SECTION IV

Time-35 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 questions. 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. Taxpayer: For the last ten years, Metro Coty's bridge-maintenance budget of $1 million annually has been a prime example of fiscal irresponsibility. In a well-run bridge program, the city would spend $15 million a year on maintenance, which would prevent severe deterioration, thus limiting capital expenses for needed bridge reconstruction to $10 million over two years on emergency reconstruction of its bridges.

The main point of the taxpayer's argument is that Metro City

(A) should have budgeted substantially more money for maintenance of its bridges

(B) would have had a well-run bridge program of it had spent more money for reconstruction of its bridges

(C) is spending more than it needs to on maintenance of its bridges

(D) is economizing on its bridge program to save money in case of emergencies

(E) has bridges that are more expensive to maintain than they were to build

2. Twenty professional income-tax advisors were given identical records from which to prepare an income-tax return. The advisor were not aware that they were dealing with fictitious records compiles by a financial magazine. No two of the completed tax returns agreed with each other, and only one was technically correct.

If the information above is correct, which one of the following conclusion can be properly drawn on the basis of it?

(A) Only one out of every twenty income-tax returns prepared by any given professional income-tax advisor will be correct.

(B) The fact that a tax return has been prepared by a professional income-tax advisor provides no guarantee that the tax advisor provides no guarantee that the tax return has been correctly prepared.

(C) In order to ensure that tax returns are correct, it is necessary to hire professional income-tax advisor to prepare them.

(D) All professional income-tax advisors make mistakes on at least some of the tax returns they prepare.

(E) people are more likely to have an incorrectly prepared tax return if they prepare their own tax returns than if they hire a professional income-tax advisor.

3. The manager of a nuclear power plant defended the claim that the plant was safe by revealing its rate of injury for current workers: only 3.2 injuries per 200,000 hours of work, a rate less than half the national average for all industrial plants. The manager claimed that therefore, by the standard of how many injuries occur, the plant was safer than most other plants where the employees could work.

Which one of the following, if true, most calls into question the manager's claim?

(A) Workers at nuclear power plants are required to receive extra training in safety precautions on their own time and at their own expense.

(B) Workers at nuclear power plants are required to report to the manager any cases of accidental exposure to radiation.

(C) The exposure of the workers to radiation at nuclear power plants was within levels the government considers safe.

(D) Workers at nuclear power plants have filed only a few lawsuits against the management concerning unsafe working conditions.

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