1. Self-consciousness often does more to mar a good voice than anything else, since it leads to the contraction of the muscles. Have you never noticed how pleasantly some people sing or hum to themselves when they imagine they are not overheard, compared with the indifferent or even unpleasant manner in which they perform publicly?
According to the passage,

2. I make no apology, and I trust that none is needed, for these speculations. Reports of atrocities can serve no useful purpose unless they move men to reflect no less resolutely than deeply upon what is to be done to deliver Europe from the scourge of their repetition. It may well be that my own reflections will seem cynical to one, depressing to another, arbitrary to a third. They are not the idols of the theatre, and in academic circles they may not be fashionable.
According to the passage,

3. No external rays reach the bottom of the sea, and what light there is must be supplied by the phosphorescent organs of the animals themselves, and must be faint and intermittent. A large percentage of animals taken from the deep sea show phosphorescence when brought on deck; and it may be that this emission of light is much greater at a low temperature, and under a pressure of 1 to 2 tons on the square inch, than it is under the ordinary atmospheric conditions of the surface.
According to the passage,

4. I believe that it is within the power of an artist to actually lessen, or, at any rate, to temporarily relieve, the cares and worries of which each member of an audience has a share; and I am sure that the easiest way to do so is to sing songs whose meaning, and whose message, is immediately understandable.
The author of this passage would most likely agree that

5. With Roger Williams, the mood for composition seems to have come in gusts. His writings are numerous; but they were produced spasmodically and in clusters, amid long spaces of silence. He is known to have written two or three works which were never printed at all, and which are now lost.
According to the passage, Roger Williams

6. The Milwaukee Brewers finished the 1988 season with 87 wins and 75 losses. Paul Molitor, the Brewers’ third baseman, had 190 hits that season, as did center fielder Robin Yount; second baseman Jim Gantner had 149 during the 1988 season.
According to the passage,

7. He is far too fat to fly — the best he can do is to waddle. But his fat is very useful to him, for it is a kind of greatcoat, and helps to keep him warm while fishing in the bitterly cold waters around the South Pole. There is only one time, in fact, when the penguin becomes lean, and that is when Mother and Father are bringing up their family.
The main idea of this passage is

8. It is not happenstance that the intellectual qualities of originally minded organizational leaders overlap with those of artistically inclined personalities, since both types share the qualities of imagination and novelty. In addition, the rapidly changing modern environment, marked as it is by an environment of highly competitive global production, rapid information exchange, and the emergence of new industries catering to cultural desires, rewards leaders who are sensitive to issues of design and to the aesthetic dimensions of products or organizational life.
According to the passage,

9. In the hands of such a nation an international convention is not merely idle and impotent; the convention itself becomes positively dangerous, simply because it can be perverted. It can be used to invest the most barbarous acts with a specious plausibility, and can be turned against the very people whom it was designed to protect.
What is the main theme of this passage?

10. It is not happenstance that the intellectual qualities of originally minded organizational leaders overlap with those of artistically inclined personalities, since both types share the qualities of imagination and novelty. In addition, the rapidly changing modern environment, marked as it is by an environment of highly competitive global production, rapid information exchange, and the emergence of new industries catering to cultural desires, rewards leaders who are sensitive to issues of design and to the aesthetic dimensions of products or organizational life.
According to the passage, many new industries

11. Use the northwest entrance at Queen’s Park to access the pharmacy building, the northeast entrance to purchase subway tickets in the mezzanine, and the southwest entrance to connect to the Ontario Power building and Mount Sinai Hospital. The southeast entrance is still under construction.
According to the passage, which entrance should you use if you want to purchase a subway ticket?

