SECTION IV

Time?5 minutes

26 Questions

Directions: The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.

1. Advertisement: Among popular automobiles. Sturdimades stand apart. Around the world, hundreds of longtime Sturdimade owners have signed up for Sturdimade' s long distance" club, members of which must have a Sturdimade they have driven for a total of at least 100,000 miles or 160,000 kilometers. Some members boast of having driven their Sturdimades for a total of 300,000 miles (480,000 kilometers). Clearly, if you buy a Sturdimade you can rely on being able to drive it for a very long distance.

Construed as an argument, the advertisement's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?

(A) It draws a general conclusion from cases selected only on the basis of having a characteristic that favors that conclusion.

(B) Its conclusion merely restates the evidence given to support it.

(C) It fails to clarify in which of two possible ways an ambiguous term is being used in the premises.

(D) The evidence given to support the conclusion actually undermines that conclusion.

(E) It treats popular opinion as if it constituted conclusive evidence for a claim.

2. Faced with a financial crisis. Upland University's board of trustees reduced the budget for the university's computer center from last year's $4 million to $1.5 million for the coming year. However, the center cannot operate on less than $2.5 million. Since the board cannot divert funds from other programs to the computer center, there is no way that the center can be kept operating for the coming year.

The conclusion of the argument is properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

(A) The computer center did not use all of the $4 million that was budgeted to it last year.

(B) The budgets of other programs at the university were also reduced.

(C) The computer center has no source of funds other than those budgeted to it for the coming year by the university抯 board of trustees.

(D) No funds from any program at the university can be diverted to other programs.

(E) The board of trustees at the university value other programs at the university more highly than they do the computer center.

Questions 3?

Muriel: I admire Favilla's novels, but she does not deserve to be considered a great writer. The point is that, no matter how distinctive her style may be, her subject matter is simply not varied enough.

John: I think you are wrong to use that criterion. A great writer does not need any diversity in subject matter; however, a great writer must at least have the ability to explore a particular theme deeply.

3. Which one of the following is a point at issue between Muriel and John?

(A) whether Favilla has treated a wide variety of subjects in her novels

(B) whether Favilla should be considered a great writer because her style is distinctive

(C) whether treating a variety of subjects should be prerequisite for someone to be considered a great writer

(D) whether the number of novels that a novelist has written should be a factor in judging whether that novelist is great

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