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GRE Big Book Critical Reasoning Test 32

Jimmy Wang
08/26/2024

GRE Critical Reasoning

Directions

Critical Reasoning questions test the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate arguments. Some of the abilities tested by specific questions include identifying the roles played by specific phrases or sentences in an argument, recognizing the point of an argument, recognizing assumptions on which an argument is based" drawing conclusions and forming hypotheses, identifying methods of argumentation, evaluating arguments and counter-arguments, and analyzing evidence.

Each of the Critical Reasoning questions is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action. For each question, select the best answer of the choices given.

Currently, the number of admissions of individuals diagnosed as manic-depressives to hospitals in Great Britain exceeds by nine times the number of admissions of such patients to public and private hospitals in the United States, even though the population size of the United States is many times that of Great Britain.

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Which of the following, if true, would be most useful to an attempt to explain the situation described above?

The,variety of training institutions in psychology in the United States is greater than in Great Britain, reflecting the variety of schools of psychology that have developed in the United States.

The admission rate in the United States includes those individuals who visit clinics for the first time as well as those who are admitted directly to hospitals.

Seeking professional assistance for mental health problems no longer carries a social stigma in the United States, as it once did.

A small percentage of patients diagnosed as manic-depressive in Great Britain are admitted to private nursing homes rather than hospitals.

The term manic-depressive refers to a wider range of mentally ill patients in Great Britain than it does in the United States.

Some soil scientists have asserted that decaying matter on the forest floor is a far greater source of the acidity in mountain lakes than is the acid rain that falls on these lakes. Therefore, they contend, reducing acid rain will not significantly reduce the acidity levels of mountain lakes.

#2

Which of the following statements, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

Acid rain is found in urban and heavily industrialized regions of the country.

While plant life remains, acid rain significantly increases the amount of decaying organic matter in natural environments.

It is natural for mountain lakes to have acidity levels higher than those of other lakes.

There is much disagreement among soil scientists about the causes of acid rain.

The harmful effects of increased acidity levels in lakes have been greatly underestimated.

Unlike other forms of narrative art, a play, to be successful, must give pleasure to its immediate audience by reflecting the concerns and values of that audience. A novel can achieve success over months or even years, but a play must be a hit or perish. Successful drama of the Restoration period, there- fore, is a good index to the typical tastes and atti- tudes of its time.

#3

The author of the passage above assumes that

plays written for Restoration audiences do not appeal to modern audiences

Restoration audiences were representative of the whole population of their time

Restoration drama achieved popular success at the expense of critical success

playgoers and novel readers are typically distinct and exclusive groups

plays are superior to novels as a form of narrative art

It is important to teach students to use computers effectively. Therefore, students should be taught computer programming in school.

#4

Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument above?

Only people who use computers effectively are skilled at computer programming.

Some schools teach computer programming more effectively than others.

Some people who use computers effectively cannot write computer programs.

Most people who are able to program computers use computers effectively.

Only people skilled at computer programming use computers effectively.

Butterfat gets its yellowish color from carotene, the fat-soluble vitamin A precursor that is also responsible for the color of carrots. Not all butter-fat, however, is equally yellow. Some breeds of cows are more efficient than others at converting carotene to the colorless vitamin A.

#5

If butter made from the milk of holstein cows is much paler than that made from the milk of jersey or guernsey cows, then the facts above suggest that

holsteins are less efficient converters of carotene than are jerseys or guernseys

the carotene in the milk of holsteins is less fat soluble than the carotene in the milk of jerseys or guernseys

there is less butterfat in the milk of holsteins than in the milk of jerseys or guernseys

there is more vitamin A in the butterfat of holsteins than in the butterfat of jerseys or guernseys

there is more carotene in the butterfat of holsteins than in the butterfat of jerseys or guernseys

X melts at a higher temperature than P melts. Y melts at a lower temperature than P melts, but at a higher temperature than Q melts.

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