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question from Master the GMAT CAT2004-ARCO

The blanks in the following paragraph mark deletions from the text. For each question, select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text.

Libertarians argue that laws making suicide a criminal act are both foolish and an unwarranted intrusion on individual conscience. With regard to the first, they point out that there is no penalty that the law can assess which inflicts greater injury than the crime itself. As for the second, they argue that it is no business of the state to prevent suicide, for whether it is right to take one's own life is a matter to be addressed to one's own God-the state, by the terms of the Constitution, may not interfere. Such arguments, however, seem to me to be ill0conceived. In the first place, the libertarian makes the mistaken assumption that deterrence is the only goal of the law. I maintain that the laws we have proscribing suicide are      (11)      .By making it a crime to take any life-even one's own-we make a public announcement of our shared conviction that each person is unique and valuable. In the second place, while it must be conceded that the doctrine of the separation of church and state is a useful one, it need not be admitted that suicide is a crime   (12)   . And here we need not have recourse to the possibility that a potential suicide might, if given the opportunity, repent of the decisionl. Suicide inflicts a cost upon us all: the emotional cost on those close to the suicide; an economic cost in the form of the loss of production of a mature and trained member of the society which falls on us all; and a cost to humanity at large for the loss of a member of our human community. The difficulty with the libertarian position is that it is an oversimplification. It assesses the evil of    (13)    .

11.(A) drafted to make it more difficult to commit suicide
     (B) passed by legislators in response to pressures by religious lobbying groups
     (C) written in an effort to protect out democratic liberties, not undermine them
     (D) important because they educate all to the value of human life
     (E) outdated because they belong to a time when church and state were not so clearly divided

12. (A) which does not necessarily lead to more serious crimes
     (B) without a victim
     (C) as well as a sin
     (D) which cannot be prevented
     (E) without motive

13. (A) crimes only in economic terms
      (B) suicide only from the perspective of the person who commits suicide
      (C) laws by weighing them against the evil of the liberty lost by their enforcement
      (D) the mingling of church and state without sufficient regard to the constitutional protections
      (E) suicide in monetary uints without proper regard to the importance of life

ca3ltoys

Sorry made some mistakes. should be....
question from Master the GMAT CAT2004-ARCO

The blanks in the following paragraph mark deletions from the text. For each question, select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text.

Libertarians argue that laws making suicide a criminal act are both foolish and an unwarranted intrusion on individual conscience. With regard to the first, they point out that there is no penalty that the law can assess which inflicts greater injury than the crime itself. As for the second, they argue that it is no business of the state to prevent suicide, for whether it is right to take one's own life is a matter to be addressed to one's own God-the state, by the terms of the Constitution, may not interfere. Such arguments, however, seem to me to be ill0conceived. In the first place, the libertarian makes the mistaken assumption that deterrence is the only goal of the law. I maintain that the laws we have proscribing suicide are      (11)      .By making it a crime to take any life-even one's own-we make a public announcement of our shared conviction that each person is unique and valuable. In the second place, while it must be conceded that the doctrine of the separation of church and state is a useful one, it need not be admitted that suicide is a crime   (12)   . And here we need not have recourse to the possibility that a potential suicide might, if given the opportunity, repent of the decisionl. Suicide inflicts a cost upon us all: the emotional cost on those close to the suicide; an economic cost in the form of the loss of production of a mature and trained member of the society which falls on us all; and a cost to humanity at large for the loss of a member of our human community. The difficulty with the libertarian position is that it is an oversimplification. It assesses the evil of    (13)    .

11.(A) drafted to make it more difficult to commit suicide
     (B) passed by legislators in response to pressures by religious lobbying groups
     (C) written in an effort to protect out democratic liberties, not undermine them
     (D) important because they educate all to the value of human life
     (E) outdated because they belong to a time when church and state were not so clearly divided

12. (A) which does not necessarily lead to more serious crimes
     (B) without a victim
     (C) as well as a sin
     (D) which cannot be prevented
     (E) without motive

13. (A) crimes only in economic terms
      (B) suicide only from the perspective of the person who commits suicide
      (C) laws by weighing them against the evil of the liberty lost by their enforcement
      (D) the mingling of church and state without sufficient regard to the constitutional protections
      (E) suicide in monetary uints without proper regard to the importance of life

ca3ltoys

how to crack this kinds of longer argument?