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Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register GWD TN 14 Verbal Section 1 GWD 18 Q1 The Arthritis Research Institute of America advises women of color that they have twice the likelihood to get osteoarthritis of the knee as do White women A that they have twice the likelihood to get osteoarthritis of the knee as do White women B that they are twice as likely as White women to get osteoarthritis of the knee C that their likelihood of getting osteoarthritis of the knee is twice as much as White women D of being twice as likely as White women to get osteoarthritis of the knee E of having twice the likelihood of getting osteoarthritis of the knee as White women 2 GWD17 Q9 CD 9 Q10 Press Secretary Our critics claim that the President s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors So the President s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy not partisan politics Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary s argument depends A Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties B The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President s party C The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future D The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties E Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects 3 TT GWD 2 33 When an active tooth in the shark s jaws is lost or worn down many spare teeth lie in seemingly limitless reserve each of which are ready to slide into the appropriate position A When an active tooth in the shark s jaws is lost or worn down many spare teeth lie in seemingly limitless reserve each of which are ready to slide into the appropriate position B Whenever an active tooth is lost or worn down many spare teeth lie in seemingly limitless reserve in the shark s jaws which are each ready to slide into the appropriate position C Many spare teeth lie in seemingly limitless reserve in the shark s jaws each one of which are ready to slide into the appropriate position when an active tooth is lost or worn down D The many spare teeth lying in seemingly limitless reserve in the shark s jaws each one of which is ready to slide into the appropriate position whenever an active tooth is lost or worn down Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register E In the shark s jaws many spare teeth lie in seemingly limitless reserve each one ready to slide into the appropriate position whenever an active tooth is lost or worn down Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register Q4 Q7 GWD 18 Q3 Q6 The idea that equipping homes with electrical appliances and other modern household technologies would eliminate drudgery save labor time and increase leisure for women who were full time home workers remained largely unchallenged until the women s movement of the 1970 s spawned the groundbreaking and influential works of sociologist Joann Vanek and historian Ruth Cowan Vanek analyzed 40 years of time use surveys conducted by home economists to argue that electrical appliances and other modern household technologies reduced the effort required to perform specific tasks but ownership of these appliances did not correlate with less time spent on housework by full time home workers In fact time spent by these workers remained remarkably constant at about 52 to 54 hours per week from the 1920 s to the 1960 s a period of significant change in household technology In surveying two centuries of household technology in the United States Cowan argued that the industrialization of the home often resulted in more work for full time home workers because the use of such devices as coal stoves water pumps and vacuum cleaners tended to reduce the workload of married women s helpers husbands sons daughters and servants while promoting a more rigorous standard of housework The full time home worker s duties also shifted to include more household management child care and the post Second World War phenomenon of being Mom s taxi Q4 GWD 18 Q3 According to the passage which of the following is true about the idea mentioned in line1 A It has been undermined by data found in time use surveys conducted by home economists B It was based on a definition of housework that was explicitly rejected by Vanek and Cowan C It is more valid for the time period studied by Cowan than for the time period studied by Vanek D It is based on an underestimation of the time that married women spent on housework prior to the industrialization of the household E It inaccurately suggested that new household technologies would reduce the effort required to perform housework Q5 GWD 18 Q4 The passage is primarily concerned with A analyzing a debate between two scholars B challenging the evidence on which a new theory is based C describing how certain scholars work countered a prevailing view D presenting the research used to support a traditional theory E evaluating the methodology used to study a particular issue Q6 GWD 18 Q5 Which of the following best describes the function of the sentence in lines 21 26 In fact time in household technology A It offers an alternative interpretation of a phenomenon described in the previous sentence lines 12 20 B It provides the specific evidence on which an argument described in the previous sentence lines 12 20 is based C It shifts the focus of the argument developed earlier in the passage D It introduces evidence that has not been taken into account by Vanek and Cowan E It introduces a topic for discussion that will be developed in the rest of the passage Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register Q7 GWD 18 Q6 The passage suggests that Vanek and Cowan would agree that modernizing