| Critical Reasoning Butler: March 2025 |
| March 6 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 Most gourmet chefs enter the restaurant industry, intending to create innovative new recipes and regard those with similar motivations as their colleagues. Thus, when a chef becomes famous for providing simple culinary advice to a general audience, most other chefs come to the conclusion that this celebrity should not be considered a true colleague any longer.
The explanation offered above for the low regard in which celebrity chefs are held by gourmet chefs assumes that
A) gourmet food preparation is not a solitary activity, but relies on active cooperation among a group of colleagues
B) gourmet chefs usually do not see those chefs whose fame they envy, as colleagues
C) it is possible that a chef becomes a famous celebrity without having created an innovative new recipe
D) those who are not chefs cannot accurately evaluate or understand innovative recipes
E) gourmet chefs believe that chefs famous for providing simple culinary advice are not interested in creating innovative new recipes
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CR 2 Intending to become self-sufficient in energy production, the government of Taggar has issued minimum energy efficiency requirements for all household appliances, electric vehicles, lighting fixtures, and all other electric devices. About eighty percent of the total electricity produced in Taggar is generated from fuel. The more energy-efficient an electric device is, the less fuel is needed to power it over time. As Taggarans replace their old electric devices with ones compliant with the new requirements, annual consumption of fuel for energy generation is likely to decrease in Taggar.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. In Taggar, domestically produced energy is more expensive than imported energy.
B. The Taggaran government did not institute the new energy-efficiency requirements for the purpose of fuel conservation.
C. Taggarans who get more energy-efficient electric devices tend to use them more than they did the older devices.
D. The new regulations need no specific change in the composition of materials used to construct electric devices in Taggar.
E. Some energy-efficiency measurement devices mandated in Taggar indicate electric devices to be less energy-efficient than the devices actually are.