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Question 501. News like that makes people stop and think about pay, reward, and merit. Where to begin? The first rule should always be transparency. The BBC should reveal all fees to ensure there really is a genuine market in talent out there. And that should be a general rule, not just in public bodies but everywhere. People do know more or less what everyone else earns in the public sector, so why not make it compulsory for all?________

In Norway and Finland, anyone can summon up anyone else's tax return on the Internet -- and why not?
The shock at first would be seismic, with eruptions of rage and embarrassment all round
It would put a stop to secretive employers who divide and rule by spreading uncertainty and insecurity about what the person at the next desk might be getting
Making tax returns public helps to stamp out fraud and tax evasion, risking exposure of any undeclared income.

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Answer: Option A. -> In Norway and Finland, anyone can summon up anyone else's tax return on the Internet -- and why not?
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A
The last sentence should strengthen the argument the author puts forth with an actual situation where this kind of transparency works. This is why option (a) is the best concluding statement

Question 502. Which one of the following kinds of thinking is NOT described in the passage?

People who assume that there is no right or wrong in any issue
People who make unreasoned commitments and stick by them
People who believe that right or wrong depends on the situation
People who think that all behavior can be accounted for by cause and effect relationships

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Answer: Option D. -> People who think that all behavior can be accounted for by cause and effect relationships
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D
This is a description question. (a): No, these are the Multiplists. (b): No, Dualists think this way. (c): No, this describes Relativists. Multiplists acknowledge no right or wrong; whereas Relativists acknowledge a morality, but one that is context-dependent.
Hence, by theprocess of elimination, we can say that the answer is (d).

Question 503. According to the passage, most consumer-goods markets share which of the following characteristics?
I. Customers who differ significantly from each other
II. Large number of potential customers
III. Customers who each represent a small percentage of potential sales

I only
II only
I and II only
I, II, and III

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Answer: Option D. -> I, II, and III
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D
All the characteristics mentioned as statements I, II and III are mentioned as the characteristics of most consumer-good markets in the last paragraph. Therefore, answer option (d) is the correct answer choice.

Question 504. The author speaks about the "politics of identity” that Phillip Green, a political scientist at Smith, notes is all-consuming for many of the students. Considering the subject of the passage, which one of the following best describes what the author means by "the politics of identity”?

The attempt to discover individual identities through political action
The political agenda that creates an identity based on ethnicity
The current obsession for ethnicity that helps individuals discover their inner selves
The trend among minority students to discover their identities in their ethnic groups rather than in their individuality

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Answer: Option D. -> The trend among minority students to discover their identities in their ethnic groups rather than in their individuality
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D
Don’t be led astray by (b); it uses the word “political” to tempt you. Although it is perhaps a good description, it is not within the context of the passage, which focuses on ethnic politics, not national identities through “roots.”
The key to answer this question lies in the second paragraph “notes that for a significant portion of the students the politics of identity is all-consuming. Students he says “are unhappy with the thin gruel of rationalism. They require a therapeutic curriculum to overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping.”
The students are stereotyped based on their ethnic groups. Their identity is bound to their race and it is consumes them totally or they are totally abide by it.
That’s why the answer is (d).