Questions 1-7

    A disc jockey is planning a new format for her program, which has eight slots numbered one through eight, consecutively. The program must consist of the following eight segments: one weather report, two commercials, one sports report, and four records, not necessarily in the order given. Each of these eight segments must be aired only once during the program according to the following conditions:

    The two commercials cannot be aired consecutively.

    The program must begin with either a commercial or the weather report and must end with either a commercial or the weather report.

    1. Which of the following is a possible assignment of segments for the radio program to slots one through eight, respectively?

    (A) Commercial, record, weather report, record, sports report, record, record, commercial

    (B) Record, record, commercial, commercial, record, record, sports report, weather report

    (C) Record, sports, report, commercial, record, weather report, record, commercial, record

    (D) Weather report, record, commercial, record, sports report, record, commercial, record

    (E) Weather report, record, record, sports report, record, record, commercial, commercial

    2. If the weather report is aired in slot one, each of the following could be the slot occupied by one of the commercials EXCEPT

    (A) two

    (B) three

    (C) four

    (D) five

    (E) seven

    3. Which of the following assignments of segments to slots two and three, respectively, results in one and only one type of segment to be assigned to each of the remaining slot?

    (A) Weather report, record

    (B) Weather report, sports report

    (C) Record, sports report

    (D) sports report, commercial

    (E) Sports report, record

    4. If a weather report is aired in slot tow, and if the sports report is aired in slot five, all of the following must be true EXCEPT:

    (A) A record is aired immediately after the sports report.

    (B) A record is aired in slot three.

    (C) A commercial is aired in slot four.

    (D) A commercial is aired in slot eight.

    (E) A commercial is aired immediately after a record.

    5. If a program begins with the weather report, and if one commercial is aired immediately before the sports report and one commercial is aired immediately after it, the records must be assigned to slots

    (A) one through four

    (B) two through five

    (C) three through six

    (D) four through seven

    (E) five through eight

    6. If a record is aired after each commercial, and if the sports report is aired in slot five, which of the following must be true?

    Ⅰ. A record is aired is slot seven.

    Ⅱ. A commercial is aired in slot three.

    Ⅲ. The sports report is aired between two records.

    (A) Ⅰonly

    (B) Ⅱonly

    (C) Ⅲonly

    (D) Ⅰand Ⅱonly

    (E) Ⅱand Ⅲ only

    7. If the weather report is aired in slot four, and if exactly two of the four records are played consecutively, the sports report must be aired in slot

    (A) two

    (B) three

    (C) five

    (D) six

    (E) seven

    8. A man charged with theft of cable television services said, "They even want restitution of $662 they claim I owe them, which is ridiculous, because I didn't enjoy some of those shows at all."

    The man's assertion establishes that he

    (A) owes the money the cable service claims he owes

    (B) did watch programs that were shown on the cable service

    (C) does owe the cable service an amount of money, but less than $662

    (D) was aware that his hookup to the cable service was unauthorized

    (E) is willing to pay a moderate price of the cable service

    9. The theoretical principle of democracy is majority rule, but at least in presidential politics majority rule has never triumphed. In every presidential election, more people of voting age failed to vote than voted for the eventual winner. "None of the above" is evidently the perennially favorite candidate of most citizens.

    The conclusion of the passage is based on which of the following assumptions?

    (A) Nonresidential elections are less worthy Of study than are presidential election.

    (B) People of voting age who fail to vote in presidential elections do so to express their dissatisfaction with the candidates.

    (C) A presidential candidate need not receive votes from a majority of those who actually vote in order to win an election.

    (D) The ratio of voters to nonvoter among those of voting age indicates the relative popularity of the competing candidates.

    (E) The principle of majority rule has never been correctly defined.