household technology did not Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register A reduce the workload of servants and other household helpers B raise the standard of housework that women who were full time home workers set for themselves C decrease the effort required to perform household tasks D reduce the time spent on housework by women who were full time home workers E result in a savings of money used for household maintenance Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register Q8 Q10 GWD 18 Q8 to Q10 The term episodic memory was introduced by Tulving to refer to what he considered a uniquely human capacity the ability to recollect specific past events to travel back into the past in one s own mind as distinct from the capacity simply to use information acquired through past experiences Subsequently Clayton et al developed criteria to test for episodic memory in animals According to these criteria episodic memories are not of individual bits of information they involve multiple components of a single event bound together Clayton sought to examine evidence of scrub jays accurate memory of what where and when information and their binding of this information In the wild these birds store food for retrieval later during periods of food scarcity Clayton s experiment required jays to remember the type location and freshness of stored food based on a unique learning event Crickets were stored in one location and peanuts in another Jays prefer crickets but crickets degrade more quickly Clayton s birds switched their preference from crickets to peanuts once the food had been stored for a certain length of time showing that they retain information about the what the where and the when Such experiments cannot however reveal whether the birds were reexperiencing the past when retrieving the information Clayton acknowledged this by using the term episodic like memory 8 GWD 18 Q8 According to the passage part of the evidence that scrub jays can bind information is that they A showed by their behavior that they were reexperiencing the past B used information acquired through past experiences C assessed the freshness of food that had been stored by other jays D remembered what kind of food was stored in a particular location E recollected single bits of information about sources of food 9 GWD 18 Q9 It can be inferred that the author of the passage and Clayton would both agree that A the food preferences of the scrub jays in Clayton s experiment are difficult to explain B the presence of episodic memory cannot be inferred solely on the basis of observable behavior C Clayton s experiment demonstrated that scrub jays do not reexperience the past but do exhibit episodic like memory D Tulving substantially underestimated the ability of animals to bind different kinds of information E Clayton s experiment had certain fundamental design flaws that make it difficult to draw any conclusions about scrub jay s memories 10 GWD 18 Q10 In order for Clayton s experiment to show that scrub jays have episodic like memory which of the following must be true in the experiment A Some of the jays retrieved stored peanuts on the first occasion they were allowed to retrieve food B All the crickets were retrieved before any of the peanuts were C The peanuts were stored further away than the crickets Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register D When a jay attempted to retrieve a cricket or a peanut the jay was prevented from eating it E Throughout the experiment the jays were fed at levels typical of a time of scarcity 11 GWD17 Q11 Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases in the population of snow geese which breed in the Arctic and are displacing birds of less vigorous species Although snow geese are a popular quarry for hunters in the southern regions where they winter the hunting season ends if and when hunting has reduced the population by five percent according to official estimates Clearly dropping this restriction would allow the other species to recover Which of the following if true most seriously undermines the argument A Hunting limits for snow geese were imposed many years ago in response to a sharp decline in the population of snow geese B It has been many years since the restriction led to the hunting season for snow geese being closed earlier than the scheduled date C The number of snow geese taken by hunters each year has grown every year for several years D As their population has increased snow geese have recolonized wintering grounds that they had not used for several seasons E In the snow goose s winter habitats the goose faces no significant natural predation 12 GWD17 Q12 Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years excepting for the domains of administration and teaching the English language was never really spoken on the island A excepting for B except in C but except in D but excepting for E with the exception of 13 GWD 18 Q13 Eurasian watermilfoil a weed not native to Frida Lake has reproduced prolifically since being accidentally introduced there In order to eliminate the weed biologists proposed treating infested parts of the lake with a certain herbicide that is nontoxic for humans and aquatic animals However the herbicide might damage populations of certain rare plant species that the lake contains For this reason local officials rejected the proposal Which of the following if true points out the most serious weakness in the officials grounds for rejecting the biologists proposal Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register A The continuing spread of Eurasian watermilfoil in Frida Lake threatens to choke out the lake s rare plant species B Because