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Q1:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q1:

Technology, laws, and customs are not unlike each other if considered as institutions.

Technological environments privilege certain dimensions of human nature as effectively as laws and customs.

Technology, laws, and customs are comparable, but dissimilar phenomena.

Automobiles represent the interest in mobility present in human nature.

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Q2:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q2:

the significance of parental authority to children's safety does not therefore imply that parental authority is a permanent aspect of human nature.

analyses of technologies must engage with their social histories to be able to reveal their implicit and explicit meanings for us.

technologies seek to privilege certain dimensions of human nature at a high cost to lived nature

the critical theory of technology argues that, as issues of human rights become more prominent, we lose sight of the ways in which the social order becomes more authoritarian.

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Q3:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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Technologies form the environmental context and shape the contours of human society.

The romantic conception of nature referred to by the passage is the one that requires theoretical legitimacy.

Nature decides the point at which society loses its capacity to control history.

It is not human nature, but human culture that is represented by institutions such as law and custom

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Q4:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q4:

The problems of command over a disempowered and deskilled labour force gave rise to similar patterns of the capitalist rationalisation of production wherever masses were organised.

Paradoxically, the capitalist rationalisation of production is a mark of so-called socialist systems as well.

Masses are organised in patterns set by Foucault's prisons and Habermas' public sphere.

Marx's understanding of the capitalist rationalisation of production and Marcuse's understanding of a "project" of "technological rationality" share theoretical inclinations.

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Q5:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q5:

The Stoic influences can be seen in multiple religions.

The Stoics valorised the pursuit of money, power, and sexual gratification.

There were no Stoics in India at the time of the Roman civilisation.

The Epicureans believed in controlling all emotions.

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Q6:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q6:

Marcus Aurelius plotted revenge in his quest for justice.

Marcus Aurelius was one of the leaders of the Roman army.

Marcus Aurelius was humiliated by the accusation of treason in front of the other officers.

Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic whose philosophy survived into the Roman era.

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Q7:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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A) "Meditation and the right attitude", in this instance, implies an initially passive reception of all experiences.

B) The observation of emotions in a distant manner corresponds to the second movement referred to earlier in the passage.

C) Emotional responses can make it difficult to distinguish valuable experiences from valueless experiences.

D) Meditation allows certain out-of-body experiences that permit us to gain the distance necessary to control our emotions.

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Q8:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q8:

In the Epicurean view, indulging in simple pleasures is not desirable.

In the Stoic view, choosing a reasoned, unemotional response as the first movement is an appropriate response to

emotional situations.

The Greek philosopher Zeno survived into the Roman era until about AD 300.

Despite practising meditation and cultivating the right attitude, emotions cannot ever be controlled.

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Q9:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q9:

Human beings conceptualise the Undead as possessing abnormal features.

The natural attributes of the Undead are rendered abnormal by changing their status.

The Undead are deified in nature's order by giving them divine attributes.

According the Undead an abnormal status is to reject the natural order of things.

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Q10:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q10:

the relationship between Shamans and the Undead was believed to be a strong and stable one.

the transition from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment saw new theories of the Undead.

the growing sophistication of Mankind meant that humans stopped believing in the Undead.

the Undead remained vague and ill-defined, even as Mankind strove to understand the horror they inspired.

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Q11:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q11:

Long ago, eerie creatures used to whisper in the primal darkness that they were not quite dead.

Mankind's primal years were marked by creatures alive with eerie whispers, but seen only in the darkness.

Mankind's early years were marked by a belief in the existence of eerie creatures that were neither quite alive nor dead.

We can understand the lives of the eerie creatures in Mankind's early years through their whispers in the darkness.

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Q12:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q12:

The writer describes the ways in which the Undead come to be associated with Shamans and the practice of magic.

The writer discusses the transition from primitive thinking to the Age of Enlightenment.

The passage describes the failure of human beings to fully comprehend their environment.

The passage discusses the evolution of theories of the Undead from primitive thinking to the Age of Enlightenment.

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Q13:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q13:

A 20th century Japanese Buddhist monk would value a reconstructed shrine as the original.

A 21st century Christian scientist is likely to oppose cloning because of his philosophical orientation.

A 17th century British painter would have no problem adding personal touches when restoring an ancient Roman painting.

A 17th century French artist who adhered to a Christian worldview would need to be completely true to the original intent of a painting when restoring it.

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Q14:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q14:

it discourages them from simultaneous displays of multiple copies of a painting.

it discourages them from making interventions in ancient art.

it allows regular employment for certain craftsmen.

it discourages them from carrying out human cloning

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Q15:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q15:

Pablo Picasso's photograph of Vincent van Gogh's original painting, printed to exactly the same scale.

Pablo Picasso's painting of Vincent van Gogh's original painting, bearing Picasso's signature.

Pablo Picasso's painting of Vincent van Gogh's original painting, identical in every respect.

Pablo Picasso's miniaturised, but otherwise faithful and accurate painting of Vincent van Gogh's original painting.

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Q16:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q16:

Both will one day be completely rebuilt.

Both are continually undergoing restoration.

Both were built as places of worship.

Both can be regarded as very old structures.

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Q17:

CAT

Medium

Q17:

Petitioning is definitely more representative of the collective voice, and the functioning of democratic government could improve if we relied more on petitioning rather than holding periodic elections.

Citizens become less inclined to petitioning as it enables vocal citizens to shape political agendas, but this needs to change to strengthen democracies today.

By giving citizens greater control over shaping political and democratic agendas, political petitions are invaluable as they represent an ideal form of a representative democracy.

Petitioning has been important to democratic functioning, as it supplements the electoral process by enabling ongoing engagement with the government.

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Q18:

CAT

Medium

Q18:

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Q19:

CAT

Medium

Q19:

Arbitrary distinctions between inanimate and animate objects disappear at the scale at which quantum mechanics works.

The inanimate world is both sentient and cognizant like its animate counterpart.

The effect of stimuli is similar in inanimate objects when compared to animate objects or living beings.

Quantum physics indicates that an astigmatic view of reality results in erroneous assumptions about the universe.

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CAT

Medium

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Medium

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Q22:

CAT

Medium

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Q23:

CAT

Medium

Q23:

Historians were under the illusion that Ethiopia needed military protection from their neighbours, but in fact the country had close commercial and religious connections with them.

Medieval historical sources selectively promoted the narrative that powerful European forces were called on to protect weak African civilisations such as Ethiopia, but this is far from reality.

Medieval texts have documented how strong connections between the Christian communities of Ethiopia and Europe were invaluable in establishing military and trade links between the two civilisations.

Medieval texts have been 'cherry-picked' to promote a view of Ethiopia as weak and in need of Europe's military help with aggressive neighbours, but recent studies reveal it was a well-connected and outward-looking culture.

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Q24:

CAT

Medium

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