重新输入过了 People who say that Dooney County is flat are clearly wrong. On flat land, soil erosion by water is not a problem. Consequently, farmers whose land is flat do not build terraces to prevent erosion. Ye! I heat that the farms in Dooney County are dotted with terraces. 12. The author's conclusion in the passage depends on the assamption that (A) the only cause of soil erosion is water (B) there are terraces on farmland in Dooney County which were built to prevent soil erosion (C) terraces of the kind found on farmland in Dooney County have been shown to prevent soil erosion (D) on flat land there is no soil erosion (E) the only terraces in Dooney County are on farmland 23. Further evidence of a connection between brain physiology and psychological states has recently been uncovered in the form of a correlation between electroencephalograph patterns and characteristic moods. A study showed that participants who suffered from clinical depression exhibited less left frontal lobe activity than right. while, conversely, characteristically good. natured participants exhibited grcater left lobe activity. Thus one's general disposition is a result of the activity of one's frontal lobe Each of the following. if true, weakens the argument EXCEPT: (A) Many drugs prescribed to combat clinical depression act by causing increased left lobe activity. (B) Excessive sleep, a typical consequence of clinical depression. is known to suppress left lobe activity. (C) Frontal lobe activity is not subject to variation the way general disposition is . (D) Earlier studies indicated that frontal lobe activity and emotive states are both caused by activity in the brain's limbic system. (E) Social interaction of the kind not engaged in by most clinically depressed people is known to stimulate left lobe activity. 17. Cotumnist: It is impossibie for there to be real exidence that lax radiation standards that were once in effect at nuciear reaciors actually contribtued to the inerease in cancer rates near such sites. The point is a familiar one, who can say if a partictilar case of cancer is to radiation. esposure to enxironmental texins. smeling. poor der, or seneti factors. The reason is most exinerable on winch one of the wing grounds? (A) The argument fatis to recognize that there may be convineing statisneai evidence even if indisidual causes cannot be known. (B) The argument inappropriatelv presupposes that what follows a certain pnenomen on was caused by that phenomenon. (C) The argument inapprepriately draws a conciusion about causes of cancer in general from evidence drawn from a particuiar case of cancer. (D) The argument ignores other ossible causes of the increase in cancer rates near the nuclear teactor complexes. (E) The argument concindes that a claim about a causal connection is false on the basis of a lack of exidence for the claim. 17. Studies of the reliability of eyewithess identifieations show little correlation between the accuracy of a witness's account and the confidence the witness has in the account. Certain factors can increase of undermine a witness's confidence without altering the accuracy of the identification. Therefore, police officers are advised to disaliow suspect llneups in which witnesses can hear one another identifying suspects.
Which one of the following is a principlw underlying the advice given to police officers? (A) The confidence people have in what they remember having seen is affected by their awareness of what other people claim to have seen. (B) Unless an eyewitness is confronted with more than one suspect at a time, the accuracy of his or her statements cannot be trusted. (C) If several eyewitnesses all identify the same suspect in a lineup, it is more likely that the suspect committed the crime than if only one eyewitness identifies the suspect. (D)   olice officers are more interested in the confidence witnesses have when testifying than in the accuracy of that testimony. (E) The accuracy of an eyewitness account is doubtful if the eyewitness contradicts what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen. 21. many weaklings are also cowards, and few cowards fail to be fools. Thus there must be at least one persen who is both a weakling and a fool.
The fawed paltern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following? (A) All weasels are carnivores and no carnivores fail to be nonirerbrvores, so some weasels are nonherbivores. (B) Few moralists have the courage to act according to the principies they profess, and few saints have the ability to articulate the principles by which they live, so it follows that few people can both act like saints and speak like moralists. (C) Some painters are dancers, since some painters are musicians, amd some musicians are dancers. (D) If an act is virtuous. then it is autonomous, for acts are not virtuous unless they are free, and acts are not free unless they are autonomous. (E) A majority of the voting population favors a total ban, but no one who favors a total ban is opposed to stiffer tariffs, so at a least one voter is not opposed to stiffer tariffs. 26.   eople ought to take into account a discipline's btemished origins when assessing the scientific value of that disipline. Take, for example, chemistry. It must be considered that many of its landmark results were obtained by alchemists--a grouo whose superstitions amd appeals to magic dominated the early developments of chemical theory.
The reasoning above is most susceptible to criticism because the author (A) fails to establish that disciplines with unbliemished origins are serentifically valuable (B) fails to consider how chemistry's current theories and practices differ from those of the alchemists mentioned (C) uses an example to contradict the principie under consideration (D) does not prove that most diseiplines that are not scientifically valuable have origins that are in some way suspect (E) uses the word "discipline" in two different senses |