of ecological conditions prevailing in its native habitat Eurasian watermilfoil is not as dominant there as it is in Frida Lake C The proliferation of Eurasian watermilfoil in Frida Lake has led to reductions in the populations of some species of aquatic animals D Although Eurasian watermilfoil could be mechanically removed from Frida Lake eliminating the weed would take far longer this way than it would using herbicides E Unless Eurasian watermilfoil is completely eliminated from Frida Lake it will quickly spread again once herbicide treatments or other control measures cease 14 GWD17 Q14 Whereas lines of competition are clearly defined in the more established industries in the Internet industry they are blurred and indistinct as companies that compete one day may be partners the next A Whereas lines of competition are clearly defined in the more established industries in the Internet industry they are blurred and indistinct as companies that compete B Although the lines of competition are clearly defined in industries that are more established they are blurred and indistinct in the Internet industry as competing companies C The lines of competition are clearly defined in the more established industries unlike the Internet where they are blurred and indistinct as companies that compete D Unlike more established industries where the lines of competition are clearly defined they are burred and indistinct in the Internet industry as companies that compete E Unlike more established industries with clearly defined lines of competition those of the Internet industry are blurred and indistinct as competing companies 15 GWD 18 Q15 Fact Asthma a bronchial condition is much less common ailment than hay fever an allergic inflammation of the nasal passages Fact Over 95 percent of people who have asthma also suffer from hay fever If the information given as facts above is true which of the following must also be true A Hay fever is a prerequisite for the development of asthma B Asthma is a prerequisite for the development of hay fever C Those who have neither hay fever nor asthma comprise less than 5 percent of the total population D The number of people who have both of these ailments is greater than the number of people who have only one of them E The percentage of people suffering from hay fever who also have asthma is lower than 95 percent Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register 16 GWD 18 Q16 Aroca City currently funds its public schools through taxes on property In place of this system the city plans to introduce a sales tax of three percent on all retail sales in the city Critics protest that three percent of current retail sales falls short of the amount raised for schools by property taxes The critics are correct on this point Nevertheless implementing the plan will probably not reduce the money going to Aroca s schools Several large retailers have selected Aroca City as the site for huge new stores and these are certain to draw large numbers of shoppers from neighboring municipalities where sales are taxed at rates of six percent and more In consequence retail sales in Aroca City are bound to increase substantially In the argument given the two potions in boldface play which of the following roles A The first presents a plan that the argument seeks to defend against a certain criticism the second gives part of the basis for that criticism B The first presents a plan that the argument seeks to defend against a certain criticism the second gives part of the basis for that defense C The first presents a plan that the argument criticizes the second is a consideration raised by the argument in support of that criticism D The first presents a plan that the argument criticizes the second presents a consideration that has been raised against that criticism E The first presents a plan whose consequences the argument seeks to evaluate the second is presented by the argument as one likely consequence that is undesirable 17 GWD17 Q17 Because fish look through water their eyes are very different from a mammal A from a mammal B from a mammal s C from that of a mammal D than that of a mammal E than is a mammal s 18 GWD17 Q18 Over the course of the eighteenth century the average output of ironwork tripled as a result of several improvements in blowing machinery and because coal replaced charcoal as the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore A Over the course of the eighteenth century the average output of ironwork tripled as a result of several improvements in blowing machinery and because coal replaced charcoal as the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore B Over the course of the eighteenth century a tripling in the average output of ironwork was due to the replacement of charcoal by coal for the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore in addition to several improvements in blowing machinery C With charcoal s being replaced by coal as the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore and several improvements in blowing machinery the average output of ironwork tripled over the eighteenth century D The replacement of charcoal with coal for the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore and several improvements in blowing machinery the average output of ironwork tripled over the eighteenth century Generated by Unregistered Batch DOC TO PDF Converter 2012 4 319 1599 please register E Charcoal being replaced by coal as the fuel used in the smelting of iron ore and several improvements in blowing machinery which tripled the average output of ironwork over the course of the eighteenth century 19 GWD 18 Q2 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