central idea

PART A: Which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?
A. Time is fleeting and so people should live life to the fullest by experiencing
everything it has to offer.
B. People should put art and academics before work and society because work and
society are meaningless.
C. Life should be lived without complication or hurry in order to find meaning.
D. Technology is invasive and must be stopped before it takes over all aspects of
one’s life.
2. PART B: Which TWO of the following quotes best support the answer to Part A?
A. “Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” (Paragraph 2)
B. “Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice,
and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour” (Paragraph 2)
C. “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be
starved before we are hungry.” (Paragraph 3)
D. “Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds
up his head and asks, ‘What’s the news?’” (Paragraph 3)
E. “For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are veryfew important communications made through it.” (Paragraph 4)
F. “Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest
star, before Adam and after the last man.” (Paragraph 6)
3. PART A: Which of the following best describes what the word “mean” conveys, as used in
paragraph 1?
A. amazing
B. lowly
C. average
D. useful
4. PART B: Which of the following phrases best supports the answer to Part A?
A. “drive life into a corner” (Paragraph 1)
B. “reduce it” (Paragraph 1)
C. “of the devil or of God” (Paragraph 1)
D. “like ants” (Paragraph 2)