Reading Comprehension

rossmoss wrote:Took 12:30 min, got 8/8

1. D - The whole passage discusses the unicellular and Hoyt sector models, and then concludes by discussing the mutual limitations of them (and suggests a new, revised model to address newer, emerging trends - last paragraph

2. B - Law firms are closer to the center of a city in a unicellular model because they are "retailers of infrequently and irregularly purchased goods" (see first paragraph), thus this means that demand for law firm services are "irregular" - answer B.

3. B - The concentric ring model (paragraph 3) is characterized by having the "CBD as the focal point"...whole sale and manufacturing firms..."will normally be located just outside the CBD", and "residential areas will occupy the outer rings of the model, with low-income groups residing in the ...older housing close to the business zone and high-income groups...in the outermost ring."

4. E - Sector model takes into account "custom and social pressures" that "tend to perpetuate location patterns within the city." (Paragraph 3)

5. A - Last paragraph: "Neither model fully accounts for the increasing importance of focal points other than the traditional CBD." The rest of the paragraph describes how these new focal points are emerging in newer cities.

6. C - Again, this goes into what was addressed in question 5 - that these new focal points outside the CBD are growing, so an updated model would show the growing importance of these focal points.

7. E - The creation of luxury housing in a rural setting 30 miles from the center of the city goes against the models discussed in the passage. The models here deal with urban growth, and the last paragraph deals with the emerging trends of focal points surrounding older cities, NOT rural areas.

8. D - The last paragraph evaluates both models, and then tells us why both of them are similarly inadequate due to them not showing new trends in urban development. As such, a third, "multi-cellular" model is proposed as necessary.