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GRE Critical Reasoning
Assumption
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주장을 약화시키는 문장을 찾는 문제
주어진 주장문을 뒷받침해서
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글의 종류:
문제 유형:
The Dvorak keyboard requires less finger
1. Which of the following, if true, most
movement than the ubiquitous QWERTY
keyboard,. As a result, Dvorak keyboard
users are not only able to type more
words per minute, but are also less
vulnerable to both repetitive stress
disorder and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Nonetheless, businesses, as well as
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consumers, have not adopted the Dvorak
keyboard. Clearly, if the Dvorak
keyboard is to become more widely used,
its benefits must be more widely touted.
(A) The initial cost of manufacturing a
Dvorak keyboard will be more
expensive than that of a QWERTY
keyboard.
(B) Many who have attempted using a
Dvorak keyboard claim that learning the
configuration of keys takes weeks
(C) Those suffering from repetitive stress
injuries often attribute the injuries to
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(D) Businesses that have educated
employees on the benefits of the Dvorak
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글의 종류:
문제 유형:
For the past two years at FasCorp, there
has been a policy to advertise any job
opening to current employees and to give
no job to an applicant from outside the
company if a FasCorp employee applies
who is qualified for the job. This policy
has been strictly followed, yet even
though numerous employees of FasCorp
have been qualified for any given entrylevel position, some entry-level jobs have
been filled with people from outside the
company.
2. If the information provided is true, which
of the following must on the basis of it
also be true about FasCorp during the
past two years?
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(A) There have been some open jobs for
which no qualified FasCorp employee
applied.
(B) Some entry-level job openings have not
been advertised to FasCorp employees.
(C) The total number of employees has
increased.
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글의 종류:
문제 유형:
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3. Which of the following, if true, helps
Despite the fact that the health-inspection
procedures for catering establishments
are more stringent than those for ordinary
restaurants, more of the cases of food
explain the apparent paradox in the
statement above?
(A) A significantly larger number of people
poisoning reported to the city health
department were brought on by banquets
served by catering services than were
brought on by restaurant meals.
eat in restaurants than attend catered
banquets in any given time period.
(B) Catering establishments know how many
people they expect to serve, and
therefore are less likely than restaurants
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글의 종류:
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Consumer Advocate: Certain infant
playmats recently imported into the U.S.
have been identified as containing
4. Which of the following, if true, casts the
phthalate, a compound toxic to brain
(A) A majority of playmats that are
most doubt on the consumer advocate’s
position?
development in infants. In order to remove
the threat of phthalate exposure, the
government should demand that all
imported playmats be subject to more
currently in use in the United States do
not contain phthalate.
(B) Phthalate can also cause reproductive
harm to those expectant mothers who
rigorous controls.
come in contact with it.
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some parents to find playmats that are
manufactured domestically.
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글의 종류:
문제 유형:
From 2005 to 2009, over 80% of
graduates from Zenith University have
5. Which of the following, if true, would
been able to secure employment within
their first six weeks of graduation.
(A) The economy has been doing well,
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though analysts forecast that there will
Prospective engineering students should
therefore choose Zenith University,
especially if they want to be employed
upon graduating.
be a recession that cold last for as long
as five years.
(B) Since 2005, the number of jobs for
engineers has not significantly
decreased.
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were not employed six months after
graduating from Zenith University.
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글의 종류:
문제 유형:
In August, the Williamstown main city
parking garage was completely full every
single day of the month. This phenomenon
indicates that the main city parking
garage in Williamstown is a popular
place for parking. Therefore, the
Williamstown parking garage will be full
every day of the month for September.
6. Which of the following, if true, cast the
most doubt on the conclusion above?
(A) Capeville, a neighboring city, has only
one parking garage, though it was not
filled every day of the month.
(B) In July, the Williamstown parking
garage was fully every day of the
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(C) Williamstown is popular beach town
and tourists across the nation flock to its
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rock festival, which will feature
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(E) The Grand Hotel, a popular hotel in
Williamstown, expects to have a full
garage the entire month of September.
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Sample Question 1.
In recent years many furniture makers have
Which of the following is an assumption that
been winning acclaim as artists. But since
supports drawing the conclusion above from
furniture must be useful, they must exercise
the reason given for that conclusion?
their craft with an eye to the practical utility
of their product. For this reason, furniture-
A. Artists are not concerned with the
monetary value of their products.
making is not art.
B. Furniture makers should be more
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concerned with the practical utility of their
products than they currently are.
C. An object is not an art object if its maker
pays attention to the object’s practical
utility.
D. Some furniture is made to be placed in
museums, where it will not be used by
anyone.
E. Some furniture makers are more concerned
than others with the practical utility of the
products they produce.
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Sample Question 2.
If the country continues to collect residential
Which of the following is an assumption made
trash at current levels, landfills will soon be
in drawing the conclusion above?
overflowing and parkland will need to be
A. Landfills outside the country’s borders
used in order to create more space.
Charging each household a fee for each
could be used as dumping sites for the
country’s trash.
pound of trash it puts out for collection will
B. The beauty of the country parkland is an
induce residents to reduce the amount of
important issue for most of the country’s
residents.
trash they create; this charge will therefore
protect the remaining country parkland.
C. The collection fee will not significantly
affect the purchasing power of most
residents, even if their household do not
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reduce the amount of trash they put out.
D. The collection fee will not induce residents
to dump their trash in the parklands
illegally.
E. Residents will reduce the amount of trash
they put out for collection by reducing the
number of products they buy.
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