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Directions: Choose the best answer from the options given below.

1. The incidence of suicide in the country of Travonia has increased dramatically in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that since the introduction of several non-prescription brands of sleeping pills, the number of deaths from overdoses alone has nearly doubled. However, certain types of suicides have not increased in number during this period. It is true that elderly suicides have seen a greater than 70 percent increase, but teen suicides now account for only 30 percent of all suicides in the country. This is a significant decrease over 1985, when teen cases represented 65 percent of all country-wide suicides. The assertion that suicides are increasing in Travonia is most justified if which of the following is assumed? A. The elderly suffered the greatest number of overdoses from the non-prescription sleeping pills. B. Overdosing on sleeping pills was not the most pervasive method of suicide in Travonia ten years ago. C. The number of deaths from natural causes in Travonia has decreased in recent years. D. The majority of deaths resulting from overdosing on non-prescription sleeping pills were not accidental.
2. The local high school students have been clamoring for the freedom do design their own curricula. Allowing this would be as allowing three-year-olds to choose their own diets. These students have neither the maturity nor the experience to equal that of the professional educators now doing the job. Which of the following statements, if true, would most strengthen the above argument? A. high school students have less formal education than those who currently design the curricula. B. Three-year-olds do not, if left to their own devices, choose healthful diets. C. The ability to design good curricula develops only after years of familiarity with educational life.
D. Individualized curricula are more beneficial to high school students than are the standard curricula, which are rigid and unresponsive to their particular strengths and weaknesses.
3. The rate of violent crime in this state is up 30 percent from last year. The fault lies entirely in our court system: Recently our judges` sentences have been so lenient that criminals can now do almost anything without fear of a long prison term. The argument above would be weakened if it were true that A.85 percent of the other states in the nation have lower crime rates than does this state. B. white collar crime in this state has also increased by over 25 percent in the last year. C.35 percent of the police in this state have been laid off in the last year due to budget cuts. D. polls show that 65 percent of the population in this state oppose capital punishment. 4. The education offered by junior colleges just after the Second World War had a tremendous practical effect on family-run businesses throughout the country. After learning new methods of marketing, finance, and accounting, the sons and daughters of merchants returned home, often to increase significantly the size of the family`s enterprise or in other ways, to maximize the profits. Which of the following statements is best supported by the information above? A) The junior colleges principally emphasized methods of increasing the size of small businesses. B) The business methods taught in the junior colleges were already widespread before the second World War. C) The business curricula at junior colleges did not include theoretical principles of management. D) Business methods in many post-war family-run businesses changed significantly as a result of the junior colleges.
5. Techniques to increase productivity in the performance of discrete tasks, by requiring less human labor in each step of the production process, are widely utilized. Consultants on productivity enhancement point out, however, that although these techniques achieve their specific goal, they are not without drawbacks. They often instill enough resentment in the workforce eventually to lead to a slowdown in the production process as a whole.
Which of the following can be reasonably inferred from the statements above?  (A) Productivity enhancement techniques do not attain their intended purpose and should not be employed in the workplace. (B) The fact that productivity enhancement techniques are so widely employed has led to a decline in the ability of American businesses to compete abroad. (C) If productivity enhancement consultants continue to utilize these techniques, complete work stoppages will eventually result. (D) Ironically, an increase in the productivity of discrete tasks may result in a decrease in the productivity of the whole production process. The following questions consist of sentences that are either partly or entirely underlined. Select the answer choice that represents the best revision of the underlined text. Choice A duplicates the original version. If the original seems better than any of the revisions, then select it

6. When he had run for mayor of Cleveland in 1968, Carl Stokes won the election, proving that an African American candidate can be elected in a city in which African Americans constitute a minority of the population. A. When he had run for mayor of Cleveland in 1968,