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Paragraph Comprehension Test

PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION TEST

60 QUESTIONS
60 MINUTES

This test measures your ability to obtain information from written passages.
You will find one or more paragraphs of reading material followed by
incomplete statements or questions. You are to read the paragraph(s) and
select the lettered choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question.

1. Few drivers realize that steel is used to keep the road surface flat despite the
weight of buses and trucks. Steel bars, deeply embedded in the concrete, are
sinews to take the stresses so that the stresses cannot crack the slab or make it
wavy.
The passage best supports the statement that a concrete road

(A) is expensive to build.
(B) usually cracks under heavy weights.
(C) looks like any other road.
(D) is reinforced with other material.

2. Blood pressure, the force that the blood exerts against the walls of the vessels
through which it flows, is commonly meant to be the pressure in the arteries. The
pressure in the arteries varies with the contraction (work period) and the
relaxation (rest period) of the heart. When the heart contracts, the blood in the
arteries is at its greatest, or systolic, pressure. When the heart relaxes, the blood
in the arteries is at its lowest, or diastolic, pressure. The difference between
these pressures is called the pulse pressure.

According to the passage, which one of the following statements is most accurate?
(A) The blood in the arteries is at its greatest pressure during contraction.
(B) Systolic pressure measures the blood in the arteries when the heart is relaxed.
(C) The difference between systolic and diastolic pressure determines the blood pressure.
(D) Pulse pressure is the name as blood pressure.

3. More patients have been issued for inventions relating to transportation than for
those in any other line of human activity. These inventions have resulted in a
great financial savings to the people and have made possible a civilization that
could not have existed without them.

One of the following statements that is best supported by the passage is that transportation

(A) would be impossible without inventions.

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