Question 1

If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 p.m., how many miles apart will they be at 3:00 p.m., if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?

Options :

A : 50 miles

B : 100 miles

C : 500 miles

D : 700 miles

E : 1,000 miles

Answer: C

Question 2

If Janelle’s dress shop sold a dress at a profit of 20 percent of the selling price of the dress, then the profit was

what percent of the cost of the dress? (Cost equals selling price minus profit.)

Options :

A : 25%

B : 30%

C : 35%

D : 40%

E : 45%

Answer: A

Question 3

Alaska’s climate has been gradually warming over the past two decades, Over the same period the spruce-bark beetle has killed unprecedented millions of acres of Alaska’s spruce trees. Clearly, this devastation is attributable to the warming trend: not only have the recent warm summers in Alaska halved the time it takes a beetle to develop from an egg. leading to a dramatic increase in the beetle’s population, but ____________. Which of the following most logically completes the argument?

Options :

A : warmer conditions have also increased the population of the spruce-bark beetle’s main predator

B : warmer conditions might also mean that trees with a more southerly range than that of spruce trees will gradually expand their range northward

C : warmer conditions have also severely stressed spruce trees, making them more vulnerable to insect attack

D : it has also been impossible to use the most effective pesticide for combating the spruce-bark beetle, because that pesticide has harmful effects on birds and mammals

E : also the spruce-bark beetle tends to attack relatively young trees rather than mature or dying trees

Answer: C

Question 4

Fatigue ranks as one of the most frequent health complaints in the United States. But despite its

pervasiveness, it resists definition. Fatigue is not feeling sleepy: people report being sleepy without being

fatigued and fatigued without being sleepy. It can be physical, emotional, or mental. It can be diminished by

encouragement or by financial incentives (one study showed that people promised a five-dollar reward were

able to hang from a horizontal bar for almost twice as long as control subjects or subjects who were merely

encouraged by the experimenter). It may arise from grief, illness, pain, depression, lack of sleep, or relentless

labor. So stymied are some scientists by the elusive quality of the concept that they argue it should be dumped

altogether.

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Options :

A :

argue for the elimination of a diagnosis

B :

show how ubiquitous a condition is

C :

demonstrate the vagueness of a concept

D : establish that a phenomenon is illusory

E :

list causes and effects of a phenomenon

Answer: C

Question 5

Theatrical piracy took on new life with the 1856 amendments to the United States copyright laws. Before 1856,

published playscripts were not protected from unauthorized performance, only from unauthorized physical

duplication. Publication effectively allowed the public to use the play in any way not explicitly forbidden by

statute: by contrast, plays that had been performed but not printed and sold were considered unpublished and

so continued to be protected by the law. Consequently, most playwrights never printed their works, seeking to

prevent potential pirates from duplicating the texts and staging the plays. By extending copyright protection to

performances of published plays, the 1856 amendments sought to encourage publication of playscripts, but the

physical texts also became available to those who chose to duplicate them illegally.

The passage suggests that the 1856 amendments to the United States copyright laws failed to

Options :

A : eliminate unauthorized duplication of playscripts

B : encourage more people to write and perform plays

C :

affect the number of unauthorized performances

D :

increase the publication and sale of playscripts

E : extend copyright protection to unpublished plays

Answer: A

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