Unless you devote your whole life to it, you will never learn to speak the language of another country to perfection; you will never know its people and its literature with complete intimacy.
Which of the following is likely to undermine the above argument?
A :
I can speak ten foreign languages already.
B :
I do not travel to foreign countries.
C :
I am happy with the languages I know and do not need to learn any other language.
D :
I should spend time to understand my own people and literature first, only then can I appreciate other languages and cultures.
Answer: D The argument is that it requires time and commitment to understand another language and culture. The only reasonable argument that weakens it would be that the same amount of time and commitment ought to be used to better understand one‘s own language and culture first.
Q. No. 14:
I have been studying it, consciously and subconsciously, for forty years and I still find men unaccountable; people I know intimately can surprise me by some action of which I never thought them capable of, or by the discovery of some trait exhibit a side of themselves that I never even suspected.
The idea in this sentence can be best summarized as
A :
Men are inconsistent and therefore one should not be confident even about one‘s closest friends.
B :
Men are unpredictable, one can never tell what do next, hence one should be very careful in one‘s dealings.
C :
No matter how closely you know somebody there still exists an unknown facet of his personality.
Answer: C The author does not seem to be advising against trusting people, so the first two options are ruled out. All she/he says is that even the people we know best are always surprising us with different facets of their personality.
Q. No. 15:
Now the audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. If these were graded from A to Z, decreasing with succeeding letters to the zero of the hysterical shop girl, I should say its mental capacity would come around about the letter O.
According to the above statements,
A :
Some members in the audience are more intelligent than any of its other members.
B :
The net intelligence of the audience is a little less than average.
Answer: C Both stated in the paragraph. Line two is the first statement and a grade of O would mean a mark of 15 out of 26, with 26 being the lowest, which is below the average of 13.
Q. No. 16:
One major obligation of the social psychologist is to provide his own discipline, the other social sciences, and interested laymen with conceptual tools that will increase the range and the reliability of their understanding of social phenomena. Beyond that, responsible government officials are today turning more frequently to the social scientist for insights into the nature and solution of the problems of with which they are confronted.
The above argument assumes that
A :
Social psychologist must have a strong background in other sciences as well as their own.
B :
The social scientist has an obligation to provide the means by which social phenomena may be understood by others.
C :
Social phenomena are little, understood by those outside the field of social psychology.
D :
A good social psychologist is obligated principally by the need to solve inter-disciplinary problems.
Answer: B Can be directly inferred from the first line.
Q. No. 17:
Once a company has established an extensive sales network in a foreign market and therefore has achieved substantial sales, it seems that these market should be treated in a very similar fashion to those in one's own country. It is therefore in those countries where only initial sales and representation have been developed where marketing methods will have to differ from domestic activities.
The above statement assumes that:
A :
Sales network can be the same in both foreign and domestic markets.
B :
Extensive sales networks are preferable to less developed ones.
C :
Larger markets abroad are more adaptable to domestic marketing methods.
D :
A study of marketing should consider the adaptability of advertising campaigns in different countries.
Answer: C The argument states that “these markets should be treated in a very similar fashion to those in one's own country.” This means that they are adaptable to domestic marketing methods.
Q. No. 18:
Equality of opportunity has long been prominent as a goal in many countries. In Europe and America there has also been advocacy of more equality of income - the results after taxes of what a person gets for his efforts and the yield of his property. Many western politicians believe this concept of equality should be implemented in developing countries in order to speed economic development.
Which of the following, if true, could weaken the argument above?
A :
In a poor society, total income is so low that if it were distributed equally, no one could save enough to provide resources for investment.
B :
The marginal dollars in the hands of people with large incomes provide less utility than those with lower income.
C :
High achievement in many societies is due to equality of incomes.
D :
Equality of opportunity is not necessarily synonymous with equality of income.
Answer: D The argument states that “concept of equality should be implemented in developing countries in order to speed economic development.” To weaken it, the opposite must be said, which is in D.