12. Colombia has six main natural regions, including the Andes mountain range and the Amazon Rainforest region. It’s part of the Ring of Fire, which is a region especially prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. As a unitary presidential constitutional republic, which is vastly different from a monarchy, Colombia has a president, a congress and a senate, as well as a Chamber of Representatives.
According to the passage, Colombia is

13. With Roger Williams, the mood for composition seems to have come in gusts. His writings are numerous; but they were produced spasmodically and in clusters, amid long spaces of silence. He is known to have written two or three works which were never printed at all, and which are now lost.
According to the passage, Roger Williams

14. The Hubble telescope has helped NASA scientists discover 16 background galaxies around Abell S1063, a distant galaxy that could be home to billions of other worlds. One is about 12.7 billion years old, according to the scientists on the project. Scientists are studying Abell S1063 as part of Frontier Fields, a three-year program that searches for new galaxies.
According to the passage,

15. One thing that I think exercises an enormous amount of influence upon the quality of voices is climate. Review the climatic conditions of the various countries, and you cannot help remarking upon the number of natural voices that are met with in Italy and in Australia, in both of which countries the climate is unusually fine.
The author of this passage most likely believes that

16. Colombia has six main natural regions, including the Andes mountain range and the Amazon Rainforest region. It’s part of the Ring of Fire, which is a region especially prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. As a unitary presidential constitutional republic, which is vastly different from a monarchy, Colombia has a president, a congress and a senate, as well as a Chamber of Representatives.
According to the passage, Colombia is

17. Use the northwest entrance at Queen’s Park to access the pharmacy building, the northeast entrance to purchase subway tickets in the mezzanine, and the southwest entrance to connect to the Ontario Power building and Mount Sinai Hospital. The southeast entrance is still under construction.
According to the passage, which entrance should you use if you want to purchase a subway ticket?

18. There is a sickness common to all prisoners in Saint Lazare which is known there as “the six o’clock sickness” (le mal de six heures). It attacks all newcomers, and none escape it. It comes on after the walk in the courtyard, when night begins to close in, and the prison settles into silence till the morning. It is an attack of a kind of malarial fever, a shivering fit and a violent headache with a feeling of lassitude and nausea afterwards. When it comes on, the prisoners are given a cachet of quinine from the prison pharmacy.
According to the passage, “the six o’clock sickness”

19. The Milwaukee Brewers finished the 1988 season with 87 wins and 75 losses. Paul Molitor, the Brewers’ third baseman, had 190 hits that season, as did center fielder Robin Yount; second baseman Jim Gantner had 149 during the 1988 season.
According to the passage,

20. I make no apology, and I trust that none is needed, for these speculations. Reports of atrocities can serve no useful purpose unless they move men to reflect no less resolutely than deeply upon what is to be done to deliver Europe from the scourge of their repetition. It may well be that my own reflections will seem cynical to one, depressing to another, arbitrary to a third. They are not the idols of the theatre, and in academic circles they may not be fashionable.
According to the passage,

21. The Hubble telescope has helped NASA scientists discover 16 background galaxies around Abell S1063, a distant galaxy that could be home to billions of other worlds. One is about 12.7 billion years old, according to the scientists on the project. Scientists are studying Abell S1063 as part of Frontier Fields, a three-year program that searches for new galaxies.
According to the passage,

22. Education is compulsory. This concluding requirement of the regulations exists in the laws of public instruction of almost all nations. Nevertheless, in its application, the governments pay attention to the social circumstances of the country. In our country parents incur a fine who do not send their children to school, the fine being from one-half to two reals, according to circumstances.
After reading this passage, you can assume that

23. While dyslexia is often called “reading disorder” because it’s characterized by difficulty reading, that’s not the only issue it presents. Other problems dyslexia can cause include difficulty with spelling, writing, pronunciation, comprehension and other areas. Experts typically agree that dyslexia involves genetic and environmental factors.
According to the passage, dyslexia does not cause problems with which of the following?

24. Education is compulsory. This concluding requirement of the regulations exists in the laws of public instruction of almost all nations. Nevertheless, in its application, the governments pay attention to the social circumstances of the country. In our country parents incur a fine who do not send their children to school, the fine being from one-half to two reals, according to circumstances.
After reading this passage, you can assume that

25. While dyslexia is often called “reading disorder” because it’s characterized by difficulty reading, that’s not the only issue it presents. Other problems dyslexia can cause include difficulty with spelling, writing, pronunciation, comprehension and other areas. Experts typically agree that dyslexia involves genetic and environmental factors.
According to the passage, dyslexia does not cause problems with which of the following?