Owners of famous and valuable painting have been commissioning talented artists to paint copies of these art treasures to exhibit them in their homes.

What is the most likely reason an owner of a valuable painting might want to exhibit a copy instead of the original?

Read the following statements and choose the letter of the best answer based on the information given.

Few school curricula include a unit on how to deal with bereavement and grief, and yet all students at some point in their lives suffer from losses through death and parting.

What topic would NOT be included in the unit of bereavement?

In line 8, the word “them” refers to

According to the passage, how many Stradivarius violins are there?

Graphics are like black-and-white photographs in that

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as absorbing sound?

In the twentieth century, architects in large cities designed structures in a way

that reduced noise and yet made living as comfortable as possible.  They used such

techniques as making walls hollow and filling this wall space with materials that

absorb noise.  Thick carpets and heavy curtains were used to cover floors and

windows.  Air conditioners and furnaces were designed to filter air through

soundproofing materials.  However, after much time and effort had been spent in

making buildings less noisy, it was discovered that people also reacted adversely

to the lack of sound.  Now architects are designing structures which reduce

undesirable noise but retain the kind of noise that people seem to need.

In line 2, the word “they” refers to

In line 4, the word “this” refers to

Where in the passage does the author discuss how the computer printer conveys color?

The quality of the graphics output on a computer printer is measured in dpi (dots

per inch). Simply by changing the density of dots than make up each part of an

image, the printer can produce graphics that look almost photographic.  To

understand how this works, consider how a black-and-white photograph shows the

shades which, in real life, are colors.  Each color is a different shade of gray.  For

graphics to be produced on the computer printer, a piece of software called a

printer driver decides upon a dot pattern which will represent each color shade. 

These different patterns or textures each create an individual effect which your eye

translates into gray shades.  The closer you look at the image, however, the less

lifelike it looks.

According to the passage, a computer printer can