501 Critical Reading Questions

a. It is an example of a menu item that contains more fat than one
would assume.
b. It is the only healthy choice on some restaurants’ menus.
c. It has twice as much salt as the recommended daily allowance.
d. It has as many calories as three McDonald’s hamburgers.
e. It is a typical selection in a Value Meal.
46.
The passage explains that those in favor of the MEAL Act want
nutritional information placed
a. anywhere the consumer can make a menu selection.
b. in print advertisements.
c. on websites.
d. on toll-free hotlines.
e. on posters with print large enough to read from any position in
the restaurant.
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47.
If the MEAL Act is passed, consumers would see
a. menus that tell them how to select the healthiest complete
meal.
b. menus that look like nutritional labels on packaged food.
c. restaurants with more extensive information on their websites.
d. less television advertising of fast food restaurants.
e. restaurants that serve healthier food choices.
Answers
1.
c.
The answer may be found in lines 4 and 5, which state that Rus-
sell wanted an alternative to his scratched and warped phonograph
records. You may infer that the problem with such records was
their poor sound quality.
2.
e.
Lines 26–27 state that the detector’s function is to convert data
collected by the laser into music.
3.
b.
While the paragraph explains the function of semiconductor
lasers in reading the information on CDs, it does not say any-
thing about why they were invented.
4.