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A. Irrelevant answer that gives information, which is not stated in the text.
B. Answer that gives completely opposite information.
C. Answer that gives information that figures in the text, but not what you're asked about.
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Model Question and Answer:

Read the following text, and answer the questions.

Blood and Body

The average person has about one to one and a half gallons of a liquid inside its body called
blood. Blood is the most essential and important part of the body's circulatory system. The
circulatory system is responsible for the movement of blood throughout the body through blood
vessels. The heart is the pump that makes it all happen.

Blood has several ingredients found inside the body that are mixed together. Bone marrow,
located inside the bones of the body, makes most of these ingredients that come together to
produce blood. They include red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. In addition, a fourth
ingredient called plasma, which is mostly water, is another important component of blood. Each
of these components has a special function for the body.

Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. It is the most abundant of the different cells
inside the blood. A chemical called hemoglobin is carried by the red blood cells and gives blood
its red color, and carries the oxygen too all parts of the body. The hemoglobin receives the
oxygen each time a person breathes.

White blood cells help the body fight infections and are larger than red blood cells. They are not
as abundant as red blood cells especially when a person is healthy. However, they increase in
number when a person gets sick in order to fight off the illness. There are three kinds of white
blood cells.

Granulocytes help heal wounds after an injury, prevent infections, and kills germs before they
enter the body. Lymphocytes include B cells and T cells. B cells help produce antibodies which
gets rid of germs when a person like bacteria or viruses. These cells also help prevent a person
from getting the same germ in the future. T cells also battle germs by producing special
chemicals to fight infections. Monocytes surround and destroy bacteria and viruses which can
cause infections.

Platelets are cells that help stop the body from bleeding if it gets cut. When a person's skin is
broken blood vessels are also cut. The platelets send out a chemical signal for the cut to
eventually clot and stop bleeding by sticking together. The blood vessels heal during the process
of clotting. Without platelets the bleeding would never stop.