Mr. Janeck: I don’t believe Stevenson will win the election for governor. Few voters are willing to elect a businessman with no political experience to such a responsible public office.

Ms. Siuzdak: You’re wrong. The experience of running a major corporation is a valuable preparation for the task of running a state government.

14. M. Siuzdak’s response shows that she has interpreted Mr. Janeck’s remark to imply which of the following?

A. Mr. Janeck considers Stevenson unqualified for the office of governor.

B. No candidate without political experience has ever been elected governor of a state.

C. Mr. Janeck believes that political leadership and business leadership are closely analogous.

D. A career spent in the pursuit of profit can be an impediment to one’s ability to run a state government fairly.

E. Voters generally overestimate the value of political experience when selecting a candidate

15. One tax-reform proposal that has gained increasing support in recent years is the flat tax, which would impose a uniform tax rate on incomes at every level. Opponents of the flat tax say that a progressive tax system, which levies a higher rate of taxes on higher-income taxpayers, is fairer, placing the greater burden on those better able to bear it. However, the present crazy quilt of tax deductions, exemptions, credits, and loopholes benefits primarily the high-income taxpayer, who is consequently able to reduce his or her effective tax rat, often to a level below that paid by the lower-income taxpayer. Therefore, -----------

15. Which of the following best completes the given passage?

A. higher-income taxpayers are likely to lend their support to the flat-tax proposal now being considered by Congress

B. a flat-tax system that allowed no deductions or exemptions would substantially increase actual government revenues

C. the lower-income taxpayer might well be D. the progressive nature of our present tax system is more illusory than real

E. the flat tax would actually be fairer to the lower-income taxpayer than any progressive tax system could be

16. As part of our program to halt the influx of illegal immigrants, the administration is proposing the creation of a national identity card. The card would be available only to US citizens and to registered aliens, and all persons would be required to produce the card before they could be given a job. Of course, such a system holds the potential, however slight, for the abuse of civil liberties. Therefore, all personal information gathered through this system would be held strictly confidential; to be released only by authorized personnel under appropriate circumstances. Those who are in compliance with US laws would have nothing to fear from the identity card system. er appropriate circumstances. Those who are in compliance with US laws would have nothing to fear from the identity card system.

16. In evaluating the given proposal, a person concerned about the misuse of confidential information would be most interested in having the author clarify the meaning of which of the following phrases?

A. “all persons”

B. “however slight”

C. “civil liberties”

D. “appropriate circumstances”

E. “US laws”

17. Each of the following statements, if true, would help to support the claim given EXCEPT:

A. An American camera company claims in its promotional literature to produce cameras “as fine as the best Swiss imports.”

B. An American maker of stereo components designs its products to resemble those of a popular Japanese firm.

C. An American manufacturer of video games uses a brand name chosen because it sounds like a Japanese word.

D. An American maker of televisions studies German-made televisions in order to adopt German manufacturing techniques.

E. An American maker of frozen foods advertises its dinners as “Real European style entree’s prepared by fine French and Italian chefs.”

18. Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson’s often indecipherable hand written punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never , made any definitive choice at all.

18. Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point?

A. Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.

B. Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions.

C. Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must urn counter to her intentions.

D. Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Deckinson’s poerty is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.

E. Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts.

Directions for questions 19-20 : Refer to the data below and answer the queations

In a certain code, 289 means read from paper; 276 means tea from field and 85 means wall paper.

19. Which of the following is code for tea?

A. 2

B. 6

C. either 2 or 6

D. either 2 or 7

E. either 7 or 6

20. Which of the following is code for paper?

A. 2

B. 8

C. 9

D. Cannot be determined

E. None of these