AN INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE FOR A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PASSAGE IS PROVIDED BELOW

8. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete

the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important

ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express

ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage.

The Internet and technology are making the world a smaller and smaller place today,

and this is creating a global economy.

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A. As Thomas Friedman so eloquently put it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is "the

inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed

before,"

B. A global economy poses some serious problems and if a company doesn't act fast enough, it can

lose, and if the company loses heavily, the employees working for the company and the stores

that depend on those employees buying their goods can go out of business.

C. A person who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the global

economy by quickly preparing to enter other career fields, if his job is here today but gone in the

morning.

D. A career field that is here today might be gone long before the child can graduate from college, so

it becomes vital.

E. People are always going to be willing to pay any price they need to pay in order to buy something

they want, which is why the price of gasoline will not be a factor in the global economy.

F. Individuals from some foreign countries, some individuals from the US and the US economy will

adjust to globalization, but the real question is, how is the rest of the world going to react to living

in a global economy?

B. Close test (20 points)

Art as a career

Many celebrated artists have found (1) ________ hard to (2) ________ ends meet early on in their

careers. (3) ________ a few well-known exceptions, however, (poor Van Gogh being perhaps the most

famous one) (4)_________ went on to find recognition within their own lifetime. Picasso’s life story is

the kind of rags-to-riches tale (5) _________ gives hope to many (6) _________ unknown artist. In