Lsat Preptest 47

LSAT * PrepTest 47 October 2005 Test ID: LL3047 A complete version of PrepTest 47 has been reproduced with the permission of Law School Admission Council, Inc. PrepTest 47 © 2005 Law School Admission Council, Inc. All actual LSAT questions printed within this work are used with the permission of Law School Admission Council, Inc., Box 2000, Newton, PA 18940, the copyright owner. LSAC does not review or endorse specific test preparation or services, and inclusion of licensed LSAT questions within this work does not imply the review or endorsement of LSAC. © 2006 Kaplan, Inc. All right reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of Kaplan, Inc.  Logical Reasoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECTION I  Reading Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECTION II  Logical Reasoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECTION III  Analytic Reasoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECTION IV  Writing Sample Materials 1 1 1 -2- SECTION I Time—35 minutes 26 Questions Directions: The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 1. While it might be expected that those neighborhoods most heavily patrolled by police have the least crime, the statistical evidence overwhelmingly supports the claim that such neighborhoods have the most crime. This shows that the presence of police does not decrease crime in a neighborhood. The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) attempts to support its conclusion by making an appeal to emotions fails to consider the possibility that criminals may commit crimes in more than one neighborhood draws a general conclusion from too small a sample of data fails to consider the possibility that police presence in a particular area is often a response to the relatively high crime rate in that area takes for granted that public resources devoted to police presence could be allocated in another manner that would be a stronger deterrent to crime 3. When a lawmaker spoke out against a research grant awarded to a professor in a university’s psychology department as a foolish expenditure of public money, other professors in that department drafted a letter protesting the lawmaker’s interference in a field in which he was not trained. The chair of the psychology department, while privately endorsing the project, refused to sign the protest letter on the ground that she had previously written a letter applauding the same legislator when he publicized a senseless expenditure by the country’s military. Which one of the following principles, if established, provides the strongest justification for the department chair’s refusal, on the ground she gives, to sign the protest letter? (A) (B) 2. Despite increasing international efforts to protect the natural habitats of endangered species of animals, the rate at which these species are becoming extinct continues to rise. It is clear that these efforts are wasted