23.According to the passage, Piaget and Keasey would not have agreed on which of the following points?
(A) The kinds of excuses children give for harmful acts they commit
(B) The age at which children begin to discriminate between intentional and unintentional harm
(C) The intentions children have in perpetrating harm
(D) The circumstances under which children punish harmful acts
(E) The justifications children recognize for mitigating punishment for harmful acts
24.It can be inferred that the term "public duty" (line 33) in the context of the passage, means which of the following?
(A) The necessity to apprehend perpetrators.
(B) The responsibility to punish transgressors
(C) An obligation to prevent harm to another
(D) The assignment of punishment for harmful action
(E) A justification for punishing transgressions
25.According to the passage, Keasey's findings support which of the following conclusions about six-year-old children?
(A)They have the ability to make autonomous moral judgments.
(B)They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their moral autonomy.
(C)They do not understand the concept of public duty. (D)They accept moral judgment made by their peers more easily than do older children.
(E)They make arbitrary moral judgments.
26.It can be inferred form the passage that Piaget would be likely to agree with which of the following statements about the punishment that children under seven assign to wrongdoing?
(A) The severity of the assigned punishment is determined by the perceived magnitude of negative consequences more than by any other factor.
(B) The punishment is to be administered immediately following the transgression.
(C) The children assign punishment less arbitrarily than they do when they reach the age of moral autonomy.
(D) The punishment for acts of unintentional harm is less severe than it is for acts involving accidental harm.
(E) The more developmentally immature a child, the more severe the punishment that the child will assign.
27.According to the passage, the research of Nesdale and Rule suggests which of the following about five-yearold children?
(A) Their reactions to intentional and accidental harm determine the severity of the punishments they assign.
(B) They, as perpetrators of harmful acts, disregard the feelings of the children they harm.
(C) They take into account the motivations of actions when judging the behavior of other children.
(D) They view public duty as a justification for accidental, but not intentional, harm.
(E) They justify any action that protects them from harm.
28. DEBUT:
(A) collaboration
(B) monologue
(C) farewell performance
(D) repertoire standard
(E) starring role
29. WITHER:
(A) disagree
(B) shine
(C) plant
(D) adhere
(E) revive
30. BUCK:
(A) cover over
(B) assent to
(C) brag about
(D) improve
(E) repair
31. MEAN:
(A) trusting
(B) ardent
(C) clever
(D) incautious
(E) noble
32. ADJUNCT:
(A) expert appraisal
(B) generous donation
(C) essential element
(D) mild reproof
(E) impartial judgment
33. CANONICAL:
(A) imprecise
(B) ubiquitous
(C) superfluous
(D) nontraditional
(E) divisive
34. TICKLISH:
(A) heavy-handed
(B) significant
(C) tolerant
(D) impartial
(E) imperturbable
35. PREVALENT:
(A) invasive
(B) inconsistent
(C) indistinct
(D) unpalatable
(E) unusual
36. PENURY:
(A) approbation
(B) affluence
(C) objectivity
(D) compensation
(E) grandiosity
37. MINATORY:
(A) convenient
(B) nonthreatening
(C) straightforward
(D) fastidious
(E) rational
38. CALUMNIOUS:
(A) adept
(B) aloof
(C) quaint
(D) decorous
(E) flattering