PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION PICAT EXAM QUESTIONS

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PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION (PICAT) EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Your heart's mitral valve does an awfully big job. Letting blood from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle without losing a drop is one of the toughest tasks in the circulatory system. In fact, if the system was suddenly opened at that point, the force of the valve closing would send blood five feet in the air.In this passage, the author's purpose is to

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convince readers of the stress on the mitral valve Question 2: Weather radar is a great help to pilots in detecting thunderstorms. However, pilots must be aware that radar does not reliably detect hail. Radar operates by transmitting a pulse of radio energy and receiving the pulse again after it is reflected by a target.Large raindrops, the kind found in intense thunderstorms, are the best radar reflectors and will show up as intense targets on the screen. Hail is somewhat porous and has an uneven structure; it tends to absorb or scatter the radar pulse rather than reflect it back to the antenna.According to the paragraph, weather radar does not reliably detect hail because of

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faulty pulse transmission by the radar

Question 3: A period of time is usually measured by comparing it with another period of time.For example, a year on Mercury is equal to 88 Earth days. A year on Uranus is approximately 348 Mercury years.According to the passage, the way time is usually measured shows that time is

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relative Question 4: Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House. His press conferences served to educate newspaper writers, and through them the nation, about the complex, novel measures he was advocating.It can be inferred from the passage that Roosevelt

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was a president who recognized the power of the press Question 5: From Texas to Southern CA, low-water maintenance landscaping and the popularity of desert themes have made cactus very valuable. Considering the fact that cactus have extremely slow growth and reproduction rates, rustlers anticipate significant profits of this shallow rooted succulent. Removing cactus from state-owned land, however, is a felony, and if state lines are crossed, the 1900 Lacey Act makes this same crime a federal offense.From the passage, determine the sequence of events

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cactus popularity, transport of stolen cactus, cactus theft Question 6: According to Mark Twain, October is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks. Others include July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

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Mark Twain's point is speculating in stocks is not a safe investment for your money Question 7: An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and marshals up an army of antibodies to fight these substances. For many allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine to flood into the bloodstream. It is the overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing.The passage states all of the following about allergies EXCEPT

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an allergic reaction is the result of a false alarm in the body's immune system

Question 8: Riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit America's largest national park - Wrangell-St. Elias --13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. Now a mecca for tourists, the town of Kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out.According to the passage, which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events?

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Copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction Question 9: Physicists seek out those features of nature that are simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of finding answers as it is asking the right questions. The trick is keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking.Which of the following questions is most clearly an example of the kind discussed in the paragraph?

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How fast do stones of particular size fall?Question 10: When we think of security for the home, most of us think of devices that will physically hinder another person. Researchers have found that some simple, everyday, fairly inexpensive objects can be as effective as much more expensive security systems.Which of the following sentences would most likely come next in the paragraph?

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For example, leaving the radio on during the day can make a home sound occupied.Question 11: The Women's Flying Training Detachment was the brainchild of Jacqueline Cochran, the famous flyer. Because of the overwhelming demand for qualified men to fly in combat during World War I, she was able to persuade the Army to train women pilots to ferry military aircraft from manufacturers to embarkation points for later shipment overseas.The author implies that the primary motivation for establishing a training program for women pilots during World War I was the

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unavailability of qualified male pilots

Question 12: An analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows that separate quotas were established for crude oil and for petroleum products. Petroleum products were divided into light products mostly gasoline jet fuel and desolate and heavy or residual fuel oil products. The quota for crude oil imports was set at approximately 10% of crude oil consumption the passage implies which of the following about the oil quota program?

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The quota for residual fuel oil products was the same as for crude oil products