SECTION I - READING COMPREHENSION.
Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading passages. Each
passage is followed by a series
... [Show More] of questions. Read each passage carefully, and then answer
the questions based on it. You may reread the passage as often as you wish. When you have
finished answering the questions based on one passage, go right on to the next passage.
Choose the best answer based on the information given and implied.
Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage.
Passage 1 - Infectious Disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of pathogenic
agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multi-cellular parasites, and unusual protein
known as prions. Infectious pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissib
diseases, due to their potential of transmission from one person or species to another by a
replicating agent (as opposed to a toxin).
Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways. Physical contact,
liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, and airborne inhalation can all transmit infectin
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Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or objects touched by
them, are especially infective, and are sometimes referred to as contagious diseases.
Communicable diseases that require a more specialized route of infection, such as through
blood or needle transmission, or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as contagious.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the
host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the
disease is transmitted. An infection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as
an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms. 1
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one person to another.
d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases
b. Communicable diseases or terminal diseases
c. Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases
d. Communicative diseases or unstable diseases
3. What does infectivity describe?
a. The inability of an organism to multiply in the host
b. The inability of an organism to reproduce
c. The ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host
d. The ability of an organism to reproduce in the host
4. How do we know an infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease?
a. Because an infectious disease destroys infections with enough time.
b. Because an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.
c. We do not. The two are synonymous.
d. Because an infection is too fatal to be an infectious disease.
Questions 5 – 8 refer to the following passage.
Passage 2 - Viruses
A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a small infectious agent that can
replicate only inside the living cells of other organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen
directly with a microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to
bacteria and single-celled organisms.
Unlike prions and viroids, viruses consist of two or three parts: all viruses have genes made
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coat and prions contain no RNA or DNA.) Viruses vary from simple to very complex structures
Most viruses are about one hundred times smaller than an average bacterium. The origins of
viruses in the evolutionary history of life are unclear: some may have evolved from plasmids—
pieces of DNA that can move between cells—while others may have evolved from bacteria.
Viruses spread in many ways; plant viruses are often transmitted from plant to plant by insect
that feed on sap, such as aphids, while animal viruses can be carried by blood-sucking insects
These disease-bearing organisms are known as vectors. Influenza viruses are spread by
coughing and sneezing. HIV is one of several viruses transmitted through sexual contact and b
exposure to infected blood. Viruses can infect only a limited range of host cells called the ―hos
range‖. This can be broad as when a virus is capable of infecting many species or narrow. 2
5. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this selection?
a. A virus is the same as bacterium
b. A person with excellent vision can see a virus with the naked eye
c. A virus cannot be seen with the naked eye
d. Not all viruses are dangerous
6. What types of organisms do viruses infect?
a. Only plants and humans
b. Only animals and humans
c. Only disease-prone humans
d. All types of organisms
7. How many parts do prions and viroids consist of?
a. Two
b. Three
c. Either less than two or more than three
d. Less than two
8. What is one common virus spread by coughing and sneezing?
a. AIDS
b. Influenza
c. Herpes
d. Tuberculosis
Questions 9 – 11 refer to the following passage.
Passage 3 – Clouds
The first stage of a thunderstorm is the cumulus stage, or developing stage. In this stage,
masses of moisture are lifted upwards into the atmosphere. The trigger for this lift can be
insulation heating the ground producing thermals, areas where two winds converge, forcing air
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cools into liquid drops of water, which appears as cumulus clouds.
As the water vapor condenses into liquid, latent heat is released which warms the air, causing
to become less dense than the surrounding dry air. The warm air rises in an updraft through th
process of convection (hence the term convective precipitation). This creates a low-pressure
zone beneath the forming thunderstorm. In a typical thunderstorm, approximately 5×108 kg of
water vapor is lifted, and the amount of energy released when this condenses is about equal t
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