Archaeologists working in the Andes Mountains recently excavated a buried 4,000-year-old temple containing structures that align with a stone carving on a distant hill to indicate the direction of the rising sun at the summer solstice. Alignments in the temple were also found to point toward the position, at the summer solstice, of a constellation known in Andean culture as the Fox. Since the local mythology represents the fox as teaching people how to cultivate and irrigate plants, the ancient Andeans may have built the temple as a religious representation of the fox.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument is based?

While the total enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools in Sondland is one percent higher this academic year than last academic year, the number of teachers there increased by three percent. Thus, the Sondland Education Commission's prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the claim that the prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded?

Editorial: consumers in North America think that by drinking frozen concentrated orange juice, they are saving energy, because it takes fewer truckloads to transport it than it takes to transport an equivalent amount of not-from-concentrate juice. But they are mistake, for the amount of energy require to concentrate the juice is far greater than the energy difference in the juices’ transport.

Which of the following, if true, would provide the greatest additional support for the editorial’s conclusion?

The passage suggests that Santer and Michaels would be most likely to DISAGREE over which of the following issues?

According to the passage, Santer asserts which of the following about global warming?

The passage suggests that, in the early 1990s, Michaels would have been most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the disparity mentioned in the highlighted text?

Which of the following, if true, would provide the most support for Castañeda’s explanation of the “stereotypical plot” mentioned in lines 18-19?

Which of the following could best serve as an example of the kind of fictional plot discussed by Antonia Castañeda?

The “apparent contradiction” mentioned in the highlighted text refers to the discrepancy between the

Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?