Assume that there is a decrease in the number of homeless families. According to the passage, which one of the following statements. CANNOT be true?
(A) The number of jobs has been decreasing.
(B) The cost of renting or purchasing housing has been decreasing, and housing has been decreasing, and housing supply exceeds demand.
(C) The number of jobs has been increasing, and the cost of renting or purchasing housing has been stable.
(D) The number of jobs has been decreasing, the cost of renting or purchasing housing has been decreasing, and housing demand exceeds supply.
(E) The number of jobs has been increasing, the cost of renting or purchasing housing has been increasing, and housing supply exceeds demand.
19. Everyone knew that if the team's star player were too badly injured to play in Saturday's game, the team would lose. Since the team won, the star player must have played
Which one of the following is most similar in logie to the argument above?
(A) Red spots on the feet are a symptom of a disease called borosis. This patient has green spots on his feet, therefore, he does not have borosis.
(B) If the frost comes late, the farmer has a good crop. Because the frost was late, the farmer must have a good crop.
(C) The instructor in a course ruled that if a student received an A on either the term paper or the final exam, then the student would receive an A for the course. Anne received an A on the term paper and a C on the final exam. Therefore, Anne received an A for the course.
(D) People in driving school realized that if Pete had another auto accident, he would be expelled from the driving school, Pete was not expelled from the driving school. Therefore, he must not have had another auto accident.
(E) If Swenson pays a $100 fine, he will not be expelled from the country club. Because Swenson has not been expelled, he must have paid the fine.
20. An examination of corruption provides the basis for rejecting the view that an exact science of society can ever be constructed. As with all other social phenomena that involve deliberate secrecy, it is intrinsically impossible to measure corruption, and this is not merely due to the fact that social science has not yet reached its goal, achievable to be sure, of developing adequate quantifying techniques. If people were ready to answer question about their embezzlements and bribes, it would their embezzlements and bribes, it would mean that these practices had acquired the character of legitimate, taxable activities and had ceased to be corrupt. In other words, corruption must disappear if it is to be measurable.
Which one of the following most accurately states a hidden assumption that the author must make in order to advance the argument above
(A) Some people believe that an exact science of society can be constructed.
(B) The primary purpose of an exact science to quantify and measure phenomena
(C) An intrinsic characteristic of social phenomena that involve deliberate secrecy is that they cannot be measured.
(D) An exact science of social phenomena that involve deliberate secrecy cannot be constructed.
(E) An exact science can be constructed only when the phenomena it studies can be measured.
Question 21-22
This country does not need any more restrictions on pollution. In fact, we should abolish those that are currently on the books. In spite of various restrictions, pollution levels have actually increased over the past 40 years. Most importantly, dramatic statistics show that, as pollution levels have increased over this period, the general health of the population has improved rather than deteriorated.
21. Which one of the following assertions, if true, provides the most effective challenge to the author's conclusion?
(A) The general health of this country's population has improved over the past 40 years primarily because of new advances in medicine and nutrition, not because of pollution.
(B) There are several countries in the would in which there have been no restrictions on which there have been no restrictions on pollution over the past 40 years, and pollution levels have actually increased.
(C) Similar statistics show that, in several countries, the general health of the population has improved over the past 40 years, while pollution levels have actually decreased.
(D) Pollution levels would have increased even more than they have and the general health of the population would not have improved as much as it has without the restrictions that have been on the books.
(E) In the period prior to the past 40 years, pollution restrictions were nonexistent in this country and the general health of the population improved at a far slower rate than it did during the past 40 years.
22. The author concludes that there should be no restrictions on pollution partly because
(A) they are no longer needed to improve the general health of the population
(B) they reduce the positive effect that pollution has on the general health of the population
(C) statistics show that as pollution restrictions have increased so have pollution levels
(D) pollution has not yet reached levels that are detrimental to the health of the general population
(E) they are ineffective in lowering pollution levels.
23. In metropolitan areas, almost 60 percent of all fires are set by children, while in rural areas about 40 percent are A psychological survey discovered that all children who play with fire believe that there will be no consequences if their parents catch them doing it.
Which one of the following inferences can be most reliably drawn from the passage above?
(A) Most children who believe there will no consequences if they are discovered playing with fire do play with fire.
(B) Parents who discover their children playing with fire will prevent those children from playing with fire in the future.
(C) If parents have successfully instilled in their children the belief that there will be consequences if they are caught playing with fire, these children have not been among those playing with fire.
(D) Children who play with fire attach no sense of right or wrong to this action.
(E) Most children who do not play with fire believe there will be consequences if their parents discover them playing with fire.
24. Somewhere, somehow, what was once a perfectly good rule by which to live was twisted into the false and sinister idea that "Money is the root of all evil" To the contrary, the proper use of money provides us with the food, clothes, health care, and shelter that we all need to sustain our lives.
The author's argument is logically flawed in that it
(A) uses examples that do not refute the generalization that all evil is rooted in money
(B) uses inappropriate examples to demonstrate the proper use of money
(C) ignores some of the evil things that money can buy
(D) fails to acknowledge that food, clothes, health care, and shelter can sometimes lead to evil
(E) fails to recognize that money can be sued for a lot of other good things besides sustenance
25. In a recent experiment, a high school English teacher interspersed real,commonly used proverbs with several nonsensical proverbial-sounding statements that he had made up. He then asked his students to evaluate all of the statements on the list. In general, the students found the bogus proverbs and the real proverbs to be equally full of wisdom and meaning,. The teacher concluded that proverbs attain their status as proverbs more through frequent usage than through their inherent wisdom.
Which one of the following if true, would most effectively challenge the teacher's conclusion?
