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NEW QUESTION 182
Suppose that m and n are two positive integers such that m< n, their least common multiple is 294, and their greatest common divisor is 7. In the table, select a value for m and a value for n that are jointly consistent with the given information. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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NEW QUESTION 183
A nutritionist studying the effects of massive doses of vitamin C found that of a group of 600 people who regularly took 1,500 mg of vitamin C daily for a year, fewer than 9 percent suffered serious cases of flu; of a group of 600 people who took 250 mg of vitamin C (the standard recommended daily allowance) daily for a year, 34 percent suffered at least one serious case of flu; and of a group of 600 people who took no vitamin C for a year (other than that found in the foods in a balanced diet), 32 percent suffered at least one serious case of flu.
Which of the following hypotheses is best supported by the evidence above?

• A. A balanced diet contains less than 250 mg of vitamin C.
• B. Vitamin C is helpful in preventing disease.
• C. Doses of vitamin C that exceed the standard recommended daily allowance by 500 percent will reduce the incidence of serious cases of flu by 25 percent.
• D. The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing serious cases of flu increases in direct proportion to the amount of vitamin C taken.
• E. Massive doses of vitamin C can help to prevent serious case of flu.

Answer: E

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NEW QUESTION 184
A government agency that reimburses its clients for bills they have paid for medical care has had this year's budget cut. To save money without cutting reimbursements or otherwise harming clients financially, it plans to delay reimbursements to clients for forty days, thereby earning $180 million per year in interest on the reimbursement money.
Which of the following, if true, is the best criticism of the agency's plan?

• A. The agency cannot save money by cutting staff because it is already understaffed.
• B. Some clients borrow money to pay their medical bills; they will pay forty extra days of interest on these loans.
• C. Hospitals and physicians typically hold patients responsible for the ultimate payment of their bills.
• D. The agency's budget was cut by more than $180 million last year.
• E. Some clients pay their medical bills immediately, but they often take more than forty days to file with the agency for reimbursement.

Answer: B

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NEW QUESTION 185
Taking as her focus Bengali-language books of household advice, the author traces how colonialism gradually reconfigured daily domestic life, with the result that familial and domestic authority, once held by elder women, was replaced by that of the modern colonial husband.

• A. elder women's authority was in familial and domestic matters
• B. elder women, the authorities in familial and domestic matters, were
• C. the authority of elder women in familial and domestic matters was
• D. authority over familial and domestic matters held by elder women was
• E. familial and domestic authority, once held by elder women, was

Answer: C

 

NEW QUESTION 186
The number of musicians employed to play accompaniment for radio and television commercials has sharply decreased over the past ten years. This has occurred even though the number of commercials produced each year has not significantly changed for the last ten years.
Which of the following, if it occurred during the past ten years, would contribute LEAST to an explanation of the facts above?

• A. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use a synthesizer, an instrument on which one musician can reproduce the sound of many musicians playing together.
• B. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use prerecorded music as their only source of music.
• C. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use musicians just starting in the music industry rather than musicians experienced in accompanying commercials.
• D. The type of music most popular for use in commercials has changed from a type that requires a large number of instruments to a type that requires very few instruments.
• E. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use only the spoken word and sound effects, rather than musical accompaniment.

Answer: C

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NEW QUESTION 187
United States Geological Survey scientists have found that a cooling in Pacific Ocean temperatures led to increases in ecologically threatening phytoplankton blooms in San Francisco Bay, California. The declining temperatures took place off the coast of California between 1999 and 2004. The occurrence of these blooms is surprising because such blooms are normally associated with increases in the amount of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, entering estuaries from such sources as wastewater treatment plants and agricultural fields. In this case, the bay's phytoplankton blooms occurred during a period of decreasing nutrient concentration and inputs.
The scientists discovered the effects of the cold Pacific temperatures by using biological and water-quality data collected over twenty-five years. The colder temperatures caused changes in the types, abundance, and migration patterns of marine life into the San Francisco Bay from coastal ocean waters. For example, marine life, such as fish, shrimp, and crabs, migrated to the warmer waters that are found in the bay.
The migrations increased the numbers of predators such as bay shrimp and Dungeness crabs that eat filter feeders, such as clams. Clams can filter large quantities of phytoplankton from the bay's water, which can prevent phytoplankton blooms. With the increase in predators, there was a corresponding decrease in clam populations and an increase in phytoplankton.
The scientists discussed in the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about attempting to limit phytoplankton blooms in an estuary by placing restrictions on discharges from wastewater treatment plants and runoff from agricultural fields?

