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NEW QUESTION 166
We now have wireless computer networks, direct-broadcast satellite television, digital wireless cable television networks, global telephone service, and global positioning systems that can pinpoint an individual's location to a few inches.
- A. which can pinpoint an individual's location of a few inches
- B. that can pinpoint an individual's location in a few inches
- C. which should pinpoint an individual's location to a few inches
- D. that can pinpoint an individual's location to a few inches
- E. which can pinpoint an individual's location to a few inches
Answer: D
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Choices B and D are incorrect because in a few inches is unidiomatic. In C, D and E the pronoun which is incorrectly used for a non-restrictive relative clause.
NEW QUESTION 167
Kevin, Leo, and Max each received a monetary award for their work on project X.
If the total of the 3 awards was $705, was the average (arithmetic mean) of the 3 awards equal to the median of the 3 awards?
(1) Kevin's award was $235.
(2) Leo's award was S70 greater than Max's award.
- 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 ate NOT sufficient.
- E. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 168
Although perioral dermatitis rashes are believed to be caused by reactions to Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) found in shampoos and other personal care products, instructing patients to eliminate all products with SLS frequently does not stop the perioral dermatitis. Obviously, some other cause of perioral dermatitis besides reactions to SLS must exist.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
- A. Very rarely do personal care products cause patients to suffer a symptom more severe than that of perioral dermatitis rashes.
- B. Many personal care products elicit an allergic skin response only after several days, making it very difficult to observe links between specific products patients use and the perioral dermatitis they develop.
- C. Very few patients have allergic skin reactions as children and then live rash-free adult lives once they have eliminated products to which they have been demonstrated to be allergic.
- D. Many patients report that the personal care products that cause them perioral dermatitis are among the products they most enjoy using.
- E. Skin allergies affect many people who never develop the symptom of perioral dermatitis.
Answer: E
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The effect of lowering wages is to reduce quality sufficiently to reduce sales. This is a good reason to doubt that wage cuts would give Johnson any competitive edge.
NEW QUESTION 169
Installing scrubbers in smokestacks and switching to cleaner-burning fuel are the two methods available to Northern Power for reducing harmful emissions from its plants. Scrubbers will reduce harmful emissions more than cleaner-burning fuels will. Therefore, by installing scrubbers, Northern Power will be doing the most that can be done to reduce harmful emissions from its plants.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
- A. Harmful emissions from Northern Power's plants cannot be reduced more by using both methods together than by the installation of scrubbers alone.
- B. Aside from harmful emissions from the smokestacks of its plants, the activities of Northern Power do not cause significant air pollution.
- C. Northern Power is not necessarily committed to reducing harmful emissions from its plants.
- D. Switching to cleaner-burning fuel will not be more expensive than installing scrubbers.
- E. Northern Power can choose from among various kinds of scrubbers, some of which are more effective than others.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 170
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
As long as savings deposits are insured by the government, depositors will have no incentive to evaluate the financial strength of a savings bank. Yield alone will influence their choice of bank. To attract deposits, banks will be forced to offer the highest possible interest rates. And since paying higher rates inevitably strains the financial strength of a bank, ______
- A. savers will be forced to choose between deposit insurance and higher interest rates
- B. bank profits will tend to rise to ever-higher levels
- C. deposits will tend to go to the banks with the greatest financial strength
- D. deposit insurance will ultimately lead to the financial weakening of many banks
- E. the government will be forced to impose limitations on interest rates
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 171
On May 5th, 1997, the European edition of Business Tech Magazine led with Hoffman's cover story
"Internet Communities: How they're Shaping Electronic Commerce". This cover story highlights the extent to which the term virtual community has become almost synonymous with various forms of group-CMCs (computer mediated communication), including email-list forums, chat-systems such as IRC, web-based discussion areas and UseNet news-groups. There was no debate in the Business Tech Magazine article as to whether the group-CMC discussions are really 'communities', rather how community as opposed to content can be used to encourage people to return to a particular part of cyberspace for commercial gain.
In a similar vein, Simpson and Armstrong in "Internet Gain" argue that ignoring virtual communities would be a great loss of a marketing tool for businesses. They define virtual communities as computer mediated space where there is an integration of content and communication with an emphasis on member- generated content.
Not all virtual community commentators agree with the Spartan position taken by Hoffman. Rheingold, one of the prime popularizes of the term virtual community, provides us with a more emotive definition in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. According to Rheingold, "virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace". Rheingold's definition is extremely popular and has been quoted in many discussions about virtual communities. As discussed below, for social scientists, particularly sociologists, Rheingold's definition raises many issues, especially concerning the notion of community. This is because Rheingold argues via a variety of analogies from the real world such as homesteading that virtual communities are indeed new forms of "community". In fact, Rheingold implies that virtual communities are actually "a kind of ultimate flowering of community". Moreover, Rheingold maintains that whenever computer mediated communications technology becomes available; people inevitably create communities with it. Rheingold can thus be labeled as a technological determinist as he holds that there is a predictable relationship between technology and people's behavior.
