SECTION IV

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 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. In a yearlong study, half of the participants were given a simple kit to use at home for measuring the cholesterol level of their blood. They reduced their cholesterol levels on average 15 percent more than did participants without the kit. Participants were selected at random form among people with dangerously high cholesterol levels.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the study抯 finding?

(A) The lower a blood-cholesterol level is the less accurate are measurements made by the kit.

(B) Participants with the kit used it more frequently during the first two months of the study.

(C) All the participants in the study showed some lowering of cholesterol levels, the most striking decreases having been achieved in the first three months.

(D) Participants using the kit reported that each reading reinforced their efforts to reduce their cholesterol levels.

2. You should not praise an act of apparent generosity unless you believe it is actually performed out of selfless motives, and you should not condemn an act of apparent selfishness unless you believe it is actually performed out of self-centered motives.

Which one of the following judgments conforms to the principle stated above?

(A) Caroline rightly blamed her coworker Monica for failing to assist her in doing a time-consuming project, even though she project earlier but that her offer had been vetoed by their supervisor.

(B) it was correct for Sarah not to praise Michael for being charitable when he told her that he donates a tenth of his income to charity. since she guessed that he only told that fact in order to impress her.

(C) Enrique justifiably excused his friend William for failing to write or phone after William moved out of town because he realized that William never makes an effort to keep in contact with any of shi friends.

(D) Daniel was right not to praise Margaret for offering to share her house with a visiting French family, since he believe that she made the offer only because she hoped it would be reciprocated by an invitation to use the family抯 apartment in Paris.

(E) Albert correctly criticized Louise for adopting an abandoned dog because he believe that, although she felt sorry for the dog, she did not have sufficient time or space to care for it adequately.

3. The government recently released a study of drinking water, in which it was reported that consumers who bought bottled water were in many cases getting water that was less sage than what they could obtain much more cheaply from the public water supply. in spite of the enormous publicity that the study received, sales of bottled water have continued to rise.

Which one of the following, if true, is most help in resolving the apparent paradox?

(A) Bottled water might contain levels of potentially harmful contaminants that are not allowed in drinking water.

(B) Most consumers who habitually drink the bottled water discussed in the study cannot differentiate between the taste of their usual brand of bottled water and that of water from public sources.

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