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Question 18 is based on the passage below. Select one answer choice.

To reduce traffic congestion, town X has proposed increasing the

number of city buses. Most residents are in favor of the proposal and

have indicated that they will accept an increase in taxes to support it.

Thus, once the proposal is implemented, traffic congestion in town X

will decrease.

18. Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument?
    A Traffic congestion has only recently become a problem in town X,
    B Most of the people commuting in town X are residents of town X.
    C To finance the proposal, the council of town X is considering
    diverting funds from other areas.
    D Most of the residents in favor of the proposal have indicated that
    they will continue commuting with their cars.
    E By implementing the proposal, town X will reduce the amount of
    exhaust emitted by its vehicles.

Questions 19 to 20 refer to the passage below. For each question, select one answer

choice, unless the instructions state otherwise.

In 1919, a year before American women were given the right to vote,

Margaret Bourke-White wrote in her diary, “I want to do all the things

that women never do!” Just 10 years later, she was hired as the first

photographer for Fortune magazine. As a trailblazer in the nascent field

of photojournalism, Bourke-White became a person of many firsts,

including having her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam appear on the

first cover of the freshly released Life magazine in 1936, being the first

Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first woman

to fly with a U.S. combat mission, and the first woman allowed to fly in

a B-47 bomber. “Her accomplishments would have been significant in

any historical time, no matter who had done them—the fact that she

was a woman in those very early prefeminist years makes them all the

more remarkable,” says author and professor Lynne Iglitzin.

19. In the context of the passage, “nascent” most nearly means
    A emerging
    B unwelcomed
    C aesthetic
    D controversial
    E trailblazing

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