ATI TEAS Guide To Reading | Understanding Facts vs Opinions

Aficionados of classical music frequently appreciate the characteristics of jazz, and some laypersons think the two genres are somewhat similar. However, jazz musicians are noted for their improvisational abilities, whereas classically trained musicians are often very reliant upon printed music. Although musicians in both genres must be very well versed in scales and various musical keys, jazz musicians must possess impeccable knowledge of this material in order to be able to perform and fulfill the requirements of their chosen genre.

What does the author imply about the similarity between classical and jazz music?

Historically, the study creativity has concentrated on persons known for innovation. Early creativity studies focused on creative “geniuses,” such as Einstein, Mozart, or Shakespeare. This type of creativity is known as “Big C” creativity. However, as research on creativity progressed, a corresponding interest in how people could be creative in smaller ways-on an everyday basis-emerged in the discipline. Scholars began to investigate how ordinary tasks, such as cleaning, driving particular familiar routes, and completing work and schoolwork, could be conducted in innovative ways. This focus of creativity research has been labeled “little c” creativity.

Which of the following is the best prediction of what the author’s conclusion about creativity will be?

Bees are a natural part of the pollination cycle of plants. Many plants require the assistance of bees in order to transfer their pollen so that flowers can be produced. Bees travel from flower to flower, and minuscule grains of pollen attach to the bees’ legs. The pollen travels much more efficiently via bees than it might if it had to rely on the wind, for example. In this manner, bees assist in the natural pollination cycle through the action of gathering nectar from flowers. Bees are a critical component of this process; without them, plants would face much greater challenges in their reproduction.

Read the following quotation from the passage.

Bees are a critical component of this process; without them, plants would face much greater challenges in their reproduction.

Which of the following is true about the above quotation?

As one of the most prolific female poets in nineteenth-century America, today Emily Dickinson is a household name. However, during her lifetime, she lived as a recluse and wrote most of her poetry from the solitude of her bedroom. She presents a unique perspective from this time period, when few women wrote about the themes she discusses. For this reason, critics are frequently interested in her perspective as a female author even beyond the contributions she made as an American nineteenth-century writer.

Read the following quotation from the passage.

She presents a unique perspective from this time period, when few women wrote about the themes she discusses.

Which of the following is true about the above quotation?

The way that scientists have envisioned the makeup of the universe has shifted and transformed as the centuries have passed. Prior to the work of Copernicus, people believed that the earth was at the center of the universe. The idea that the earth revolved around the sun was initially taken as heresy. The progression and gradual acceptance of these originally controversial ideas paced the way for the acceptance of later discoveries by Newton and Einstein. Their theories have revolutionized the ways in which science itself is conducted today.

What is the author’s attitude towards scientific theory?

The physician William Harvey was the first who discovered and demonstrated the true mechanism of the heart’s action, No one before his time conceived that the movement of the blood was entirely due to the mechanical action of the heart as a pump. There were all sorts of speculations about the matter, but nobody had formed this conception. Hervey is clear as possible about it. He says the movement of the blood is entirely due to the contractions of the walls of the heart-that it is the propelling apparatus-and all recent investigation tends to show that he was perfectly right.

Which of the following terms best describes the author’s attitude toward William Harvey?