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Part V: Practice-Review-Analyze-Practice
C. enable anthropologists to date
northern European sites.
D. enable anthropologists to date sites
in Africa and Asia more accurately.
E. assist the study of the development
of modern birds from ancient
species.
Read the passage below and answer the
question that follows.
According to a recent study, sixty percent of
the men and women called for jury duty in
Middlesex County believe that a person
should be presumed innocent until proven
guilty. Sixty-five percent of the same group
said that if a person has been indicted by a
grand jury, that person is likely to be guilty.
47. This information could be best used to
support an argument that
A. the jury system is the fairest way of
dealing with people accused of
crimes.
B. either the grand jury system or the
jury system should be
discontinued.
C. accused persons can depend upon
the jury’s presuming them to be
innocent at the outset of their trials.
D. juries are prejudiced by a grand
jury’s indictments.
E. trial before a judge without a jury
is fairer to the accused than trial
before a jury.
Read the passage below and answer the
three questions that follow.
A unicorn is a mythical beast, you say. Oh,
no, it isn’t. There’s one on display right now
in New York, during the Madison Square
Garden appearance of the Ringling Brothers,
Barnum and Bailey Circus. This circus
unicorn is a billy goat with a black polished
horn growing straight from the center of his
forehead. It appears the goat’s horns were
fused together in infancy. The operation is
said to be painless. The unicorn is really getting
the goat of officials from the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. They want to know where he came
from so they can stop any future “creations.”
Actually, the ASPCA arrives to the rescue
rather late. Unicorns have been in the news
for several years, appearing at carnivals and
festivals. One of the first modern-day unicorns
was created in 1933 by Dr. W. Franklin
Dove at the University of Maine. Dr. Dove
transplanted the horn buds of a day-old
Ayrshire bull calf from the side of its head to
the center. In later life, the horn proved to be
a great weapon, and the dairy bull became
the leader of the herd.
Powdered unicorn horns were valued in ancient
times as an antidote to poison. The
powder also was considered a cure for
epilepsy, plague, hydrophobia, drunkenness,
and worms. Julius Caesar believed in unicorns,
as did Pliny and Aristotle. In ancient
days, hunters were convinced that unicorns
were suckers for purity and beauty. They
would station a young virgin in the center of
a forest glen. Soon a unicorn would approach
and put his head meekly in her lap. That was
the way they captured unicorns in the old
days. It must have worked, because one
doesn’t see too many unicorns around.
48. Which of the following can be inferred
from the preceding passage?
A. Unicorns were proven to have
existed many years ago.
B. The ASPCA wants to protect
unicorns.
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