1. Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recyclable trash.
Plant 1 Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month.
Plant 2 Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.
Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favore one of the recycling plans over the other? (4)
(1) Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from nonrecyclable trash
(2) For trash recycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper products
(3) Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctly
(4) Recyclable trash that is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents
(5) None of the above
2. Within 20 yr it will probably be possible to identify the genetic susceptibility an individual may have toward any particular disease. Eventually, effective strategies will be discovered to counteract each such susceptibility. Once these effective strategies are found, therefore, the people who follow them will never get sick. The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions? (3)
(1) For every disease there is only one strategy that can prevent its occurrence
(2) In the future, genetics will be the only medical specialty of any importance
(3) All human sicknesses are in part the result of individuals genetic susceptibilities
(4) All humans are genetically susceptible to some diseases
(5) None of the above
