GRE出国考试的试题：GRE北美试题10

    23. A presidential candidate argues that the best way to fight inflation and unemployment is for the federal government to increase taxes and use the increased revenues for the creation of new jobs. His vice-presidential candidate has argued that the best way to fight inflation and unemployment is for the federal government to cut taxes and thereby encourage the private sector to create new jobs. The vice-presidential candidate says he can accept his running mate's position because they both favor creating new jobs to fight inflation and unemployment.
    The vice-presidential candidate minimizes his differences with the presidential candidate by
    (A) confusing their two different approaches for fighting inflation and unemployment with one another
    (B) ignoring the difficulty in implementing the presidential candidate's proposes solution
    (C) suggesting that there are different ways to fight inflation and unemployment
    (D) implying that they will be able to work together
    (E) claiming that they both have the same goal
    24. The consumer and the general taxpayer subsidize the automobile in many ways that may at first be overlooked. They pay for traffic signals, extra police officers, pollution cleanup, and traffic engineering departments. They also pay when the cost of purchasing and maintaining land for parking space is added into a store's overhead and becomes a factor in determining the prices that the store will charge.
    Which of the following sentences would provide the most logical conclusion for this paragraph?
    (A) People who demand public subsidy of underground mass transportation are asking for an unprecedented kind of support.
    (B) Because only the automobile incurs hidden expenses, this country should support underground mass transit systems.
    (C) People who expect underground mass transit systems to operate without subsidy, therefore, are not being realist.
    (D) Increasing emphasis on underground mass transportation, therefore, will change our style of life in ways we cannot even imagine.
    (E) People who expect underground mass transit systems to gradually supplant out reliance on the automobile are not being realistic.
    25. People who advocate gun control often do so because they think that potentially harmful weapons should be registered with proper authorities; but would they also be in favor of registering kitchen knives, crowbars, and even people's hands?
    Which of the following parallels the method of argumentation above but argues for an opposing view?
    (A) If potentially harmful weapons like guns do not need to be registered, then why can citizens not posses their own atom bombs without government regulation?
    (B) If the ownership of guns is controlled through a system of registration, would it not be harder for criminals to purchase and use such weapons?
    (C) Since the Second Amendment guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, would it not be unconstitutional for that right to be limited, even by the government?
    (D) Since the government issues many regulations governing ordinary activities, why should it not regulate a serious activity like the use of handguns and rifles?
    (E) If the government requires that guns be registered, then what is to stop it from requiring that hunting bows, spears, and even fishing rods be registered?