• A. The approach would probably not produce a significantly different effect than inaction would.
• B. The approach would most likely have an effect opposite to that which was intended.
• C. The approach would probably be initially successful but have long-term negative effects.
• D. The approach would produce the intended effect if the estuary in question were located in a warm climate.
• E. The approach would not be as likely to have the intended effect the scientists would have expected prior to the San Francisco Bay blooms.

Answer: D

 

NEW QUESTION 188
Companies O and P each have the same number of employees who work the same number of hours per week. According to records maintained by each company, the employees of Company O had fewer job- related accidents last year than did the employees of Company P.
Therefore, employees of Company O are less likely to have job-related accidents than are employees of Company P.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the conclusion above?

• A. Several employees of Company O each had more than one job-related accident.
• B. Company P considered more types of accidents to be job-related than did Company O.
• C. The employees of Company P were sick more often than were the employees of Company O.
• D. The majority of job-related accidents at Company O involved a single machine.
• E. The employees of Company P lost more time at work due to job-related accidents than did the employees of Company O.

Answer: B

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NEW QUESTION 189
Which of the following does information in the passage most strongly suggest is true?

• A. Some people gaing to watch a movie, whether comedy, drama, or other
  genre, prefer sitting on the left side of the theater to sitting on the right side.
• B. People going to watch a film that is expected to evoke negative emotion are more likely to sit at the front of the theater than at the back.
• C. Left-handed people are more likely than others to prefer sitting on the left side of a movie theater to sitting on the right side.
• D. Ambidextrous people are as likely to prefer sitting on the left side of a movie theater as on the right side.
• E. Students who sit on the left side of a classroom and direct their frontal gaze somewhat to the right receive more visual information from the left side than the right side of their visual field.

Answer: A

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Despite overall physiological bilateral symmetry, many species exhibit
lateralized biases, i.e., preferences for right- or left-oriented behavior. When approaching prey, for example, some predator species favor their right eye; some prey species respond more quickly when their left eye detects a predator. Similar behavioral asymmetries occur in humans. Most notable is right- and lefthandedness; less notable is the tendency to turn right when entering a room.
Paul Farnsworth found that more successful students tended to choose seats near the front, a little to the right. He argued that external factors such as teacher location might have affected this lateral bias. But it is now known that processing differences between the two brain hemispheres can also contribute to behavioral asymmetries, George Karev found that when presented with a movie theater seating diagram, right-handed people were more likely than left-handed people to choose a seat on the right, facing front. But he hypothesized that, since the right hemisphere processes visuospatial and emotional information, the people who chose right-side seats did so because that would put the screen in their left visual field, optimizing information flow to the right hemisphere.
Although the right hemisphere is thought to be dominant in processing
emotion, some evidence suggests that the left hemisphere plays a role. The valence model proposes that the left and right hemispheres process positive and negative emotion respectively, while the approach-withdrawal model posits that the left hemisphere processes emotion expressed in approach behavior and the right hemisphere processes emotion expressed in withdrawal behavior.
Victoria Harms and colleagues suggested that since a paper seating plan was used in the theater-seating studies by Karev and others, the exhibited preference might be due simply to handedness: people choose the same side of the paper as their favored hand. Consequently, the Harms research was designed to study choices in an actual movie theater. Also, hoping to distinguish between various explanations, they studied seating choices for comedies (presumed to contain Positive emotional content), dramas (presumed to contain negative emotional content), and documentaries (presumed to have balanced emotional content).
They found significant-though not universal-preference for seats on the right, facing front, regardless of movie genre and of handedness.

