(B) The sciences of biology, physics, and chemistry are ultimately a single science.
(C) The laws of physics and chemistry explain a narrower range of phenomena than do the laws of biology.
(D) The laws of physics and chemistry hold throughout the universe.
(E) A scientific law is necessarily universal.
8. Hittite tablets corroborate many of the descriptions of ancient life that appear in the Iliad and even list Greek cities that reportedly sent ships to Troy. What this means is that the Iliad is not creative literature, as is commonly believed, and hence not a matter for literary discussion. It is history and should be examined by historical science.
The author of the passage above makes which of the following assumptions?
Ⅰ. A work cannot be classified as creative literature if that work records historical fact.
Ⅱ. The Hittite tablets record actual events rather than legends.
Ⅲ. Cities and events mentioned in the Iliad but not in the tablets are fictitious.
(A) Ⅰ only
(B) Ⅱ only
(C) Ⅲ only
(D) Ⅰand Ⅱ only
(E) Ⅱand Ⅲ only
9. It has been argued that the consumer has benefited from agricultural technology in the United States. Consumers are spending, on the average, a decreasing proportion of their income on food. But the demand for food, especially in prosperous countries, is virtually insensitive to income, so that as real incomes rise, the amount spent of food becomes a smaller proportion of expenditure. Therefore, in order to judge whether consumers have really benefited from agricultural technology, it is necessary to know whether ____________.