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    The passage discusses the modern reliance on electricity and how biology and electricity are closely related. It notes that all living cells produce tiny pulses of electricity, and organs like the heart and brain can be monitored through electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. The electric eel is highlighted as an amazing example of a living electrical generator, with up to four-fifths of its cells specialized to produce electricity - it can emit jolts of up to 800 volts.

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    The passage discusses the modern reliance on electricity and how biology and electricity are closely related. It notes that all living cells produce tiny pulses of electricity, and organs like the heart and brain can be monitored through electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. The electric eel is highlighted as an amazing example of a living electrical generator, with up to four-fifths of its cells specialized to produce electricity - it can emit jolts of up to 800 volts.

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    The passage discusses the modern reliance on electricity and how biology and electricity are closely related. It notes that all living cells produce tiny pulses of electricity, and organs like the heart and brain can be monitored through electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. The electric eel is highlighted as an amazing example of a living electrical generator, with up to four-fifths of its cells specialized to produce electricity - it can emit jolts of up to 800 volts.

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    The modern age (electricity)

    The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio,
    televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them.
    When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight. Cars hesitate in
    the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent
    refrigerators.

    People began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two
    centuries ago, while nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of
    years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many
    interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.

    All living cells sent out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it send out pulses
    of recorded electricity; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to
    determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity,
    which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most
    living cells are extremely small-of-ten so small that sensitive instruments are needed to
    record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as
    electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of
    these cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.

    The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight
    hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. An electric house current is
    only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four fifths of all the cells in the electric eel’s
    body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver
    corresponds roughly to the length of its body.

    Questions :

    1. What is the primarily concerned of the passage?


    (A) Electric eels are potentially dangerous
    (B) Biology and electricity appear to be closely related
    (C) People would be at a loss without electricity
    (D) Scientists still have much to discover about electricity

    2. The author mentions which of the followings as results of a blackout:


    (A) refrigerated food items may go bad (B) traffic lights do not work
    (C) people must rely on candlelight (D) all of them are mentioned

    3. The last passage:


    (A) warns the reader to stay away from them
    (B) compares their voltage to that used in houses
    (C) gives an example of a living electrical generator
    (D) describes a new source of electrical power

    4. How many volts of electricity can an electric eel emit?


    (A) 1,000 (B) 800 (C) 200 (D) 120

    5. The pronoun "it" in the second paragraph refers to


    (A) electricity (B) the heart
    (C) living cells (D) a doctor
    6. The pronoun "they" in the second paragraph refers to
    (A) muscle cells (B) electrical generators
    (C) muscle (D) animals

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