Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage. Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.     Dean Kamen, award-winning inventor, has created a new battery-powered personal transportation device called the Segway Human Transporter. This device averages eight miles an hour, which is three times faster than walking pace, weighs only sixty-five pounds, and runs about fifteen miles for the cost of about ten cents’ worth of electricity. Mr. Kamen says that the Segway could cause cities to be redesigned, help wean the world from oil dependence, compress time and space for pedestrians, and raise productivity for corporations and government agencies.   (Adapted from Amy Harmon, “An Inventor Unveils His Mysterious Personal Transportation Device,”  The New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001, www.nytimes.com.) Paraphrase

  Directions:  Choose the appropriate answer to identify the pattern or patterns in each reading.   Nortec is a style of electronic music popular among young people who frequent Tijuana nightspots. The world is derived from norte, northern Mexico, and techno, or electronic music. Nortec blends complex electronic rhythms with traditional Mexican variations of the polka and waltz. The sounds of accordions, drums, and tubas dominate the music, which is said to capture the unique cultural flavor of Tijuana. Nortec contains few lyrics. Instead the emphasis is on a high-volume, pulsating beat that inspires energetic dancing.

Directions: Read each passage. Then select the appropriate answer to indicate the presence or absence of an error in reasoning. Some print media, such as the Chicago Times, are acting responsibly by refusing to report school shooting incidents on their front page. Television journalists should follow this exam­ple by refusing to broadcast intensive coverage of a child’s violent rampage. These reports do more harm than good. To attract viewers and increase their ratings, television news organi­zations emphasize the lurid details of a shooting incident and report it over and over again, especially when it involves children. This kind of television coverage desensitizes viewers to violence, and in the case of children, may well inspire them to commit copycat crimes in their own schools. After all, this is what happened when an Arkansas teenager acknowl­edged that he brought a gun to school after seeing footage of the Columbine tragedy on television. How much more proof do networks need and how much damage will they cause before they stop focusing so heavily on adolescent violence?

  Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage. Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.     Jet travel has altered the way Americans lived and thought more than anything else, including the Internet. By enhancing mobility, jets—like railroads in the nineteenth century—advanced a truly national market. They made it possible for Disney World and Las Vegas to become national destinations, and they allowed Harvard to recruit from the West Coast and Stanford from the East. (Adapted from Robert J. Samuelson, “Requiem for the Jet Age?” Newsweek, November 26, 2001, p. 61.) Paraphrase

  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              The airplane crash resulted from a weak ____________________ture point where the craft’s tail attached to the fuselage.

Which drug is contraindicated in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves?

Why is methimazole preferred for hyperthyroidism except in the first trimester of pregnancy?

What is the mechanism of action of sulfonylureas?

What adverse effect limits the use of thiazolidinediones in heart failure?

How do GLP-1 receptor agonists reduce postprandial glucose?