 

NEW QUESTION 190
Corporate Officer: Last year was an unusually poor one for our chemical division, which has traditionally contributed about 60 percent of the corporation's profits. It is therefore encouraging that there is the following evidence that the pharmaceutical division is growing stronger: it contributed 45 percent of the corporation's profits, up from 20 percent the previous year.
On the basis of the facts stated, which of the following is the best critique of the evidence presented above?

• A. The increase in the pharmaceutical division's contribution to corporation profits could have resulted largely from the introduction of single, important new product.
• B. The percentage of the corporation's profits attributable to the pharmaceutical division could have increased even if that division's performance had not improved.
• C. The information cited does not make it possible to compare the performance of the chemical and pharmaceutical divisions in of the percent of total profits attributable to each.
• D. The information cited does not make it possible to determine whether the 20 percent share of profits cited was itself an improvement over the year before.
• E. In multidivisional corporations that have pharmaceutical divisions, over half of the corporation's profits usually come from the pharmaceuticals.

Answer: B

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NEW QUESTION 191
The law imposes criminal liability on corporate officials who are responsible for distributing food and drug products if they fail to fulfill their specific duty for implementing measures to ensure that violations of safety rules do not occur.

• A. who are responsible for distributing food and drug products but who fail to fulfill a specific duty:
• B. who ate responsible for distributing food and drug products, failing to fulfill their specific duty for
• C. responsible for distributing food and drug products that fail to fulfill a specific duty,
• D. responsible for distributing food and drug products but fail to fulfill their specific duty to
• E. who are responsible for distributing food and drug products if they fail to fulfill their specific duty for

Answer: D

 

NEW QUESTION 192
Economist: In Nation X, the number of unsold homes on the market recently reached a twenty-year high. The last time the number of unsold homes was that high, a severe economic recession soon followed. Therefore, the nation's economy is almost certainly about to suffer another severe recession.
The economist's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?

• A. It fails to address adequately the possibility that one phenomenon may closery follow another by coincidence.
• B. It overlooks the possibility that other severe economic recessions In Nation X may have occurred when there were not an unusually large number of unsold homes on the market.
• C. It confuses a claim about the number of unsold homes on the market with a more general claim about an overall economic recession.
• D. It overlooks the possibility that even if one phenomenon causally contributes to another, the latter sometimes, but not always, causally contributes to the former.
• E. It fails to address adequately the possibility that a severe economic recession may itself cause more homes to remain on the market unsold.

Answer: A

 

NEW QUESTION 193
Fresh potatoes generally cost about $2 for a 10-pound bag, whereas dehydrated instant potatoes cost, on average, about $3 per pound. It can be concluded that some consumers will pay 15 times as much for convenience, since sales of this convenience food continue to rise.
Which of the following, if true, indicates that there is a major flaw in the argument above?

• A. Peeled potatoes in cans are also more expensive than the less convenient fresh potatoes.
• B. Retail prices of dehydrated potatoes have declined by 20 percent since 1960 to the current level of about $3 a pound.
• C. Since fresh potatoes are 80 percent water, one pound of dehydrated potatoes is the equivalent of 5 pounds of fresh potatoes.
• D. Fresh potatoes bought in convenient 2-pound bags are about $1 a bag, or 2 1/2 times more expensive than fresh potatoes bought in 10-pound bags.
• E. As a consequence of labor and processing costs, all convenience foods cost more than the basic foods from which they are derived.

Answer: C

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NEW QUESTION 194
The price the government pays for standard weapons purchased from military contractors is determined by a pricing method called "historical costing." Historical costing allows contractors to protect their profits by adding a percentage increase, based on the current rate of inflation, to the previous year's contractual price.
Which of the following statements, if true, is the best basis for a criticism of historical costing as an economically sound pricing method for military contracts?

