1) "However, because it is a small occupation, the fast growth will result in
only about 5,300 new jobs over the 10-year period.
From this statement, taken from the first paragraph, it may be inferred
that
A)
actuaries are seen as a less desirable job.
B)
actuaries are seen as a more desirable job.
actuarial jobs are less in demand than professions in
other fields relating to mathematics.
D)
actuarial jobs are more in demand than professions in
other fields relating to mathematics.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.