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Q1. Innovators are developing a new cutting machine that hopes to distinguish weeds from agricultural crops by use of the latest technology in sensors. The differences in shade of color will be the basis for making the distinction. In their pitch to venture capitalists, the innovators point to the ability to lower labor costs by completely removing the need for manual weeding. Which of the following is a consideration in favor of the company’s implementing its plan to develop the prototype? (A) Some plants change the shade of their color considerably as they grow. (B) When weeding may not be found necessary laborers engaged in that work can find other jobs in agriculture during the growing season. (C) While weeds are being removed manually, the prime consideration to identify them is the shape of the leaf and its overall size. (D) Genetic manipulation will allow any species of plants to be bred economically, so that it can have a distinctive shade, color and other characteristics remaining unaltered. (E) Different species of weeds show considerable variations in the shade of their color.
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Q2. While surgical tools are constantly being upgraded with the objective of making surgeries less invasive, a recent study has shown that in one out of every 300 cases, surgery performed using the power morcellator, a newly-developed tool used in treatment of uterine cancer, has actually resulted in the spread of the cancer in the patient’s body. However, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) plans to continue to allow the use of morcellators in oncological treatment as long as physicians stringently select the patients to whom such treatment is administered. Which of the following would be most useful in assessing the CDC’s plan? (A)Whether banning the use of a surgical tool is a drawn-out process as it requires multiple levels of authorization (B)Whether patients are aware of the risks associated with surgical procedures performed using minimally invasive techniques (C)Whether some patients will continue to benefit from surgical treatments performed using power morcellators. (D)Whether the effects of a surgical procedure can be determined before the procedure is performed. (E)Whether other surgical tools currently in use have been known to cause negative side effects, but have not been banned by the CDC.
CR Questions August - 13 :Q1. Oscar Publishing currently invites unsolicited manuscripts by authors of both academic textbooks and non-academic works of non-fiction. Since writers of academic textbooks usually adhere to prescribed curriculum’s, their manuscripts tend to be more structured than those produced by writers of non-academic works. Therefore, the CEO has recommended to the company’s board of directors that the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process.
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum’s adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
Difficulty - Hard
Q2. President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies and frequent the cinemas regularly, an activity that acts as a good source of revenue for our government. Setting up movie rental services within the country would cater to such people who would then have easier access to movies. However, setting up such services wouldn’t be of help to the economy since___________.
Which of the following statements most logically completes the argument?
A) movies that show a lot of violence are a bad influence on the young generation.
B) the available leisure time is not enough to cater to the increased movie watching and people will cut into their productive time to compensate for it.
C) nowadays, production of movies has become a costly endeavour with incommensurate returns on investment.
D) it is cheaper to run a movie rental business than to run a cinema theater .
E) movie rental services might encourage piracy of movies.
Difficulty - Hard