• A. The government might continue to pay for past inefficient use of funds.
• B. The rate of inflation has varied considerably over the past twenty years.
• C. Many taxpayers question the amount of money the government spends on military contracts.
• D. The contractual price will be greatly affected by the cost of materials used for the products.
• E. The pricing method based on historical costing might not encourage the development of innovative weapons.

Answer: A

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NEW QUESTION 195
For a generation of suppressed, restless, working-class youths living in 1960 Jamaica, ska was a medium through which they could find expression. Since its original appearance, ska has resurfaced twice, each time presenting itself in a different guise to a new generation of music aficionados. Overcoming its humble beginnings, it has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring and influential styles of music.
Since the early 1940's, Jamaica had adopted and adapted many forms of American musical styles. The predominantly black inhabitants of Jamaica took a liking to rhythm and blues music, importing a considerable number of American records that were showcased at dance halls in the early 1960s.
Jamaican musicians took up the elements of rhythm and blues and combined it with traditional Jamaican mento music. The result was the first wave of ska. Musically, ska is a shuffle rhythm similar to mento but with even closer ties to rhythm and blues, placing the accent on the second and fourth beats, often moving in a 12-bar blues frame. The after beat, played on the piano or strummed by a rhythm guitar, came to be characteristic of the form. A horn section, usually consisting of trumpets, trombones, and saxophones, was a vital element. Classic bands, such as the Wailers wrote songs written about Trench Town (a ghetto), rude boys (street thugs), romance, and even religious themes. In 1965, ska began to take a backseat to a newly evolved type of music, called rock steady, which was more dependent than ska had been on rhythm provided by the bass guitar and drums.
Ska was later exported by traveling Jamaican artists to Great Britain, where it became known as "blue beat." By the mid 1970's, early British punk bands were infusing reggae, a style of music that came from rock steady, into their music. Near the end of the decade, however, there was a resurgence of the influence of ska because of its upbeat, danceable rhythm. This faster paced ska came to be known as two tone. One of the essential messages of two-tone ska was the promotion of racial harmony and of having fun in the face of subjugation.
The third wave of ska began in America around 1990. Bands influenced by the two-tone ska scene began to use punk and metal music to a greater extent. The combination, which is much faster than two tone, sounds very different from the original Jamaican brand of ska.
In its three different waves, ska has given voice to seemingly voiceless, downtrodden generations. Each time it resurfaces, a new message is taken up; however, the old messages are never forgotten Which of the following statements about ska music is supported by information in the passage?

• A. Ska's appeal over the last half century has been limited to voiceless, downtrodden generations.
• B. Reggae, which counts ska as one of its primary influences, developed only after it was exported by traveling Jamaican artists to Great Britain
• C. Rock steady is more dependent than ska on the rhythm provided by the bass guitar and drums.
• D. Mento music places the accent on the second and fourth beats, often moving in a 12-bar blues-frame.
• E. Two-tone is a faster paced form of ska that developed in the late 1970s

Answer: E

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NEW QUESTION 196
Property values in South Orange, New Jersey, have nearly doubled in the last six years. South Orange is located in Essex County, 17 miles from New York City.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the results described in the statement?

• A. the proximity of South Orange to New York City
• B. improved schools and a renovated downtown in South Orange
• C. the addition of 240 housing units in South Orange
• D. the relocation of a major technical corporation to Union, New Jersey, two miles from South Orange
• E. the completion of a direct rail line to New York City

Answer: E

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The direct rail line is the most logical explanation for an increase in property values. The proximity to New York City in itself (choice a) would not necessarily increase property values, but the addition of public transportation that provides direct access to the city would make the town a more desirable place to live.
When a place becomes more desirable, real-estate values increase. Choice c, the addition of housing units, is likely an effect of the direct rail line and an increase in the desirability of the location. The improvement of the schools and the renovation of the downtown (choice d) may or may not be related to the increase in property values. It would be logical to conclude that funds for improving the schools and downtown could be gleaned from additional resources from increased property taxes, another effect of increased property values. The relocation of a major corporation to a neighboring town (choice e) could account for the increased desirability of property in South Orange, but the direct access to the city is a more compelling reason. Perhaps a few hundred persons may work in the corporation, but many thousands are likely to want an easy commute to the city.

