| Critical Reasoning Butler: May 2025 |
| May 28 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 Which of the following best completes the passage below?
Those who suggest that higher education should be offered to all for free are wrong. The cost of providing higher education will most likely be more than its benefits. Many vocational jobs require apprenticeships and in-house training, rather than a college degree. In fact, this would likely further exacerbate the unemployment issue, since ___________________.
(A) there would be no way for government to recover the extra money that it has spent on providing free higher education
(B) there are more vocational jobs available currently than jobs requiring higher education
(C) there would simply be more qualified candidates vying for the same number of jobs
(D) the sole purpose of higher education should not be to get jobs
(E) the population of people in the working age group is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years
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CR 2 Modern renditions of classic novels such as Ulysses can sometimes not be appropriate for reading by children or young adults because of the amount of inappropriate content that is added to these novels by the publishers. However, ABC publishers do not add any inappropriate content to their novels. Therefore, parents who want their children to enjoy literary classics. yet at the same time wish to keep their children away from inappropriate content, can buy them books published by ABC publishers.
Which of the following most strengthens the above argument?
(A) Apart from inappropriate content, ABC publishers do not add anything else to their books that might make these books unsuitable for reading by children.
(B) ABC Publishers is one of the most reputed publishing houses in the country known for its strong ethical and moral code.
(C) Some inappropriate content might not be as bad for children as some other.
(D) The literary classics published by ABC publishers do not by themselves contain any inappropriate content that parents do not wish to expose their children to.
(E) Children are not exposed to inappropriate content from other sources apart from books.