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Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price reduction strategies should not be used because________.
A. Affluent purchasers currently represent a shrinking portion of the population of all purchasers
B. continued sales depend directly on the maintenance of an aura of exclusivity
C. purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products
D. expansion of the market niche to include a broader spectrum of consumers will increase profits
E. manufacturing a premium brand is not necessarily more costly than manufacturing a standard brand of the same product
Prep2012-Pack1-CR-007 VCR07642 Easy
Reviewer: The book Art's Dedine argues that European painters today lack skills that were common among European painters of preceding centuries. In this the book must be right, since its analysis of 100 paintings, 50 old and 50 contemporary, demonstrates convincingly that none of the contemporary paintings are executed as skillfully as the older paintings.
Which of the following points to the most serious logical flaw in the reviewer's argument?
A. The paintings chosen by the book's author for analysis could be those that most support the book's thesis.
B. There could be criteria other than the technical skill of the artist by which to evaluate a painting.
C. The title of the book could cause readers to accept the book's thesis even before they read the analysis of the paintings that supports it.
D. The particular methods currently used by European painters could require less artistic skill than do methods used by painters in other parts of the world.
E. A reader who was not familiar with the language of art criticism might not be convinced by the book's analysis of the 100 paintings.
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Many breakfast cereals are fortified with vitamin supplements. Some of these cereals provide 100 percent of the recommended daily requirement of vitamins. Nevertheless, a well—balanced breakfast, including a variety of foods, is a better source of those vitamins than are such fortified breakfast cereals alone.
Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support the position above?
A. In many foods, the natural combination of vitamins with other nutrients makes those vitamins more usable by the body than are vitamins added in vitamin supplements.
B. People who regularly eat cereals fortified with vitamin supplements sometimes neglect to eat the foods in which the vitamins occur naturally.
C. Foods often must be fortified with vitamin supplements because naturally occurring vitamins are removed during processing.
D. Unprocessed cereals are naturally high in several of the vitamins that are usually added to fortified breakfast cereals.
E. Cereals containing vitamin supplements are no harder to digest than similar cereals without added vitamins.
