Critical reasoning ------------------ - Critical reasoning:section3 20marks 20 min. 1.My father has no brothers. he has thrre sisters who has two childs each. My grand father has two sons. Which of the following is true? A)thrre of my aunts have two sons. B)My father is only child to his father C)I have 6 cousins from my mother side.D)I have one uncle. 2.Ether injected into gallblader to dissolve galstones. This type one day treatment is enough for galstones no tfor calcium stones. This method is alternative to surgery for millions of people who are suffering from this disease. Which of the following is true? A) Calcium stones can be cured in one day B) hundreds of people contain calcium stones C) Surgery is the only treatment to calcium stones. D)Collestoral galstones can be cured in one day. 3.Hacking is illegal entry into other computer. This is done mostly because of knowledge of computer neworking with networks. One m/c can access to another m/c. Hacking go about without knowing that each network is accredited to use network facility. Which of the following is true? A)Hacking is due to lack of computer knowledge B) Hacking is appreciable C) computer networking is an important course. D) none of the above. 4.Alphine tunnels are closed tunnels. In the past thirty years not even a single accident has been recorded for there is one accident rail road system. Even in case opf a fire accident it is possible to shift the passengers into adgjacent vagans and even to living fire can be detected and extinguish with inthe duration of thirty min. Which of the following is true? A)No accident can occur in the closed tunnels.B)Fire is allowed to live for thirty min. C) passengers are (pl. check with yr. paper) D)none of the above 5.In the past helecopters are forced to ground or crash because of the formation of the ice on the rotors and the engines. A new electronic device has been developed which can detect the water content in the atmosphere and warns the pilot if the temp. is below freezing temp. about the formation of the ice on the rotors and wings. Which of the following is true? A)The electronic device can avoid formation of the ice on the wings. B)it is the only instrument detects the formation of the ice.C)indicate whether helecopter is crashed or grounded.D)none of the above. 6.In the survey conducted in mubai out of 63 newly married house wives. not a single house wife felt that the husbands should take equal part in the house hold work . As they felt they lose their power over their husbands.Inspite of their carriers opt to do the kitchen work themselves after coming back to home. The wivews get half as much leisure time as their husbands get at the week ends. Which of the following is true? A)House wives want hteir husbands to take part equally in the house hold B) B)Wives have half as much leisure time as the husbands have.C) in mumbai housewives want to dominate husbands. D) house wives hate husbands. 7.In confusius day the technology development was less and it took weeks to communicate a message. Wherein we can send it through satellite within no time. even with this fast development it has become difficult to understand each other. Which of the following is true. A) people were not intellegent during confusius days.B)people are happy in the present days. C)transportation is well developed in the present days D) people understand each other very much. 8 to 11: To obtain a govt. post in the republic of malabar you must either be a member of the ruling independence party or a personal associate of president zamir. party members seeking govt. posts must either give a substacial donation in gold bullion to the party campaign fund or make a televised speech dennouncing president zamir's political enemies. Gold bullion may be purchased only at the national bank which does business only withthose who have been certified asa politically sound by the minister of the justice. Only those who either have been certified as politically sound by the minister of the justice or have three hundred hours of service to the independence party are allowed to make political speeches on television. TO become a personal associate of president zamir, you must either give a substantial donation in gold bullion to the presidents personal expence account or performed personal services for a member of his immediate family . Before appointing a personal associate to the govt. post. president zamir always checks to make to sure that he or she has been certified as politically sound by the minister of justice. 8. Mr. Mazir is a member of independence party to abtain a govt. post his next step must be either A)be certified as politically sound by the minister of justice or give a substantial donation in gold bullion to the parties campaign fund. B)Donate 300hrs. of service to the independence or give a substatial donation in gold to bullion to the president's personal expense account C)To be certified as political sound by the minister of justice or donate 300hrs. of service to the party. D)Perform personal services to a member of pesident Zamir's immediate family, or make televised speech dennouncing the president's political enemies. 9.All those who wish to obtain govt. posts must 1.become personal associate of president Zamir. 2.be certified as politically sound by the minster of justice. 