KUIS 4 BRAINSTORMERS

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

• Because they make a small number of precision instruments, gauge manufacturers cannot receive volume discounts on raw materials

• Lowering wages would reduce the quality of employee work, and this reduced quality would lead to lowered sales

• Jones Industries has taken away 20 percent of Shelby Industries’ business over the last year

• Shelby Industries pays its employees, on average, 10 percent more than does Jones Industries

• Many people who work for manufacturing plants live in areas in which the manufacturing plant they work for is the only industry

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest justification for the company’s decision?

• Patients often register dissatisfaction with physicians who prescribe nothing for their ailments

• Physicians often prescribe special procedures that are helpful but not altogether necessary for the health of the patient

• The review process is expensive and practically always results in approval of the prescribed procedure

• The company’s review process does not  interfere with the prerogative of physicians, in cases where more than one effective procedure is available, to select the one they personally prefer

• The number of members of the company appointed review panel who review a given procedure depends on the cost of the procedure

What is the synonym of the phrasal verbs “clamped down”?

• Cut down

• Punished

• Gave warning

• Nailed down

• Thigted up

What can we infer from the text?

• Reselling tickets should be banned, just as what Ed Sheeran did

• We should not be paying foer tickets sold at much higher fares

• It is illegal to resell tickets in UK

• It is the seller’s own risk if the price they put on is considered expensive

• Re-sale sites are not responsible for anything

Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?

• The historical backgrounds of two currently used research methods are chronicled

• The validity of the data collected by using two different research methods is compared

• The usefulness of a research method is questioned and then a new method is proposed

• The use of a research method is described and the limitations of the results obtained are discussed

• A research method is evaluated and the changes necessary for its adaptation to other subject areas are discussed

Which of the following is most similar to the actions of nineteenth-century ethnologists in their editing of the life stories of Native Americans?

• Awitness in a jury trial invokes the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid relating personally incriminating evidence

• A stockbroker refuses to divulge the source of her information on the possible future increase in a stock’s value

• A sports announcer describes the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar

• A chef purposely excludes the special ingredient from the recipe of his prizewinning dessert

• A politician fails to mention in a campaign speech the similarities in the positions held by her opponent for political office and by herself

Information in the passage suggests that which of the following may be a possible way to eliminate bias in the editing of life stories?

• Basing all inferences made about the culture on an ethnological theory

• Eliminating all of the emotion laden information reported by the informant

• Translating the informant’s words into the researcher’s language

• Reducing the number of questions and carefully specifying the content of the questions that the investigator can ask the informant

• Reporting all of the information that the informant provides regardless of the investigator’s personal opinion aboutits intrinsic value

According to the passage, collecting life stories can be a useful methodology because ....

• Life stories provide deeper insights into a culture than the hypothesizing of academics who are not members of that culture

• Life stories can be collected easily and they are not subject to invalid interpretations

• Ethnologists have a limited number of research methods from which to choose

• Life stories make it easy to distinguish between the important and unimportant features of a culture

• The collection of life stories does not require a culturally knowledgeable investigator

• (1), (2), dan (3) SAJA yang benar

• (1) dan (3) SAJA yang benar

• (1) dan (4) SAJA yang benar

• HANYA (4) yang benar

• SEMUA pilihan benar

Berdasarkan informasi yang diberikan, manakah hubungan yang benar antara kuantitas P dan Q? (lihat gambar)

• Kuantitas P lebih kecil daripada kuantitas Q

• Kuantitas P lebih besar daripada kuantitas Q

• Kuantitas P sama dengan kuantitas Q

• Informasi yang diberikan tidak cukup untuk memutuskan hubungan kuantitas P dan Q