PICAT PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION EXAM QUESTIONS

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PICAT PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Weather radar is a great help to pilots in detecting thunderstorms. However, pilots must be aware that radar does not reliably detect hail....According to the paragraph, weather radar does not reliably detect hail because of

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faulty pulse transmission by radar Question 2: 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 3: According to Mark Twain, October is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks....What was Mark Twain's point?

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speculating in stocks is not a safe investment for your money

Question 4: 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 task in the circulatory system. In fact, if the system was suddenly opened at the 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 5: 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 measures shows that time is

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relative

Question 6: According to the paragraph, the lens of the eye is used to

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Focuses light Question 7: 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 tourist, 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 8: 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 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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medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to certain substamce