Paragraph Comprehension Flashcards
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.
Was a president who recognized the power of the press
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?
Copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction
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 success 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.
How fast do stones of a particular size fall?
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
calendar based
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?
She was surprised shiny black shell and odd limbs of the beetle.
Writers know this, and those who take their nonsensical or “light.” Many poets writing today signs. The world decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with literary selves with great seriousness 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
Lack of respect given to humorous writing.
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.
Lacey Act passage, cactus popularity, cactus rustling, Brussels sprouts.
On a Sunday afternoon drive through the countryside of southeastern variety of trees in Pierce Park. Collected from far and wide, these hundred-year-old trees had been planted Pennsylvania in 1906, Pierre du Pont was struck by the by the Pierce brothers on this tract of land granted to their family by William Penn in 1702.
They were planted in the early 1800s.
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 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?
The quota for petroleum products was the same as for crude oil products.
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 II, 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 II was the.
Unavailability of qualified male pilots.
The fable always explicitly states a moral truth. The fairy tale, in contrast, leaves all decisions about meaning up to us, whether we wish to make any application to our life or simply to enjoy the fantastic events it talks about. According to the passage, a fable differs from a fairy tale in that a fable has
An ethical meaning.
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, every day, 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?
For example, doors should only be opened after a visitor has been identified.
If a label says, “one size fits all,” there’s one thing you can count on: that one size fits no one. Store managers love the idea because inventory is simplified. Manufacturers like it because it makes production 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. According to the paragraph, the production of “one size fits all” merchandise benefits all of the following EXCEPT
Consumers
In the beginning, there is always the crunch. Bite into a red apple or a green one, a red one streaked with yellow, a yellow one with a rosy blush, a round or oblong one, baseball size or softball size, and before the flavor, before even the tang of acidity, there is the crunch. At least, there had better be. It can be inferred from the passage that the author considers the most important characteristic of a good apple to be its
Crispness
Enjoying a leisurely vacation can be a tough assignment for people who thrive on an upbeat pace in their daily routines. For many, it just is not possible to switch gears into neutral and lie by a pool for a week or more; they need excitement. The author’s main point is that active people should take leisurely vacations.
An exciting vacation should last a week or more.
