23. Recent data from the Center for Disease Control indicate a decline in the reported instances of disease Q. This decline is surprising, because it follows a period in which the formerly obscure Q received a great deal of publicity in the news media.
Which of the following, if assumed by the author to be true, would provide the most logical explanation of the author's surprise at the reported decline?
(A) Increased public awareness of a disease usually stimulates efforts to eradicate the disease.
(B) Increased public awareness of a disease usually leads to an increase in reported instances of the disease.
(C) An obscure disease may sometimes receive a great deal of publicity even though doctors have begun to suspect that the disease no longer exists.
(D) The Center for Disease Control typically concerns itself only with diseases that are of public importance.
(E) It is unusual for the reported instances of a disease to decline sharply after a long period of stability.
24. Husbands of wage-earning women spend, on the average, the same amount of time on housework as do husbands of women who do not earn wages: eleven hours per week.
Husbands of wage-earning women perform household tasks on more occasions than do husbands of women who do not earn wages.
If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn?
(A) The average time spent per occasion of performing individual household tasks is less for husbands of wage-earning women than it is for husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(B) Husbands of wage-earning women report a higher rate of participation in household tasks than is actually the case, because they overestimate the number of times they do housework.
(C) On the average, husbands of wage-earning women allocate a little more time to housework per month than do husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(D) There is no difference in the patterns of time spent on household tasks by husbands of wage-earning women and by husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(E) Husbands of wage-earning women participate more often in tasks that are completed in a short time than they do in tasks that take a long time to complete.
25. Most canvases used by artists in the preindustrial United States were imported from Europe, but the wooden stretchers on which the canvas was mounted were always made from American wood. Retailers of art supplies, both in the United States and Europe, often stamped blank canvases with their names and addresses. Completed painting brought from Europe to America were frequently taken off their European stretchers for shipping and remounted on American stretchers after their arrival.
A cultural historian could legitimately use the information in the passage above in establishing that a painting of that era done on
(A) canvas sold by a European retailer and mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting
(B) canvas sold by an American retailer and mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting
(C) canvas sold by an American retailer and not mounted on a stretcher is probably not an American painting
(D) unmarked canvas mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting
(E) unmarked canvas that is not mounted on a stretcher is probably not an American painting
Questions 1-7
A disc jockey is planning a new format for her program, which has eight slots numbered one through eight, consecutively. The program must consist of the following eight segments: one weather report, two commercials, one sports report, and four records, not necessarily in the order given. Each of these eight segments must be aired only once during the program according to the following conditions:
The two commercials cannot be aired consecutively.
The program must begin with either a commercial or the weather report and must end with either a commercial or the weather report.
1. Which of the following is a possible assignment of segments for the radio program to slots one through eight, respectively?
(A) Commercial, record, weather report, record, sports report, record, record, commercial
(B) Record, record, commercial, commercial, record, record, sports report, weather report
(C) Record, sports, report, commercial, record, weather report, record, commercial, record
(D) Weather report, record, commercial, record, sports report, record, commercial, record
(E) Weather report, record, record, sports report, record, record, commercial, commercial
2. If the weather report is aired in slot one, each of the following could be the slot occupied by one of the commercials EXCEPT
(A) two
(B) three
(C) four
(D) five
(E) seven
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