SECTION I

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. 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. It is probably within the reach of human technology to make the climate of Mars inhabitable. It might be several centuries before people could live there, even with breathing apparatuses, but some of the world’s great temples and cathedrals took centuries to build. Research efforts now are justified if there is even a chance of making another planet inhabitable. Besides, the intellectual exercise of understanding how the Martian atmosphere might be changed could help in understanding atmospheric changes inadvertently triggered by human activity on Earth.

The main point of the argument is that

(A) it is probably technologically possible for humankind to alter the climate of Mars

(B) it would take several centuries to make Mars even marginally inhabitable

(C) making Mars inhabitable is an effort comparable to building a great temple or cathedral

(D) research efforts aimed at discovering how to change the climate of Mars are justified

(E) efforts to change the climate of Mars could facilitate understanding of the Earth’s climate

Question 2-3

Adults have the right to vote: so should adolescents. Admittedly, adolescents and adults are not the same. Bust to the extent that adolescents and adults are different, adults cannot be expected t represent the interests of adolescents. If adults cannot represent the interests of adolescents, then only by giving adolescents the vote will these interests represented.

2. The argument relies on which one of the following assumption?

(A) The right to vote is a right that all human beings should have.

(B) Adolescents and adults differ in most respects that are important.

(C) Adolescents should have their interests represented.

(D) Anyone who have the right to vote has all the right an adult has.

(E) Adolescents have never enjoyed the right to vote.

3. The statement that adolescents and adults are not the same plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

(A) It presents the conclusion of the argument.

(B) It makes a key word in the argument more precise.

(C) It illustrate a consequence of one of the claims that are used to support the conclusion.

(D) It distracts attention from the point at issue.

(E) It concedes a point that is then used to support the conclusion.

4. When deciding where to locate or relocate business look for an educated work force, a high level of services, a low business-tax rate, and close proximity to markets and raw materials. However, although each of these considerations has approximately equal importance, the lack of proximity either to markets or to raw materials often causes municipalities to lose prospective business, whereas having a higher-than-average business-tax rate rarely has this effect.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the statements above?

(A) Taxes paid by business constitute only a part of the tax revenue collected by most municipalities.

(B) In general, the higher the rate at which municipalities tax businesses, the more those municipalities spend on education and on providing services to businesses.

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