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1. Total information doubles every ..........
9 months
12 months
18 months
24 months
2. The average college graduate reads no more than ......... books in his/her
post-college life-time.
1
5
25
500
3. The schools' reading training system teaches us to read an average
........ words per minute. (Select closest range.)
150 - 200 words
a minute
200 - 250 words
a minute
250 - 300 words
a minute
300 - 350 words
a minute
4. Who made the following statement? "Knowledge is inter-related and
fragmenting this knowledge destroys the big picture."
George W Bush
Senator Bob
Graham
Bruce W Stewart
Usama Bin Laden
5. In commenting about the Sept 11 attack on America, Senator Bob Graham
spokesman Paul Anderson said that FBI and CIA failures and oversights
"represented ....... "
"a failure
to connect the dots"
"poor
intelligence-gathering"
"American
complacency"
"a plot to
push America into a war in the Middle East"
6. "As knowledge is distributed over an increasing number of people,
..........."
"greater
numbers of people will be empowered"
"individual
wisdom will increase"
"individual
wisdom and enlightenment will diminish"
"the
opportunity for failure decreases"
7. Reading for vertical as well as horizontal enlightenment has a number of
advantages for the Nation.
Better time
utilization
Increased
profits
Enhanced
competitiveness
All of the
above
8. President George Bush upgraded .......... to a domestic national priority.
Security
Reading
Writing
Education
9. How many words of information should we be processing each day?
10, 000
50, 000
75,000
100,000
10. Is the following statement True, False or Not Mentioned? "The big
question is - will Americans reduce reading volumes to suit available time, or
will they increase reading efficiency to suit required reading volumes?"