Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below :

Firefighters are often asked to speak to school and community groups about the importance of fire safety, particularly fire prevention and detection. (Because smoke detectors reduce the risk of dying in a fire by half, firefighters often provide audiences with information on how to install these protective devices in their homes.) Specially, they tell them these things: A smoke detector should be placed on each floor of a home. While sleeping people are in particular danger of an emergent fire, and there must be a detector outside each sleeping area. A good site for a detector would be a hallway that runs between living spaces and bedrooms. Because of the dead-air space that might be missed by turbulent hot air bouncing around above a fire, smoke detectors should be installed either on the ceiling at least four inches from the nearest wall, or high on a wall at least four, but no further than twelve inches from the ceiling. Detectors should not be mounted near windows, exterior doors, or other places where drafts might direct the smoke away from the unit. Nor should they be placed in kitchens and garages, where cooking and gas fumes are likely to cause false alarms.


1. The passage indicates that one of the responsibilities of a firefighter is to.

(a) Install smoke detectors in the homes of residents in the community.

(b) Check homes to see if smoke detectors have been properly installed.

(c) Develop Fire safety programmes for community leaders and school, teachers

(d) Speak to school groups about the importance of preventing fires.


2. The passage states that, compared with people who do not have smoke detectors, persons who live in homes with smoke detectors have a

(a) 50% better chance of surviving a fire.

(b) 50% better chance of preventing a fire.

(c) 75% better chance of detecting a hidden fire.

(d) 100% better chance of not getting injured in a fire


3.  A smoke detector should not be installed near a window because

(a) Outside fumes may trigger a false alarm.

(b) A draft may create dead-air space.

(c) A draft may pull smoke away from from the detector.

(d) Outsider noise may muffle the should of the detector.


4. A smoke detector must always be placed

(a) outside at least one of the bedrooms on any levels of the home.

(b) outside all bedrooms in a home.

(c) in all hallways of a home.

(d) in kitchens where fires are most likely to start.


5.  What is the main focus of this passage?

(a) How firefighters responsibilities. carry out their

(b) The proper installation of home smoke detectors

(c) The detection of dead-air space on walls and ceiling

(d) How smoke detectors prevent fires in homes.


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ANSWERS

1 - d

2 - a

3 - c

4 - b

5 - b