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READING COMPREHENSION SET I MCQs

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Question 11. What, according to the passage, is the reason for the author’s optimism?
  1.    That the women are talking of Michelangelo.
  2.    That the yellow fog rubs upon the window-panes.
  3.    That it was an October night.
  4.    That there will be moments for everything.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> That there will be moments for everything.
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D
Option (d)
The passage stresses on the fact that “there will be time” for everything.
Question 12. The last paragraph performs which of the following functions in the passage?
  1.    It summarizes the discussion thus far and suggests additional areas of research.
  2.    It discusses an exceptional case in which the results expected by the author of the passage were not obtained.
  3.    It presents a recommendation based on the evidence presented earlier.
  4.    It cites a specific case that illustrates a problem presented more generally in the previous paragraph.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> It cites a specific case that illustrates a problem presented more generally in the previous paragraph.
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D
The best answer is D.
Looking at the answer options, the last paragraph talks about a particular case that illustrates a problem presented more generally in the previous paragraph.
Question 13. According to the passage, when biologists believed that the cells in the early embryo were undetermined, they made which of the following mistakes?
  1.    They did not realize that there was a connection between the issue of cell determination and the outcome of the separation experiment.
  2.    They assumed that the results of experiments on embryos did not depend on the particular animal species used for such experiments.
  3.    They assumed that it was crucial to perform the separation experiment at an early stage in the embryo’s life.
  4.    They assumed that different ways of separating an embryo into two parts would be equivalent as far as the fate of the two parts was concerned.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> They assumed that different ways of separating an embryo into two parts would be equivalent as far as the fate of the two parts was concerned.
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D
D is the best answer. According to the author, early investigators arrived at the conclusion that the cells of the embryo are undetermined because they “found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it would survive and develop as two normal embryos” (lines 1-6). However, later biologists discovered that when an embryo was cut in places different from the one used by the early investigators, it did not form two whole embryos. Because the earlier biologists apparently arrived at their conclusion without attempting to cut an embryo in different planes, it would appear that they assumed, erroneously, that different ways of separating the embryos would not affect the fate of the two embryo parts.
Question 14. According to the passage, the classical model of decision analysis includes all of the following EXCEPT:
  1.    creation of possible solutions to a problem
  2.    establishment of clear goals to be reached by the decision
  3.    action undertaken in order to discover more information about a problem
  4.    comparison of the probable effects of different solutions to a problem
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> action undertaken in order to discover more information about a problem
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C
C is the best answer. The question requires you to recognize which of the choices is NOT mentioned in the passage as a component of the classical model of decision analysis. Only this choice, “action undertaken in order to discover more information about a problem,” does not appear in the passage
Question 15. The main topic of the passage is:
  1.    the main contribution of modern embryology to molecular biology
  2.    the role of molecular biology in disproving older theories of embryonic development
  3.    cell determination as an issue in the study of embryonic development
  4.    scientific dogma as a factor in the recent debate over the value of molecular biology
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> cell determination as an issue in the study of embryonic development
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C
C is the best answer. In identifying the main topic of the passage, you must consider the passage as a whole. In the first paragraph, the author provides a historical context for the debate described in the second paragraph, concerning when and how the determination of embryo cells takes place. The third and fourth paragraphs provide a specific example of the “Recent discoveries in molecular biology” (lines 28-29) that may lead to the resolution of that debate.
Question 16. It can be inferred from the passage that the initial production of histones after an egg is fertilized takes place:
  1.    in the cytoplasm
  2.    throughout the protoplasm
  3.    in the beaded portions of the DNA strings
  4.    in certain sections of the cell nucleus
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> in the cytoplasm
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A
A is the best answer. In the third paragraph, the author asserts that substances that function as morphogenetic determinants are located in the cytoplasm of the cell and become active after the cell is fertilized. In the fourth paragraph we learn that these substances are “maternal messenger RNA’s” and that they “direct, in large part, the synthesis of histones,” which, after being synthesized, “move into the cell nucleus” (lines 59-68). Thus, it can be inferred that after the egg is fertilized, the initial production of histones occurs in the cytoplasm.
Question 17. The passage suggests that the place of hypothalamic hormones in the hormonal hierarchies of animals is similar to the place of which of the following in plants?
  1.    Plant cell walls
  2.    The complement of genes in each plant cell
  3.    A subset of a plant cell’s gene complement
  4.    The five major hormones
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> The five major hormones
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D
The best answer is D. According to the passage, “The pleiotropy of the five well-studies plant hormones is somewhat analogous to that of certain hormones in animals”. The example given involves certain hypothalamic hormones that “stimulate the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland to synthesize and release many different hormones, one of which stimulates the release of hormones from the adrenal cortex”. These hormones in turn “have specific effects on target organs all over the body”. This “hierarchy of hormones,” as the author calls it, “may also exist in plants”, where the five pleiotropic hormones may “function by activating the enzymes that release … more specific chemical messengers”. Thus, hypothalamic hormones in animals and the five major hormones in plants occupy a similar place in the respective organisms” hormonal hierarchy.
Question 18. What according to the author should the French do to avoid becoming a producer of merely old fashioned wines?
  1.    Follow the labelling strategy of the English-speaking countries
  2.    Give their wines English names
  3.    Introduce fruity wines as Brazil has done.
  4.    Produce the wines that have become popular in the English-speaking world.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Follow the labelling strategy of the English-speaking countries
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A
Option (a)
Refer to the part some areas … have now produced a generation of growers using the varietal nameson their labels.
Question 19. Which of the following best describes one of the main ideas discussed in the passage?
  1.    Rapid change is usually welcomed in society.
  2.    Industry is not as innovative as it is made out to be.
  3.    We should have less change than what we have now.
  4.    Competition spurs companies into radical innovation
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Industry is not as innovative as it is made out to be.
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B
The answer is (b).
The answer can be inferred from the 4th and 6thparagraphs, where the author says that even after "a hundred years and tensof thousands of research hours later" little has changed in the auto industryand also changes in the aviation industry are incremental and largelycosmetic.
Question 20. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
  1.    Executives of automobile companies are inefficient and ludicrous.
  2.    The speed at which an automobile is driven in a city has not changed much in a century.
  3.    Anthropological factors have fostered innovation in automobiles by promoting use of new technologies.
  4.    Further innovation in jet engines has been more than incremental.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> The speed at which an automobile is driven in a city has not changed much in a century.
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B
The answer is (b).
The answer can be inferred from the 4th paragraph -Henry Ford’s first car did 18 miles per hour and in 2001 the average speedin London was 17.5 miles per hour as stated in the last line of the fourthparagraph.

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