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Section 1
LR
Logical Reasoning
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PT159.S1.Q1
Columnist: The dangers of drinking are greatly...
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PT159.S1.Q2
Some have argued that using food crops to...
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PT159.S1.Q3
Hernandez: Celebrities' public...
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PT159.S1.Q4
A process of extracting caffeine from coffee...
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PT159.S1.Q5
Researchers gave each of eighteen subjects a...
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PT159.S1.Q6
Prominent government officials have denied...
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Critic: It generally holds true of concert...
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PT159.S1.Q8
Scientists found the remains of several...
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PT159.S1.Q9
Market studies confirm that consumers...
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PT159.S1.Q10
A recent study found that most individuals...
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PT159.S1.Q11
Ross: Many governments have attempted to...
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PT159.S1.Q12
Many hikers now carry cell phones so they can...
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PT159.S1.Q13
A cognitive psychologist has claimed that...
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PT159.S1.Q14
Environmentalist: The adoption of...
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PT159.S1.Q15
Faculty member: The university's financially...
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PT159.S1.Q16
A recent study carefully tracked the specific...
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Essayist: It would be wrong to defend current...
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PT159.S1.Q18
Putting a tap in a healthy maple that has a trunk...
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PT159.S1.Q19
Company spokesperson: Although our products...
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PT159.S1.Q20
It should be illegal to patent an organism's...
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PT159.S1.Q21
Professor O'Brien: Any of my students who heard...
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Some moral virtues, such as honesty, tend to...
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PT159.S1.Q23
During last year's flu season no one who was...
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Advertising agencies are often wrongly...
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Artist: I have never won a prize at the Art...
Section 2
RC
Reading Comprehension · Exp.
Passage 1
The 1937–1938 comic strip - Torchy Brown, in "Dixie to Harlem" - by Jackie...
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The passage is primarily concerned with...
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Which one of the following is most strongly...
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According to the passage, Ormes likened the...
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Which one of the following aspects of - Torchy...
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The author cites each of the following as a...
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The passage most strongly suggests that Ormes...
Passage 2
The following two passages were adapted from articles published in...
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Both passages are primarily concerned with...
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Which one of the following is mentioned in...
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By describing BRI as having been a - "failing...
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Which one of the following, if true, would pose...
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Which one of the following statements is most...
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The authors of the passages would be most likely...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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PT159.S2.P2.Q14
The relationship between Grameen's business...
Passage 3
Since 1929, cosmologists have known that the universe is expanding....
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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The passage indicates which one of the...
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The primary function of the third paragraph is...
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The primary purpose of - the last sentence of the...
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Which one of the following describes a theory...
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It can be inferred from the passage that the...
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Which one of the following, if true, would lend...
Passage 4
For most of the past century, scholars in the Anglo-American legal...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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PT159.S2.P4.Q23
According to the author, the boundary theory's...
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Which one of the following is most strongly...
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The author distinguishes two senses of...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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The author of the passage would be most likely to...
Section 3
LR
Logical Reasoning
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Critic: While the political message in this...
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Entertainment reporter: Unlike most major...
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Anthropology professor: The new class I'm...
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Toy manufacturer: Our competitors argue that...
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Researcher: Some scholars maintain that the...
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PT159.S3.Q6
A tiny crab that lives 550 meters below the...
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Last year a local advertising agency produced...
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Sinking large, obsolete pieces of equipment in...
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Having cameras at traffic intersections to...
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For years, Glenville had the highest apartment...
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The crocodiles of Lake Victoria, in East...
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When the annual period of daylight saving time...
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Every human's brain contains a mental...
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Generally, open discussion of a false and...
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Schmidt: In enforcing township rules on how...
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Some have argued that once it becomes necessary...
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PT159.S3.Q17
Manufacturer: If our biggest competitor were...
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Jack's dog howls whenever a train goes by....
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When plants are growing quickly, they take more...
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Essayist: Since ancient times humans have...
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Sodium nitrate is frequently added to sausages...
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For a zoo to make a valuable contribution to the...
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Principal: All of our school's rural students...
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Principle: An author of an article that has...
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Paleontologist: Most biologists accept that...
Section 4
RC
Reading Comprehension
Passage 1
In France in the early 1790s, the French Revolution, which sought to...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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According to the passage, Gouges believed that...
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On the question of extending equal rights to...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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Based on the passage, Gouges would most likely...
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It can most reasonably be concluded that both...
Passage 2
Passage A - In all games, particularly in athletic contests, the central...
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Which one of the following is a principal...
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Which one of the following is mentioned in...
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PT159.S4.P2.Q9
Which one of the following is discussed in...
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PT159.S4.P2.Q10
The author of passage A and Hans Gumbrecht, as...
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The authors of the passages would be most likely...
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Which one of the following principles...
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The author of passage A would be most likely to...
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Based on passage A, which one of the following...
Passage 3
The following passage was adapted from an article published in 1998. - ...
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Which one of the following most accurately...
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The author's primary purpose in mentioning...
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Which one of the following can most reasonably...
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PT159.S4.P3.Q18
In the last sentence of the second paragraph,...
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PT159.S4.P3.Q19
The author would be most likely to agree that the...
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PT159.S4.P3.Q20
Which one of the following, if true, most...
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PT159.S4.P3.Q21
Which one of the following principles most...
Passage 4
The success of modern physics has consisted primarily in the analysis...
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In the passage, the author is primarily...
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The passage provides information that most...
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As it is described in the first paragraph, the...
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The author calls reports that physicists are...
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The author introduces the example of a faucet in...
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Which one of the following statements can most...

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