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Passage 55 Some observers have attributed the dramatic growth in temporary employment that occurred in the United states during the 1980’s to increased participation in the workforce by
SECTION 3
Time—25 minutes
16 Questions
1. A company is considering changing its policy concerning daily working hours.
Currentyl, this company requires all employees to arrvive at work at 8 a.m. The
proposed policy would permit each employee to decide when to arrive—from as
early as 6 a.m. to as late as 11 a.m.
The adoption of this policy would be most likely to decrease employees’
productivity if the employees’ job functions required them to
(A) work without interruption from other employees
(B) consult at least once a day with employees from other companies
(C) submit their work for a supervisor’s eventual approval
(D) interact frequently with each other throughout the entire workday
(E) undertake projects that take several days to complete
2. The amount of time it takes for most of a worker’s occupational knowledge
and skills to become obsolete has been declining because of the introduction of
advanced manufacturing technology (AMT). Given the rate at which AMT is
currently being introduced in manufacturing, the average worker’s old skills
become obsolete and new skills are required within as little as five years.
Which of the following plans, if feasible, would allow a company to prepare
most effectively for the rapid obsolescence of skills described above?
(A) The company will develop a program to offer selected employees the
opportunity to receive training six years afrter they were originally hired.
(B) The company will increase its investment in AMT every year for a period
of at least five years.
(C) The company will periodically survey its employees to determine how the
introduction of AMT has affected them.
(D) Before the introduction of AMT, the company will institute an
educational program to inform its empioyees of the probable consequences of the
introduction of AMT.
(E) The company will ensure that it can off
er its employees any training
necessary for meeting their job requirements.
3. Installing scrubbers in smokestacks and switching to cleaner-burning fuel
are the two methods available to Northern Power for reducing harmful emissions
from its plants. Scrubbers will reduce harmful emissions more than cleaner-
burning fuels will. Therefore, by installing scrubbers. Northern Power will be
doing the most that can be done to reduce harmful emissions from its plants.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
(A) Switching to cleaner-burning fuel will not be more expensive than
installing scrubbers.
(B) Northern Power can choose from among various kinds of scrubbers, some
of which are more effective than others.
(C) Northern Power is not necessarily committed to reducing harmful
emissions from its plants.
(D) Harmful emissions from Northern Power’s plants cannot be reduced more
by using both methods together than by the installation of scrubbers alone.
(E) Aside from harmful emissions from the smokestacks of its plants, the
activities of Northern Power do not cause significant air pollution.
4. Some anthropogists study modern-day societies of foragers in an effort to
learn about our ancient ancestors who were also foragers. A flaw in this
strategy is that forager socicties are extremely varied. Indeed any forager
society with which anthropologists are familiar has had considerable contact
with modern nonforager societies.
Which of the following if true, would most weaken the criticism made above
of the anthropologists strategy?
(A) All forager societies throughout history have had a number of important
features in common that are absent from other types of societies.
(B) Most ancient forager societies either dissolved or made a transition to
another way of life.
(C) All anthropologists study one kind or another
of modern-day society.
(D) Many anthropologists who study modern-day forager societies do not draw
inferences about ancient societies on the basis of their studies.
(E) Even those modern-day forager societies that have not had significant
contact with modern societies are importantly different from ancient forager
societies.
5. Mayor: In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and
each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce
expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for
nonessential services were actually reduced. So school officials can implement
further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the mayor’s
conclusion?
(A) The city’s schools have always provided essential services as
efficiently as they have provided nonessential services.
(B) Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city’s schools to
provide some nonessenual services.
(C) Price estimates quoted to the city’s schools for the provision of
nonessential services have not increased substantially since the most recent
school funding cut.
(D) Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly
nonessential services in the city’s schools.
(E) The city’s school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of
threatened funding cuts.
6. Advertisement:
For sinus pain, three out of four hospitals give their patients Novex. So
when you want the most effective painkiller for sinus pain, Novex is the one to
choose.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the
advertisement’s argument?
(A) Some competing brands of painkillers are intended to reduce other kinds
of pain in addition to sinus pain.
(B) Many hospitals that do not usually use Novex will do so fo
r those
patients who cannot tolerate the drug the hospitals usually use.
(C) Many drug manufacturers increase sales of their products to hospitals
by selling these products to the hospitals at the lowest price the
manufacturers can afford.
(D) Unlike some competing brands of painkillers, Novex is available from
pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription.
(E) In clinical trials Novex has been found more effective than competing
brands of painkillers that have been on the market longer than Novex.
7. A report that many apples contain a cancer-causing preservative called Alar
apparently had little effect on consumers. Few consumers planned to change
their apple-buying habits as a result of the report. Nonetheless, sales of
apples in grocery stores fell sharply in March, a month after the report was
issued.
Which of the following if true, best explains the reason for the apparent
discrepancy described above?
(A) In March, many grocers removed apples from their shelves in order to
demonstrate concern about their coustomers’ health.
(B) Because of a growing number of food-safety warnings consumers in March
were indifferent to such warnings.
(C) The report was delivered on television and also appeared in newspapers.
(D) The report did not mention that any other fruit contains Alat, although
the preservative is used on other fruit.
(E) Public health officials did not believe that apples posed a health
threat because only minute traces of Alar were present in affected apples.
8. A new law gives ownership of patents—documents providing exclusive right to
make and sell an invention—to universities, not the government, when those
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