1、LSAT考试全真试题四(SECTION3)SECTION IIITime35 minutes26 QuestionsDirections: The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question.However, you are to choose the best answer;
2、that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible,superfluous, or incompatible with the passage After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.1. F
3、rancis: Pailure to become properly registered to vote prevents one-third of the voting-age citizens of Lagonia from voting. If local election boards made the excessively cumbersome registration process easier. more people would register and voteSharon: The high number of citizens not registered to v
4、ote has persisted despite many attempts to make registering easier. Surveys show that most of these citizens believe that their votes would not make a difference. Until that belief is changed, simplifying the registration process will not increase the percentage of citizens registering to voteThe ma
5、in issue in dispute between Francis and Sharon is(A) whether changing the voter registration process would be cumbersome(B) why so many citizens do not register to vote(C) what percentage of those registered to vote actually vote(D) whether local election boards have simplified the registration proc
6、ess(E) why the public lacks confidence in the effects of voting2. Advertisement Anyone who thinks moisturizers are not important for beautiful skin should consider what happens to the earth, the skin of the word, in times of drought. Without regular infusions of moisture the ground becomes lined and
7、 cracked and its lush loveliness fades away. Thus your skin, too, should be protected from the protection provided by regular infusions of Dewyfresh the drought-defying moisturizer.The Dewyfresh advertisement exhibits which one of the following errors of reasoning?(A) It treats something that is nec
8、essary for bringing about a state of affairs as something that is sufficient to bring about that state of affairs(B) It treats the fact that two things regularly occur together as proof that there is a single thing that is the cause of them both(C) It overlooks the fact that changing what people thi
9、nk is the case does not necessarily change what is the case.(D) It relies on the ambiguity of the term infusion. which can designate either a process or the product of that process(E) It relies on an analogy between two things that are insufficiently alike in the respects in which they would have to
10、 be alike for the conclusion to be supported.Questions 3-4M: The Greek alphabet must have been invented by some individual who knew the Phoenician writing system and who wanted to have some way of recording Homeric epies and thereby preserving expressions of a highly developed traditin of oral poetr
11、y.P: Your hypothesis is laughable! What would have been the point of such a person s writing Homeric epices down? Surely a person who knew them well enough to write them down would not need to read them, and no one else could read them, according to your hypothesis.3. Which one of the following is a
12、n argumentative strategy that P uses in responding to M?(A) attacking M s understanding of the literary value of oral poetry(B) disagreeing with M s thesis without attempting to refute it(C) challenging M s knowledge of the Phoenician writing system(D) attempting to undermine M s hypothesis by makin
13、g it appear absurd(E) providing an alternative interpretation of evidence put forward by M4. P s argument is vulnerable to which one of the following criticisms?(A) It fails to demonstrate that the Phoenician alphabet alone could have provided the basis for the Greek alphabet(B) It incorrectly assum
14、es that the first text ever written in Greek was a Homeric poem(C) It confuses the requirements for a complex oral tradition with the requirements of a written language(D) It attempts to demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis merely by showing that it is possible.(E) It overlooks the possibility that
15、 person who invented the Greek alphabet did so with the intention of teaching it to others.5. Bacteria from food can survive for several days on the surface of plastic cutting boards, but bacteria can penetrate wooden cutting boards almost immediately, leaving the surface free of contamination. Ther
16、efore, wooden cutting boards, unlike plastic cutting boards, need not be washed in order to prevent their conta-minating food that is cut on them; wiping them off to remove food debris is sufficient.Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?(A) Washing plastic cutting
17、 boards does not remove all bacteria from the surface(B) Prevention of bacterial contamination is the only respect in which wooden cutting boards are superior to plastic cutting boards.(C) Food that is not already contaminated with bacteria can be contaminated only by being cut on contaminated cutti
18、ng boards.(D) Bacteria that penetrate into wooden cutting boards do not reemerge on the surface after the cutting boards have been used(E) Washing wooden cutting boards kills bacteria below the surface of the cutting boards.6. Asthmagon was long considered the most effective of the drugs known as be
19、ta-2 agonists, designed to alleviate asthma attacks. However. studies conducted in Rhiago between 1981 and 1987 revealed that nearly one out of every five of the asthma patients under observation who took asthmagon suffered serious side effects after taking the drug. Citing this statistic. some doco
20、tors argue that asthmagon should be banned as an anti-asthma drug.Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the case for the proposed ban of asthmagon?(A) In Rhiago, where asthmagon had been the most widely prescribed of the beta-2 agonists, the number of asthma deaths increased between 1981
21、 and 1987.(B) Many of the patients under observation to whom asthmagon was administered had not previously taken a beta-2 agonist(C) Despite the growing concern about the drug many physicians in Rhiago still prescribe asthmagon to asthma sufferers(D) Among the patients observed, only those who had v
22、ery high cholesterol counts suffered side effects after taking asthmagon(E) Asthmagon increases the severity of asthma attacks in some people because the drug can cause damage to heart tissues7. In response to requests made by the dairy industry the government is considering whether to approve the s
23、ynthetic hormone BST for use in dairy cows BST increases milk production but also leads to recurring udder inflammation decreased fertility,and symptoms of stress in cows who receive the hormone All of these problems can be kept under control with constant veterinary care but such levels of veterina
24、ry help would cost big farms far less per cow than they would small farmsIf the statements above are true which one of the following clams is most strongly supported by them?(A) The government is unlikely to approve the synthetic hormone BST for use in cows(B) The proportion of cows that suffer from
25、 udder infiammation, decreased fertility, and symptoms of stress is currently greater on big dairy farms than on small ones(C) At the present time milk from cows raised on small farms is safer to drink than milk from cows raised on big farms(D) The milk from cows who receive BST will not be safe for
