1. What is the authors main purpose?
1. To describe a new cure for ear infections
2. To inform the reader of a new device
3. To urge doctors to use a new device
4. To explain the use of a magnet
Answer: 2
2. The word relief in the last sentence means:
1. Less distress
2. Assistance
3. Distraction
4. Relaxation
Answer: 1
3. What is the main topic of this reading?
1. Women and drugs
2. The dangers of pregnancy
3. The fetus and alcohol
4. Drinking and the human body
Answer: 3
4. In line 4 the word "its" refers to?
1. the fetus
2. the blood
3. the tissue
4. the alcohol
Answer: 4
5. In line 5, the word "pronounced" most closely means
1. evident
2. spoken
3. described
4. unfortunate
Answer: 1
1. about one hour
2. a few seconds
3. several minutes
4. at least 24 hours
Answer: 2
7. In line 9 the word "inextricably" most nearly means
1. unexplainedly
2. formerly
3. forcefully
4. inseparably
Answer: 4
1. The concentration is more.
2. The concentration is less.
3. The concentration is equivalent.
4. The concentration cannot be measured.
Answer: 3
9. It can be inferred that the development of a fetal liver depends on?
1. how many months pregnant the mother is
2. how much alcohol the mother has consumed
3. how large the fetus is
4. how well the mother has taken care of the fetus
Answer: 1
10. According to the passage, how is alcohol finally returned to the mothers system?
1. it is carried through the bloodstream
2. it is transferred across the placenta
3. it is expelled by the fetus's liver
4. it is not completely returned
Answer: 2
11. Which one of the following was NOT mentioned as a sign of fetal alcohol syndrome?
1. disfigurement of the face
2. concentration difficulties
3. increased aggression
4. memory problems
Answer: 3
1. Lines 2-3
2. Lines 11-13
3. Lines 21-22
4. Lines 24-25
Answer: 3
13. Herbalife Inc is based in:
1. Los Angeles
2. Columbus
3. New York
4. Austin
Ans : 1
1. Was a former attorney for Hughes
2. Was a former distributor of Herbalife
3. Co-founded Herbalife
4. Ran Herbalife's German unit
Ans : 2
15. Which of the following countries is mentioned where Hughes operated Herbalife?
1. India
2. China
3. Germany
4. Ukraine
Ans : 3
16. The complaint of Randy Cox of Lewiston, Idaho, against Herbalife was:
1. The company did not pay them their dues
2. The products supplied by Hughes were inferior
3. Their higher-ups in the pyramid cheated them
4. Hughes had connections with the Russian mafia
Ans : C
17. Which of the following countries is NOT mentioned in the passage?
1. Russia
2. USA
3. France
4. Italy
Ans : D
1. $12 million
2. $159 million
3. $54 million
4. $97 million
Ans :A
1. $420 million
2. $580 million
3. $125 million
4. $500 million
Ans : B
20. The authors main point is that
1. The government ought to subsidize C and D
2. Wages ought to be independent of international trade
3. It is impossible to attain national self sufficiency
4. The varying productivity of the various industries leads tot he inequalities in wages of workers in these industries
5. A policy that draws labour from the fields of catater natural productiveness to fields of lower natural productiveness tends to redirect purchasing power.
Answer: E
1. The population has increased
2. Productivity of labour is not at the maximum
3. Productivity would drop correspondingly with the wages of labour
4. We cannot produce everything we consume
5. Enterprises would have to pay wages equivalent to those obtained by workers in A and B while producing under catater disadvantages.
Answer: E
22. When C and D are established, workers in these industries
1. Receives wages equal to those workers in A and B
2. Receives higher wages than do the workers in A and B
3. Are not affected so adversely by the levying of duties as are workers in A and B
4. Must be paid by government funds collected from the duties on imports.
5. Receive lower wages than do the workers in A and B.
Answer: A
23. We cannot exploit C and D unless
1. The producers in E and D are compensated for the disadvantages under which they operate.
2. We export large quantities of commodities produced by A and B
3. The prices of commodities produced by A and B are raised
4. The productivity of labour in all industries is increased
5. We allow duties to be paid to the producers in C and D rather than to the government.
Answer: A
24. The primary purpose a the passage is to show that extensive experimentation has
1. Mot supported the hypothesis that learning is directly dependent on protein synthesis
2. Cast doubt on the value of puromycin in the newer behavioral study of learning
3. Revealed the importance of amnesia in the neuron behavioral study of learning
4. Demonstrated the importance of amino acid fragmentation in the induction of amnesia.
5. Not yet demonstrated the applicability of molecular biology to behavioral research.
Answer: A
1. Specific research into learning on which of the following
2. Traditional theories about learning
3. Historic experiments on the effects puromycin
4. Previous discoveries in molecular biology
5. Now technique in protein synthesis.
Answer: D