The debate over the validity of Rheingold's position has raised doubts about the existence of virtual communities and the appropriate use of the term. Weinreich claims that the idea of virtual communities must be wrong because community is a collective of kinship networks that share a common geographic region, a common history, and a shared value system, usually rooted in a common religion. In other words, Weinreich rejects the existence of virtual communities because group-CMC discussions cannot possibly meet his definition. In Weinreich's view, anyone with even a basic knowledge of sociology understands that information exchange in no way constitutes a community.
Weinreich rejects Rheingold's inclusion of virtual communities in the definition of communities for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
- A. virtual communities are not usually rooted in a common religion
- B. virtual communities do not usually share values
- C. virtual communities do not usually share a common history
- D. virtual communities do not usually share the same territory
- E. virtual communities do not usually exchange information
Answer: E
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The question asks you to identify what does NOT stop Weinreich from considering a virtual community a real community. An exchange of information is not problematic for Weinreich.
NEW QUESTION 172 
- A. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- B. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- C. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
- D. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- E. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 173
Protectionist trade restrictions harm large segments of society for the benefit of a smaller segment. For example, every time the steel industry asks for tariffs on steel Imports from foreign countries, someone correctly points out that if that wish were granted, it would harm the United States auto industry and other steel users, not to mention consumers. Protectionist trade restrictions serve particular interests and only rarely also the general welfare. But the U.S. Constitution requires the government to serve the general welfare. It follows that__________.
Which of the following best completes the passage?
- A. protectionist trade restrictions are usually incompatible with the U.S. Constitution
- B. trade restrictions of any kind are unconstitutional
- C. the general welfare requires protectionist trade restrictions
- D. government measures that serve the general interest are generally compatible with the U.S. Constitution
- E. most U.S. domestic industries are probably helped, not hindered, by foreign competition
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 174
Under laboratory conditions, fruit flies can learn to respond to odors that elicit no response from them in nature. Mutant fruit flies that cannot produce a certain enzyme are, however, incapable of such learning. These mutant flies respond to other odors just as ordinary fruit flies do.
Thus it is unlikely that the enzyme's absence impairs
the fruit flies' perception of odors, since presumably fruit flies would not have an enzyme that was needed only for the perception of odors that fruit flies do not respond to in nature. Given that many researchers believe that this enzyme is somehow involved in the process of forming memories, what the enzyme's absence probably impairs is the fruit flies' ability to learn.
In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
- A. The first is a hypothesis that the argument seeks to establish; the second is an alternative hypothesis, which the argument provides grounds for rejecting.
- B. The first is a conclusion drawn about one possible explanation of the phenomenon at issue; the second presents an explicit assumption that is introduced to support that conclusion.
- C. The first is a hypothesis that the argument seeks to establish; the second presents an explicit assumption that has been used in arguing for the position that the argument opposes.
- D. The first provides evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second is a claim that has been advanced in order to undermine the force of that evidence.
- E. The first is an objection that has been raised against the position adopted in the argument; the second presents an explicit assumption that is introduced in order to meet that objection.
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 175
Kale has more nutritional value than spinach. But since collard greens have more nutritional value than lettuce, it follows that kale has more nutritional value than lettuce.
Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument above logically correct EXCEPT:
- A. Spinach has more nutritional value than lettuce.
- B. Spinach has more nutritional value than collard greens.
- C. Spinach and collard greens have the same nutritional value.
- D. Collard greens have more nutritional value than kale.
- E. Kale and collard greens have the same nutritional value.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 176
For a town seeking to desalinate source water with a salinity of 12,000 mg/L. select Consistent for each of the following statements that is consistent with the information and recommendations provided, and otherwise select Not consistent.
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NEW QUESTION 177
Which of the following is a claim made in the passage?
- A. Light changes its speed when it changes its direction.
- B. Light travels more slowly through water than through cold air.
- C. Light travels at a constant speed through cool air.
- D. Microwaves are invisible to the human eye.
- E. Light travels more slowly through air than through a vacuum.
Answer: E
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Consider a mirage on a hot toad: when light tays hit the hot ait just above the surface, they bend. Although light moves through a vacuum at a certain constant speed, it moves more slowly through any transparent medium, such as water or gas. Light travels faster in the thin air near the road than it does in the colder, denser air above, and the difference in speed makes it shift direction as it crosses the boundary between the two. Rays once headed downwards from the sky are redirected to your eye, hiding part of the road with a shimmering image.
