PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION-SUBTEST 4 EXAM

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PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION-SUBTEST 4 EXAM

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Question 1: Would you like to be good at a trade? Would

you like to know a skill that pays well? One sure way to skill, good pay, and regular work is to train on the job. This is called apprentice training. While it is not the only way to learn, apprentice training has good points. You can earn while you learn. You will know the skill "from the ground up," and you can advance on the job.Apprentice training is described here by discussing

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The good side

Question 2: From a building designer's standpoint, three

things that make a home livable are the client, the building site, and the amount of money the client has to spend.According to the passage, to make a home livable

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the design must fit the owner's income and the site.

Question 3: Where does pollution come from? It comes

from a wide variety of sources, including furnaces, smokestacks, incinerators, power- generating stations, industrial plants, dirt and dust caused by tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones, ordinary street dirt, restaurants that emit smoke and odors, cars, buses, trucks, planes, and coal- or diesel-burning motor ships. Sixty percent of pollution is caused by motor vehicle exhausts, while another thirty percent is due to industrv.Most air pollution is caused by

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cars, trucks, and buses.

Question 4: Early settlers in the United States made

the most of the herring fishing season.When spring came, the fish arrived in great numbers in the rivers. No nets or hooks were needed. Men used what was called a pinfold, a large circular pen built in shallow water. It was made by driving stakes closely together in the floor of the river.A pinfold was made with

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stakes driven into the river bottom.

Question 5: A narcotic is a drug that, in proper doses,

relieves pain and induces profound sleep, but which, in poisonous doses, induces stupor, coma, or convulsions. Narcotics tend to be habit-forming and, in many instances, repeated doses lead to addiction.A proper dose of narcotic induces

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Stupor

Question 6: Nucleic acids are found in all living

organisms, from viruses to humans. Their name refers to their discovery in the nuclei of white blood cells and fish sperm by Swiss physiologist Johann Miescher in 1869.However, it is now well established that nucleic acids occur outside the cell nucleus as well.Nucleic acids are found

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In all living cells

Question 7: The use of sunglasses as an aid to vision is

important. For the most part, the eye is a

daytime instrument: It requires light to work

properly. However, too much bright light and glare can create discomfort; as a result the eyes blink, squint, get tears, or have trouble seeing well. Sunglasses help by keeping much of this bright light and glare from reaching the eyes.The main purpose of sunglasses is to

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screen out harmful rays of the sun.

Question 8: Family camping has been described as

the "biggest single growth industry in the booming travel/leisure market." Camping ranges from backpacking to living in motor homes with complete creature comforts.It is both an end in itself and a magic carpet to a wide variety of other forms of outdoor recreation.It can be inferred from the passage that the LEAST luxurious form of camping is

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Backpacking

Question 9: Most drivers try to drive safely. A major part

of safe driving is driving at the right speed.But what is the "right" speed? Is it 20 miles per hour, or 35, or 60? That question may be hard to answer. On some city streets and in heavy traffic, 20 miles per hour could be too fast, even if it's within the posted speed limit. On a superhighway, 35 miles per hour could be too slow. Of course, a good driver must follow the speed limit, but he must also use good judgment. The right speed will vary depending on the number of cars, the road surface and its condition, and the driver's visibility.The general theme of this passage is that a good driver

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adjusts to different driving conditions.

Question 10: Twenty-five percent of all household

burglaries can be attributed to unlocked windows or doors. Crime is the result of opportunity plus desire.To prevent crime, it is each individual's responsibility to

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prevent the opportunity.

Question 11: Because nitrogen, phosphorus, and

potassium are used by plants in large amounts, these nutrients are likely to be deficient in the soil. When you buy a fertilizer, therefore, you generally buy it for its content of these materials.Unfertilized soil naturally deficient in nitrogen, phosphoric oxide, and potash probably lacks these nutrients because

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plants use them up in large quantities.