1。Lead left in soil can be traced years past. Lead comes from car's waste tail gas. Soil nearby highway roads has higher trace of lead if more cars are on the highway. In 1970-1980, lead was added in car's gasoline, so we can conclude that the highway traffic was busy at that time if soil tested there contains more lead.
commit which following mistake?
A. take one probable cause as the only cause for a result.
C. take what is necessary to a conclusion as what is sufficient to that conclusion.(6/21/2004)
2.A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a massive expansion of the commuter rail system as a means of significantly easing congestion on the province's highways and were willing to helppay for the expansion through an increase in their taxes. nevertheless, the poll results indicate that expansion of the rail system, if sucessfully completed, would be unlikely to achieve its goal of easing congestion, because______ A. most people in favor of expanding the rail system reported less congestion during their highway commute as the primary benefit they would experience B of the less than 20 percent of residents not counted as favoring the expansion, about half claimed to have no opinion one way or the other C the twice-daily periods of peak congestion caused by people commuting in cars have grown from about an hour each to almost two and a half hours each in the past 20 years D expanding the commuter rail system will require the construction of dozens of miles of new railbed E the proposed expansion to commuter rail system will make it possible for some people who both live and work at suurban locations to commute by rail. 2004.05.27
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Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat: No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it (nlhsz提供)
A. attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members. B. mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change. C. attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely D.by pointing to the absence of negative effects simply denies Mel’s claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial E. assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group. |