Deck 10: Tone

Question 1

There is far too much standardized testing in grades 3 through 8.

Answer 1

O

Question 2

The unemployment rate is likely to continue climbing for the next two years.

Answer 2

O

Question 3

Employers hired 45% fewer business-school graduates last year than they had projected, according to a Michigan State University survey.

Answer 3

F

Question 4

In 2004, the Arctic Council issued an 1,800-page report warning that arctic regions are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

Question 5

It is a good idea for young people who can't find a job to basically hire themselves by starting their own business.

Question 6

Notre Dame announced that it had fired football coach George O'Leary because of lies on his resume.

Question 7

Less than 25% of Americans with anxiety disorders receive any kind of treatment according to researchers at UCLA.

Question 8

Before people with an anxiety disorder resort to drugs, they should try exercise.

Question 9

Anabolic steroids have no place in professional baseball.

Question 10

Eighty-five percent of colleges reported an increase in students with severe psychological problems, according to a survey by psychologist Robert Gallagher of the University of Pittsburgh.

Question 11

Children living with men unrelated to them are eight times more likely to die of abuse than children living with one or both biological parents, according to an April article in the journal Pediatrics.

Question 12

American Flight 77 hit the southwest face of the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m. on September 11, 2001.

Question 13

Visa and MasterCard are pitching credit cards to teens, but most are far too immature to have their own credit cards.

Question 14

In the year 2002, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 50 th year on Great Britain's throne.

Question 15

Most people would be wise to avoid roller coasters because of their potential to cause serious injury.