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NEW QUESTION 140
According to a recent survey, the establishment of natural parks to preserve existing plant and animal life in Colorado is still a priority of a majority of residents, like that of earlier test groups.
- A. at that for earlier test groups
- B. like that of earlier test groups
- C. as have earlier test groups
- D. just as earlier test groups did
- E. as it was of earlier test groups
Answer: E
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The intended comparison should be completed by a clause beginning with as and containing a subject and verb that correspond to the subject and verb of the main clause.
NEW QUESTION 141
The main principle of feng shui is that our environment must be ordered to permit and encourage the free flow of energy. One of the fundamental steps is to eliminate clutter, which blocks the flow of energy.
Based upon the previous information, which of the following statements is also likely to be true?
- A. Objects should be dispersed as evenly as possible around the room.
- B. Proper ventilation will improve the flow of energy.
- C. Square objects should be placed in corners.
- D. Walls should be kept bare except for mirrors.
- E. Light colored paints are best.
Answer: A
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The information provided in the passage leads to the conclusion that objects should be dispersed evenly around the room. This would "encourage the free flow of energy" and reduce clutter, because objects would not be crammed together. Proper ventilation (choice a) may indeed improve the flow of energy, but that cannot be concluded from the passage. The passage does not indicate where square objects should be placed (choice c), whether walls should be kept bare (choice d), or whether light colored paints are best (choice e), so these choices are incorrect.
NEW QUESTION 142
How many of the Integers from 100 to 999, Inclusive, do NOT contain either the digit 2 or the digit 5 ?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 143
Since the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit was mandated on our highways, both money and human lives have been saved.
All of the following, if true, would strengthen the claim above EXCEPT:
- A. Automobiles last longer and require fewer repairs when driven at consistently lower speeds.
- B. The percentage of fatalities occurring in highway accidents at speeds greater than 55 miles per hour is higher than that for low-speed accidents.
- C. Most highway users find that travel times are not appreciably lengthened by the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit.
- D. Nearly all highway safety experts agree that more accidents occur at speeds over 55 miles per hour than at lower speeds.
- E. Highway driving at 55 miles per hour or less is more fuel-efficient than high-speed driving.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 144
Some anthropologists study modern-day societies of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient ancestors who were also foragers. A flaw in this strategy is that forager societies are extremely varied.
Indeed, any forager society with which anthropologists are familiar has had considerable contact with modern non forager societies.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the anthropologists' strategy?
- A. Many anthropologists who study modern-day forager societies do not draw inferences about ancient societies on the basis of their studies.
- B. Most ancient forager societies either dissolved or made a transition to another way of life.
- C. All anthropologists study one kind or another of modern-day society.
- D. All forager societies throughout history have had a number of important features in common that are absent from other types of societies.
- E. Even those modern-day forager societies that have not had significant contact with modern societies are importantly different from ancient forager societies.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 145
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.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author
- A. believes foster care parents are often too lenient.
- B. believes group homes are essentially prisons for children.
- C. was a foster child.
- D. was once in prison.
- E. believes prison inmates are treated better than some children in foster care.
Answer: E
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The final sentence suggests that prison inmates - who are provided with food, shelter, and clothing-are sometimes better cared for than children in foster care, who may not get the attention and care they need for their physical and emotional wellbeing. Nothing states that the author was in prison (choice a) or was a foster child (choice c). The author also does not suggest that foster parents are often too lenient (choice b).
Because the author is advocating the creation of group homes to provide better care than the current foster care system, choice e is also incorrect.
NEW QUESTION 146
Parasitic wasps lay their eggs directly into the eggs of various host insects in exactly the right numbers for any suitable size of host egg. If they laid too many eggs in a host egg, the developing wasp larvae would compete with each other to the death for nutrients and space. If too few eggs were laid, portions of the host egg would decay, killing the wasp larvae.
Which of the following conclusions can properly be drawn from the information above?
- A. Host insects lack any effective defenses against the form of predation practiced by parasitic wasps.
- B. Parasitic wasps use visual clues to calculate the size of a host egg.
- C. Failure to lay enough eggs would lead to the death of the developing wasp larvae more quickly than would laying too many eggs.
- D. The size of the smallest host egg that a wasp could theoretically parasitize can be determined from the wasp's egg-laying behavior.
- E. Parasitic wasps learn from experience how many eggs to lay into the eggs of different host species.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 147 
Select from each drop-down menu the option that creates the statement that most accurately reflects the information in the graph.
The age groups of India reflected on the vertical axis for which the population is projected to be higher in 2050 than it was in 2010 are the age groups that are above Select...
