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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 people.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, would most help to justify the sociologist’s argument?

  1. People acting together in institutions can do more good or evil than can people acting individually.
  2. Institutions formed by people are inevitably imperfect.
  3. People should not be overly optimistic in their view of individual human beings.
  4. A society’s institutions are the surest gauge of that society’s values.
  5. The whole does not determine the properties of the things that compose it.

Answer(s): E



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 early humans, also thrived in a diverse array of environments, but became extinct. Hence, the anthropologists’ claim is false. The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument

  1. confuses a condition’s being required for a given result to occur in one case with the condition’s being sufficient for such a result to occur in a similar case
  2. takes for granted that if one species had a characteristic that happened to enable it to survive certain conditions, at least one related extinct species must have had the same characteristic
  3. generalizes, from the fact that one species with a certain characteristic survived certain conditions, that all related species with the same characteristic must have survived exactly the same conditions
  4. fails to consider the possibility that Australopithecus afarensis had one or more characteristics that lessened its chances of surviving prehistoric times
  5. fails to consider the possibility that, even if a condition caused a result to occur in one case, it was not necessary to cause the result to occur in a similar case

Answer(s): A



Which one of the following could be the order in which the experts give their presentations, from first to last?

  1. the physicist, the statistician, the lawyer, the naturalist, the oceanographer
  2. the physicist, the naturalist, the oceanographer, the lawyer, the statistician
  3. the oceanographer, the statistician, the naturalist, the lawyer, the physicist
  4. the oceanographer, the statistician, the lawyer, the naturalist, the physicist

Answer(s): C



Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

  1. Rita Dove’s work has been widely acclaimed primarily because of the lyrical elements she has introduced into her fiction.
  2. Rita Dove’s lyric narratives present clusters of narrative detail in order to create a cumulative narrative without requiring the reader to interpret it in a linear manner.
  3. Working against a bias that has long been dominant in the U.S., recent writers like Rita Dove have shown that the lyrical use of language can effectively enhance narrative fiction.
  4. Unlike many of her U.S. contemporaries, Rita Dove writes without relying on the traditional techniques associated with poetry and fiction.
  5. Rita Dove’s successful blending of poetry and fiction exemplifies the recent trend away from the rigid separation of the two genres that has long been prevalent in the U.S.

Answer(s): E






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