SECTION 5 TIME—25 MINUTES 16 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS
9.
Mannis Corporation's archival records are stored in
suffer several bouts of malaria before becoming
an obsolete format that is accessible only by its
immune to the disease. Clearly, what must be
current computer system; thus they are inaccessible
happening is that those children’s immune systems
when that system is not functioning properly. In order
are only weakly stimulated by any single exposure to
to avoid the possibility of losing access to their
the malaria parasite and need to be challenged several
archival records in the case of computer malfunction,
times to produce an effective immune response.
Mannis plans to replace its current computer system
Which of the following, if true, most seriously
with a new system that stores records in a format that
is accessible to several different systems.
undermines the explanatory hypothesis?
The answer to which of the following questions
(A) Immediately after a child has suffered a bout of
malaria, the child’s caregivers tend to go to great
would be most helpful in evaluating the effectiveness
lengths in taking precautions to prevent another
of the plan as a means of retaining access to the
infection, but this level of attention is not
archival records?
sustained.
(A) Will the new computer system require fewer
(B) Malaria is spread from person to person by
operators than the current system requires?
mosquitoes, and mosquitoes have become
(B) Has Mannis Corporation always stored its
increasingly resistant to the pesticides used to
archival records in a computerized format?
control them.
(C) Will the new computer system that Mannis plans
(C) A certain gene, if inherited by children from only
ensure greater security for the records stored than
one of their parents, can render those children
does Mannis' current system?
largely immune to infection with malaria.
(D) Will Mannis' current collection of archival
(D) Antimalaria vaccines, of which several are in
records be readily transferable to the new
development, are all designed to work by
computer system?
stimulating the body’s immune system.
(E) Will the new computer system be able to perform
(E) There are several distinct strains of malaria, and
many more tasks than the current system is able
the body’s immune response to any one of them
to perform?
does not protect it against the others.