Read the following passage.
A. A tomato struck Clarence Campbell in the face at the Montreal Forum on March 17, 1955, and seconds later a tear-gas bomb went off near him. Campbell, the president of the National Hockey League, had suspended Maurice Richard the day before for the rest of the season. In Boston on March 13, Richard had hit a linesman who held him from behind during a fight. The game was declared lost by Montreal, and outside, a crowd smashed windows and damaged stores on Sainte-Catherine Street. His radio statement the next morning cooled his fans' anger. The suspension also cost him his last chance at the scoring title, which went to his teammate Bernard Geoffrion.
B. Richard was born in Montreal in 1921, the eldest of eight children in a family of modest means. He studied to become a machinist, and for several summers he worked at the Angus Shops, where his father was a machinist too. With the Montreal Senior Canadiens he broke his wrist and then his ankle, and he played only a few games in two seasons. The army turned him down because of these injuries. In September 1942 he signed his first professional contract with the Montreal Canadiens. His teammate Raymond Getliffe, amazed by how quickly Richard got past him in practice, named him the Rocket.
C. During the war, in the season that began in 1944, Richard scored 50 goals in 50 games. Two seasons later he scored 45 goals and won the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player. He became captain in 1956, and in 1957, in a game against Chicago, he scored his 500th goal. He announced his retirement in September 1960, holding the league record of 544 career goals. He entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961, although players usually had to wait five years after they retired.
D. Richard's career also produced quarrels. With so many players away at war, some journalists took a dim view of his 50 goals, until his strong seasons after the war answered them. In the season that began in 1953, he wrote a column for the Montreal weekly Samedi-Dimanche and called one of Campbell's decisions unfair. Pressure from Campbell then made him stop. After retiring, Richard represented the Canadiens at social functions, but when his duties were reduced, he was paid only half his salary, despite an earlier promise. Around 1965 he left that role for good. Some scholars even argue that the 1955 riot was the prelude to the Quiet Revolution.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.
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Correct Answer: D
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph D: many players were away at war, so some journalists took a dim view of his 50 goals. Taking a dim view means they did not think much of the record.
Passage Reference: With so many players away at war, some journalists took a dim view of his 50 goals, until his strong seasons after the war answered them.
Tips: The 50 goals appear twice. Ask which paragraph adds what people thought of them.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph is about the 1955 suspension and the riot at the Forum, not about wartime critics.
- B: In paragraph B, the army appears only because it refused him. No reporters appear there.
- C: The third paragraph gives the 50 goals in 50 games, but it only states the record and adds no doubts about it.
- E: Paragraph D names the journalists and their dim view of the 50 goals in its second sentence.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: The game was declared lost by Montreal, and outside, a crowd smashed windows and damaged stores on Sainte-Catherine Street.
Why this is correct: In paragraph A, the game was declared lost by Montreal. We are not told who decided this. Campbell was at the Forum that night, but the passage never gives him the decision.
Tips: Find what happened to the game. Ask whether the text says who made that decision.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A reports that the game was declared lost, but the sentence has no person doing the deciding.
- B: The second paragraph covers his childhood, his broken bones and his first contract, years before the Forum game.
- C: Goals, a trophy and his captaincy are listed in paragraph C. The 1955 game is not there.
- D: Campbell comes back in paragraph D, but for the newspaper column, not for the night of the riot.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: A tomato struck Clarence Campbell in the face at the Montreal Forum on March 17, 1955, and seconds later a tear-gas bomb went off near him.
Why this is correct: Paragraph A opens with a tomato hitting Clarence Campbell at the Montreal Forum. The next sentence tells us Campbell was president of the league. A tomato is food.
Tips: Find the league's president. Then check what was thrown at him, and where he was when it happened.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: The second paragraph is set in Montreal too, but it is about his family and his early injuries.
- C: In paragraph C, there are many games, such as the one against Chicago, but nobody throws anything.
- D: Campbell appears in paragraph D as the man who pushed Richard to stop his column. No food is thrown.
