lsat 16 (1.1) questions

1stzhang

[face=Georgia]1. Walter: Although cigarette smoking is legal, it should be banned on all airline flights. Cigarette smoking in the confines of an aircraft exposes nonsmokers to harmful secondhand smoke that they cannot avoid.

Which one the following principles, if established, would justify the proposal put forth by Walter?

(A) People should be prohibited from engaging in an otherwise legal activity would unavoidable expose others to harm.

(B) An activity should be banned only if most situations in which a person engaged in that activity would inevitably expose others to harm.

(C) A legal activity that has the potential for causing harm to others in certain situations should be modified in those situations to render it harmless.

(D) People who regularly engage in an activity that has the potential for harming others when that activity takes place in certain situations should be excluded from those situations.

(E) If an activity is legal in some situations in which a person's engaging in that activity could harm others, then that activity should be legal in all situations.

这个A中的"otherwise "应该如何理解?作题的时候就是对 otherwise legal activity 的理解错误导致误选.

7. Workers may complain about many things at work, but stress is not high on the list. In fact, in a recent survey a majority placed boredom at the top of their list of complaints. The assumption that job-related stress is the most serious problem for workers in the corporate world is thus simply not warranted.

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

(A) Those workers who are responsible for the planning and supervision of long-term projects are less likely to complain of either boredom or stress

(B) Workers who complain of boredom exhibit more stress-related symptoms than do those who claim their work is interesting,

(C) Workers responding to opinion surveys tend to emphasize those experiences that have happened most recently

(D) Workers who feel that their salaries are commensurate with the amount of work they do are less likely to complain of boredom.

(E) Workers are less likely to complain about work if they feel that their jobs are secure

这个题目答案是B,请解释选项是如何削弱原文的?其他选项为什么又不对?这个题目请重点讲解.

11. Should a Journalist's story begin with the set phrase "In a surprise development" as routinely happens? Well, not if the surprise was merely the journalist' s, since journalists should not intrude themselves into their stories, and not if the surprise was someone else's, because if some person's surprise was worth mentioning at all, it should have been specifically attributed. The one possibility remaining is that lots of people were surprised: in that case, however, there is no point in belaboring the obvious.

Which one of the following most accurately states the conclusion of the argument above?

(A) Journalists should reserve use of the phrase "In a surprise development" for major developments that are truly unexpected.

(B) The phrase "in a surprise development" is appropriately used only where someone's being surprised is itself interesting.

(C) The phase "in a surprise development" is used in three distinct sorts of circumstances.

(D) Journalists should make the point that a development comes as a surprise when summing up, not when introducing a story.

(E) Introducing stories with the phrase "in a surprise development" is not good journalistic practice.

这个题目原文读的很晕,重要请讲解一下原文.答案是E.

12. Individual pyrrole molecules readily join together into larger molecules called polypyrroles. If polypyrroles form from pyrrole in the presence of zeolites, they do so by attaching to the zeolite either in lumps on the outer surface of the zeolite or in delicate chains within the zeolite抯 inner channels. When zeolite changes color from yellow to black, it means that on or in that zeolite polypyrroles have formed from pyrrole. Yellow zeolite free of any pyrrole was submerged in dissolved pyrrole. The zeolite, turned black even though no polypyrroles formed on its outer surface.

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must on the basis of them be true?

(A) Polypyrroles had already formed on or in the zeolite before it was submerged.

(B) Lumps of polypyrrole attached to the zeolite were responsible for its color change.

(C) At least some of the pyrrole in which the zeolite was submerged formed polypyrrole chains.

(D) None of the pyrrole in which the zeolite was submerged attached itself to the zeolite.

(E) Little, if any, of the pyrrole in which the zeolite was submerged reached the zeolite抯 inner channels.

这个题目作对了,但是原文读的不是很清楚.用排除法得到C,请问原文提取了哪些信息?如何从原文得到C.[/face]

mindfree

1. Otherwise here means other than that or in other situations. Too bad that I cannot type Chinese

2. I don't know why, because I chose C. Choice B appears to relate stress to boredom, but it fails to establish that having stress-related symptoms means stress is a serious problem. I think C is right in that it counters the reasoning of the argument, which draws the conclusion that stress is not the most serious problem as boredom topped the list, assuming that people responding to the survey put the problems in order of seriousness. C points out the fallacy in the assumption by saying that people put the most recently experienced problem on the top, the the one they think is the most serious.

3. Read the passage again. In three circumstances jounalists might use "...". But in none of these circumstances the use of the phrase is appropriate. That is E.

4. I explained this before. Pls search for it.

siebel

以下是引用mindfree在2003-5-27 3:00:00的发言：
1. Otherwise here means other than that or in other situations. Too bad that I cannot type Chinese

let me try to help you to type Chinese。
应该禁止这样一种情况发生：在这种情况下，那些在别的地方合法的行为对其他人有害。