Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition

8.
a.
By using a word associated with education, the
writer stresses the importance of education for
the company.
9.
b.
The passage describes only positive effects of
unconditional reimbursement; there is scarcely a
negative word.
10.
a.
If employees of companies that offer uncondi-
tional tuition reimbursement are more loyal to
their companies (see the second and third para-
graphs), it follows that other employees will be less
loyal because their company isn’t showing enough
dedication to their betterment.
11.
c.
Your best clue that 
expendable 
means 
replaceable
is that the writer uses the word immediately after
saying that job security is a thing of the past, so
that workers don’t feel they are important or valu-
able to a company that can fire them on a
moment’s notice.
12.
b.
There is common sense or reason behind each
of the writer’s arguments. Indeed, there are few, if
any, emotional appeals in this passage.
13.
b.
This main idea is explicitly stated in the last
sentence of the first paragraph (a good place to
look for the main idea of a longer passage like this
one) and repeated at the end of the passage.
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