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Sample questions 21 through 30 require verbal skills.
Directions: Reading. In questions 21 through 25, read the paragraph carefully and base your answer on
the material given.
21. Probably few people realize, as they drive on a concrete road, that steel is used to keep the
surface flat and even in spite of the weight of buses and trucks. Steel bars, deeply embedded in
the concrete, provide sinews to take the stresses so that they cannot crack the slab or make it
wavy.
The paragraph best supports the statement that a concrete road
(A) is expensive to build.
(B) usually cracks under heavy weights.
(C) is used exclusively for heavy traffic.
(D) is reinforced with other material.
22. The likelihood of America exhausting its natural resources seems to be decreasing. All kinds of
waste are being reworked, and new uses are constantly being found for almost everything. We
are getting more use out of our goods and are making many new byproducts out of what was
formerly thrown away.
The paragraph best supports the statement that we seem to be in less danger of exhausting our
resources because
(A) economy is found to lie in the use of substitutes.
(B) more service is obtained from a given amount of material.
(C) we are allowing time for nature to restore them.
(D) supply and demand are better controlled.
23. Through advertising, manufacturers exercise a high degree of control over consumers' desires.
However, the manufacturer assumes enormous risks in attempting to predict what consumers
will want and in producing goods in quantity and distributing them in advance of final selection
by the consumers.
The paragraph best supports the statement that manufacturers
(A) can eliminate the risk of overproduction by advertising.
(B) distribute goods directly to the consumers.
(C) must depend upon the final consumers for the success of their undertakings.
(D) can predict with great accuracy the success of any product they put on the market.
24. What constitutes skill in any line of work is not always easy to determine; economy of time must
be carefully distinguished from economy of energy because the quickest method may require the
greatest expenditure of muscular effort and may not be essential or at all desirable.
The paragraph best supports the statement that
(A) the most efficiently executed task is not always the one done in the shortest time.
(B) energy and time cannot both be conserved in performing a single task.
(C) a task is well done when it is performed in the shortest time.
(D) skill in performing a task should not be acquired at the expense of time.
