Question

Read the passage below from “The Unseen Values.”

Yet today the products of fission applied to peaceful uses are many. The use of isotopes in industry, medicine, agriculture are well known. Food irradiation, nuclear power reactors, now reactors for shipboard use, are with us, and it is hardly the beginning. I frequently ask myself, of late, what 10 years from now will be the commercial, shall we call it, applications of our missile and rocket programs.
Based on the passage above, the reader can infer that the speaker believes:

Research in missile and rocket programs could result in discoveries for unrelated uses.
A lack of funding could mean that space programs will not exist in the future.
Rocket programs of the future will be used for agricultural purposes.
Discoveries in rocket technology will increase the nation’s military strength in the future.

Answer 1

C

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Answer 2

Research in missile and rocket programs could result in discoveries for unrelated uses.

A lack of funding could mean that space programs will not exist in the future.

Rocket programs of the future will be used for agricultural purposes.

Discoveries in rocket technology will increase the nation’s military strength in the future.

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