The decision as to when to bring charges for a criminal offense is the prerogative of the prosecutor, not the prospective defendant. This prerogative should not be put to unfair advantage. Sometimes decades elapse before charges are brought. Though this may be appropriate when striking new evidence implicates someone, bringing charges after many years simply because evidence favoring the prospective defendant has become inaccessible would be grossly unjust.
Which of the following most accurately states the passage's main point?

• A. There should be safeguards to prevent criminal prosecutors from taking unfair advantage of the prerogative to decide when charges will be brought against a prospective defendant.
• B. To bring charges against a prospective defendant after a delay of many years would be unjust.
• C. Criminal prosecutors have an advantage over prospective defendants in that prosecutors get to decide when, if at all, charges will be brought.
• D. Criminal prosecutors should not take unfair advantage of their prerogative to decide when criminal charges will be brought against a prospective defendant.
• E. In some cases, it is unfair for a prosecutor, many years after an alleged offense has occurred, to bring charges against a prospective defendant for committing that offense.

Jim and Beth are in a ticket line along with 43 other people, and Jim is ahead of Beth in the line. If there are 20 people behind Jim and 30 people ahead of Beth, how many people in the line are between Beth and Jim?

• A. 13
• B. 5
• C. 7
• D. 10
• E. 15

=Psychologist: Early humans lived primarily in small bands. As a result, humans today are naturally adapted to group Interactions. Hence, social connections and participation in the community are necessary to maintain good emotional health.
Which of the following is an assumption the psychologist's argument requires?

• A. Humans should live in the social conditions that are necessary for maintaining good emotional health.
• B. Human emotional health depends at least in part on Irving in conditions to which humans are naturally adapted.
• C. Earty humans had better emotional hearth, on average, than humans do today.
• D. Studies have found that people who have strong social connections tend to have better emotional health as well.
• E. Participation in the community always involves group Interactions similar to those to which humans are naturally adapted.

Until the Apollo astronauts brought samples of lunar material to Earth during 1966-72, scientists believed that the Moon's surface was largely undisturbed, given its dry, airless environment. Examination of the samples has shown otherwise. Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the Moon at up to
100,000 kilometers per hour, chipping materials or forming microscopic craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and recondense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into lumps of heterogeneous matter called "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with solar particle streams convert iron into myriads of microscopic iron grains. The regdith-pebbles, sand, and dust-from these erosion processes blankets the Moon. Much of the top layer consists of a complex abrasive dust of microscopic glass shards that can grind machinery and sealing devices and damage human lungs.
The Apollo specimens held by the United States are doled out in ultra-small samples to scientists who demonstrate that nothing else will suffice for high-value experiments. Renewed interest In lunar exploration in the late 1980s meant that materials designed to simulate lunar regolith-simulants-were needed for research to develop schemes for lunar building and procedures for extracting elements such as oxygen found abundantly in regolith. That led to the development of JSC-1 in 1993, made of volcanic cinder cone from a quarry in Arizona in the U.S. The more than 22 metric tons made was in high demand. Efforts are now afoot to manufacture 16 metric tons of JSC-1 A, with 1 ton of fine grains, 14 tons of moderately fine, and 1 ton of coarse.
The information in the passage most strongly supports which of the following claims about the samples of lunar material brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts?
Scientists for whose experiments JSC-1A would suffice are not regarded as entitled to obtain material from the samples.

• A. Only scientists working on the development of simulants of lunar regolith have access to the samples.
• B. Only one of the samples contained ilmenite.
• C. The samples' ingredients included some cinder cone from lunar volcanoes.
• D. The samples were of all the major types of lunar regolith.

last year Country X generated 3 times as many kilowatt-hours of electricity as Country Y, but both countries generated the same amount of electricity from nuclear power plants. If Country X generated * percent of Its electricity from nuclear power plants, what percent of Country Y*s electricity was generated from nuclear power plants?
A)

B)

C)

D)
2k
E)
3k

• A. Option C
• B. Option D
• C. Option E
• D. Option B
• E. Option A