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Time-35 minutes

25 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. French divers recently found a large cave along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The cave is accessible only through an underwater tunnel. The interior of the cave is completely filled with seawater and contains numerous large stalagmites, which are stony pillars that form when drops of water fall repeatedly on a single spot on a cave floor, leaving behind mineral deposits that accumulate over time.

The information above most strongly supports which one of the following?

(A) The Mediterranean Sea was at a higher level in the past than it is now.

(B) The water level within the cave is higher now than it once was.

(C) The French divers were the first people who knew that the tunnel leading to the cave existed.

(D) There was once an entrance to the cave besides the underwater tunnel.

(E) Seawater in the Mediterranean has a lower mineral content now than it had when the stalagmites were being formed.

2. A director of the Rexx Pharmaceutical Company argued that the development costs for new vaccines that the health department has requested should be subsidized by the government, since the marketing of vaccines promised to be less profitable than the marketing of any other pharmaceutical product. In support of this claim the director argued that sales of vaccines are likely to be lower since each vaccine is administered to a patient only once, whereas medicines that combat diseases and chronic illnesses are administered many times to each patient.

Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the support offered by the company director for the claim concerning the marketing of vaccines?

(A) Vaccines are administered to many more people than are most other pharmaceutical products.

(B) Many of the diseases that vaccines are designed to prevent can be successfully treated by medicines.

(C) Pharmaceutical companies occasionally market products that are neither medicines nor vaccines.

(D) Pharmaceutical companies other than the Rexx Pharmaceutical Company produce vaccines.

(E) The cost of administering a vaccine is rarely borne by the pharmaceutical company that manufactures that vaccine.

3. Manager: Our new computer network, the purpose of which is to increase productivity, can be installed during the day, which would disrupt our employees' work, or else at night, which would entail much higher installation charges. Since saving money is important, we should have the network installed during the day.

The manager's argument assumes which one of the following?

(A) The monetary value of the network equipment would not exceed the cost of having the equipment installed at night.

(B) The monetary value of any productivity lost during a daytime installation would be less than the difference between daytime and nighttime installation costs.

(C) A daytime installation would be completed by no larger a crew and would take the crew no more time than would a nighttime installation.

(D) Once the network has been installed, most of the company's employees will be able to use it immediately to increase their productivity.

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