 

NEW QUESTION 197
In only a very few of the cases where plants have been said to be engaged in "chemical warfare," such as In the case of knapweed and certain shrubs In California chaparral country, there Is solid evidence that secreted toxins are the inhibitory growth factor acting against neighboring plants.

• A. is there solid evidence that it is secreted toxins that inhibit the growth of
• B. does there exist solid evidence for secreted toxins inhibiting against the growth
• C. there is solid evidence that secreted toxins are what inhibits growth in
• D. solid evidence can be found for secreted toxins being the Inhibitory factor against the growth of
• E. there is solid evidence that secreted toxins are the inhibitory growth factor acting against

Answer: A

 

NEW QUESTION 198
Correctly measuring the productivity of service workers is complex. Consider, for example, postal workers:
they are often said to be more productive if more letters are delivered per postal worker. But is this really true? What if more letters are lost or delayed per worker at the same time that more are delivered?
The objection implied above to the productivity measure described is based on doubts about the truth of which of the following statements?

• A. Productivity should be ascribed to categories of workers, not to individuals.
• B. The quality of services rendered can appropriately be ignored in computing productivity.
• C. Postal workers are representative of service workers in general.
• D. The delivery of letters is the primary activity of the postal service.
• E. The number of letters delivered is relevant to measuring the productivity of postal workers.

Answer: B

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NEW QUESTION 199
Alexander Calder was one of the most innovative and original American artists of the twentieth century.
Calder arrived in Paris in 1926 and devoted himself to a innovative project comprised of animals made out of wire, scraps of cloth, wood, cork, labels, bits of scrap metal and pieces of rubber that he called the Circus. During his performances, Calder invented ways to simulate the flight of birds: "These are little bits of white paper, with a hole and slight weight on each one, which flutter down several variously coiled thin steel wires which I jiggle so that they flutter down like doves." The Circus was the laboratory of Calder's work; in it he experimented with new formulas and techniques. By 1930, Calder's Circus had developed into one of the real successes of the Montparnasse art world attracting the attention of such renowned artists as Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. Encouragement from the upper echelons of the Parisian art scene undoubtedly led him to try more serious experiments in wire sculptures. Calder eventually becoming interested in the movement of objects, some of which he motorized. In 1933, Calder completed Object with Red Discs, a sculpture he described as a two-meter rod with a heavy sphere, suspended from the apex of a wire, giving it a cantilever effect. It had five thin aluminum discs projected at right angels from five wires, held in position by a spherical counterweight. With this new creation, the idea of the mobile was born. In creating a work named Constellations in 1943, Calder explored the plastic possibilities of mobiles; he used small pieces of wood, which he shaped and sometimes painted. From this point on, Calder's ambition changed focus. He sought more challenging designs. One of Calder's objectives was to display objects in the air, giving the viewer the experience of finding new skies filled with moving and colored constellations.
Calder accomplished this in Acoustic Ceiling (1954). Calder's humor was evident in such works as Le Bougnat (1959) and The Pagoda (1963). Later, Calder cut fantastic animals from sheet metal, creating La Vache and Elephant (both 1970) and a mobile entitled Nervous Wreck (1976), which represents the red skeleton of a fish. Calder defined volume without mass and incorporated movement and time in art. His inventions, which redefined certain basic principles of sculpture, have established him as the most innovative sculptor of the twentieth century.
According to the passage, all of the following are characteristic of Calder's work EXCEPT

• A. Calder used materials such as metal, cloth, wood, rubber, cork
• B. Calder suspended objects from each other
• C. Calder motorized some of his creations
• D. Calder was known to infuse humor into some of his creation
• E. Calder suspended glass from thin metal wires to create a cantilever effect