The age groups of India reflected on the vertical axis for which the population is projected to be lower in 2050 than it was in 2010 are the age groups that are below Select...
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NEW QUESTION 148
Take a very commonplace, often discussed and critical topic: Are we detecting a greenhouse effect, and related to this, is it exacerbated by "homogenic factors," i.e., human actions? Most would be inclined to give a positive answer to both of these questions. But, if pushed, what would be the evidence, and how well grounded would it be for such affirmations?
Within scientific communities and associated scientifically informed circles, the answers have to be somewhat more ambiguous, particularly when rigorous questions concerning evidence are raised. Were scientific truth to be a matter of consensus, and some argue that scientific truth often turns out to be just that, then it is clear that there is beginning to be a kind of majority consensus among many earth science practitioners that the temperature of the Earth, particularly of the oceans, is indeed rising and that this is a crucial indicator for a possible greenhouse effect.
Most of these scientists admit that the mean oceanic temperature has risen globally in the last several decades. But this generalization depends upon how accurate measurements may be, not just for samples, but also for the whole Earth. Hot spots, for example the now four year old hot spot near New Guinea which is part of the El Niño cycle, does not count by itself because it might be balanced by cold spots elsewhere.
And the fact of the matter is that "whole earth measurements" are still rare and primitive in the simple sense that we simply do not have enough thermometers out. Secondly, even if we had enough thermometers, a simply synchronic whole earth measurement over three decades is but a blip in the diachronic history of ice age cycles over the last tens of thousands of years. Thirdly, even if we know that the earth is now heating up, has an ever increasing ozone hole, and from this strange weather effects can be predicted, how much of this is due to homogenic factors, such as CFCs, CO2 increases, hydrocarbon burning, and the like? Is it really the case, as Science magazine claimed in l990, "24% of greenhouse encouraging gases are of homogenic origin"?
The author's claim that, a simply synchronic whole earth measurement over three decades is but a blip in the diachronic history of ice age cycles over the last tens of thousands of years would be strengthened if the author
- A. Specified the exact location and quantity of thermometers placed by scientists around the globe.
- B. Proved that the mean number of years required to detect significant changes in weather patterns is greater than thirty.
- C. Indicated the minimum number of thermometers necessary for a whole earth measurement.
- D. Compare synchronic whole earth measurements with diachronic whole earth measurements.
- E. Described the factors that precipitated the start of a new ice age.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 149
The reference to the psychologists' suggestion (see highlighted text) functions primarily to
- A. reinforce the assessment of bottom-up selling suggested by applying anchoring-and-adjustment theory
- B. justify the application of studies from the decision-heuristics literature to bottom-up selling
- C. demonstrate how the effectiveness of the bottom-up strategy is limited by the complexity of the information available to the customer
- D. help explain the effectiveness of top-down selling
- E. explain why there are some situations in which customers are unable to use rules of thumb in making buying decisions
Answer: C
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Salespersons have employed two major sales tactics in order to influence customers to make relatively high-priced selections when presented with sequenced product lines (lines with graduated attributes and prices). The top-down tactic begins by presenting information on the highest-priced model and descends down the product line, explaining the sacrifices made with each step down. The way people use decision heuristics (rules of thumb) to simplify complex, information-rich decision tasks may explain the success of top-down selling. The "anchoring-and-adjustment" theory suggests that such mental shortcuts can systematically bias the decision outcome, as decision-makers start from an initial value or anchor point and adjust to yield a final decision.
The bottom-up sales tactic starts by presenting the lowest-priced model as the reference point and steps up to higher-priced models. Salespersons seek to communicate that the more expensive item is actually a better value. But nothing in the decision-heuristics literature supports the bottom-up strategy as an effective tactic, and to the extent that the anchoring-and-adjustment theory explains the effectiveness of top-down selling, it suggests that the bottom-up tactic should be ineffective. Furthermore, some psychologists suggest that customers may attribute less honesty and credibility to a salesperson who is trying to step them up the product line to a more expensive model; if true, this could limit the tactic's effectiveness.
NEW QUESTION 150 
- A. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- B. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) atone is not sufficient.
- C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
- D. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
- E. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 151
Mr. Lawson: We should adopt a national family policy that includes legislation requiring employers to provide paid parental leave and establishing government-sponsored day care. Such laws would decrease the stress levels of employees who have responsibility for small children. Thus, such laws would lead to happier, better-adjusted families.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?
- A. Any national family policy that is adopted would include legislation requiring employers to provide paid parental leave and establishing government-sponsored day care.
