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       In American Genesis, which covers
       the century of technological innovation
       in the United States beginning in 1876,
Line Thomas Hughes assigns special promi-
(5)   nence to Thomas Edison as archetype
       of the independent nineteenth-century
       inventor. However, Hughes virtually
       ignores Edison’s famous contem-
       porary and notorious adversary in
(10) the field of electric light and power,
       George Westinghouse. This com-
       parative neglect of Westinghouse is
       consistent with other recent historians’
       works, although it marks an intriguing
(15) departure from the prevailing view
       during the inventors’ lifetimes (and for
       decades afterward) of Edison and
       Westinghouse as the two “pioneer
       innovators” of the electrical industry.
(20) My recent reevaluation of Westing-
       house, facilitated by materials found
       in railroad archives, suggests that
       while Westinghouse and Edison shared
       important traits as inventors, they
(25) differed markedly in their approach to
       the business aspects of innovation.
       For Edison as an inventor, novelty
       was always paramount: the overriding
       goal of the business of innovation was
(30) simply to generate funding for new
       inventions. Edison therefore undertook
       just enough sales, product development,
       and manufacturing to accomplish this.
       Westinghouse, however, shared the
(35) attitudes of the railroads and other
       industries for whom he developed
       innovations: product development,
       standardization, system, and order
       were top priorities. Westinghouse
(40) thus better exemplifies the systematic
       approach to technological development
       that would become a hallmark of modern
       corporate research and development.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. reevaluate a controversial theory
B. identify the flaws in a study
C. propose a new method of historical research
D. compare two contrasting analyses
E. provide a fresh perspective

2. According to the passage, Edison’s chief concern as an inventor was the
A. availability of a commercial market
B. costs of developing a prototype
C. originality of his inventions
D. maintenance of high standards throughout production
E. generation of enough profits to pay for continued marketing

3. The author of the passage implies that the shift away from the views of Westinghouse’s
contemporaries should be regarded as
A. a natural outgrowth of the recent revival of interest in Edison
B. a result of scholarship based on previously unknown documents
C. reflective of modern neglect of the views of previous generations
D. inevitable, given the changing trends in historical interpretations
E. surprising, given the stature that Westinghouse once had
Answer:



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1. The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television.

Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument?

(A) whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly
(B) whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people who report that they rarely or never use computers
(C) whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the amount of time spent per week using computer increases
(D) whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending increasing amounts of time per week using computers
(E) whether the survey respondents’ report of time spent using computers included time spent using computers at work


2. The percentage of households with an annual income of more than $40,000 is higher in Merton County than in any other county. However, the percentage of households with an annual income of $60,000 or more is highest in Sommer County.

If the statements above are true, which of the following can properly be concluded on the basis of them?

(A) No household in Merton County has an annual income of $60,000 or more.
(B) Some households in Merton County have an annual income between $40,000 and $60,000.
(C) The number of households with an annual income of more than $40,000 is greater in Merton than in Sommer County.
(D) The percentage of households with an annual income of $80,000 is higher in Sommer than in Merton County.
(E) Average annual household income is higher in Sommer than in Merton County.


3. In the year following an eight-cent increase in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes,
sales of cigarettes fell ten percent. In contrast, in the year prior to the tax increase, sales had fallen one percent. The volume of cigarette sales is therefore strongly related to the after-tax price of a pack of cigarettes.

The argument above requires which of following assumptions?

A. During the year following the tax increase, the pretax price of a pack of cigarettes
did not increase by as much as it had during the year prior to the tax increase.
B. The one percent fall in cigarette sales in the year prior to tax increase was due to a
smaller tax increase.
C. The pretax price of a pack of cigarettes gradually decreased throughout the year
before and the year after the tax increase.
D. For the year following the tax increase, the pretax price of a pack of cigarettes
was not eight or more cents lower than it had been the previous year.
E. As the after-tax price of a pack of cigarettes rises, the pretax price also rises.


4. For most people, the left half of the brain controls linguistic capabilities, but some people have their language centers in the right half. When a language center of the brain is damaged, for example by a stroke, linguistic capabilities are impaired in some way. Therefore, people who have suffered a serious stroke on the left side of the brain without suffering any such impairment must have their language centers in the right half.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the reasoning in the argument above depends?

(A) No part of a person’s brain that is damaged by a stroke ever recovers.
(B) Impairment of linguistic capabilities does not occur in people who have not suffered any damage to any language center of the brain.
(C) Strokes tend to impair linguistic capabilities more severely than does any other cause of damage to language centers in the brain.
(D) If there are language centers on the left side of the brain, any serious stroke affecting that side of the brain damages at least one of them.
(E) It is impossible to determine which side of the brain contains a person’s language centers if the person has not suffered damage to either side of the brain.

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RC:
E C E

CR:
E C D D

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CR: E B D A

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RC: A C C
CR: E B D A

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RC: E  C  C
CR: E  B  B  D

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RC: A  C  B
CR: E  B  D  D

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RC: E C C
CR:E D D B

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cr: E B D C