Critical Reasoning for CAT/GMAT '08

[nimisha_2009]

my answers"

C
D
D

[bandari]

Gunjan-CR(2)-SET6-POST-154-PAGE-16
my take
D
D
D

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Gunjan-CR(2)-SET6-POST-154-PAGE-16
My asnwers -
D
D
D

[subho_86]

14. D
15. D
16. D

By the way, isn't this from the IMS paper?

[nimisha_2009]

Nimisha CR-SET6-POST 165-PAGE 17

hi guys..m back..

1. A researcher discovered that people who have low levels of immune’ system activity tend to score much lower on tests of mental health than do people with normal or high immune’ system activity.The researcher concluded from this experiment that the immune system protects against mental illness as well as against physical disease.

The researcher's conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A) High immune.system activity protects against mental illness better than normal immune, system activity does.
(B) Mental illness is similar to physical disease in its effects on body systems.
(C) People with high immune-system activity cannot develop mental illness·
(D) Mental illness does not cause people's immune-system activity to decrease.
(E) Psychological treatment of mental illness is not as effective as is medical treatment.

2.Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.
(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.
(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.
(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.
(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.


3) Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of an ancient Roman medical treatise, is undated but contains clues to
when it was produced. Its first eighty pages are by a single copyist, but the remaining twenty pages are by three
different copyists, which indicate some significant disruption. Since a letter in handwriting identified as that of the
fourth copyist mentions a plague that killed many people in Florence in 1148, Codex Berinensis was probably
produced in that year.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the hypothesis that codex Berinensis was produced in
1148?

(A) Other than Codex Berinensis, there are no known samples of the handwriting of the first three copyists.
(B) According to the account by the fourth copyists, the plague went on for ten months.
(C) A scribe would be able to copy a page of text the size and style of Codex Berinensis in a day.
(D) There was only one outbreak of plague in Florence in the 1100’s.
(E) The number of pages of Codex Berinnesis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller with each
successive change of copyist.


4) Studies have shown that elderly people who practice a religion are much more likely to die immediately after an
important religious holiday period than immediately before one. Researchers have concluded that the will to live
can prolong life, at least for short periods of time.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the researchers’ conclusion?

(A) Elderly people who practice a religion are less likely to die immediately before or during an important
religious holiday than at any other time of the year.
(B) Elderly people who practice a religion appear to experience less anxiety at the prospect of dying than do
other people.
(C) Some elderly people who do practice a religion live much longer than most elderly people who do not.
(D) Most elderly people who participate in religious holidays have different reasons for participating than young
people do.
(E) Many religions have important holidays in the spring and fall, seasons with the lowest death rates for elderly
people.

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Answers to : Nimisha CR-SET6-POST 165-PAGE 17

1. D
2. E
3. A
4. E

[prince_chittu]

Nimisha CR-SET6-POST 165-PAGE 17

1.A
2.D
3.B
4.A

[aky_akshay]

my take

1. D
2. E
3. B
4. A

[floyd_rose]

Re:Nimisha CR-SET6-POST 165-PAGE 17

my answers:

1 (c)
2 (b)
3 (d)
4 (a)

regards.

[vivacious_v]

Re:Nimisha CR-SET6-POST 165-PAGE 17

my take


a d d c