新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第七套)_GRE阅读

新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第七套)

　　 overestimates the mathematical effect of repeated doublings on population size

　　 fails to take into account that people now alive have overlapping sets of ancestors

　　 fails to consider that accurate estimation of the number of people alive three thousand years ago might be impossible

　　8. Each of the academic journals Thought and Ergo has a review committee to prevent misattributed quotations from appearing in its published articles. Nevertheless, about ten percent of the quotations in Thoughts published articles are misattributed, whereas Ergo contains no misattributions. Ergos committee is more effective, therefore, than Thoughts at finding misattributed quotations.

　　The argument above assumes that

　　 most of the articles submitted to Thought for publication contain misattributed quotations

　　 there are at least some misattributed quotations in articles submitted to Ergo for publication

　　 the members of Ergos committee are, on the whole, more knowledgeable than are the members of Thoughts committee

　　 the number of misattributed quotations in a journal is an accurate measure of how carefully that journal is edited

　　 the authors who submit articles to Ergo for publication are more thorough in attributing quotations than are the authors who submit articles to Thought