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MINI-TEST
Time: 75 Minutes for Entire Mini-Test
Section I: Reading
14 Questions
Directions: A question or number of questions follow each of the statements or passages in
this section. Using only the stated or implied information given in the statement or passage, answer
the question or questions by choosing the best answer from among the five choices given.
Make sure to mark your answers for this section in the Reading section of your answer sheet.
Read the passage below and answer the
two questions that follow.
The new vehicle inspection program is
needed to protect the quality of the state’s air,
for us and for our children. Auto exhausts are
a leading contributor to coughing, wheezing,
choking, and pollution. The state’s long-term
interests in the health of its citizens and in
this area as a place to live, work, and conduct
business depend on clean air.
1. Which of the following is an unstated
assumption made by the author?
A. Working and conducting business
may be different activities.
B. The state has been interested in the
health of its citizens even before
this inspection program was
proposed.
C. Exhaust emissions contribute to
pollution.
D. The new inspection program will
be effective.
E. Our ancestors did not suffer from
air pollution.
2. Which of the following, if true, would
most seriously weaken the preceding
argument?
A. Since smog devices were made
mandatory automotive equipment
by the existing inspection program
three years ago, pollution has
decreased dramatically and
continues to decrease.
B. Pollution problems are increasing
in other states as well as in this one.
C. Sometimes coughing, wheezing,
and choking are caused by
phenomena other than pollution.
D. Vehicle inspectors are not always
careful.
E. The state should not impose its
interests upon the citizenry but
should instead allow public health
to be regulated by private
enterprise.
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