n who have not had heart disease．
The argument above assumes which of the following？
(A)Many men who have never had heart disease have unusually low levels of testosterone．
(B)Having heart disease does not significantly lower the level of testosterone in men．
(C)Levels of hormones other than testosterone significantly affect the likelihood that a man
will develop heart disease．
(D)Heart disease and lowered testosterone levels in men are the effects of a single common cause．
(E)High levels of testosterone have never been thought to contribute to a serious disease other than heart disease
10.The time-out technique involves removing the child froman undesirable situation in order to let the child think things over．Over the last two decades, family doctors have been advocating this technique as preferable to spanking, which is now known to be potentially injurious
and no more effective．
10.Which of the following can properly be concluded from the data presented in the graph？
(A)The 1962 survey was based on a larger sample than the 1992 survey was．
(B)In the period between the surveys, denying television privileges was never the disciplinary
technique most popular with parents．
(C)The four disciplinary techniques featured in the graph were the only disciplinary techniques named by parents in either survey．
(D)The 1962 survey allowed parents to name more than one disciplinary technique, but the 1992
survey may not have allowed this．
(E)In the period between the surveys, there were no significant changes in the popularity of lecturing children as a disciplinary method．
11.People who engage in scuba diving arehealthier, on average, than people who do not engage in this activity．Therefore, scuba diving tends to promote improved health．
The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it
(A)presupposes that everyone who takes up scuba diving does so solely for health reasons
(B)leads to a further and falsifiable conclusion that no one can achieve good health without
engaging in scuba diving
(C)fails to point out that a small number of people are seriously injured in scuba diving accidents each year
(D)treats a precondition for improving one’s health as though it were something that by itself could ensure good health
(E)overlooks the possibility that people generally do not take up scuba diving unless they are in good health
Questions 12-15
An art museum owns six paintings by an eighteenth century painter．The paintings, listed in order by estimated value from lowest to highest, are F, G, H, S, T, and U．Paintings F, G, and H are landscapes. S, T, and U are portraits．At any one time, exactly three of the six
paintings are on exhibit, subject to the following restrictions:
The paintings on exhibit cannot all be landscapes．If the exhibit includes only one portrait, that portrait must be U．
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