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At 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 11, Police Officer Szulk, on bicycle patrol in Highland Park, is approached by a boy walking a dog. The boy tells Officer Szulk of a body to which his dog has just led him. Officer Szulk accompanies the boy to the dog's find and notes the following:

Location: underbrush about 80 yards south of Civil War Monument, Highland Park
Occurrence: discovery of body of fully clothed Hispanic female in early 20s
Reporter: Bill Sawyer, age 12
Identity of Victim: unknown

1. Officer Szulk is about to call his precinct to report this incident and to request assistance. Which of the following conveys all the information most clearly, accurately, and completely?
(A) A woman was found by Bill Sawyer in the park near the Civil War Monument. He doesn't know her.
(B) The body of an unknown Hispanic woman was found at 11 a.m., by 12-year-old Bill Sawyer's dog, in the Highland Park underbrush south of the Civil War Monument.
(C) There is a body in the underbrush in Highland Park. She is a Hispanic woman and Bill Sawyer, a 12-year-old with a dog, found her.
(D) On Saturday, June 11, Bill Sawyer found a body of a dead woman all dressed up in the park with his dog.

2. Jane Wills finds a diamond ring on the sidewalk of a busy street. She keeps it. According to the definitions, Wills committed:
(A) the crime of larceny.
(B) the crime of burglary.
(C) the crime of robbery.
(D) none of the listed crimes.

3. A recipient gains an impression from a typewritten letter before beginning to the read the message. Factors that give a good first impression include margins and spacing that are visually pleasing, formal parts of the letter that are correctly placed according to style, copy that is free of obvious erasures and overstrikes, and a transcript that is even and clear. The problem for a typist is how to produce that first positive impression of her work.

There are several general rules that a typist can follow to prepare a properly spaced letter on a sheet of letterhead. The width of a letter should ordinarily not be less than 4 inches nor more than 6 inches. The side margins should also have a desirable relation to the bottom margin, as well as the space between the letterhead and the body of the letter. Usually the most appealing arrangement is when the side margins are even, and the bottom margin is slightly wider than the side margins. In some offices, however, a standard line length is used for all business letters, and the typist then varies the spacing between the date line and the inside address according to the length of the letter.

The best title for the preceding paragraphs is:


(A) "Writing Office Letters."
(B) "Making Good First Impressions."
(C) "Judging Well-Typed Letters."
(D) "Good Placing and Spacing for Office Letters."

4. Prison inmate Alex Bey has managed to slip out of the line returning from exercise and is searching for a place to hide until he can escape. Bey turns into a corridor and runs West to a staircase on his right. He then goes up those stairs to the first landing. He goes through a door on the right side of the landing, then runs down the hall and through the second door on his left. The door takes him into a stairwell with stairs up to the right and down to the left. Bey chooses to go down. In what direction is he going?
(A) North
(B) South
(C) East
(D) West

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