【正文】 D) If the station39。058amp。s Advertisement:The Highway Traffic Safety Institute reports that the PZ 1000 has the fewest injuries per accident of any car in its class. This shows that the PZ 1000 is one of the safest cars available today.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the advertisement?(A) The Highway Traffic Safety Institute report listed many cars in other classes that had more injuries per accident than did the PZ 1000.(B) In recent years many more PZ 1000s have been sold than have any other kind of car in its class.(C) Cars in the class to which the PZ 1000 belongs are more likely to be involved in accidents than are other types of cars.(D) The difference between the number of injuries per accident for the PZ 1000 and that for other cars in its class is quite pronounced.(E) The Highway Traffic Safety Institute issues reports only once a year.9. (24749!item!188。001426)Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the amount that is absorbed by plant life. One plan to acplish this is to establish giant floating seaweed farms in the oceans. When the seaweed plants die, they will be disposed of by being burned for fuel.Which of the following, if true, would indicate the most serious weakness in the plan above?(A) Some areas of ocean in the Southern Hemisphere do not contain sufficient nutrients to support large seaweed farms.(B) When a seaweed plant is burned, it releases an amount of carbon dioxide parable to the amount it has absorbed in its lifetime.(C) Even if seaweed farms prove effective, some people will be reluctant to switch to this new fuel.(D) Each year about seven billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere but only about five billion tons are absorbed by plant life.(E) Seaweed farms would make more money by farming seaweed to sell as nutritional supplements than by farming seaweed to sell as fuel.10. (25259!item!188。001774)Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.Brad: There must be another explanation: as you yourself said, the decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals. Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer39。058amp。s new wine was introduced to pete with our most popular wine, which is sold in a distinctive tall, black bottle. Danville uses a similar bottle. Thus, it is likely that many customers intending to buy our wine will mistakenly buy theirs instead.Danville Winery: Not so. The two bottles can be readily distinguished: the label on ours, but not on theirs, is gold colored.Which of the following, if true, most undermines Danville Winery39。s bottle is perceptibly taller than Mourdet Winery39。s label prominently in advertisements.(D) It is mon for occasional purchasers to buy a bottle of wine on the basis of a general impression of the most obvious feature of the bottle.(E) Many popular wines are sold in bottles of a standard design.12. (25359!item!188。001894)Finding of a survey of Systems magazine subscribers: Thirty percent of all merchandise orders placed by subscribers in response to advertisements in the magazine last year were placed by subscribers under age thirtyfive.Finding of a survey of advertisers in Systems magazine: Most of the merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by people under age thirtyfive.For both of the findings to be accurate, which of the following must be true?(A) More subscribers to Systems who have never ordered merchandise in response to advertisements in the magazine are age thirtyfive or over than are under age thirtyfive.(B) Among subscribers to Systems, the proportion who are under age thirtyfive was considerably lower last year than it is now.(C) Most merchandise orders placed in response to advertisements in Systems last year were placed by Systems subscribers over age thirtyfive.(D) Last year, the average dollar amount of merchandise orders placed was less for subscribers under age thirtyfive than for those age thirtyfive or over.(E) Last year many people who placed orders for merchandise in response to advertisements in Systems were not subscribers to the magazine.13. (26741!item!188。002910)Which of the following most logically pletes the argument?United States manufacturers currently produce most of the world39。058amp。s lung function, as measured by the amount of air the person can expel in one second. The lung function of smokers is significantly worse, on average, than that of nonsmokers. Clearly, therefore, one way for smokers to improve their lung function is for them to increase their intake of foods that are rich in these helpful vitamins and minerals.Which of the following is an assumption on which this argument depends?(A) Smokers are less likely than nonsmokers to have diets that are rich in vitamins and minerals.(B) The lung function of smokers whose diets are rich in those vitamins and minerals is generally better than that of nonsmokers with parable diets.(C) People whose diets are deficient in those vitamins and minerals do not typically have other health problems in addition to diminished lung function.(D) Stopping smoking will not typically improve lung function more than any diet changes can.(E) Smoking does not introduce into the body chemicals that prevent the helpful vitamins and minerals from entering the bloodstream.15. (26883!item!188。002985) [GWD 29Q28]Astronomer: Observations of the ShoemakerLevi et