PICAT PC EXAM QUESTIONS

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PICAT PC EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Without noticing it; we enter a room and there is a tremendous difference between "seeing" and orienting yourself.Know where we are without being mostly we orient ourselves, we walk through a door conscious of the color or texture of the walls.But it is consciousness of visual detail that constitutes seeing.Which of the following is the best example of seeing as described in the passage?

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She was surprised shiny black shells and odd limbs of the beetle Question 2: If a label says "one size fits all" there's one thing you can count on one size fits no one.Store managers love the idea because inventory is simplified .Manufactures love it because its production is easier and profit margins higher. And some computer networks prefer it because it saves costly computer time and memory space.It saves time and money for them, not for you

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Benefits all of the following EXCEPT, the consumers Question 3: Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking the right questions.The trick is simple and universal.The secret of their sucess is not so much a matter of 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.

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How fast do stones of a particular size fall

Question 4: The fable always explicitly a moral truth. The fairy tale in contrast, leaves all the decisions about meaning up to us, when we wish to make any application to our life simply to enjoy the fantastic events it tells about.

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According to the passage, a fable differs from a fairy tale in that a fable has, an ethical meaning.Question 5: Julius Erving is one of only few professional basketball players to score 30,000 points. When Erving was in Hugh School he was given the appropriately nickname, "the doctor" because he "operated" so well on the basketball court.Later Ervings pro basketball teammates changed the nickname to Dr.J. All of the following persons are appropriately nicknamed except

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The trapeze artist nicknamed butterfingers Question 6: 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 show that time is

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Relative Question 7: In the beginning there is always a crunch.Bite into a red apple or a green one, a red one streaked with yellow, a yellow one with a rosy blush,a long oblong one,baseball size or softball size, and before the flavor,before even the tang of acidity, there is a crunch.At least there had to better be

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Most important characteristics of a good apple to be its crispness Question 8: Latex(water based) house paints have several advantages over oil-based paints.Latex dries quickly, can be cleansed up with water, doesn't peel when applied to damp wood.But the reduction or elimination of mercury compound in latex paints created problems with mildew and storage stability

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They peel when applied to damp wood.Question 9: Your heart 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.

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Convince readers of the stress on the mitral valve Question 10: According to Mark Twain, October is a particulary 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 11: System malfunctions and marshals up an army of causes a large amount of histamine to flood an allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless.For as yet poorly understood reasons the immune antibodies to fight these substances.For many allergies, this malfunction 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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Medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to certain substances.

Question 12: Where is the organ of Corti located?

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inner ear Question 13: From Texas to Southern California, low water maintenance very valuable.Considering the fact that cactus profits for this shallow rooted succulent.Removing cactus from state-owned have extremely slow growth and landscaping and the popularity of desert themes have made cactus reproduction rates, rustlers anticipate significant 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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Lacey Act passage, Cactus popularity, cactus rustling Question 14: 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,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 ilustrates the correct sequence of events?

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Copper drew prospectors,copper ran out,town abandoned, tourist attraction

Question 15: An analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows that separate quotas were established for crude oil and for petroleum products(mostly gasoline, jet fuel, and distillate) and heavy or residual fuel oil products.The quota for crude oil imports was set at approximately ten percent of crude oil consumption.The passage implies which of the following about the oil quota program?

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The quota for petroleum products was the same as for crude oil products

Question 16: According to the paragraph, the lens of the eye is used to

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Focuses on light Question 17: Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House.His press conferences served 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 18: brussels sprouts writers know this, and those who take their nonsensical or "light". Many poets writing today sign the world decorates its serious artists with laurels, and its ways with literary selves with great seriouness are at considerable pains never to associate their names with anything funny or flippant or their real names to their serious verse and pseudonyms to their comical verse. It is a wise precaution.The passage is primarily concerned with the

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lack of respect given to humorous writing Question 19: The women's flying detachment was the brainchild of Jaqueline Cochran, the famous flyer because of the overwhelming demand for qualified men to fly in combat during World War ll, she was able to persuade the army to train women pilots to ferry military aircraft from manufactures to embarkation points for later shipment overseas.

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was the existence of the women's flying training detachment Question 20: Enjoying a leisurely vacation can be tough who thrive on an upbeat pace in their daily routines.For many its just not possible to switch gears in to neutral and lie by the pool for a week or more; they need excitement

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Inactive vacations are not for everyone