606 MCGRAW-HILL’S SAT
- The quotation from Mahatma Gandhi
(lines 3–4) suggests that Gandhi believed that
Western civilization was
(A) on the decline
(B) the beneficiary of unfair economic
practices
(C) antithetical to progress in Asia
(D) a great triumph
(E) an unrealized concept - The “voices” mentioned in line 16 can be in-
ferred to include all of the following EXCEPT
(A) American politicians
(B) leaders like Mahatma Gandhi
(C) television journalists
(D) some leaders of large corporations
(E) those who believe that the United States
is faithful to the capitalist ideal - The primary function of the second paragraph
(lines 20–37) is to
(A) illustrate a debate
(B) provide a statistical analysis
(C) explain a concept
(D) give historical background
(E) describe a popular viewpoint - By saying that “the story would likely be very dif-
ferent” (lines 36–37), the passage suggests that
(A) the rules of a free market are selectively
applied
(B) trade laws favor smaller countries
(C) American companies produce the best
products
(D) Asian countries are moving away from
the free market
(E) American companies share the same
interests as Indian companies
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- The quotation marks around particular words in
the fourth paragraph (lines 55–65) serve pri-
marily to indicate that those words are
(A) being used ironically
(B) technical economic terms
(C) adaptations of foreign words
(D) recently coined
(E) direct quotations from a document
described earlier - The “triumph” described in line 63 is charac-
terized as
(A) a rare success for free markets
(B) a legislative victory
(C) a breakthrough in the development of
inexpensive drugs
(D) a tragic violation of the principle of free
trade
(E) a success that was based on luck - The passage suggests that the “entrepreneur”
(lines 68–69) differs from executives in the
pharmaceutical industry in that the entre-
preneur
(A) does not abide by free-market ideals
(B) risks his or her own money
(C) does not hire employees from overseas
(D) works more closely with representatives
in Washington
(E) needs less money to start a typical
business