Intermediate passages 1 The best recruiting agents

9 Pacific salmon for the Japanese

Nobody eats as much Pacific salmon as the Japanese, who consume the fish raw, pickled, baked, salted, fried, smoked and put in soup. They eat salmon liver and salmon skulls, and they process the fish into burgers and sausage. They eat 300,000 tons of the fish each year, a third of the world's total catch. The center of it all is Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, the largest on earth. Long before sunrise, the market is buzzing. Hundreds of men and women rush around between stalls, shout orders at one another, slice fish, work the telephones, and joke under bright strings of lights that shine down on acres of iced-down fish steaks, shark fillets, and thick red slabs of tuna stacked like wood. The concrete floors are newly washed and swept. The whole place smells fresh, like the sea.

1. It is clear from the passage that

A) Pacific salmon are most commonly found in Japanese waters B) Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market is close to the sea C) the Japanese prepare Pacific salmon in a variety of ways D) the only fish eaten in Japan is the Pacific salmon

2. 
   In Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market A) only Pacific salmon are sold
   

C) over 300,000 tons of fish are sold every year

2. 
   salmon are processed into burgers and sausage
   

4. 
   work starts very early in the morning
   

3. It is stated in the passage that

1. 
   the Japanese consume three times as many fish as the rest of the world
   
2. 
   the Japanese eat more Pacific salmon than any other nation
   
3. 
   fishing is Japan's biggest industry
   
4. 
   the only fish market in Japan is Tokyo's Tsukiji
   

10 The museum robbery

It was, Italian authorities said later, as if the thieves had a catalog and knew just what they were after. Armed bandits bound and gagged six unarmed guards, entered a storeroom containing artifacts from the Roman town of Herculaneum, and stole about 280 objects - gold rings, bracelets, earrings, and precious stones. All had been discovered during excavations of the seaside town, buried by the same eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that destroyed its larger and better-known neighbor, Pompeii. Authorities said that the stolen items also included a small bronze statue of Bacchus inlaid with copper and silver, a bronze vase, and a box of coins. The total value of objects taken during the robbery was estimated at 1.6 million dollars. Art historians and others criticized lax security that permitted two gunmen to climb a wall, enter the site, and break through a flimsy partition to get into the room where the artifacts were kept. Some of the critics also complained that the guards were unarmed. Officials said it would be hard for anyone to sell the stolen objects because all had been catalogued and photographed, and most had been exhibited and published.

1. It is stated in the passage that the stolen goods

A) were the most valuable items in the museum B) were part of the museum's exhibition

C) have now been pictured in a catalog to make resale impossible D) were too well-known to be sold easily 2. The artifacts stolen from the museum

A) came from the ancient city of Pompeii B) were not on display
C) had never been exhibited in the museum D) were all made in A.D. 79

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3. Some people commented that

1. 
   the guards shouldn't have been carrying guns
   
2. 
   the statue of Bacchus was the most valuable item
   
3. 
   the thieves had clearly been in possession of a catalog
   
4. 
   the thieves were able to take advantage of poor security