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Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
A significant number of Qualitex Corporation’s department heads are due to retire this year. The number of employees other than current department heads who could take on the position of department head is equal to only about half of the expected vacancies. Oualitex is not going to hire department heads from outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one department, so some departments will be without department heads next year unless Qualitex ______.
A. promotes some current department heads to higher-level managerial positions B. raises the salary for department heads C. reduces the number of new employees it hires next year D. reduces the average number of employees per department E. reduces the number of its departments During the month of May, crabs arrive on Delaware’s beaches to lay eggs. Certain shorebirds depend on these eggs for food during their annual spring migration to their northern breeding grounds. Delaware’s crab population has declined recently. This decline, however, poses no serious threat to the migrating shorebird populations: by remaining longer in Delaware, the birds will be able to eat enough crab eggs to allow them to complete their migration.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. No other food available to the birds on Delaware’s beaches is as nutritious and accessible as are crab eggs. B. The decline in the number of crabs on Delaware’s beaches is due to the harvesting of crabs by humans. C. There are more crabs on Delaware’s beaches than in any other area that the migrating birds pass through. D. The crabs do not conceal their eggs. E. The earlier in the season the shorebirds complete their migration, the more likely they are to breed successfully. The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily declined over the past four years. This decline has meant that the overall figure on which the city’s property tax is based—the assessed value of that real estate—has also declined. The percentage of assessed value that was paid as property taxes to the city, however, did not change from year to year during this period.
The information above most strongly supports which of the following?
A. The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes did not change over the past four years. B. The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes has declined steadily over the past four years. C. The amount of revenue that Altonville collected from property taxes was lower last year than it was four years ago. D. During the past four years, Altonville officials increased tax rates on other sources of revenue such as retail sales and business profits. Altonville will soon require property owners to pay a higher percentage of the assessed value of their property as property tax. Compare with an old edition of this question listed below. There are many tiny changes in the main body of the question and its answer choices.
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The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily declined over the past four years. This decline has meant that the overall figure on which the city’s property tax is based—the assessed value of that real estate—has also declined. Moreover, the percentage of assessed value that was paid as property taxes to the city did not change during this period. The information above most strongly supports which of the following? A. Money collected from property taxes provided most of Altonville’s revenue during the past four years.
B. The percentage of Altonville’s overall revenue that was collected from property taxes did not change over the past four years.
C. Altonville officials had proposed raising property tax rates during the past four years but never did so because of strong opposition from property owners.
D. The total amount of revenue that Altonville has collected from property taxes has declined over the past four years.
E. During the past four years, Altonville officials also did not increase tax rates on other sources of revenue such as retail sales or business profits.
Q18: Although the earliest surviving Greek inscriptions written in an alphabet date from the eighth century B.C., a strong case can be made that the Greeks actually adopted alphabetic writing at least two centuries earlier. Significantly, the text of these earliest surviving Greek inscriptions sometimes runs from right to left and sometimes from left to right. Now, the Greeks learned alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians, and in the process they would surely have adopted whatever convention the Phoenicians were then using with respect to the direction of writing. Originally, Phoenician writing ran in either direction, but by the eighth century B.C. it had been consistently written from right to left for about two centuries. In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles? A. The first is the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second reports a discovery that has been used to support a position that the argument opposes. B. The first is the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second presents an assumption on which the argument relies. C. The first presents evidence that is used in support of the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second presents an assumption on which the argument relies. D. The first is an objection raised against a position that the argument opposes; the second is the position that the argument seeks to establish. E. The first is an objection raised against a position that the argument opposes; the second is evidence that has been used to support that position. GWD-24-Q 22: Often patients with ankle fractures that are stable, and thus do not
require surgery, are given follow-up x-rays because their orthopedists
are concerned about possibly having misjudged the stability of the fracture. When a number of follow-up x-rays were reviewed, however, all
the fractures that had initially been judged stable were found to have
healed correctly. Therefore, it is a waste of money to order follow-up x-rays of ankle fracture initially judged stable. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A. Doctors who are general practitioners rather than orthopedists are
less likely than orthopedists to judge the stability of an ankle fracture correctly. B. Many ankle injuries for which an initial x-ray is ordered are revealed
by the x-ray not to involve any fracture of the ankle. C. X-rays of patients of many different orthopedists working in several
hospitals were reviewed. D. The healing of ankle fractures that have been surgically repaired is
always checked by means of a follow-up x-ray. E. Orthopedists routinely order follow-up x-rays for fractures of bone
other than ankle bones. cr應該是這篇吧... the answer is C T-3-Q16. In response to mounting public concern, an airplane manufacturers implement a program with well-publicized goal of reducing by half the total yearly amount of hazardous waste generated by its passenger-jet division. When the program began in 1994, the division’s hazardous waste was 90 pounds per production worker, last year it was 40 pounds per production worker. Clearly, therefore, charges that the manufacturer’s program has not met its goal are false. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? A. the amount of nonhazardous waste generated each year by the passenger-jet division has not increased significantly since 1984 B. at least as many passenger jets were produced by the division last year as had been produced in 1994 C. since 1994, other divisions in the company have achieved reductions in hazardous waste output that are at least equal to that achieved in the passenger-jet division. D. The average number of weekly hours per production worker in the passenger-jet division was not significantly greater last year than it was in 1994. E. The number of production workers assigned to the passenger-jet division was not significantly less in 1994 than it was last year. GWD-18-Q30
The ancient Nubians inhabited an area in which typhus occurs, yet surprisingly few of their skeletons show the usual evidence of this disease. The skeletons do show deposits of tetracycline, an antibiotic produced by a bacterium common in Nubian soil. This bacterium can flourish on the dried grain used for making two staples of the Nubian diet, beer and bread. Thus, tetracycline in their food probably explains the low incidence of typhus among ancient Nubians. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies? A. Infectious diseases other than typhus to which the ancient Nubians were exposed are unaffected by tetracycline. B. Tetracycline is not rendered ineffective as an antibiotic by exposure to the processes involved in making bread and beer. C. Typhus cannot be transmitted by ingesting bread or beer contaminated with the infectious agents of this disease. D. Bread and beer were the only items in the diet of the ancient Nubians which could have contained tetracycline. E. Typhus is generally fatal.
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