Answer: E

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NEW QUESTION 200
The color red has been shown to induce greater aggression in people than the color blue, Researchers conducted a study to determine whether such colorinduced aggression could influence the amount that consumers were willing to pay for an identical product in online auction and online negotiation scenarios.
The researchers photographed a single item against each of four background colors: blue, gray, white, and red. Using a computer, each participant in the study viewed the item against exactly one of the four background colors. Half of the participants were told the item was up for auction and were asked to submit their highest bid for the item. The other half of the participants were told to negotiate a price with the seller and were asked to offer the highest amount that they would be willing to pay for the item.
The researchers expected that participants who viewed the red background would typically behave more aggressively than those who viewed the blue background. Among the auction group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would submit higher bids as they tried to beat other potential bidders. Among the negotiation group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would make lower offers as they tried to compete against the seller to get the best deal.
For each of the following statements about the researchers' study, select Yes if that statement accurately reflects the information provided. Otherwise, select No.

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NEW QUESTION 201
Intuitively, intellectual skills and perceptual-motor skills seem very different because perceptual-motor skills appear more primitive. Ontogenetically, perceptual-motor skills develop before intellectual skills, or at least before most intellectual skills are manifested. Phylogenetically, creatures "high on the evolutionary ladder" are more obviously capable of intellectual skills than are creatures "lower down ".
Perceptual-motor skills also seem more closely tied to specific forms of expression. Being a chess player does not mean one can only play with pieces of a certain size, that one can only move pieces with one's right hand, and so on. By contrast, being a violinist means one can play an instrument whose size occupies a fairly narrow range and that one must play with a rather rigid assignment of functions to effectors (bowing with the right hand, and fingering with the left). The seeming narrowness of this perceptual-motor skill expression, contrasted with the seeming openness of intellectual skill expression, seems to follow from intellectual skills having symbolic outcomes and perceptual-motor skills having non- symbolic outcomes. Symbolic outcomes need not be realized in specific ways and can rely on abstract rules. Non-symbolic outcomes, by contrast, need more specific forms of realization and seem to depend on restricted associations between stimuli and response.
Another difference between intellectual and perceptual-motor skills is that the two kinds of skill seem to be represented in different parts of the brain. For example, structures homologous to the optic tectum, a nucleus located on the dorsal surface of the midbrain, have a common function in all vertebrates- coordinating visual, auditory, and somatosensory information relevant to the control of orienting movements of the eyes, ears, and head. Similarities in structure and function between these and other brain areas associated with perceptual-motor behavior suggest that mechanisms for control of perceptual- motor skills are both highly specialized and conserved across species. In contrast, what distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other species - even closely related ones - is the differential growth of brain regions most strongly associated with intellectual skills, such as the association areas of the cerebral cortex.
The contention that these areas serve intellectual functions is supported by a large body of clinical and experimental literature. Together, these diverse sources of information suggest that perceptual-motor and intellectual skills depend on distinct brain circuits.
The author mentions the game of chess in paragraph two primarily in order to

• A. Present an example of an intellectual skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression.
• B. Present an example of a skill that is both an intellectual skill and a perceptual-motor skill, the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
• C. Present an example of a perceptual-motor skill the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
• D. Present an example of an intellectual skill the mastery of which is closely tied to specific forms of expression.
• E. Present an example of a perceptual-motor skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression.

Answer: A

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The best answer is A.
Chess is an intellectual skill the mastery of which is not closely tied to specific forms of expression. In other words, once one has learned to play the game, one can vary the way one plays, by using one's left hand instead of one's right, for instance.

 

