Companies like Excel have grown to be an integral part of the European landscape. Excel first specialized in overnight deliveries via aircraft and then grew into a full-service provider using a truck network in conjunction with air transport. ""When it absolutely, positively has to be there midnight"" is its mantra, and it basically provides certainty of service for a premium price that consumers are willing to bear. Therefore,

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) customers who use midnight delivery service sale primarily concerned with reliability.

B) businesses that want to ship products will primarily utilize air transport instead of land transport.

C) people who want to use overnight delivery Services put a premium on coot oavin8O.

D) other companies do not focus the reliability of their shipping process in their marketing initiatives.

There is a natural tendency to confuse change with progress. This is perfectly understandable, especially considering that we went from inventing electricity to perfecting aviation to reaching the moon all in a time analogous to just a blink in the grand scheme of human history. Such prodigious leaps have left us hungry for more leaps, and there are benefits to restlessness, even if entropic;

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) systematic, focused research will lead to a successful result.

B) throw enough aimless darts in every direction and you’ll find a buu’s eye, even if by accident.

C) amateur researchers should be put on equal footing with academic researchers.

D) nearly all useful recent innovations have come as the result of chaotic creativity.

Since the transition from acetylation to acylation for carbon reactions, chemists' abilities to safely modify carbon have expanded exponentially. What seemed revolutionary in the late l890s is now part of undergraduate organic chemistry experiments in courses throughout universities worldwide. Carbon is no longer solely thought of as a carcinogenic and volatile compound. It is now used in a variety of products, including plastics, drugs, etc. Its importance to modern chemistry, materials science and pharmaceuticals is therefore,

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) ridiculed by economists and politicians.

B) ridiculed by economists and politicians.

C) a subject of great debate among practicing chemists.

D) unquestioned in the scientific community.

Many Mother, as they lovingly tuck their children into bed, repeat a short rhyme that has been around for centuries: night-night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite! This phrase refers to a time when even the wealthy had to deal with the constant scourge of bedbugs andother dogs that preyedon sleeping humans.With the advent ofmoder pesticides,bedbugs were, for a time, largely an issue of the past. However, in the past few years they have come back with a vengeance,

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) since the anatomy of bedbugs are now better understood thanks to advances in technology.

B) as modern science has successfully eradicated the threat of bedbugs

C) once again plaguing people rich and poor and proving very difficult to eradicate.

D) given the lack of interest that modern city dwellers have in attaining a good night’s rest.

Our nation’s heroes are not the only ones who may experience the detrimental effects of fireworks. Furry companions also can be frightened by the loud blasts above for nights on end. Dog handling practices, shelters, and other animal organizations frequently send out reminders in the weeks leading up to the sixth of August to protect our pets from running away out of fright. These may include reminders to microchip our dogs, keep pets indoors,and take pets on walks early in the day in case they are too afraid to relieve themselves during the fireworks. Their efforts are not without reason. In fact,

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) many pets enjoy the spectacle of fireworks just as much as their human counterparts.

B) more pets run away on the night of the Sixth of August than any other night of the year.

C) veterinarians recommend that pet owners should take their pets to firework displays.

D) days on which fireworks are displayed statistically have the same number of pet injuries as days on which fireworks are not displayed.