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TOEFL EXERCISE 3: Study each of the passages and choose the best answers to the questions
that follow.

PASSAGE ONE (Questions 1-2)

Blood pressure measurement has two components: systolic and diastolic. Systolic
pressure is taken when the heart is contracting to pump blood; diastolic pressure is taken
when the heart is resting between beats. In the usual blood pressure reading, the systolic
Line measurement is given first and is the higher of the two.
Normal blood pressure is a systolic measurement of 140, and when the systolic
pressure is 160 or higher, then hypertension exists. Systolic pressure between 140 and 160
indicates borderline hypertension.

1. Which of the following is NOT true 2. Which of the following is NOT
about systolic blood pressure? stated about diastolic pressure?

(A) It is taken during the (A) It is one of the two components
contraction of the heart. of blood pressure
(B) It is usually given first in a blood measurement.
pressure reading. (B) It is taken when the heart is
(C) A normal systolic measurement is resting.
140. (C) It is lower than systolic pressure.
(D) Hypertension exists when the (D) A diastolic measurement of 140 is
systolic pressure is below 140. normal.

PASSA GE TWO (Questions 3-4)

In the 1960s, as space travel was becoming a subject of much discussion, Pan
American Airlines began receiving some fairly unusual requests for'flight information.
People began making requests to be on the first flight that Pan Am made to the Moon.
Line On a whim, Fan Am started a waiting list for the first flight to the Moon. Similar
(5) requests have come to Pan Am over the years, and Pan Am has responded by adding the
names of the requesters to the list.
Unfortunately for Pan Am, the original company is no longer in business,
and it never got to the Moon. However, when it went out of business, it had a
waiting list of more than 90,000 names for its first lunar flight.

3. All of the following are mentioned 4. Which of the following is NOT true
about Pan American Airlines, about Pan Am's Moon flights?
EXCEPT that
(A) People asked Pan Am about its
(A) it started business in the 1960s flights to the Moon.
(B) it received requests for its first (B) Pan Am kept a waiting list for its
flight to the Moon Moon flights.
(C) it kept some people on a long (C) Pan Am never really made any
waiting list Moon flights.
(D) it went out of business (D) Pan Am's waiting list had only a
few names on it.

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