Tham khảo tài liệu 'university math english 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ---------------------------- ACT READING TEST PRACTICE ------------------------------------ ACT calls these referring questions . The rest of the answers must be inferred from the information you read in the passages ACT calls these reasoning questions . In order to answer these questions you need to fully understand the passages as well as be able to infer meaning from them and draw some reasonable conclusions from the passages themselves. Pretest Read the following passage and then answer the five questions. These questions are good examples of the types of questions you will find on the ACT Reading Test. As you go through each question try to anticipate what type of question it is and the best way to go about answering it. Once you have finished all five questions in the pretest read the explanations on page 206 for details on the best way of finding the answers in the text. How well you do on the pretest will help you determine in which areas you need the most careful review and practice. SOCIAL STUDIES This passage is Of the Origin and Use of Money from The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 1776. 1 WHEN the division of labour has been once thoroughly established it is but a very small part of a man s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies the far greater part of them by exchanging that surplus part of the produce of his own labour which is over and above his own consumption for such parts of the produce of other men s labour as he has occasion for. 5 Every man thus lives by exchanging or becomes in some measure a merchant and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society. But when the division of labour first began to take place this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarrassed in its operations. One man we shall suppose has more of a certain commodity than he himself has occasion for while another has less. 10 The former consequently would be glad to dispose of and the latter .
