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GMAT - Critical Reasoning - Test 4

GMAT - Critical Reasoning - Test 4

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1. Which of the following best completes the passage below? the most serious flaw in television's coverage of election campaigns is its tendency to focus on the horse-race side of politics?that is, to concentrate on the question ?Who's winning?? at the expense of substantive coverage of the issues and the candidates' positions on them. The endless interviews with campaign managers, discussions of campaign strategies, and, especially, the obsession with opinion polls have surrounded elections with the atmosphere of a football game or a prizefight. To reform this situation, a first step might well be______

A. a shortening of the length of election campaigns to a period of six weeks

B. a stringent limit on campaign spending

C. a reduction in the television coverage of opinion polls during election campaigns

D. the publication and distribution of voter-education literature to inform the public about each candidate's position on the major issues

E. a limit on the length and number of political advertisements broadcast on television

2. With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000). Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?

A. Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.

B. If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.

C. By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.

D. If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.

E. Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.