LSAT 3-4-21, 3-4-25

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21. During construction of the Quebec Bridge in 1907, the bridge’s designer, Theodore Cooper, received word that the suspended span being built out from the bridge’s cantilever was deflecting downward by fraction of an inch. Before he could telegraph to freeze the project, the whole cantilever arm broke off and plunged, along with seven dozens workers, into the St. Lawrence River. It was the worst bridge construction disaster in history. As a direct result of the inquiry that followed, the engineering “rules of thumb” by which thousands of bridges had been built went down with the Quebec Bridge Twentieth-century bridge engineers would thereafter depend on far more rigorous applications of mathematical analysis.

Which one of the following statements can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) Bridges built before about 1907 were built without thorough mathematical analysis and therefore, were unsafe for the public to use

(B) Cooper’s absence from the Quebec Bridge construction site resulted in the breaking off of the cantilever.

(C) Nineteenth-century bridge engineers relied o their rules of thumb because analytical methods were inadequate to solve their design problems.

(D) Only a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis to the design of the Quebec Bridge could have prevented its collapse

(E) Prior to 1907 the mathematical analysis incorporated in engineering rules of thumb was insufficient to completely assure the safety of bridges under construction.

WHY E?

25. Sixty adults were asked to keep a diary of their meals, including what they consumed, when, and in the company of how many people, It was found that at meals with which they drank alcoholic beverages, they consumed about 175 calories more from nonalcoholic source than they did at meals with which they did not drink alcoholic beverages.

Each of the following, if true, contributes to an explanation of the difference in caloric intake EXCEPT:

(A) Diners spent a much longer time at meals served with alcohol than they did at those serve with out alcohol.

(B) The meals eaten later in the day tended to be larger than those eaten earlier in the day, and later meals were more likely to include alcohol.

(C) People eat more when there are more people present at the meal, and more people tended to be present at meal served with alcohol than at meals served without alcohol.

(D) The meals that were most carefully prepared and most attractively served tended to be those at which alcoholic beverages were consumed

(E) At meals that included alcohol, relatively more of the total calories consumed came from carbohydrates and relatively fewer of them came from fats and proteins.

　WHY E?

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25. 文章说的是more cal. from non-alcoholic source, 而E说的是mostly from alcohol, 这样cal from non-alcoholic source就应该基本一样了，weaken了结论。

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carbohydrate是酒精吗?晕....