Reading Comprehension Questions (Set 1)
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Question |
Answer Sheet of Set 1 |
It is higher than it would be if better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide were available. | |
It is somewhat less than the cost of electricity transmission and distribution. | |
It constitutes at most half of the delivered price of electricity. | |
It is dwelt on by policymakers to the exclusion of other costs associated with electricity delivery. | |
It is not fully recovered by the prices charged directly to electricity consumers. |
The burning of fossil fuels would eventually cease to produce atmospheric accumulations of carbon dioxide. | |
The proportion of the delivered price of electricity due to generation would rise and then decline. | |
Power plants would consume progressively lower quantities of fossil fuels. |
How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classics | |
How it has affected the commercial success of Glass's music | |
Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using popular elements in their compositions | |
Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glass's reputation as a composer of classical music | |
Whether it has caused certain of Glass's works to be derivative in quality |
A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions | |
An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music | |
A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles |
demonstrate that Twain was keenly aware of novelistic construction | |
show that the remaining twelve chapters have little connection to the rest of the novel | |
support the critic’s position that Twain was unaware of novelistic construction | |
provide support for a particular critical interpretation of Twain’s work | |
argue that Twain’s protagonist has much in common with Oedipus |
In order to understand Twain’s novel, critics must compare its protagonist to Oedipus. | |
Twain’s novel contains some chapters that resist easy inclusion into a unified interpretation. | |
The unconventional structure of Huckleberry Finn indicates a lack of authorial awareness. | |
Twain’s novel was the first major American novel to discard traditional European structures. | |
The protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is considered a modern day Oedipus by critics. |
Ragweed plants adapted to desert and mountain climes tend to spread fewer grains of pollen than do plants in other locations. | |
Some attempts to control it may exacerbate the problem. | |
The clumping of pollen grains caused by high humidity levels affects the ability of the wind to carry the grains. |
detail a species that may be more effective at controlling ragweed than are the most aggressive herbicides | |
suggest a potential research avenue to the problem of controlling ragweed that is at present poorly explored | |
discuss a type of mammal that feeds on ragweed plants and may be successful at controlling the spread of ragweed | |
plead with the government to spend more money and put more research efforts into finding a natural control for ragweed | |
argue that complete elimination of the ragweed plant will only be possible if the government funds research into natural controls of ragweed |