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Part V: Practice-Review-Analyze-Practice
C. Edited for TV: Removing
Obscenity
D. How Films Get Cut for Television
E. Directors Guild of America: A New
Battle
Read the passage below and answer the
two questions that follow.
California once prided itself on being the
state with the finest roads in the nation. That
is no longer true. Our gas taxes of 9 cents a
gallon took care of California’s highway
needs for years, but they are no longer adequate.
One reason the present tax no longer
covers the bill is that modern cars are using
less fuel. The main factor, though, is that the
cost of building and maintaining highways
has gone way up while the tax has remained
fixed since 1963.
Certainly, California streets, roads, and highways
need help. Two-thirds of city streets
and 77 percent of country roads are substandard.
Ruts and potholes can be found almost
everywhere, and the longer they go without
repair, the more they will cost.
41. Which of the following best
summarizes the passage?
A. Deterioration of California’s roads
has resulted from increased costs
and decreased funds.
B. The quality of California roads is
now second in the nation.
C. Fuel-efficient cars cause more wear
and tear on the roads than did cars
of the past.
D. Every road in the state is marred
with potholes.
E. Over three-quarters of California’s
roads are substandard.
42. Which of the following is not a problem
stated by the passage?
A. inadequate tax revenue
B. ruts and potholes
C. increased cost of building
highways
D. a fixed gas-tax rate
E. demand for new highways
Read the passage below and answer the
question that follows.
Adam Smith, the founder of political economy,
treated economic existence as the true
human life, money-making as the meaning
of history, and was wont to describe statesmen
as dangerous animals; yet this very
England became what it became — the foremost
country, economically speaking, in the
world.
43. The meaning of wont in this passage is
A. desired
B. did not
C. accustomed
D. unlikely
E. unable
Read the passage below and answer the
two questions that follow.
The $5 million in state funds earmarked for
advertising California’s attractiveness as a
tourist destination is an investment well
worth making. Perhaps because California
has long taken it for granted that everyone
wanted to come here, and maybe because for
many years Hollywood was California’s
most powerful publicist, the state has never
spent a dime promoting itself to potential
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