NEW QUESTION 202
With the proliferation of electronic technologies in the latter part of the twentieth century, many aspects of cultural practice have been redefined. The eradication of physical boundaries that limit discourse and information access has had profound effects upon the manner in which we conduct democracy. Yet, opinions strongly differ over whether or not the growth of electronic networks will result in expanded democracy. On one side of the debate are anti-utopians who fear that with the intrusion of the Internet into many facets of life, personal freedom will be impeded and the existing rift between the "haves" and "have- nots" in society will grow. On the other side, many 'cyber-utopians' believe that new technologies can eliminate the democracy of elected representatives with which so many people are dissatisfied. The Internet, they say, will allow for a true participatory democracy in which citizens can govern themselves without the interference of bureaucrats and legislators.
Neither of these theories by themselves can fully address the role of democracy in the age of information.
As debates about censorship and encryption have shown, government regulation of the Internet can result in violations of the basic rights of speech set forth in the constitution of the United States. Yet, groups that preach 'Big Brother' theories of paranoia tend to neglect the fact that new technologies can help balance the injustices of traditional power found in a centralized government. At the same time, the likelihood of doing away with the present system of democracy in favor of complete and pure self-governance seems impossible and likely undesirable.
Both arguments about the future of the way in which discourse will occur highlight the inherent relationship between communication and democracy. Perhaps a more useful model for the study of this dynamic can be found in the model of the public sphere proposed by Jorgen Habermas. In this realm, free and diverse equals come together to deliberate and discuss pertinent issues without the impediment of external coercion. The ensuing dialogue transpires in a profoundly democratic forum. The dispensing of traditional hierarchies that occurs on the Internet appears to make possible the type of categories necessary for Habermas 'ideal speech situation to occur.
However, postmodern critics indicate that the autonomous individual no longer exists in a world where our identities are constructed as much for us as by us. And indeed, much of the postmodern notion of self seems to fit closely with reconfigurations of the subject brought on by electronic technologies. The question that arises then is how might the reconfiguration of communication enabled by the Internet work to create a new form of cyber-democracy' that better represents citizen's interests?
The author is primarily concerned with

• A. Examining the relationship between Internet communication and democracy
• B. Advocating the use of the electronic technologies to improve democracy
• C. Describing events leading to the discovery of democratic uses of electronic technologies
• D. Challenging the assumptions on which a theory of modern democracy is based
• E. Explaining the importance of electronic technologies to modern politics

Answer: A

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D. is incorrect because it does not discuss modern politics in general.

 

NEW QUESTION 203

The graph shows the total annual revenue. In US dollars (US$), from sales of each of 2 competing health-care products for 10 consecutive years. Product 1 was first sold In Year 1, and Product 2 was first sold ki Year 2.
From each drop-down menu, select the option that creates the most accurate statement based on the information provided.

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NEW QUESTION 204
According to an independent computer-industry analyst, the new Regent microcomputer is of high quality, is fast, and costs less than any currently existing competing model. It is reasonable to conclude, therefore, as the manufacturer's prospectus does, that the Regent will quickly establish itself as a fast-selling, low- priced alternative to currently available microcomputers.
Which of the following, if true, would LEAST weaken the argument above?

• A. Several faster and lower-priced models of microcomputers will soon be introduced by other computer manufacturers.
• B. Many retailers already carry one or more low-priced microcomputer models and are disinclined to carry another.
• C. The Regent Corporation's microcomputer can be used in conjunction with higher-priced microcomputers manufactured by other companies.
• D. Most of those individuals and companies that could be expected to make up the potential market for the Regent microcomputer have already filled their microcomputer needs.
• E. The independent computer-industry analyst whose assessment was incorporated in the prospectus has used measures of quality that are not universally accepted by the computer-buying public.

Answer: C

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NEW QUESTION 205
A cost-effective solution to the problem of airport congestion is to provide high-speed ground transportation between major cities lying 200 to 500 miles apart. The successful implementation of this plan would cost far less than expanding existing airports and would also reduce the number of airplanes clogging both airports and airways.
Which of the following, if true, could proponents of the plan above most appropriately cite as a piece of evidence for the soundness of their plan?

• A. One-half of all departing flights in the nation's busiest airport head for a destination in a major city 225 miles away.
• B. Many new airports are being built in areas that are presently served by high-speed ground- transportation systems.
• C. A large proportion of air travelers are vacationers who are taking long-distance flights.
• D. The majority of travelers departing from rural airports are flying to destinations in cities over 600 miles away.
• E. An effective high-speed ground-transportation system would require major repairs to many highways and mass-transit improvements.

Answer: A

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