- B. The goal of a national family policy is to lower the stress levels of parents.
- C. An employee's high stress level can be a cause of unhappiness and poor adjustment for his or her family.
- D. Most children who have been cared for in daycare centers are happy and well adjusted.
- E. People who have responsibility for small children and who work outside the home have higher stress levels than those who do not.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 152
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
When a project is failing and should be terminated, plan to bring in a new manager. New managers are more likely to terminate the project than are the original managers because______
- A. organizations tend to reward managers who can overcome problems
- B. the new managers have no need to justify the earlier decision to maintain the project
- C. the project may have failed for reasons that the original manager could not have foreseen
- D. managerial decisions to terminate a project should depend on the likelihood of the project's eventual success
- E. the original managers were not necessarily able to overcome problems caused by external events over which they had no control
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 153
As an experienced labor organizer and the former head of one of the nation's most powerful labor unions, Grayson is an excellent choice to chair the new council on business-labor relations.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?
- A. The new council must have the support of the nation's labor leaders if it is to succeed.
- B. The chair of the new council must be a person who can communicate directly with the leaders of the nation's largest labor unions.
- C. During his years as a labor leader, Grayson established a record of good relations with business leaders.
- D. Most of the other members of the new council will be representatives of business management interests.
- E. An understanding of the needs and problems of labor is the only qualification necessary for the job of chairing the new council.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 154
A certain municipality is deliberating over whether it will adopt a policy that would require it to have a balanced budget each year. Proponents prefer the policy because it would keep the municipality from spending more money than it receives, but critics argue that the policy should allow for exceptions so the municipality can respond to crises that might temporarily require spending beyond that amount.
From among the options below, select for Response to the critics and for Reply to that response two statements such that the first, if true, most strongly undermines the critics' argument and the second, if true, is the critics' strongest reply to that response. Make only two selections, one in each column.
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NEW QUESTION 155
Certain messenger molecules fight damage to the lungs from noxious air by telling the muscle cells encircling the lungs' airways to contract. This partially seals off the lungs. An asthma attack occurs when the messenger molecules are activated unnecessarily, in response to harmless things like pollen or household dust.
Which of the following, if true, points to the most serious flaw of a plan to develop a medication that would prevent asthma attacks by blocking receipt of any messages sent by the messenger molecules referred to above?
- A. Researchers do not yet know what makes one person's messenger molecules more easily activated than another's.
- B. Such a medication would be a preventative only and would be unable to alleviate an asthma attack once it had started.
- C. Such a medication would not become available for several years, because of long lead times in both development and manufacture.
- D. Researchers do not yet know how the body produces the messenger molecules that trigger asthma attacks.
- E. Such a medication would be unable to distinguish between messages triggered by pollen and household dust and messages triggered by noxious air.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 156 
- A. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- B. Statement (1) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (2) alone Is not sufficient
- C. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
- D. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient
- E. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 157
The passage most strongly indicates that the author would agree with which of the following statements?
- A. The conceptions of "probability" that underlie everyday use of the word rarely, if ever, conform to the mathematical principles of probability.
- B. Many of the subjects in the various studies In addition to the 1998 study probably committed the conjunction fallacy.
- C. The conjunction fallacy is rarely committed outside of betting contexts.
- D. None of the subjects in the various studies other than the 1998 study who seemed to commit the conjunction fallacy actually did commit it.
- E. People who have studied the mathematical principles of probability are very unlikely to commit the conjunction fallacy.
Answer: A
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Mathematical principles of probability entail that for any future event, the probability that it will occur Is at least as great as the probability that both it and some other given event will occur. Consider, for example, the following statements that were shown to subjects in a 1998 study.
X The percentage of adolescent smokers In Texas will decrease at least 15% from current levels by September 1, 1999.
Y The cigarette tax in Texas will increase by $1.00 per pack in 1999.
Z The cigarette tax in Texas will increase by $1.00 per pack in 1999, and the percentage of adolescent smokers in Texas will decrease at least 15% from current levels by September 1, 1999.
Z("Kand X") could not have been more probable than X. Nevertheless, many of the subjects judged Zto be more probable than X.
This mistaken form of reasoning, displayed with surprising frequency in various studies in addition to the 1998 study, is known as the "conjunction fallacy." A number of researchers have offered alternative explanations for the seeming manifestations of the mistake, thus arguing that the fallacy is less widely committed than the various studies would indicate. Some have claimed that research subjects can take "probability" in a sense that does not conform to the mathematical principles of probability. Detailed descriptions of some such conceptions of "probability" have been developed under the names of "confirmation" and "support." Other researchers would claim, correctly, that subjects shown Z(" Kand X") and ^simultaneously will sometimes think of Xas involving the negation of Y-as a claim that the percentage of adolescent smokers in Texas will decrease, but without the $1.00 increase in the cigarette tax.
