lsat 10 questions (1)

1stzhang

4. Data form satellite photographs of the tropical rain forest in Melonia show that last year the deforestation rate of this environmentally sensitive zone was significantly lower than in previous years. The Melonian government, which spent millions of dollars last year to enforce laws against burning and cutting of the forest, is claiming that the satellite data indicate that its increased efforts to halt the destruction are proving effective.

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the government’s claim?

(A) Landowner opposition to the government’s antideforestation efforts grew more violent last year in response to the increased enforcement.

(B) Rainfall during the usually dry 6-month annual burning season was abnormally heavy last year.

(C) Government agents had to issue fines totaling over 59 million to 3,500violators of burning-and-cutting regulations.

(D) The inaccessibility of much of the rain forest has made it impossible to confirm the satellite data by direct observation from the field.

(E) Much of the money that was designated last year for forest preservation has been spent on research and not on enforcement.
我选d,答案是b,我觉得b是无关的。5. Advertisement: Northwoods Maple Syrup, make the old-fashioned way, is simply tops for taste. And here is the proof: in a recent market survey, 7 out of every 10 shoppers who expressed a preference said that Northwoods was the only maple syrup for them, no ifs, ands, or buts.

Of the following, which one is the strongest reason why the advertisement is potentially misleading?

(A) The proportion of shoppers expressing no preference might have been very small.

(B) Other brands of maple syrup might also be made the old-fashioned way.

(C) No market survey covers more than a sizable minority of the total population of consumers.

(D) The preference for the Northwoods brand might be based on such a factor as an exceptionally low price.

(E) Shoppers who bu7y syrup might buy only maple syrup.
答案是d，我选的是c,请解释！

The number of aircraft collisions on the ground is increasing because of the substantial increase in the number of flights operated by the airlines. Many of the fatalities that occur in such collisions are caused not by the collision itself, but by an inherent flaw in the cabin design of most aircraft, in which seats, by restricting access to emergency exits, impede escape. Therefore, to reduce the total number of fatalities that result annually from such collisions, the airlines should be required to remove all seats that restrict access to emergency exits.
10. Which one of the following proposals, if implemented together with the proposal made in the passage, would improve the prospects for achieving the stated objective of reducing fatalities?

(A) The airlines should be required, when buying new planes, to buy only planes with unrestricted access to emergency exits.

(B) The airlines should not be permitted to increase further the number of lights in order to offset the decrease in the number of seats on each aircraft.

(C) Airport authorities should be required to streamline their passenger check-in procedures to accommodate the increased number of passengers served by the airlines.

(D) Airport authorities should be required to refine security precautions by making them less conspicuous without making them less effective.

(E) The airlines should not be allowed to increase the ticket price for each passenger to offset the decrease in the number of seats on each aircraft.


这个题目我举棋不定最后选了d,答案是b,请指正。

11. Recently discovered fossil evidence casts doubt on the evolutionary theory that dinosaurs are more closely related to reptiles than to other classes of animals. Fossils show that some dinosaurs had hollow bones-a feature found today only in warm-blooded creatures, such as birds, that have a high metabolic rate. Dinosaurs had well-developed senses of sight and hearing, which is not true of present-day cold-blooded creatures like reptiles. The highly arched mouth roof of some dinosaurs would have permitted them to breathe while eating, as fast-breathing animals, such as birds, need to do. Today, all fast-breathing animals are warm-blooded. Finally, fossils reveal that many dinosaurs had a pattern of growth typical of warm-blooded animals.

The argument in the passage proceeds by

(A) attempting to justify one position by demonstrating that an opposing position is based on erroneous information

(B) establishing a general principle that it then uses to draw a conclusion about a particular case

(C) dismissing a claim made about the present on the basis of historical evidence

(D) assuming that if all members of a category have a certain property then all things with that property belong to the category

(E) presenting evidence that a past phenomenon is more similar to one rather than the other of two present-day phenomena

我选d,答案是e,请指教？

nobody

1.B是他因,D不能反驳政府声明.
2.也是他因,是低价吸引顾客不是味道吸引,C的少数民族占调查的比例与问题无关.
3.如果安装灯抵消了拆除座椅,又会阻碍乘客逃生.B有直接关联.

mindfree

1. B 原文中有"environmentally sensitive",足以说明问题. D只是不能confirm,不能refute the evidence

2. 你要找到原文的逻辑推理过程: survey result-->tops taste. D survey result-->low price, weaken

3. 你是不是打错了, 我没有LSAT的题目不能确认.B中应该是flights而不是lights.你选E没有道理,票价如何和fatality有关系? 造成事故的原因有二: increase in number of flights and seat blocking exits. 解决了seat的问题,同时又避免第一个问题加重.所以B. 迷惑选项应为A, 但是A只是解决了原文已解决的问题,不如B.