A research team has constructed an apparatus to cloak an object from electromagnetic radiation (EMR)-in this case, microwaves-making the object "invisible" to microwave-based detection devices, somewhat as a mirage on a hot road makes the road invisible. The apparatus bends incoming microwaves around the object, using a class of recently created metamaterials-materials that gain certain desired properties directly from their engineered structures rather than from their composition. These metamaterials possess the ability, not found in nature, to bend microwaves at extreme angles. The metamateria! in this case-thin, rigid sheets of fiberglass insulator stamped with conducting loops, coils, and tiny rectangles-was designed to control the movement of incoming EMR.
NEW QUESTION 178
In a psychological experiment conducted at South bay University, groups of men with various levels of education read stories in which people caused harm, some of them doing so intentionally, and some accidentally. When asked about appropriate penalization for those who had caused harm, the less educated men, unlike the educated ones, assigned punishments that did not vary according to whether the harm was done intentionally or accidentally. Uneducated men, then, do not regard people's intentions as relevant to penalization.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
- A. In these stories, the severity of the harm produced was clearly stated.
- B. Relatively uneducated men are as likely to produce harm unintentionally as are more educated men.
- C. The less educated men assigned penalization that varied according to the severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories
- D. The more educated men assigned penalization in a way that closely resembled the way women had assign penalization in a similar experiment.
- E. In interpreting these stories, the listeners had to draw on a relatively feminine sense of human psychology in order to tell whether harm was produced intentionally or accidentally.
Answer: E
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The best answer is B.
Choice B indicates that less educated men might be unable to tell whether the harm in the stories was produced intentionally. Thus, even if less educated men do regard people's intentions as relevant, they might be unable to apply this criterion here. B, therefore, undermines the conclusion's support.
NEW QUESTION 179
Store S's gross profit from a certain product is 40 percent of the store's revenue from the product- The store's gross profit from the product is what percent of the store's cost for the product?
- A. 0
- B. 40%
- C. 150%
- D.
- E.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 180
Generally, marine biologists enter their field with the goal of doing important new research. They expect their colleagues to have similar goals. Therefore, when any marine biologist becomes a household name in the field of documentary nature films, most other scientists conclude that this biologist should no longer be regarded as a true colleague. The explanation offered above for the low esteem in which marine biologists who make documentary films are held by research scientists assumes that
- A. Research scientists believe that those who are well known as marine biologists who make documentary films are not motivated to do important new research
- B. Serious scientific research is not a solitary activity, but relies on active cooperation among a group of colleagues
- C. Research scientists tend not to regard as colleagues those scientists whose renown they envy
- D. A scientist can become famous as a marine biologist who makes documentary films without having completed any important research
- E. No important new research can be accessible to or accurately assessed by those who are not themselves scientists
Answer: A
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The conclusion that biologists who make documentaries should no longer be regarded as true colleagues is based on the assumption that such biologists will not longer do important new research
NEW QUESTION 181
A certain local bakery operates 7 days a week. On Monday of next week, the bakery will begin a new schedule for baking 3 specialty breads. Under the new schedule, millet bread will be baked on Monday of next week and will be baked again every other day thereafter (Wednesday, Friday, and so on). Seven-grain bread will also be baked on Monday of next week, and will be baked again every third day thereafter (Thursday, Sunday, and so on). Pumpernickel bread will be baked on Tuesday of next week and will be baked again every third day thereafter. The schedule will continue indefinitely, and these 3 breads will not be baked at any times other than those specified.
In the table, select First day for none of the J for the day of the week on which, for the first time under the new schedule, none of the 3 specialty breads will be baked; select Second day for none of the 3'forthe day of the week on which, for the second time under the new schedule, none of the 3 specialty breads will be baked.
Make only two selections, one in each column.
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NEW QUESTION 182
Economies in which a high percentage of resources are invested in research and development show greater growth in the long run than do those in which resources are channeled into consumption.
Japanese workers spend a higher percentage of their income investing in research and development than do American workers.
To grow as fast as Japan has in the past three decades, the United States must change the tax code in order to encourage savings and investment and discourage debt.
Which of the following, if true, tends to weaken the argument?
- A. Studies have shown that countries with high consumption rates prosper in the short run.
- B. Because a decreasing percentage of the United States is under 40, an age when savings are traditionally low, the savings rate will increase without changes to the tax code.
- C. Class mobility, highly valued in American culture, is encouraged by a growing rather than a stagnant economy.
- D. Proposed changes to the tax code could involve strict limits on the deductibility of interest, and increased allowance for research.
- E. Japanese research is more focused on consumers than is research by American firms.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 183
A study of business partnerships in which one partner's management style differs from that of the other partner reveals that such partnerships are more likely be fraught with problems and to ultimately end in dissolution. Thus, mismatched management styles can seriously jeopardize a business partnership.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
- A. Partners who are considering dissolution have been found to express hostility by adopting a different management styles from that of their partners.