26、 people to drink(E) Owners of big farms stand to gain more from government approval of BST than do owners of small farms8. Jones is selling a house to Smith The contract between the two specifies that for up to a year after ownership is transferred. Jones will be responsible for repairing any major
27、structural defects. defined as defects in the roof or roff-supporting components of the house that might be found Jones is not responsible for any other repairs The house has a truss roof which means that the only walls that support the roof are the exterior walls.It can be properly concluded from t
28、he information above that(A) Jones did not know of any defects in the roof or roof-supporting components of the house at the time the contract was written(B) although other components of the house may contain defects the roof and roof-supporting components of the house are currently free from such d
29、efects(C) the contract does not oblige Jones to repair any defects in the house s nonexterior walls after ownership of the house has been transferred(D) Smith will be obliged to repair all structural defects in the house within a year after ownership is transferred except those for which Jones is re
30、sponsible(E) In the past Jones has had to make repairs to some of the house s exterior walls9. The play Mankind must have been written between 1431 and 1471. It cannot have been written before 1431 for in that year the rose noble, a coin mentioned in the play, was first circulated. The play cannot h
31、ave been written after 1471 since in that year King Henry VI died, and he is mentioned as a living monarch in the play s dedicationThe argument would be most seriously weakened if which one of the following were discovered?(A) The Royal Theatre Company includes the play on a list of those performed
32、in 1480(B) Another coin mentioned in the play was first minted in 1422(C) The rose noble was neither minted nor circulated after 1486(D) Although Henry VI was deposed in 1461, he was briefly restored to the throne in 1470(E) In a letter written in early 1428 a merchant told of having seen the design
33、 for a much-discussed new coin calle dthe rose nobleThe final conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?(A) Everything divisible is a material body(B) Nothing imperfect is indivisible(C) The spirit is divisible(D) The spirit is perfect(E) The spirit is either indivi
34、sible or imperfect11. Special kinds of cotton that grow fibers of green or brown have been around since the 1930s but only recently became commercially feasible when a long-fibered variety that can be spun by machine was finally bred Since the cotton need not be dyed processing plants avoid the expe
35、nse of dyeing and the ecological hazards of getting rid of icftover dye and by-productsWhich one fo the following can be properly inferred from the passage?(A) It is ecologically safer to process long-fibered cotton than short-fibered cotton(B) Green and brown cottons that cna the spun only by hand
36、are not commercially viable(C) Hand-spun cotton is more ecologically sate than machine-spun cotton(D) Short-fibered regular cottons are economically competitive with synthetic fabries(E) Garments made of green and brown cottons are less expensive than garments made of regular cotton12. People in the
37、 tourist industry know that excessive development of seaside areas by the industry damages the environment. Such development also hurts the tourist industry by making these areas unattractive to tourists a fact of which people in the tourist industry are well aware People in the tourist industry wou
38、ld never knowingly do anything to damage the industry. Therefore, they would never knowingly damage the seaside environment and people who are concerned about damage to the seaside people who are concerned about damage to the seaside environment thus have nothing to fear from the tourist industryThe
39、 reasoning in the arguments is most vulnerable to(A) No support is provided for the claim that excessive development hurts the tourist industry(B) That something is not the cause of a problem is used as evidence that it never coexists with that problem(C) The argument shifts from applving a characte
40、ristie to a few membets of a group to applying the character istie to all members of that group(D) The possibility that the tourist industry would unintentionally harm the environment is ignored(E) the argument establishes that a certain state of affairs is likely and then treats that as evidence th
41、at the state of affairs is inveitable13. Health officials claim that because the foods and beverages mentioned or consumed on many television programs are extremely low in nutritional value watching television has a bad influence on the dietary habits of television viewers.The claim by health offici
42、als depends on the presupposition that(A) the eagint and drinking habits of people on television programs are designed to mirror the eating and drinking habits of television viewers(B) seeing some foods and beverages being consumed on or hearing them mentioned on television programs mereases the lik
43、elihood that viewers will consume similar kinds of foods and beverages.(C) the food and beverage industry finances television programs so that the foods and beverages that have recently appeared on the market can be advertised on those programs(D) television viewers are only interested in the people
44、 on television programs who have the same eating and drinking habits as they do(E) the eating and drinking habits of people on television programs proclde health officerals with acctuate predictions about the foods and beverages that will become popular among television viewers14. In an effort to bo
45、ost sales during the summer months, which are typically the best for soft-drink sales Foamy Soda lowered its prices. In spite of this, however, the sales of Foamy Soda dropped during the summer months.Each of the following, if true, contributes to reconciling the apparent discrepancy indicated above
46、 EXCEPT:(A) The soft-drink industry as a whole experienced depressed sales during the summer months(B) Foamy Soda s competitors lowered their prices even more drastically during the summer months(C) Because of an increase in the price of sweeteners the production costs of Foamy Soda rose during the
47、summer months(D) A strike at Foamy Soda s main plant forced production cutbacks that resulted in many stores not receiving their normal shipments during the summer months(E) The weather during the summer months was unseasonably cool, decreasing the demand for soft drinks15. Dr. Z.Many of the charact
48、erizations of my work offered by Dr.Q are imprecise and such characterizations do not provide an adequate basis for sound criticism of my workWhich one of the following can be properly inferred from Dr. Z s statement?(A) Some or Dr Q s characterizations of Dr. Z s work provide an adequate basis for sound criticism of Dr. Z s work(B) All of Dr Q s characterizations of Dr. Z s work that are not imprecise provide an adequate basis f
