| Critical Reasoning Butler: August 2025 |
| August 1 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 The citizens of Country 777 pay very high prices for Internet connections. In 777, there is only one company that provides the installation of Internet infrastructures. Therefore, to serve the citizens, the government should encourage the introduction of competing companies in the field of Internet services.
The above conclusion is properly drawn if which of the following is assumed?
A. Citizens of Country 777 use the Internet frequently.
B. The government of 777 is more focused on health problems than on Internet infrastructures.
C. Internet infrastructures are complex and expensive to install.
D. A competitive market encourages companies to reduce prices.
E. There is only one Internet company in 777 because the others were unsuccessful and had to cease operations.
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CR 2 Scientists have discovered a gene that controls whether an individual is monogamous. They took a gene from the monogamous prairie vole and implanted it into its more promiscuous relative, the meadow vole. Thereafter, the meadow voles with the new gene became monogamous.
Which one of the following, if true, would provide the most support for the argument’s conclusion?
(A) Studies on humans and other mammals have shown that receptors for the hormone vasopressin play a role in autism, drug addiction, and the formation of romantic attachments.
(B) Prairie voles typically form lifelong partnerships, which scientists have linked to an increased number of receptors for the hormone vasopressin.
(C) Meadow voles live in a harsher environment than prairie voles and cannot afford to pass up opportunities to mate as often as possible.
(D) The scientists used a harmless virus to capture the gene and transfer it into the meadow voles.
(E) The meadow voles that had the prairie vole gene implanted in them were released into and observed in the same habitat in which they had previously lived.