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NEW QUESTION # 156
The Hupa's overwhelming interest in wealth and social position allies them with the North Pacific tribes, but the Hupa thought that the distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch, as those tributes did, was a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension.
- A. the distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch by the latter was a preposterous idea to them and beyond their comprehension
- B. the Hupa thought that the distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch, as those tribes did, was a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension
- C. the Hupa thought it a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension to distribute or destroy property during a potlatch, like those tribes did
- D. the latter's distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch was to the Hupa a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension
- E. their distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch they thought was a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 157
People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event's occurrence according to its salience; that is, according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.
By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.
It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of the following is most probably also true?
- A. Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.
- B. The press is the news medium that focuses people's attention most strongly on local crimes.
- C. None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so salient in people's minds as their own personal experiences.
- D. The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and fails to respect the rights of suspects.
- E. The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the coverage of local events.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION # 158
Despite the approach of winter, oil prices to industrial customers are exceptionally low this year and likely to remain so. Therefore, unless the winter is especially severe, the price of natural gas to industrial customers is also likely to remain low.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the conclusion above?
- A. The largest sources of supply for both oil and natural gas are in subtropical regions unlikely to be affected by winter weather.
- B. Long-term weather forecasts predict a mild winter.
- C. The industrial users who consume most natural gas can quickly and cheaply switch to using oil instead.
- D. Oil distribution is more likely to be affected by severe winter weather than is the distribution of natural gas.
- E. The fuel requirements of industrial users of natural gas are not seriously affected by the weather.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION # 159
A year after the start an experiment to decrease crime in two high-crime subway stations by the installation of closed-circuit televisions, the experiment is being discontinued, city officials say the program has led to an increase in crime, citing the fact that following the installation, both stations showed increases in the number of crimes reported.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the claim of the city officials that the program has led to an increase in crime?
- A. Closed-circuit televisions installed in shops and stores throughout the city have proved to be useful in the prevention of shoplifting and burglaries.
- B. The year in which the experiment was conducted was a year in which the total number of crimes reported in the city fell.
- C. The rate of increase in crimes reported for two subway stations was higher than that of other high- crime subway stations not equipped with closed-circuit television.
- D. The percentage of all crimes committed at the two subway stations that were reported rose as a result of increased instances of observations of crime on the closed-circuit televisions.
- E. The two subway stations had been chosen on the basis subway stations was higher than that of other high-crime subway stations not equipped with closed-circuit-television.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION # 160
While Governor Verdant has been in office, the state's budget has increased by an average of 6 percent each year. While the previous governor was in office, the state's budget increased by an average of 11.5 percent each year. Obviously, the austere budgets during Governor Verdant's term have caused the slowdown in the growth in state spending.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion drawn above?
- A. During Verdant's term in office, the state has either discontinued or begun to charge private citizens for numerous services that the state offered free to citizens during the previous governor's term.
- B. The rate of inflation in the state averaged 10 percent each year during the previous governor's term in office and 3 percent each year during Verdant's term.
- C. Both federal and state income tax rates have been lowered considerably during Verdant's term in office.
- D. During the previous governor's term in office, the state introduced several so-called "austerity" budgets intended to reduce the growth in state spending.
- E. In each year of Verdant's term in office, the state's budget has shown some increase in spending over the previous year.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 161
Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or bowers. Basing their judgment on the fact that different local populations of bowerbirds of the same species build bowers that exhibit different building and decorative styles, researchers have concluded that the bowerbirds' building styles are a culturally acquired, rather than a genetically transmitted, trait.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the researchers?
- A. The bowers of one species of bowerbird lack the towers and ornamentation characteristic of the bowers of most other species of bowerbird.
- B. There are more common characteristics than there are differences among the bower-building styles of the local bowerbird population that has been studied most extensively.
- C. Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently seldom have contact with one another.
- D. It is well known that the song dialects of some songbirds are learned rather than transmitted genetically.
- E. Young male bowerbirds are inept at bower-building and apparently spend years watching their elders before becoming accomplished in the local bower style.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION # 162
In the standard (x,y) coordinate plane, points (a,b) (c,d) lie on the graph of y = x2. If ac < 0, what is the y-intercept of the line containing (a,b) and (c,d) ?
(1) d = 9
(2) ac = -3
- A. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
- D. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- E. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 163
American customers expect high quality. When the quality of a manufactured product is raised, it in turn raises customer expectations. A company that believes that the quality of its products is satisfactory will soon discover that its customers are not similarly satisfied. The goal of Sunnybrook Corporation is to meet or exceed customer expectations.
Which of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above?
- A. A company that does not correctly forecast the expectations of its customers is certain to fail in advancing the quality of its products.
