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Draw Logical Inferences - Exercise 2 - 098


Multiple Choice
Choose the statements (A, B, C, or D) which can definitely be inferred from each of the sentences below. The number of inferences that can be drawn will vary from item to item.
 

 1. 
The maps are accompanied by essays that describe what they illustrate but also go far beyond them.
 A.
It is more probable that the publication is an atlas than a collection of essays.
 C.
The maps tell more than the essays.
 B.
It is more probable that the publication is a collection of essays than an atlas.
 D.
The essays tell more than the maps.
 

 2. 
Chayefsky than moved into television writing and burst on the scene with the acclaimed Marty; when the show was turned into a movie, it won Chayefsky his first Academy Award.
 A.
Marty became a television show after its success as a film.
 C.
Chayefsky began his career as a television writer.
 B.
Chayefsky won more than one Academy Award.
 D.
Chayefsky was not known as a television writer before Marty.
 

 3. 
Buying the right tires and keeping them properly inflated can add considerable mileage to the life of your car; underinflation not only causes tire to wear out faster but also may waste gasoline and undercut performance.
 A.
Underinflating tires shortens their lives.
 C.
There may be many as four separate benefits from keeping tires properly inflated.
 B.
Underinflating tires always wastes gasoline.
 D.
The writer assumes that the most obvious effects of underinflation are gasoline waste and inferior performance.
 

 4. 
Like other assessments of the situation, Burke’s predictably and sensibly forecasts a rise in unemployment among the young.
 A.
The writer agrees with Burke’s forecast.
 C.
A number of predictions have been made in regard to the situation.
 B.
Burke expects overall unemployment to rise.
 D.
Other forecasters agree with Burke about unemployment among the young.
 

 5. 
The Sahara and Arabian deserts together cover an area almost three times the size of Europe.
 A.
Every European country is smaller than the Sahara or the Arabian desert.
 C.
Alone, either the Sahara or the Arabian desert is larger than Europe.
 B.
Europe is slightly less than one-third the size of the two deserts combined.
 D.
Europe is slightly more than one-third the size of the deserts combined.
 

 6. 
Apart from the obvious fact that rioters tend to come from the less well-off section of the community, there is no evidence that economic circumstances have any causal relationship with street violence.
 A.
There is some evidence for relating economic circumstances to street violence.
 C.
There is no evidence that economic circumstances result from street violence.
 B.
Not all the people in the community referred to are poor.
 D.
All rioters come from the poorer section of the community.
 

 7. 
Even those qualities from genes that are easy to splice into a plant cell, such as salt resistance, higher protein yield, and tolerance for heavy metals, may not be generally advertised in seed catalogues for years to come.
 A.
There are just three qualities from genes which are easy to splice into a plant cell.
 C.
There are at least three qualities from genes which can be spliced into a plant cell.
 B.
Scientists are already capable of splicing certain qualities from genes into a plant cell.
 D.
It will probably be a long time before qualities from genes, other than those mentioned, will be generally advertised in seed catalogues.
 

 8. 
Very occasionally a neutrino will collide with a neutron in a chloride nucleus, thus turning it into a proton and simultaneously converting the chlorine atom into radioactive argon.
 A.
Neutrinos are rare.
 C.
Such collisions result in the formation of protons.
 B.
Collisions between neutrons in chloride nuclei are rare.
 D.
Chlorine atoms are commonly transformed into argon.
 

 9. 
In this work the author takes on an analytical task which his style of writing appears less well adapted to than it was to the narrative theme of his other book.
 A.
The author has tried using more than one writing style.
 C.
The author has written two books in total.
 B.
The author writes about different kinds of subjects.
 D.
The author is a better analyst than storyteller.
 

 10. 
With the cadmium ban only months away, the largest chemical corporation in Sweden has already been experimenting with tin as a stabilizer in plastics, with results that are promising but, so far, inconclusive.
 A.
A Swedish company was the first to experiment with cadmium as a stabilizer in plastics.
 C.
The experiments with tin as a stabilizer are continuing.
 B.
Cadmium has been used as a stabilizer in plastics.
 D.
The largest existing chemical company is in Sweden.
 



 
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