(E) Resources are always devalued when everyone has access to them because they are no longer a rare commodity in high demand.

　4.Which one of the following could be best supported by the same type of reasoning as that exhibited in the passage?

　(A) The supply of beverages at the annual office picnic will last longer if people pay for them on a per-beverage basis rather than everyone in the office being charged a flat fee.
　(B) A math teacher provides his students with after-school tutoring on several days because no single day is good for everyone.
　(C) A tennis club starts charging flat annual membership fees instead of pay-as-you-play court fees in order to ensure a regular club income.
　(D) A social service agency varies its charges for services because some people are able to pay more than others.
　(E) A tobacco tax is instituted in order to fund improvements in public education

　5.The city is vigorously enforcing the ordinance against allowing individuals to sleep in the bus depot. The mayor argues that such vigorous enforcement is fair, evenhanded, and administered in the best traditions of equal treatment for all "No one can sleep in the bus depot," the mayor has said, "whether you're homefess or the chief executive of a major corporation." This brings to mind a remark once made by a political commentator. The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread, it's time for the mayor to come to rus senses.
　
　The passage as a whole is structured to lead which one of the following conclusions?

　(A) People should not be treated equally with respect to enforcing the ordinance vigorously.
　(B) Everyone should be treated equally with respect to enforcing the ordinance vigorously.
　(C) The vigorous enforcement of the ordinance does not qualify as equal treatment for all
　(D) The law holds poor people to stricter standards than it does rich people.
　(E) In a truly equal legal system, no one would sleep in bus depots.
　　
　6.Although physicians are alleged to hide their colleagues' medical incompetence, today that practice could be professional suicide. Because so many medical advances are well-known by all doctors, obscuring someone's incompetent procedure is almost impossible when a claimant choose to pursue a case. Thus, in malpractice suits, physicians risk their own reputations if they testify falsely to protect their friends.

　Which one of the following is an assumption supporting the conclusion in the passage?

　(A) Physicians' professional success depends upon their good reputations.
　(B) Incompetent physicians should be exposed before they commit malpractice.
　(C) False testimony is morally wrong regardless of one's protession.
　(D) Physicians should do everything possible to protect themselves from malpractice claims.
　(E) Times have changed and physicians today must keep up on all medical advances.

Questions 7-8

　The economy is in a dismal state, universities are suffering from cutbacks, and many students must turn to any source of funds available if they are to make endsmeet. Faced with this situation, the university has terminated the employment of some of its more productive departmental workers. Why? University regulations prohibit a student's receiving financial aid and then working for an auxiliary income that exceeds a specified limit. Employees whose incomes had reached that limit Employees whose incomes had reached that limit were terminated. Now, the university must find other employees. Unfortunately, though, the university's choice of students to fill the positions will not be based upon their abilities to perform, or even upon their financial need, but upon how much money they have made.

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