SECTION IV

Time-35 minutes

24 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. James: In my own house, I do what I want. In banning smoking on passenger airlines during domestic flights, the government has ignored the airlines' right to set smoking policies on their own property

Eileen: You house is for your own use. Because a passenger airline offers a service to the public, the passengers' health must come first

The basic step in Eileen's method of attacking James' argument is to

(A) draw a distinction

(B) offer a definition

(C) establish an analogy

(D) derive a contradiction from it

(E) question its motivation

2. The company that produces XYZ, a computer spreadsheet program, estimates that millions of illegally reproduced copies of XYZ are being used. If legally purchased, this number of copies would have generated millions of dollars in sales for the company, yet despite a company-wide effort to boost sales, the company has not taken available legal measures to prosecute those who have copied the program illegally

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the company has not taken available legal measures?

(A) XYZ is very difficult to copy illegally, because a sophisticated anticopying mechanism in the program must first be disabled

(B) The legal measures that the company that produces XYZ could take against those who have copied its product became available several years before XYZ came on the market

(C) Many people who purchase a software program like XYZ are willing to purchase that program only after they have already used it

(D) The number of illegally reproduced copies of XYZ currently in use exceeds the number of legally reproduced copies currently in use

(E) The company that produces ABC, the spreadsheet program that is XYZ's main rival in the marketplace, is well known for taking legal action against people who have copied ABC illegally

Questions 3 ?4

Kim: Some people claim that the battery-powered electric car represents a potential solution to the problem of air pollution. But they forget that it takes electricity to recharge batteries and that most of our electricity is generated by burning polluting fossil fuels. Increasing the number of electric cars on the road would require building more generating facilities since current facilities are operating at maximum capacity. So even if all of the gasoline-powered cars on the roads today were replaced by electric cars, it would at best be an exchange of one source of fossil-fuel pollution for another

3. The main point made in Kim's argument is that

(A) replacing gasoline-powered cars with battery-powered electric cars will require building more generating facilities

(B) a significant reduction in air pollution cannot be achieved unless people drive less

(C) all forms of automobile transportation are equally harmful to the environment in terms of the air pollution they produce

(D) battery-powered electric cars are not a viable solution to the air-pollution problem

(E) gasoline-powered cars will probably remain a common means of transportation for the foreseeable future

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