2. GWD17-Q9:
        （CD-9 Q10）

Press Secretary:  Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.  They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts.  But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors.  So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends?

A.      Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.

B.       The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.

C.      The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.

D.      The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.

E.       Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.

Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases in the population of snow geese, which breed in the Arctic and are displacing birds of less vigorous species.  Although snow geese are a popular quarry for hunters in the southern regions where they winter, the hunting season ends if and when hunting has reduced the population by five percent, according to official estimates.  Clearly, dropping this restriction would allow the other species to recover.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?

A.      Hunting limits for snow geese were imposed many years ago in response to a sharp decline in the population of snow geese.

B.       It has been many years since the restriction led to the hunting season for snow geese being closed earlier than the scheduled date.

C.      The number of snow geese taken by hunters each year has grown every year for several years.

D.      As their population has increased, snow geese have recolonized wintering grounds that they had not used for several seasons.

E.       In the snow goose’s winter habitats, the goose faces no significant natural predation.

15. GWD-18-Q15

Fact:  Asthma, a bronchial condition, is much less common ailment than hay fever, an allergic inflammation of the nasal passages.

Fact:  Over 95 percent of people who have asthma also suffer from hay fever.

If the information given as facts above is true, which of the following must also be true?

A.      Hay fever is a prerequisite for the development of asthma.

B.       Asthma is a prerequisite for the development of hay fever.

C.      Those who have neither hay fever nor asthma comprise less than 5 percent of the total population.

D.      The number of people who have both of these ailments is greater than the number of people who have only one of them.

E.       The percentage of people suffering from hay fever who also have asthma is lower than 95 percent

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