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In the words of Thomas The main idea of the paragraph maintains that the
DeQuincey, "It is memory
notorious that A. always operates at peak efficiency.
the memory B. breaks down under great strain.
strengthens as you lay
C. improves as it is used often.
burdens upon it." If,
D. becomes unreliable if it tires.
like most people, you
have trouble recalling
the names of
those you have just met,
try this: The next time
you are
introduced, plan to
remember the names.
Say to yourself,
"I'll listen carefully; I'll
repeat each person's
name to be
sure I've got it, and I will
remember." You'll
discover how
effective this technique
is and probably recall
those names
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for the rest of your life.
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Unemployment was the This passage is primarily about
overriding fact of life A. unemployment in the 1930s.
when B. the effect of unemployment on United States families.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.
became president of the
D. President Roosevelt's FERA program.
United
States on March 4, 1933.
An anomaly of the time
was that
the government did not
systematically collect
statistics of
joblessness; actually it
did not start doing so
until 1940. The
Bureau of Labor
Statistics later
estimated that
12,830,000
persons were out of
work in 1933, about
one-fourth of a
civilian labor force of
more than 51 million.
Roosevelt signed the
Federal Emergency
Relief Act on May
12, 1933. The president
selected Harry L.
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