- B. It is possible to meet the goal of Sunnybrook Corporation only if the quality of their products can be continually improved upon.
- C. If a company becomes satisfied with the quality of the products it manufactures, then the quality is likely to decline.
- D. Sunnybrook's customers are currently satisfied with the quality of its products.
- E. Sunny brook'scompetitors will succeed in attracting customers only if those competitors adoptSunny brook'sgoal as their own.
Answer: B
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Sunnybrook wishes to meet customer expectations; however, these expectations are always being raised. Whatever the quality of Sunny brook'sproducts, it will be possible to meet their goal only by continually improving their products.
NEW QUESTION # 164
Today, children whose parents are deemed incapable of caring for them are put into foster care. These children are moved into strangers' homes, where they are cared for until their own parents can regain custody, which may not happen for years, if it happens at all. Although it means well, the current foster care program is so poorly funded, staffed, and managed that it cannot ensure the safety and wellbeing of the children in the system. The laudable idea behind foster care is that children will fare best if placed in a family setting until they can be reunited with their parents, even if it is a family of strangers. However, while in foster care, children typically get shuffled between many different foster homes, preventing them from developing long-term, supportive relationships with their foster families. Foster care placements can also force siblings to be separated, further isolating these vulnerable children. When a child is moved to a new foster home, he or she may also have to enroll in a new school, a disruptive process that has a negative impact on the child's education. The bureaucracy that oversees this system is overwhelmed to the point that social workers are unable to adequately screen potential foster parents and keep accurate track of the children placed in foster care. There must be a better means of caring for these children. Perhaps it is time to consider creating special group homes as a means of providing these children with stable and safe environments.
A child could live in one group home for the duration of his or her time in foster care and be supervised by a team of social workers and other lay people. Children would receive proper meals and healthcare, attend the same school, and develop relationships with others experiencing the trauma of being separated from their parents. In addition, social workers and staff would have daily access to these children, enabling them to better determine if a child has a special physical or psychological need and arrange for the necessary services. Would this approach be perfect? No, but it would solve many of the problems that plague the current system. For some, the idea of a government agency housing, clothing, and feeding needy children may sound extreme, but it only suggests that we provide these children with the same basic necessities that we give to prison inmates.
The passage suggests that the idea of creating group homes in lieu of foster care
- A. should be researched extensively.
- B. is long overdue.
- C. is the only viable option to foster care.
- D. is likely to meet with much resistance.
- E. is a basic right that should not be denied to children in need.
Answer: D
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In the last paragraph, the author acknowledges that "For some, the idea of a government agency housing, clothing, and feeding needy children may sound extreme." This suggests that the idea will be resisted. The author does not appear to think that this idea is long overdue (choice a); the author says "perhaps it is time" to consider group homes, not "it is high time" or some other phrase that would suggest impatience.
The author is not close-minded enough to suggest that group homes are the only option (choice b). The statement "There must be a better means of caring for these children" and the word "perhaps" indicate that the author is thinking about options and possibilities. The author would probably agree that the idea of creating group homes should be researched (choice d), but the passage does not indicate this point.
Finally, the author suggests that the basic rights that should not be denied to children are food, clothes, and shelter - not orphanages themselves, so choice e is incorrect.
NEW QUESTION # 165
The first two sentences of the second paragraph serve primarily to
- A. introduce the phenomenon that the experiment described later in the passage is designed to explain
- B. introduce a phenomenon that casts doubt on experimental results described later in the passage
- C. offer a conventional but probably inaccurate view of how many plants defend themselves from predators
- D. provide an example of a species that relies on the help of another species in defending itself against a particular predator
- E. provide a point of reference against which the author's description of a related phenomenon can be compared
Answer: A
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Parasitic wasps propagate by injecting their eggs into a caterpillar that then becomes paralyzed as the eggs inside develop into wasp larvae. The wasp larvae kill the caterpillar host as they feed on it, form cocoons, and finally develop into wasps. In attempting to discover how such wasps detect the presence of the caterpillar hosts that are so critical to the wasps' propagation, researchers have uncovered an intriguing defense mechanism developed by the plants on which the caterpillars feed.
When chewed on, many plants release volatile compounds from both damaged and undamaged tissues. When these compounds are toxic to the insects that feed on the plants, they can help defend the plants from such attacks. However, the plants on which the wasps' caterpillar hosts feed have evolved an even more complex defense: the caterpillar-infested plants appear to release volatile chemicals that attract parasitic wasps, which then prey on the caterpillars. Scientists originally suspected that the wasps were attracted by an odor, reminiscent of cut grass, that is released as the caterpillar feeds, but a recent study suggests that a different set of volatile attractants is involved. In this study, when researchers used a razor blade to mimic caterpillar damage on the leaves, only grassy odors were emitted, not the volatile compounds that attracted wasps.
