Question 71. It is not irrational [A] / impractical [B] to depreciate [A] / deprecate [B] the low quality of goods one gets for the high price one pays. There appears to be a distinctive [A] / distinct [B] chill in relations between the two neighbors. He made a fervid [A] / fervent [B] appeal to the villagers to desist from violence.

Question 72. Lea: Contemporary art has become big business. Nowadays art has less to do with self-expression than with making money. The work of contemporary artists is utterly bereft of spontaneity and creativity, as a visit to any art gallery demonstrates.
Susan: I disagree. One can still find spontaneous, innovative new artwork in most of the smaller, independent galleries.
Lea's and Susan's remarks provide the most support for holding that they disagree about whether

Question 73. Most countries rely upon the police to enforce the law. Police officers most often must be professionally trained in law enforcement before they are permitted to act under the 'migith of law', to issue legal warnings and citations, execute search or other legal warrants and to make arrests.

Question 74. The question of economic growth is thrown into further confusion by the methods used to measure it. Fundamentally, economics is myopic. It measures reality by its current market price. The intrinsic value of real things, their essential character which remains unchanged even when their price on the market fluctuates, is not an issue to the economist. He is like Oscar Wild's cynic.

Question 75. Having an efficient, attractive subway system makes good economic sense. So, the city needs to purchase new subway cars, since the city should always do what makes good economic sense. The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Question 76. In his new book on his complex scientific research, R frequently imputes bad faith to researchers disagreeing with him. A troubling aspect of R's book is his stated conviction that other investigators' funding sources often determine what "findings” those investigators report. Add to this that R has often shown himself to be arrogant, overly ambitious, and sometimes plain nasty, and it becomes clear that R's book does not merit attention from serious professionals. The author of the book review commits which one of the following reasoning errors?

Question 77. What compounds the situation is that political bosses try to exert their influence and protect the culprits.
A.  It is also beyond doubt that substantial part of that money was deposited in Swiss banks.
B.The undisputed fact about that transaction is that a huge amount was paid as kickbacks to secure the contract.
C.What was important was to fix the identity of the recipients.
D.This became evident in the murky Bofors gun transaction.
6.A number of persons in public life and media pointed their finger of complicity at an important figure

Question 78. Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive (A) / incurious (B) to many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand, induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance, and by doing so generates a kind of precarious (A) / impertinent (B) insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. It is not good either to forget the questions that philosophy asks, or to persuade ourselves that we have found factual (A) / indubitable (B) answers to them. To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.___

Question 79. Choose the grammatically correct sentence from the four options given for each question

Question 80. (1) Story-telling should speak first to the heart and only second to the intellect.
(2) It should, in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s words, “be both clear and profound,” and it should also entertain.
(3) Many fine writing programs have sprung up across the United States.
(4) The new writer should avoid creating pieces that are deliberately obscure and impossible to understand except by a small, elite group of other writers.