. Reliable accounts are very scarce for many parts of Ireland prior to the sev... | PTJ2007 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q24 Passage:In tracing the changing face of the Irish landscape, scholars have traditionally relied primarily on evidence from historical documents. However, such documentary sources provide a fragmentary record at best. Reliable accounts are very scarce for many parts of Ireland prior to the sev... | PTJ2007 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q25 Passage:In tracing the changing face of the Irish landscape, scholars have traditionally relied primarily on evidence from historical documents. However, such documentary sources provide a fragmentary record at best. Reliable accounts are very scarce for many parts of Ireland prior to the sev... | PTJ2007 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q26 Passage:In tracing the changing face of the Irish landscape, scholars have traditionally relied primarily on evidence from historical documents. However, such documentary sources provide a fragmentary record at best. Reliable accounts are very scarce for many parts of Ireland prior to the sev... | PTJ2007 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PTJ2007 S4 Q27 Passage:In tracing the changing face of the Irish landscape, scholars have traditionally relied primarily on evidence from historical documents. However, such documentary sources provide a fragmentary record at best. Reliable accounts are very scarce for many parts of Ireland prior to the sev... | PTJ2007 S4 Q27 |
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