However, when oral secretions from the caterpillars were applied to these damaged leaves, the leaves released the wasp attractants several hours later. Further tests revealed that oral secretions placed on the razor-damaged leaves stimulated the release of such attractants, making the plants as attractive to wasps as plants that had suffered actual caterpillar damage. These results suggest that chemicals from the caterpillar must be present for these attractants to be released and that unlike the grassy scent, which emanates only as the caterpillar on the plant, the wasp attractants are produced several hours after the attack and persist for several hours, perhaps days. Researchers have launched additional studies to determine whether the wasps' capacity to prey on caterpillars can be enhanced to the extent that the wasps could be used as a natural pesticide to "police" plants and protect them from crop-destroying caterpillars.
NEW QUESTION # 166
In 1985 state border colleges in Texas lost the enrollment of more than half, on average, of the Mexican nationals they had previously served each year. Teaching faculties have alleged that this extreme drop resulted from a rise in tuition for international and out-of-state students from $40 to $120 per credit hour.
Which of the following, if feasible, offers the best prospects for alleviating the problem of the drop in enrollment of Mexican nationals as the teaching faculties assessed it?
- A. Reemphasizing the goals and mission of the Texas state border colleges as serving both in-state students and Mexican nationals
- B. Providing grants-in-aid to Mexican nationals to study in Mexican universities
- C. Offering career counseling for those Mexican nationals who graduate from state border colleges and intend to return to Mexico
- D. Increasing the financial resources of Texas colleges by raising the tuition for in-state students attending state institutions
- E. Allowing Mexican nationals to study in Texas border colleges and to pay in-state tuition rates, which are the same as the previous international rate
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION # 167
Environmentalist: The commissioner of the Fish and Game Authority would have the public believe that increases in the number of marine fish caught demonstrate that this resource is no longer endangered.
This is a specious argument, as unsound as it would be to assert that the ever-increasing rate at which rain forests are being cut down demonstrates a lack of danger to that resource. The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using technologies that deplete resources.
The environmentalist's statements, if true, best support which of the following as a conclusion?
- A. Modern technologies waste resources by catching inedible fish.
- B. The use of technology is the reason for the increasing encroachment of people on nature.
- C. The proportion of marine fish that are caught is as high as the proportion of rain-forest trees that are cut down each year.
- D. Marine fish continue to be an endangered resource.
- E. It is possible to determine how many fish are in the sea in some way other than by catching fish.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION # 168
Both high blood cholesterol and lack of exercise are associated with hypertension. One hypothesis-regarding the former association-is that hypertension does not cause high blood cholesterol but that high blood cholesterol does cause hypertension. A second hypothesis-regarding the latter association-is that physical exercise reduces hypertension.
A researcher has proposed a new theory about biochemical interactions in human blood. This theory entails that physical exercise reduces blood cholesterol levels solely as a result of its effects on hypertension. The researcher's theory necessarily_____1_____the first hypothesis if it_____2_____the second hypothesis.
In the table, select a word or phrase to fill in Blank 1 above and a word or phrase to fill in Blank 2, such that the completed sentence makes the most clearly correct statement given the information provided. Make only two selections, one in each column.
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NEW QUESTION # 169
The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.
- A. for growing trees.
- B. enabling trees to grow.
- C. that the trees can grow.
- D. for the trees to grow.
- E. that enable the trees to grow.
Answer: E
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In choices B and C the preposition for is used unidiomaticly. In choice A the omission of the word the makes it sound as though these conditions are necessary for all trees.
NEW QUESTION # 170
Which of the following most logically completes the passage below?
Mayor: Commuters working in Ornville must cross either North Bridge or South Bridge. During impending repair work at the North Bridge toll plaza, North Bridge will remain open to traffic, but the usual 25 cent toll will not be collected. So as not to lose toll revenue overall, the city plans to temporarily raise the toll on South Bridge by 20 cents.
The plan is likely to accomplish its objective, since more commuters currently use South Bridge, and ________.
- A. the current toll for South Bridge is 20 cents
- B. the rates for commuters' monthly bridge toll passes will not increase
- C. very few commuters could switch from one bridge to the other without serious inconvenience to themselves
- D. at both bridges, tolls are currently collected not only on vehicles entering Ornville but also on vehicles leaving Ornville
- E. substantial amounts of toll revenue collected at South Bridge will go toward paying for the repairs at the North Bridge toll plaza
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 171
By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized-made up of canned and prepackaged foods - its diet is. The more standardized a household's diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.
Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?
- A. The less standardized a household's diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household's food waste.
- B. The less standardized a household's diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.
- C. The less standardized a household's diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.
- D. The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.
- E. An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.
Answer: A
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