- B. According to a recent study, most people's management styles can be controlled and modified easily.
- C. Business partnerships in which both partners have the same management style also occasionally have disagreements that can jeopardize the partnership.
- D. The management style of individuals tends to vary from year to year.
- E. The individuals who have management style that differ significantly from those of their partners tend to argue little with spouses at home.
Answer: A
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If partners who are considering dissolution have been found to express hostility by adopting a different management style from that of their partners, then the different management styles are the result and not the cause of the discordance between the partners.
NEW QUESTION 184
The ice on the front windshield of the car had formed when moisture condensed during the night. The ice melted quickly after the car was warmed up the next morning because the defrosting vent, which blows only on the front windshield, was turned on full force.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously jeopardizes the validity of the explanation for the speed with which the ice melted?
- A. The defrosting vent operates efficiently even when the heater, which blows warm air toward the feet or faces of the driver and passengers, is on.
- B. The side windows had no ice condensation on them.
- C. The speed at which ice on a window melts increases as the temperature of the air blown on the window increases.
- D. The warm air from the defrosting vent for the front windshield cools rapidly as it dissipates throughout the rest of the car.
- E. Even though no attempt was made to defrost the back window, the ice there melted at the same rate as did the ice on the front windshield.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 185
Soil salinization-the process by which soil acquires excess soluble salt, adversely affecting pasture or crop growth-is regarded as Australia's most serious environmental problem. Cope, whose 1958 investigation is considered the earliest survey of salt-affected areas in Victoria, hypothesized that surplus rainwater mobilized soluble salt stored in the permeable layer of soil, causing it to accumulate above an impermeable layer and then discharge downslope or onto a valley floor. In the late 1970s, however, Jenkin identified saline water underground as the main and immediate (though not ultimate) source of the salt, and hypothesized that the spread of salinity resulted from a rise in that groundwater. He attributed the rise to a decrease in coverage by water-absorbing trees and other vegetation at some ill-defined point in Australia's post-settlement history.
However, more-recent research suggests there was no rise in post-settlement groundwater levels. Furthermore, soil salinity probably antedated European settlement: early cartographic evidence indicates that some streams were saline when Europeans arrived. Dahlhaus suggests that salt accumulation resulted from marine incursions several million years ago, when parts of Victoria may have been submerged-as well as from transport of salt from the sea by wind and rain. Dahlhaus also notes that various minerals dissolved in groundwater by weathering may have produced salt.
The passage most strongly suggests that the author agrees with which of the following?
- A. The main source of soil salinity in Victoria has been wind and rain transporting salt from the sea.
- B. Average groundwater levels in Victoria probably increased after European immigrant settlement.
- C. The impact of European immigrant settlement on the environment in Victoria does not explain soil salinity there.
- D. Dahlhaus's examination of early cartographic evidence convinced him that European immigrant settlement was a significant factor contributing to soil salinity in Victoria.
- E. There was not significantly less coverage by trees and other vegetation in Victoria after European immigrant settlement than before it.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 186
The hotel industry now offers a great many gradations of service, giving rise to odd concepts such as "luxury budget." and innkeepers must struggle constantly to find a corner of the market and then to compete at the appropriate level of service.
- A. to giving rise to odd concepts such as "luxury budget," with innkeepers having to
- B. giving rise to odd concepts such as "luxury budget," with innkeepers who must
- C. giving rise to odd concepts, such as "luxury budget" and innkeepers who are having to
- D. so that it gives rise to odd concepts such as "luxury budget" and innkeepers having to
- E. giving rise to odd concepts such as luxury budget/ and innkeepers must
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 187
As one who has always believed that truth is our nation's surest weapon in the propaganda war against our foes, I am distressed by reports of "disinformation" campaigns by American intelligence agents in Western Europe. In a disinformation campaign, untruths are disseminated through gullible local journalists in order to damage the interests of our enemies and protect our own. Those who defend this practice say that lying is necessary to counter Soviet disinformation campaigns aimed at damaging America's political interests. These apologists contend that one must fight fire with fire. I would point out to the apologists that the fire department finds water more effective.
The author of the passage above bases his conclusion on which of the following?
- A. An example of the ineffectiveness of lying as a weapon in the propaganda war
- B. A circular definition of "disinformation"
- C. An appeal to the authority of the fire department
- D. An analogy between truth and water
- E. An attack on the character of American intelligence agents in Western Europe
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 188
If the closing price of stock X on the first trading day last year was $10, was the closing price of stack X at least $5 on each of the trading days last year?
(1) Last year, the highest closing price of stock X was twice the lowest closing price of stock X.
(2) The highest closing price of stock X last year was $16.
- A. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- B. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- C. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
- D. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- E. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: E
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