Car telephones have become increasingly popular because they permit people to make or receive business calls while driving. As an additional benefit, motorists can quickly call for help in the event of an accident or breakdown. Nevertheless, car telephones should be prohibited because their use causes hazardous driving. It can be concluded from the statements above that the author is committed to the troth of which of the following statements
A. The increasing popularity of car telephones is due primarily to the fact that they permit motorists to call for help in the event of an accident.
B. The reason that the use of car telephones causes hazardous driving is that while dialing calls drivers cannot keep both hands on the wheel.
C. The advantages afforded by car telephones do not outweigh the risks of hazardous driving created by them.
D. In order to dial or receive telephone calls, drivers must momentarily take their eyes off the road, and this practice is hazardous.
E. (E) The ability to use car telephones to call for help is a more important advantage than the ability to use these phones to engage in business calls.
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A recent survey of all auto accident victims in Dole County found that, of the severely injured drivers and front-seat passengers, 80 percent were not wearing seat belts at the time of their accidents. This indicates that, by wearing seat belts, drivers and front-seat passengers can greatly reduce their risk of being severely injured if they are in an auto accident. The conclusion above is not properly drawn unless which of the following is true
A. Of all the drivers and front-seat passengers in the survey, more than 20 percent were wearing seat belts at the time of their accidents.
B. Considerably more than 20 percent of drivers and frontseat passengers in Dole County always wear seat belts when traveling by car.
C. More drivers and front-seat passengers in the survey than rear-seat passengers were very severely injured.
D. More than half of the drivers and front-seat passengers in the survey were not wearing seat belts at the time of their accidents.
E. (E) Most of the auto accidents reported to police in Dole County do not involve any serious injury.
Although aspirin has been proven to eliminate moderate fever associated with some illnesses, many doctors no longer routinely recommend its use for this purpose. A moderate fever stimulates the activity of the body’s diseasefighting white blood cells and also inhibits the growth of many strains of disease-causing bacteria. If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by them
Aspirin, an effective painkiller, alleviates the pain and discomfort of many illnesses.
B. Aspirin can prolong a patient’s illness by eliminating moderate fever helpful in fighting some diseases.
C. Aspirin inhibits the growth of white blood cells, which are necessary for fighting some illnesses.
D. The more white blood cells a patient’s body produces, the less severe the patient’s illness will be.
E. (E) The focus of modern medicine is on inhibiting the growth of disease-causing bacteria within the body.
After graduating form high school, people rarely multiply fractions or discuss ancient Rome, but they are confronted daily with decisions relating to home economics. Yet whereas mathematics and history are required courses in the high school curriculum, home economics is only an elective, and few students choose to take it. Which of the following positions would be best supported by the considerations above
A. If mathematics and history were not required courses, few students would choose, to take them.
B. Whereas home economics would be the most useful subject for people facing the decisions they must make in daily life, often mathematics and history can also help them face these decisions.
C. If it is important to teach high school students subjects that relate to decisions that will confront them in their daily lives, then home economics should be made an important part of the high school curriculum.
D. Mathematics, history, and other courses that are not directly relevant to a person’s daily life should not be a required part of the high school curriculum.
E. (E) Unless high schools put more emphasis on nonacademic subjects like home economics, people graduation from high school wilt never feel comfortable about making the decisions that will confront them in their daily lives.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA’s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients. Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage
A. The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed is then regulated.
Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.
C. The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs, not the FDA.
D. The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic agents is maintained.
E. (E) If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it will help patients.
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