At the local butcher's shop, there were five customers in the lineup. Each of the customers bought something different.The first names of the customers were Annie, Jessica, Lily, Maggie and Naomi. Their last names were Bore, Hazlitt, Piggott, Sowter and Trotter. The available products were: cumberland sausage, pork chops, pork pie, scotch eggs, and sliced ham.Lily Piggott was served later than the customer who requested the sliced ham, but before Mrs. Sowter.The second customer was Maggie.The pork pie was purchased by the customer directly after Jessica. Naomi was the woman who bought the scotch eggs; she was served after Annie.The Cumberland sausage was requested by Mrs. Trotter.Mrs. Hazlitt was the third in line.The fourth customer in the line bought the pork chopsWhat place was Naomi in line?
Answer(s): E
Most of those who enjoy music play a musical instrument; therefore, if Maria enjoys music, she probably plays a musical instrument. Which one of the following most closely parallels the reasoning in the statement above?
Answer(s): A
This choice parallels both the reasoning and the structure of the original. The original reasoning may be summarized as follows: most X -> Y; therefore X -> Y (probably).
Mary: All Italians are great lovers.Kathy: That is not so. I have met some Spaniards who were magnificent lovers. Kathy's reply to Mary indicates that she has misunderstood Mary's remark to mean that
Kathy believes Mary to have meant that only Italians are great lovers. Therefore, Kathy takes issue with this and points out in her reply that there are non-Italians who are great lovers.[every great lover is an Italian]., if replaced for Mary's statement, would make Kathy's reply a reasonable one.
To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes, taxes keep us civilized. Just look around you, at well-paved superhighways, air-conditioned schools, and modernized prisons, and you cannot help but agree with Holmes. Which one of the following is the strongest criticism of the statement above?
Without an implied or explicit definition of the "civilized," the relevance of the examples is vague, at best.Options [The author never actually met Holmes.] and [The author does not offer a biographical sketch of Holmes.] are irrelevant considerations, and options [The author does not acknowledge those of...] and [The author does not assure us that...]., although possibly relevant, do not address the most apparent weakness of the passage.
Forty years ago, hardly anybody thought about going to court to sue somebody. A person could bump a pedestrian with his Chrysler Airflow and the victim would say something like, "No harm done," and walk away. Ipso facto. No filing of codicils, taking of depositions or polling the jury. Attorneys need not apply. Which one of the following sentences most logically continues the above passage?
Answer(s): C
The passage consistently implies a difference between the past and the present, and option [Unfortunately, times have changed.] makes this contrast explicit. Option [Fortunately, this is still the case...] contradicts the implication of the passage, while options [The Chrysler Airflow is no longer the...] and [New legislation affecting the necessity...] narrow the focus unnecessarily, and [But now, as we know, law schools are full of...] is irrelevant.
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