CBEST-SECTION-2 Exam Questions & Answers

Heat reactions usually occur when large amounts of water and/or salt are lost through excessive sweating following strenuous exercise. When the body becomes overheated and cannot eliminate this excess heat, heat exhaustion and heat

stroke are possible. Heat exhaustion is generally characterized by clammy skin, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, profuse perspiration, and sometimes fainting, resulting from an inadequate intake of water and the loss of fluids. First aid treatment for

this condition includes having the victim lie down, raising the feet 812 inches, applying cool, wet cloths to the skin, and giving the victim sips of salt water (1 teaspoon per glass, half a glass every 15 minutes), over the period of an hour. Heat

stroke is much more serious; it is an immediately life-threatening situation.

The characteristics of heat stroke are a high body temperature (which may reach 106F or more); a rapid pulse; hot, dry skin; and a blocked sweating mechanism.

Victims of this condition may be unconscious, and first aid measures should be directed at cooling the body quickly. The victim should be placed in a tub of cold water or repeatedly sponged with cool water until his or her temperature is

lowered sufficiently. Fans or air conditioners will also help with the cooling process.

Care should be taken, however, not to overchill the victim once the temperature is below 102F.

On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

Heat stroke is more serious than heat exhaustion because heat stroke victims

A. have too little salt in their bodies.

B. cannot take in water.

C. do not sweat.

D. have frequent fainting spells.

E. may have convulsions.

OConnell Street is the main thoroughfare of Dublin City. Although it is not a particularly long street, Dubliners will tell the visitor proudly that it is the widest street in all of Europe. This claim usually meets with protests, especially from French tourists, claiming the Champs Elysees of Paris as Europes widest street. But the witty Dubliner will not relinquish bragging rights easily and will trump the French visitor with a fine distinction: the Champs Elysees is a boulevard; OConnell is a street. Divided by several important monuments running the length of its center, the street is named for Daniel OConnell, an Irish patriot. _______________ ____________________________.OConnell stands high above the unhurried crowds of shoppers, business people, and students on a sturdy column, surrounded by four serene angels seated at each corner of the monuments base. Further up the street is the famous General Post Office that the locals affectionately call "the GPO." During the 1916 rebellion, the GPO was taken over and occupied by the Irish rebels to British rule, sparking weeks of armed combat in the citys center. To this day, the angels of OConnells monument bear the marks of the fighting: one sits reading calmly, apparently unaware of the bullet hole dimpling her upper arm; another, reaching out to stroke the ears of a huge bronze Irish wolfhound, has survived what should be a mortal wound to her heart. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. Dublin's Famous Monuments

B. The Irish Take Pride in Their Capital City

C. The Widest Street in Europe

D. Sights and History on Dublin's O’Connell Street

E. Tourism in Dublin

A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides;

You may have met him did you not?

His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,

A spotted shaft is seen,

And then it closes at your feet And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,

A floor too cool for corn,

Yet when a boy, and barefoot,

I more than once at noon Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash

Unbraiding in the sun,

When, stooping to secure it,

It wrinkled, and was gone.

Several of natures people I know and they know me;

I feel for them a transport Of cordiality;

But never met this fellow,

Attended or alone,

Without a tighter breathing And zero at the bone.

On the basis of above poem please answer the following question

Who or what is the "fellow" in this poem?

A. a whip-lash

B. a weed

C. a snake

D. a gust of wind

E. a boy