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.