| Critical Reasoning Butler: November 2025 |
| November 21 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 For large pharmaceutical companies, the profit motive has long been a deterrent to the preparation of medicines that treat illnesses afflicting primarily people who cannot easily afford to pay for medicines. While diseases such as cholera and malaria claim millions of lives every year, medicines that the companies have developed and that can prevent these deaths are simply not made available for this purpose. Pharmaceutical companies have expressed essentially the same attitude toward preparing antidotes in the event of germ warfare.
The passage is structured to lead to which of the following conclusions?
(A) Large pharmaceutical companies fail to appreciate the potential dangers of germ warfare.
(B) The government must subsidize the preparation of germ-war antidotes in order to prevent a large-scale catastrophe.
(C) Potential victims of germ warfare cannot rely on large pharmaceutical companies for antidotes that might be needed during war.
(D) A victim of cholera or malaria is more likely to die from germ warfare than a person who has not contracted either disease.
(E) Large pharmaceutical companies do not have sufficient resources to develop antidotes for use in the event of germ warfare.
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CR 2 A reliable survey indicates that college graduates change employers four times on average during the first ten years after college graduation. Therefore, in order to avoid employee turnover, business administrators in charge of hiring new employees should favor job applicants who obtained college degrees at least ten years earlier.
The advice about how to avoid employee turnover rests on which of the following assumptions?
(A) Employee turnover among businesses that hire employees without college degrees is greater than among businesses that hire only employees with college degrees.
(B) Job changes within the same company are less common than job changes from one employer to another.
(C) Employees who graduated from college at least ten years ago change employers less frequently on average than other employees.
(D) Most employees who leave their jobs do so upon either request or demand of their employers rather than by their own initiative.
(E) The survey excluded college graduates who interrupted their vocational careers to pursue advanced academic degrees.