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1、2021GAMT考试考前冲刺卷本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.The people who are least likely to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service this year are those who have been audited since 1985 and who were found to have made no mistakes in filing their returns during tha

2、t audit.Of the following people, who is MOST likely to be audited by the IRS?A：A person who was audited in 1986 but was not found to have made any mistakes in filing his return.B：A person who was audited in 1986 and whose lawyer corrected several mistakes in the tax return prior to the filing deadli

3、ne.C：A person whose spouse was convicted of tax fraud in 1987, who was then audited and found to have made no mistakes.D：A person who was last audited in 1984, and had no mistakes uncovered by the IRS during that audit.E：A person who was audited in each of the past five years, but was found to have

4、made no mistakes in any of the filings.2.Manufacturers of household appliances are still urging the public to purchase food processors. The various manufacturers advertisements all point out that the prices of these appliances are now lower than ever and that each food processor comes with a lifetim

5、e service warranty. In addition, many manufacturers offer sizable rebates to customers who purchase food processors within a given time period. With these incentives, the advertisements contend, people can hardly afford not to purchase food processors.Which answer choice is a logically prior issue t

6、hat the manufacturers advertisements fail to address?A：Whether the cost of repairs to the food processors over the years will cancel out the savings currently being offeredB：Whether potential customers have enough uses for food processors to justify purchasing themC：Whether the heads of the companie

7、s manufacturing food processors own food processors themselvesD：Whether the food processors currently being advertised will be outdated within the next five yearsE：Whether accessories and replacement parts will be readily available at retail outlets3.On the basis of a decrease in the college-age pop

8、ulation, many colleges now anticipate increasingly smaller freshman classes each year. Surprised by a 40 percent increase in qualified applicants over the previous year, however, administrators at Nice College now plan to hire more faculty for courses taken by all freshmen.Which of the following sta

9、tements about Nice Colleges current qualified applicants, if true, would strongly suggest that the administrators plan is flawed?A：A substantially higher percentage than usual plan to study for advanced degrees after graduation from college.B：According to their applications, their level of participa

10、tion in extracurricular activities and varsity sports is unusually high.C：According to their applications, none of them lives in a foreign country.D：A substantially lower percentage than usual rate Nice College as their first choice among the colleges to which they are applying.E：A substantially low

11、er percentage than usual list mathematics as their intended major.4.In the aftermath of a worldwide stock-market crash, Country T claimed that the severity of the stock-market crash it experienced resulted from the accelerated process of denationalization many of its industries underwent shortly bef

12、ore the crash.Which of the following, if it could be carried out, would be most useful in an evaluation of Country Ts assessment of the causes of the severity of its stock-market crash?A：Calculating the average loss experienced by individual traders in Country T during the crashB：Using economic theo

13、ry to predict the most likely date of the next crash in Country TC：Comparing the total number of shares sold during the worst days of the crash in Country T to the total number of shares sold in Country T just prior to the crashD：Comparing the severity of the crash in Country T to the severity of th

14、e crash in countries otherwise economically similar to Country T that have not experienced recent denationalizationE：Comparing the long-term effects of the crash on the purchasing power of the currency of Country T to the immediate, more severe short-term effects of the crash on the purchasing power

15、 of the currency of Country T5.Which of the following additional experimental data would support the hypothesis that classical music is beneficial to the development of newborn?A：The neonates in a nursery where no music was played fared better than those in nurseryB：Nursery A contained 15 percent mo

16、re premature babies than nurseryC：The newborns in nursery A cried less, suffered fewer minor ailments, and gained more weight than did newborns in a nursery with no music.D：The music played in nursery A was louder than that played in nurseryE：The ratio of nurses to newborns in nursery B was 1 to 4;

17、in nursery A, it was 1 to6.Correctly measuring the productivity of service workers is complex. Consider, for example, postal workers: they are often said to be more productive if more letters are delivered per postal worker. But is this really true? What if more letters are lost or delayed per worke

18、r at the same time that more are delivered?The objection implied above to the productivity measure described is based on doubts about the truth of which of the following statements?A：Postal workers are representative of service workers in general.B：The delivery of letters is the primary activity of

19、the postal service.C：Productivity should be ascribed to categories of workers, not to individuals.D：The quality of services rendered can appropriately be ignored in computing productivity.E：The number of letters delivered is relevant to measuring the productivity of postal workers.7.To read of Adams

20、 lengthy separation from her family， her difficult travels， and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.A：To read ofB：Reading aboutC：Having read aboutD：Once one reads ofE：To have read of8.Aviation officials h

21、ave not only failed to determine the cause of the crash, but they have also ignored demands by the pilots union that the investigation should be expedited.A：crash, but they have also ignored demands by the pilots union that the investigation should be expeditedB：crash but also ignored demands by the

22、 pilots union that the investigation be expeditedC：crash but have ignored demands for expediting the investigation by the pilots unionD：crash, but they are also ignoring the pilots unions demands to expedite the investigationE：crash: the demands by the pilots union that the investigation should be e

23、xpedited have also been ignored9.We commonly speak of aesthetic judgments as subjective, and in the short term they are, since critics often disagree about the value of a particular contemporary work of art. But over time, the subjective element disappears. When works of art have continued to deligh

24、t audiences for centuries, as have the paintings of Michelangelo, the music of Bach, and the plays of Shakespeare, we can objectively call them great.The statements above best support which of the following conclusions?A：When Michelangelo, Bach, and Shakespeare were alive, critics disagreed about th