3.purchase gold bullion at the national bank. A)1 only B)2 only C) 2 and 3 only. D) neither 1, 2 and 3 10.Mr.RAzim has been certified as politically sound by the minister of justice. He may obtain the govt. post immediately only if he A)has donated 300hrs. of service to the independence party B)is allowed to make political speeches on T.V. C) is a member of independence party D) is a personal associate of president Zamir. 11.Because of financial crises the national bank is closed indefinately those who wish to obtain govt. posts during this period must A) either perform some kind of services or make televised speeches denouncing president Zamirs political eniemes. B. become members of independence party. C) Donate 300 hrs of service of the independence party D)Become a personal associate of president Zamir 12.If elaine is on the streeing commite then she is on the central committe.This statement can be logically deduced from which of the following statements A) All the members of the central committe are on the steering committe.B)elaine is on either the central committe or on the steering committe. C) Every who is on the sterring committe is also on the central committe D) some members of the cerntral committe are on the steering committe. 13.Frank must be a foot ball player. he is wearing a football jersey. The conclusion above is valid only it is true that A)foot ball players often wear foot ball jersey B)all football players wear foot ball jercies. C)football players never wear nay other kind of shirt other than football jercies. D)only football players wear football jercies. 14.Todasy's high school students are being educated , they are being trained. Their teachers demand little of them other than that they memorize facts and follow directions. The current amphosis on training in basic maths and verbal skills, while a useful step rarely leads to essential second step: development of independent critical thinking The author would probably consider which of the following aspects of students term paper to be most praise worthy? A)the choice of a challenging topic B) the use of gramatically correct sentence structure C)evidence of extensive research prior to writing D)evidence of original insights in freshly developoed concepts. 15.In recommending to the board of trusties a tuition increase of $500 per year, the president of the university said :"there were no student demonstrations over the previous increases of $300 last year and $200 the year before". If the president's statement is accurate , Which of the following can be validly inferred from the information given. 1.most students in previous years felt that the increases were justified because increased operating costs 2.students apathy was responsible for the failure of students to protest the previous tuition increases. 3.students are not likely to demonstrate over the new tuition increase. A)1 only B)2 only C) 1or2 but not both D) neither 1,2,nor 3 16.A meadow in spring time is beautiful , even if noone is there is appreciate it. The statement above would be logical rebuttal to which of following claims? A)people will see only what they want to see. B)beauty is only skin deep C)there is no accounting for taste. D)beauty exists only in the eye of the beholder. 17.Since it is possible that substances conatained in certain tree roots may provide a cure for cancer. the govt. must provide sufficient funds to allow thorough testing of this possibility. The argument above assumes that A)Substances contained certain tree roots willprobably cure cancer. B)The line research mentioned offers at present the promisive possibility for finding a cure for cancer. C)The possibility of finding a cure is sufficient reason for finding reasearch into possible cancer cures. D)A cure for cancer would be extremely valuable to society. 18.19>> In 1978 thomas mathus published "Essay on papulation" in which he postulated the food supply can never keep pace with the rate of increase in the human in papulation. 18> which of the following statements if true would tend to weaken Mathues argument ? 1. The total population of humans has raisen at a rapid rate or partly because of the removal of natural checks on papulation. 2. In many nations the increase in human population has far outstripped the food producing capacity. 3> Human population growth may be halted by the use of contraception. 4. For many ethuic and religious groups artificial control of concepction is morally unacceptable. A) 1 only B) 1 and 2 C) 2 and 4 only D) 3 only. 19. Which of the follwing would be most likely to help limit the demands placed on food supplys A) wars B) conservation of natural resources. C) Better farming methods D) improved disease control 20. Most people who take the experimental medicine GRE / APT develop headaches: therefore if alice does not take GRE/APT, she will probably not develop headaches The argument above most resembles which of the following? A) most dobermans are easy to train ,so both is sure to have no troble training the doberman she has just bought. B) most US built cars are poorly made;since this car is well made it was probably not built in US. C) most broad way plays are very well acted so the logic game ,which is not a broad way play ,is probably not well acted. D) most engineeres spent many years in school so sharon who has spent many years in school is probably an engneer. ANSWER KEY FOR SECTION #3 CRITICAL REASONING ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-B; 2-D;3-A;4-A;5-C;6-C;7-C;8-C;9-D;10-D;11-A;12-C;13-D;14-D;15-B;16-D;17-C 18-D;19-A;20-C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------