AA.

The following appeared as part of an article in a computer magazine. “A year ago Apex Manufacturing bought its managers computers for their homes and paid for telephone connections so that the managers could access Apex computers and data files from home after normal business hours. Since last year, productivity at Apex has increased by 15 percent. Other companies can learn from the success at Apex: given home computers and access to company resources, employees will work additional hours at home and thereby increase company profits.”

AI.

“Everywhere, it seems, there are clear and positive signs that people are becoming more respectful of one another’s differences.”

CR:

T-9-Q25.

Scientists typically do their most creative work before the age of forty. It is commonly thought that this happens because aging by itself brings about a loss of creative capacity. However, a study has found that almost all scientists who produce highly creative work beyond the age of forty entered their fields late and less than a dozen years before their creative breakthroughs. Since creative breakthroughs by scientists under forty also generally occur within a dozen years of the scientists’ entry into the field, the study’s finding strongly suggests that the real reason why scientists over forty rarely produce highly creative work is not due to age but rather because most have spent too long in their fields.

In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

1. The first is the position that the argument as a whole depends; the second is evidence that is advanced as part of that evidence.
2. The first and second are both claims that have been advanced in support of a position that the argument as a whole opposes.
3. The first is an explanation that the argument challenges; the second provides evidence in support of a competing explanation that the argument defends.
4. The first is an explanation that the argument challenges; the second is evidence that has been used against an alternative explanation that the argument defends.
5. The first is an explanation that the argument defends; the second is evidence that has been used to challenge that explanation.

Ans: C

注意,第二个BF位置有变,好像是最后一句话;同样题目在GWD24-40也有出现

GWD28-Q16:

Paper&rint is a chain of British stores selling magazines, books, and stationery products.  In Britain, magazines’ retail prices are set by publishers, and the retailer’s share of a magazine’s retail price is 25 percent.  Since Paper&rint’s margin on books and stationery products is much higher, the chain’s management plans to devote more of its stores’ shelf space to books and stationery products and reduce the number of magazine titles that its stores carry.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly argues that the plan, if put into effect, will not increase Paper&rint’s profits?

1. Recently magazine publishers, seeking to increase share in competitive sectors of the market, have been competitively cutting the retail prices of some of the largest circulation magazines.

2. In market research surveys, few consumers identify Paper&rint as a book or stationery store but many recognize and value the broad range of magazines it carries.

3. The publisher’s share of a magazine’s retail price is 50 percent, and the publisher also retains all of the magazine’s advertising revenue.

4. Consumers who subscribe to a magazine generally pay less per issue than they would if they bought the magazine through a retail outlet such as Paper&rint.

5. Some of Paper& Print’s locations are in small towns and represent the only retail outlet for books within the community.

Ans: B

GWD21-Q30:

In the past, most children who went sledding in the winter snow in Verland used wooden sleds with runners and steering bars.  Ten years ago, smooth plastic sleds became popular; they go faster than wooden sleds but are harder to steer and slow.  The concern that plastic sleds are more dangerous is clearly borne out by the fact that the number of children injured while sledding was much higher last winter than it was ten years ago.

Which of the following, if true in Verland, most seriously undermines the force of the evidence cited?

1. A few children still use traditional wooden sleds.
2. Very few children wear any kind of protective gear, such as helmets, while sledding.
3. Plastic sleds can be used in a much wider variety of snow conditions than wooden sleds can.
4. Most sledding injuries occur when a sled collides with a tree, a rock, or, another sled.
5. Because the traditional wooden sled can carry more than one rider, an accident involving a wooden sled can result in several children being injured.

Ans: C