34. According to the author, demographers and environmentalists in the 1960s and1970s believed that
(A) annual percentage increases in populations were low.
(B) the accelerating increase of Earth's human population might cause unprecedented damage to the environment.
(C) the governments and international institutions should not take resolute measures to limit further increase in the growth rates.
(D) quite a few countries were prepared to double their food and energy supplies, housing, and educational and medical facilities.
(E) the projections of mass starvation and immiseration were deceptive.

30. What does "them" in boldface in the first paragraph refer to? (A) "Most people." (B) "Disaster capitalists." (C) "Iraq, Sri Lanka, and New Orleans." (D) "The public sphere and rooted communities." (E) "The places that formed them." 

31. Here are three statements concerning the problem of overpopulation: I In the 1960s and 1970s, projections of a future of food shortages due to the explosion of population were common in the cultural imagination. II Out of the fear of overpopulation, widespread sterilization campaigns in India in the 1970s and 1980s were well accepted as an effective method of containing population growth. III Novelist John Brunner believed that population explosion would not happen until tomorrow. Based on the passage, (A) Only I is true (B) Both I and II are true (C) Both I and III are true (D) All of the three statements are true (E) None of the three statements are true

32. Based on the passage, which of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) According to the UN projections, the world population will continue to grow and reach 9.1 billion in 2050. (B) The political debates over the cause of starvation were no longer as vehement in the 1990s as they were in the 1970s and 1980s (C) The event that the number of world population in October 1999 doubled that of1960 conjured up the images of mass starvation and nightmarishly overcrowded spaces. (D) For countries still affected by continued population growth, one of the challenges they have to face is providing medical care to an ever-increasing number of people. (E) The number of the world population in 1930 doubled that of 1850.

33. Which of the following most closely captures what the author means by saying "the future will be a divided one" in the third paragraph? (A) Whereas a number of countries will be industrialized, other countries will not. (B) Whereas a number of industrialized countries will be able to deal with the problem of shrinking populations, other countries will be significantly affected by the labor shortage. (C) Whereas a number of industrialized countries will face shrinking populations, other countries will be affected by continued population growth with the attendant challenges of providing education, jobs, and medical care to an ever- increasing number of people. (D) Whereas a number of countries will be significantly affected by staggering social inequalities, other countries will suffer from overall scarcity. (E) Whereas in the developing world, environmental devastation will be caused principally by rampant population growth, in the developed world, it will be caused by rampant increases in consumption.

35. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "galvanized" in the first sentence of the passage? (A) frightened (B) participated (C) gathered (D) prompted (E) grounded 

36. Based on the passage, which of the following is NOT correct? (A) In the first phase of this experiment, the car abandoned in the neighborhood in Palo Alto was not vandalized. (B) Palo Alto, one of the locations where Zimbardo conducted this experiment, is near Stanford University (C) For Zimbardo, the result of the experiment indicated evident lack of feeling of community and reciprocity in the neighborhood in Palo Alto. (D) In a second phase of the experiment, acts of vandalism were observed in Palo Alto when the windshields of the abandoned cars were broken. (E) Zimbardo suggests that the residents in Bronx did not think they were obliged to watch over the streets as a part of the shared space of a community.

37. Zimbardo's experiment was highly regarded by James Wilson and George Kelling because they believed (A)it showed the advantage of living near a university (B) it proved that feelings of community and reciprocity varied in different neighborhoods (C) it confirmed that the hallways of Pruitt-Igoe had apparently belonged to nobody (D)it demonstrated that acts of theft and vandalism were ubiquitous (E) it corroborated the idea that evident lack in caring about the surrounding environment fosters crime

38. Here are three statements about the "broken windows theory": I. It's a theory describing the origins of urban crime II. It argued that the physical signs of disorder in a location would very likely invite criminal activities  III. For James Wilson and George Kelling, it's the cornerstone of a major new theory describing the origins of urban crime. Based on the passage, (A) Both I and II are correct. (B) Both II and III are correct. (C) Both I and III are correct. (D) All of the three are correct. (E) Only I is correct.

39. Which of the following best catches the meaning of "corollary" in the last sentence of the passage? (A) A proposition that follows directly (B) A process of disagreeing (C) An act of cooperating (D) A problem (E) A risk

40. Based on the passage, which of the following efforts would most likely be considered by the author as following the broken windows theory's prescription for crime reduction? (A) To cut fundings for removing graffiti in Bronx (B) To remove license plates from the cars in Al Palo. (C) To install windows with views of nature for hospital patients in the city (D) To keep the subway system in New York City nice and clean (E) To reduce fares for public transits in Al Palo