Answer Explanations

1. (C) This agency charges $35 per day, which is $245 per week.

2. (A) This agency accepts payment by credit card or cash. The others accept

credit cards only.

3. (B) This agency offers a 10 percent discount to National Car Club members.

4. (A) This agency has a phone number listed for the airport, so we can assume

they have an office at the airport.

5. (C) This agency is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

6. (C) This agency states: “There’s no need to reserve a car

7. (B) This agency rents vans and small trucks.

8. v. Section A explains the days and hours the class meets.

9. ii. Section B explains the reading, oral presentation, and language lab

assignments.

10. vi. Section C explains how the grades are calculated.

11. iii. Section D talks about getting help outside of class from the instructor or

at the Language Lab.

12. (A) The class is for health-care workers, so a nurse would be most interested.

Choices (B) and (C) are people who might be interested in a language class,

but this class is not intended for them.

13. (B) According to section B, the Language Lab is in Room 302. Choice (A) is

in Room 203. Choice (C) is in Room 320.

14. (B) According to section C, there will be two exams—a midterm and a final.

Choice (A) is contradicted by the paragraph. Choice (C) is the number of

quizzes, not exams.

15. (C) Paragraph 1 mentions listing all your job accomplishments in order to

show why you deserve a raise. Choice (A) is confused with the suggestion to

make a list of accomplishments, but it is never suggested to share this list with

your boss. Choice (B) is confused with the suggestion to include professional

development courses taken in the list of accomplishments.

16. (B) Paragraph 1 suggests that going over your accomplishments will help you

feel more confident. Confident means self assured. Choices (A) and (C) use

words mentioned in the paragraph, but they are not part of the reason given

for preparing ahead of time.

17. (A) Paragraph 2: “You should investigate the industry standards for salaries

for people in similar positions with similar levels of experience.” Choices (B)

and (C) are not mentioned.

18. (A) Paragraph 2: “Your initial request should actually be slightly higher than

the amount you want in order to leave some room for negotiation.” Choices

(B) and (C) are contradicted by “slightly higher.”

19. (C) Paragraph 3: “If you have recently been given new responsibilities, it

makes sense to ask for a higher level of compensation.” Choice (A) repeats the

word favorable. Choice (B) repeats the word financial

20. (A) Paragraph 3: “Your salary level should be based on professional considerations

alone, and that is where you need to keep the conversation.” Choices

(B) and (C) are things that should not be discussed.

21. False. Paragraph 1: “All full-time employees are entitled to a minimum of

two weeks of annual leave time.”

22. True. Paragraph 1: “the employee must complete the Request for Annual

Leave Form and submit it to his or her supervisor a minimum of thirty days

in advance.”

23. Not Given. There is no information on annual leave for part-time employees.

24. True. Paragraph 1: “Personal leave days must be used within the calendar

year, or they will be forfeited.”

25. True. Paragraph 2: “The company pays 50 percent of the monthly

premiums . . . .”

26. False. Paragraph 2: “Part-time employees are also eligible for the companysponsored

health plans; the company pays 25 percent of the premiums.”

27. False. Paragraph 3: “Employees may . . . contribute . . . up to 5 percent of

their salary.” This means they can choose any amount from zero up to 5 percent

but no higher.

28. fossilfuels. Paragraph 1: “More and more people are turning to so-called ‘green

technologies’ as a way to reduce dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels.”

29. alternative energy. Paragraph 1: “The ideal alternative energy source . . . .”

30. sustainable. Paragraph 1: “sustainable (the supply will not be exhausted), clean

(no emissions), and reliable.”

31. (B) Paragraph 2: “wells as deep as a mile or more can be drilled into underground

reservoirs to tap steam and hot water that are used to run turbines and

create energy.”

32. (C) Paragraph 3: “the biggest disadvantage is that such systems are expensive

to install.”

33. (E) Paragraph 3: “Geothermal power on a smaller scale can be used for heating

and cooling houses or commercial buildings.”

34. (A) Paragraph 4: “However, one does not need to live in the desert to take

advantage of solar power. Cloudy Germany is the worldwide leader in the use

of solar power.”

35. (C) Paragraph 5: “Some enterprising home owners reduce the initial costs by

purchasing inexpensive kits and setting up the system on their own.”

36. (D) Paragraph 4: “The benefits of solar power vary according to how much

exposure a given building has to the sun.”

37. (B) Paragraph 6 mentions wind power being used to generate power for the

utility grid, and paragraph 7 discusses the use of wind power for individual

homes and farms.

38. (D) Paragraph 7: “However, in order to take advantage of wind energy,

a turbine must be in an area with average wind speed of at least 10 miles an

h o u r . . . . ”

39. (F) Paragraph 7: “If the turbine cannot deliver the needed energy, the power

company then makes up the difference.”

40. (G) Paragraph 6: “Like solar and geothermal energy, wind is a renewable

resource that produces no emissions.” This means it is a clean energy source.