- E: Paragraph A describes the tomato in its very first sentence.
Correct Answer: D
Passage Reference: In the season that began in 1953, he wrote a column for the Montreal weekly Samedi-Dimanche and called one of Campbell's decisions unfair.
Why this is correct: Notice that paragraph D says he wrote a column for the Montreal weekly Samedi-Dimanche in the season that began in 1953. A weekly is a paper printed once a week, and one season is a while.
Tips: He also spoke on the radio, but that is not writing. Look for a paper that printed his own pieces.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: In paragraph A, he speaks on the radio after the riot, which is not writing for a paper.
- B: The second paragraph lists his summer work at the Angus Shops, a machinist's job.
- C: Paragraph C is about his goals, the Hart Trophy, his captaincy and the Hall of Fame. He writes nothing there.
- E: Samedi-Dimanche, the paper he wrote for, is named in paragraph D.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: The army turned him down because of these injuries.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph B: he broke his wrist and then his ankle. The next sentence says the army turned him down because of these injuries. So the broken bones kept him out.
Tips: The war appears in three paragraphs. Find the one where Richard himself tries to join.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: There is a fight in Boston in paragraph A, but it leads to a suspension, not to the army.
- C: The third paragraph mentions the war as the time of his 50 goals, not his own attempt to serve.
- D: In paragraph D, many players were away at war. But it does not say the army refused Richard.
- E: Paragraph B explains the army's refusal right after it lists his wrist and ankle.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: His teammate Raymond Getliffe, amazed by how quickly Richard got past him in practice, named him the Rocket.
Why this is correct: In paragraph B, his teammate Raymond Getliffe was amazed by how quickly Richard got past him in practice. So he named him the Rocket. Amazed by how quickly means surprised by his speed.
Tips: Find the nickname first. Then check which teammate gave it and why.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A names another teammate, Geoffrion, who took the scoring title, not the one who named him.
- C: The third paragraph shows how fast he scored goals, but it does not say where 'the Rocket' came from.
- D: Critics, the column and his pay fill paragraph D. There is no nickname there.
- E: Getliffe and the name 'the Rocket' come at the end of paragraph B.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: The suspension also cost him his last chance at the scoring title, which went to his teammate Bernard Geoffrion.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph A: the suspension cost him his last chance at the scoring title. The title went to his teammate Bernard Geoffrion. Not allowed to play means suspended.
Tips: Find the story of why he was not allowed to play. Check what else he lost, and which teammate gained from it.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: In paragraph B, Getliffe is a teammate, but he is named only for the nickname he gave.
- C: Paragraph C counts Richard's own goals and his record, not a title won by someone else.
- D: The fourth paragraph is about critics, his column and his pay after retiring.
- E: Paragraph A ends with Geoffrion taking the scoring title.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: He entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961, although players usually had to wait five years after they retired.
Why this is correct: In paragraph C, he retired in 1960 and entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961. Players usually waited five years, so one year was much sooner than normal.
Tips: Find when he joined the Hall of Fame. Then compare it with what normally happened for other players.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: The first paragraph is about 1955, years before he stopped playing.
- B: The second paragraph ends in 1942, with his first contract and his nickname.
- D: His work after retiring and a cut in pay are in paragraph D, not the Hall of Fame.
- E: The early entry to the Hall of Fame closes paragraph C.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: He announced his retirement in September 1960, holding the league record of 544 career goals.
Why this is correct: Look at paragraph C: he announced his retirement in September 1960, holding the record for career goals. It gives the time and his goal record, but not why he decided to stop.
Tips: Look for a reason word such as 'because' near 1960. There is none.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: In paragraph A, it is 1955, and a suspension, not tiredness, kept him off the ice.
- B: Injuries come up in paragraph B, but they came when he was young, long before 1960.
- C: Paragraph C dates his retirement and gives his goal record, and there the reason stays unknown.
- D: The fourth paragraph starts after he retired. It covers a later role with the Canadiens that he left around 1965, not his reason for no longer playing.
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