However, although the subjects in the 1998 study were to consider Xand Z simultaneously, the statements were presented in terms of bets rather than explicit requests for judgments of relative probability. Subjects were asked to choose between Zand X, with a chance of winning $50.00 if the chosen statement turned out to be true. Terms such as "most probable," "likely," etc., were thus avoided, and the interpretation of X\n conjunction with the negation of Kwas thereby eliminated. And with these alternative explanations eliminated, many of the subjects nonetheless bet on Zrather than X:
NEW QUESTION 158
The table gives Information about teacher absenteeism in 21 school systems worldwide for 2012-2013. For each school system, the table gives the country where It Is located, the number of teachers It employed m
2012-2013, the average number of days those teachers were absent, and the percent of those teachers who were chronically absent (absent 18 or more days).
For each of the following statements, select Yes if, based on the information provided, it can be inferred that the statement is true. Otherwise, select NO.
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NEW QUESTION 159 
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NEW QUESTION 160
People can debate the aesthetic merits of these overwrought, disquieting, sometimes gruesome works of art, but no one can dispute their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
- A. but not a one can dispute their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
- B. but none can dispute to their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
- C. but no person can dispute their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
- D. but none can dispute their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
- E. but no one can dispute their creators' mastery of the paintbrush as a blunt instrument.
Answer: D
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The use of none is idiomatically correct. Choice E is incorrect because dispute can only be followed by a direct object.
NEW QUESTION 161
Gloria: Those who advocate tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend private schools maintain that people making no use of a government service should not be forced to pay for it. Yet those who choose to buy bottled water rather than drink water from the local supply are not therefore exempt from paying taxes to maintain the local water supply.
Roger: Your argument is illogical. Children are required by law to attend school. Since school attendance is a matter not of choice, but of legal requirement, it is unfair for the government to force some parents to pay for it twice.
Which of the following responses by Gloria would best refute Roger's charge that her argument is illogical?
- A. Both bottled water and private schools are luxury items, and it is unfair that some citizens should be able to afford them while others cannot.
- B. Although drinking water is not required by law, it is necessary for all people, and therefore my analogy is appropriate.
- C. If tuition tax credits are granted, the tax burden on parents who choose public schools will rise to an intolerable level.
- D. Those who can afford the tuition at a high-priced private school can well bear the same tax burden as those whose children attend public schools.
- E. The law does not say that parents must send their children to private schools, only that the children must attend some kind of school, whether public or private.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 162
The technological conservatism of art supply manufacturers is a reflection of the kinds of demands they are trying to meet. The only customers who are seriously interested in purchasing new products are professional artists. Therefore, innovation in art supply technology is limited by what art critics and gallery owners accept as a proper medium of expression for artists.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?
- A. The market for cheap traditional art supplies cannot expand unless the market for new art products expands.
- B. New art products are likely to be improved more as a result of technological innovations developed in small workshops than as a result of technical innovations developed in major manufacturing concerns.
- C. The critics and gallery owners who set standards for high-quality art do not keep themselves informed about innovations in art supplies.
- D. The technological conservatism of art supply manufacturers results primarily from their desire to manufacture a product that can be sold without being altered to suit different national markets.
- E. Professional artists do not generate a strong demand for innovations that fall outside what is officially recognized as a standard medium for purposes of artistic creations.
Answer: E
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If professional artists, the only customers interested in innovation, created a strong demand for innovations for purposes other than what is officially recognized as a standard medium for purposes of artistic creations, then the conclusion would not follow. Therefore, choice C, which states that professional artists generate no such demand - is assumed and is the best answer.
NEW QUESTION 163
When hypnotized subjects are told that they are deaf and are then asked whether they can hear the hypnotist, they reply, "No." Some theorists try to explain this result by arguing that the selves of hypnotized subjects are dissociated into separate parts, and that the part that is deaf is dissociated from the part that replies.
Which of the following challenges indicates the most serious weakness in the attempted explanation described above?
- A. Why does the part that replies not answer, "Yes"?
- B. Why are the observed facts in need of any special explanation?
- C. Why do hypnotized subjects all respond the same way in the situation described?
- D. Why are the separate parts of the self the same for all subjects?
- E. Why do the subjects appear to accept the hypnotist's suggestion that they are deaf?
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 164
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