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In every healthy democracy one will find, in addition to lively discussion and a thriving press, lots of political satire. Political satire is a genre of written, oral, and graphic communication that pokes fun at politicians, political parties, and the activities of government. It is humor, but humor with a purpose; by exaggerating faults and foibles, the satirist hopes to provoke laughter while making a point. Leaders of governments and political parties often suffer most at the hands of the satirist, so it is wise for those who wish to make a career of politics to be able to laugh at themselves and take a joke. Like a forest without the sounds of birds, a democracy without the sights and sounds of political satire is a sign that something is amiss.

The author's main purpose in writing the passage is most likely to

Explain what political satire is and why it is important.

International Falls, Minnesota, a city on the U.S. and Canadian border, earned the legal right to call itself the "Icebox of the Nation" after battling the ski town of Fraser, Colorado, for the title. After learning that Fraser had been using the slogan, which their own town had claimed since 1948, International Falls officials headed for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and successfully obtained a registration certificate.
The legal victory is about more than simple bragging rights. International Falls uses the icebox moniker to market itself as the country's best location for cold-weather testing projects.

The passage implies that the "Icebox of the Nation" slogan

brings both dollars and recognition to International Falls.

The American newspaper columnist Art Buchwald wrote humor columns--first for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune in the 1950s and later for the Washington Post. Rather than the stinging wit of some of his contemporaries, Buchwald's style was kindly. Every once in a while, however, his patience with a politician, institution, or policy would wear thin, and his readers would see another, less avuncular side. Art Buchwald's newspaper column was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982. Over the course of his career he would write newspaper columns and publish humorous books for half a century.

One can infer from the passage that Art Buchwald's writing, when he nearly lost his patience, was

biting

One of a group of talented, and sometimes ruthless, entrepreneurs, Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, worked his way up from modest beginnings to become one of the richest people in 19th century America. In 1873 he organized his own steel company in Pittsburg, and it soon dominated the industry. In 1901 he sold his holdings in the company for $480 million to banker J. P. Morgan. Carnegie believed that the wealthy are merely trustees of their money and are obligated to use their resources for the benefit of society. Convinced that the best way to improve the lives of others was to provide them with access to knowledge, Carnegie funded thousands of public libraries.
By the time of his death in 1919, he had given away most of his fortune to support a variety of philanthropic causes.

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the tone of this passage?

admiring of Carnegie for donating a large part of his wealth

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The accumulation of tiny genetic changes could account for the vast differences between humans and chimpanzees, researchers recently reported. They found that less than 1.5 percent of the DNA found on chromosome 22 in humans differs from the DNA on the equivalent chromosome in chimps. But these small variations are far from the whole story. Eight-three percent of chimpanzee chromosome 22 proteins are different from their human counterparts. This means that only 17 percent of the chromosome 22 genes are identical, indicating that the evolutionary gulf between humans and chimps is much wider than the 98.5 percent match their DNA might appear to indicate.

According to the paragraph, human beings

are less alike than the 1.5 percent difference their DNA suggests.

In order for a human to hear a sound, many things have to happen.
The first is that sound waves must travel through matter, such as air, to the outer ear. Once they reach the outer ear, the sound waves travel through the ear canal and hit the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. This also causes vibration in the ossicles in the middle ear. These three bones, the smallest in the human body, are called the malleus (or hammer), the incus (or anvil), and the stapes (or stirrup). Their vibration amplifies the force of the sound waves and passes the sound information to the inner ear. The fluid in the inner ear, along with thousands of tiny hairs cells of the organ of Corti, then transmits nerve impulses through the cochlear nerve to the brain. It is here that the nerve impulses are interpreted as sound.

According to the passage, in what part of the body is the force of sound waves amplified?

ossicles

Benjamin Franklin began his career as a political leader when he went to London in 1757 as an agent of the Pennsylvania assembly. During Franklin's stay in London, Alexander Wedderburn, the British Solicitor-General, accused Franklin of being a "true incendiary" to British rule. As if to confirm the truth of Wedderburn's statement, Franklin is reported to have obtained— possibly illegally— embarrassing letters written by Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson concerning how to maintain British control of America by restricting the colonists' liberties. In response to these accusations, Franklin wrote, "Having been from my youth more or less engaged in public affairs, it has often happened to me in the course of my life to be censured sharply for the part I took in them."

According to the passage, which of the following statements is correct?

A pro-British governor wrote about limiting the liberties granted to colonists.

Before calling a technician this time, only to learn the culprit was a hairball in a sink drain, I decided to troubleshoot the plumbing problem myself. I consulted resources and learned that my home's drain, waste, and vent system took advantage of gravity and was designed so that water into my home's drains flowed downhill from start to finish. The waste water from each sink, toilet, shower, tub, and appliance collected into ever larger pipes, finally merging into the main sewer line from my home to the city sewer. Based on my research, the fact that I had two sinks, a tub, and the toilets all backing up indicated that the solution was beyond a few simple doses of chemical drain cleaner this time. Instead, it was more likely that there was a clog in the main sewer drain from my home, meaning tree roots, a damaged pipe, or a major clog was responsible.

According to the passage, which of the following is true about the author’s plumbing problems?

They involved interruptions to the flow of gravity-driven water.

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(y - 5) = 1/3 (x - 1)

2x - 3y = 6

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