25、e value of their work.B：The value of a contemporary work of art cannot be objectively measured.C：The reputation of a work of art often fluctuates greatly from one generation to the next.D：The mere fact that a work of art has endured for centuries does not establish its greatness.E：If critics agree a

26、bout the value of a particular cotemporary work of art, then the work can objectively be called great.10.If the airspace around centrally located airports were restricted to commercial airliners and only those private planes equipped with radar, most of the private-plane traffic would be forced to u

27、se outlying airfields. Such a reduction in the amount of private-plane traffic would reduce the risk of midair collision around the centrally located airports.The conclusion drawn in the first sentence depends on which of the following assumptions?A：Outlying airfields would be as convenient as centr

28、ally located airports for most pilots of private planes.B：Most outlying airfields are not equipped to handle commercial-airline traffic.C：Most private planes that use centrally located airports are not equipped with radar.D：Commercial airliners are at greater risk of becoming involved in midair coll

29、isions than are private planes.E：A reduction in the risk of midair collision would eventually lead to increases in commercial-airline traffic.11.The visiting pharmacologists concluded that the present amalgam of Chinese and Western medicine is probably as good， or better than， any system that might

30、be devised for the patients who are treated at the Nan Kai hospital in Tian-jing.A：as good， or better than， any system that might be devised for the patients who areB：as good， or better， than any system that might be devised for patients beingC：as good， or better than， any system that might be devis

31、ed for patients which are beingD：good as， or even better than， any other system that may be devised for the patients who areE：as good as， or better than， any other system that might be devised for the patients12.Excavation of the ancient city of Kourion on the island of Cyprus revealed a pattern of

32、debris and collapsed buildings typical of towns devastated by earthquakes. Archaeologists have hypothesized that the destruction was due to a major earthquake known to have occurred near the island in 365.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the archaeologists hypothesis?A：Bronze

33、ceremonial drinking vessels that are often found in graves dating from years preceding and following 365 were also found in several graves near Kourion.B：No coins minted after 365 were found in Kourion, but coins minted before that year were found in abundance.C：Most modern histories of Cyprus menti

34、on that an earthquake occurred near the island in 365.D：Several small statues carved in styles current in Cyprus in the century between 300 and 400 were found in Kourion.E：Stone inscriptions in a form of the Greek alphabet that was definitely used in Cyprus after 365 were found in Kourion.13.Psychol

35、ogists conducted a series of experiments to test the effect upon schoolchildren of violence in films. In the first experiment, grammar school children were shown a film that included scenes of a male teenager engaging in violent acts against others, such as punching, pushing, and kicking. During a f

36、ree-play session following the film viewing, 42 percent of the children were observed to engage in one or more violent acts similar to those in the film. In a second experiment, a different group of children was shown a similar film featuring a female teenager. Only 14 percent of the children were o

37、bserved behaving violently afterward. The psychologists concluded that children are more likely to imitate violent behavior on film when a male model is shown than when a female model is shown.Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the psychologists conclusion?A：In both experim

38、ents, the victims of the filmed violence included both males and females.B：In the second experiment, 28 percent of the children appeared upset during the viewing the violent film scenes.C：The first group included 19 male students and 20 female students; the second group included 20 male students and

39、 21 female students.D：In the first group, 58 percent of the children appeared bored during the showing of the film, and 12 percent fell asleepE：The percentage of children known to have discipline problems prior to the experiment was greater in the first group than in the second group.14.A weapons-sm

40、uggling incident recently took place in country Y. We all know that Y is a closed society. So Ys government must have known about the weapons.Which of the following is an assumption that would make the conclusion above logically correct?A：If a government knows about a particular weapons-smuggling in

41、cident, it must have intended to use the weapons for its own purposes.B：If a government claims that it knew nothing about a particular weapons-smuggling incident, it must have known everything about it.C：If a government does not permit weapons to enter a country, it is a closed society.D：If a countr

42、y is a closed society, its government has a large contingent of armed guards patrolling its borders.E：If a country is a closed society, its government has knowledge about everything that occurs in the country.15.Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great anthropologist an

43、d that makes his letters as a group the rival of the best novels of the time.A：makes his letters as a group the rival ofB：makes his letters as a group one to rivalC：makes his letters a group rivalingD：make his letters as a group the rival ofE：make his letters a group which is the rival of16.Meteorit

44、e explosions in the Earths atmosphere as large as the one that destroyed forests in Siberia, with approximately the force of a twelve-megaton nuclear blast, occur about once a century.The response of highly automated systems controlled by complex computer programs to unexpected circumstances is unpr

45、edictable.Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn, if the statements above are true, about a highly automated nuclear-missile defense system controlled by a complex computer program?A：Within a century after its construction, the system would react inappropriately and might acci

46、dentally start a nuclear war.B：The system would be destroyed if an explosion of a large meteorite occurred in the Earths atmosphere.C：It would be impossible for the system to distinguish the explosion of a large meteorite from the explosion of a nuclear weapon.D：Whether the system would respond inap

47、propriately to the explosion of a large meteorite would depend on the location of the blast.E：It is not certain what the systems response to the explosion of a large meteorite would be, if its designers did not plan for such a contingency17.Investing in real estate would be a profitable venture at t

48、his time. A survey in House magazine revealed that 85% of the magazines readers are planning to buy a second home over the next few years. A study of the real estate industry, however, revealed that the current supply of homes could only provide for 65% of that demand each year.Which of the followin

49、g, if true, would undermine the validity of the investment advice in the paragraph above?A：Some home owners are satisfied with only one home.B：About half of the people who buy homes are investing in their first home.C：About half of the people who buy homes have to take out a mortgage to do so.D：Only a quarter of the homes that are built are sold