READING 1 / QUICK QUIZ

Choices in Public Life

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What makes the committee's discussion legislative?A. It concerns tending plants under a rule already in force.B. It concerns drafting a rule for the city's lawmaking body.C. It concerns counting the election result without considering any law.D. It concerns privately choosing a favorite garden without a public rule.

2Cooperation between members of the city's two political parties is _____.A. bipartisanB. nonpartisanC. unilateralD. intra-party

3Which description supports calling the result a landslide?A. The proposal and its alternative receive exactly the same number of votes.B. The proposal wins by one vote after an evenly divided count.C. The proposal receives eighty votes and its only alternative receives twenty.D. The count is incomplete and neither side's total is yet known.

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