Section Four Language Arts - Reading: GED-SECTION-4

What Is the Work-Study Program?

Overview of the Work-Study Program The Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program is a student employment program subsidized by the federal government and designed to help students finance their post-secondary education. The program

provides funds to colleges, universities, and affiliated organizations which then provide employment to work-study students. Students receive their work-study financial awards in the form of paychecks from their work-study positions.

Applying for Work-Study Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Work-Study grants are awarded based upon demonstrated financial need. To apply, students must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This application must

be submitted each year Work-Study employment is desired.

What Are the Advantages of Work-Study?

A work-study job is essentially just like any other job you go to work, do your job, and get paid. But Work-Study positions have several distinct advantages over

"regular" jobs:

What Types of Work-Study Jobs Are Available?

The work-study positions at Madison Community College are as diverse as the functions of the college. Work-study students are employed as clerical assistants, data entry clerks, computer technicians, laboratory monitors, research

assistants, language tutors, and more. In addition, Madison Community College has long- standing relationships with a number of employers and agencies that provide services for the community and have been approved to participate in the

Federal

Work-Study Program, including the Madison County Childrens Museum, the Madison County Library, Children First Day Care, and Right Start Tutoring Agency.

Students may be employed as museum guides, library aides, child caregivers, research assistants, tutors, and more.

Who is eligible for the Work-Study Program?

A. first-year students only

B. undergraduate students only

C. graduate students only

D. undergraduate and graduate students

E. unemployed students only

What Is the New Dress Code Policy?

MEMORANDUM

TO:All Employees FROM:Helen Suskind, Director,

Human Resources Department

DATE:March 22, 2005 RE: Implementation of New Dress Code

A new dress code for all employees will take effect on September 1. All employees will be required to wear professional business attire while in the office. In this context, professional business attire excludes T-shirts, sleeveless shirts, shorts,

jeans, athletic attire, miniskirts, sandals, flip-flops, and sneakers. The attached sheet provides a complete list of attire that is inappropriate for the office. Please be sure to review this list carefully.

Violations of the new dress code will be handled as follows:

If you have any questions about the parameters of the dress code, please contact Martin Lamb in Human Resources immediately to schedule an appointment.

It is important that all employees understand the seriousness of this policy. Management based its decision to implement this code upon evidence that the lack of a dress code leads to a decrease in productivity. Our new dress code will help

maintain the reputation and integrity of our company by keeping us aware of the need for professionalism. Thank you for your cooperation.

According to the new policy, employees

A. can wear sandals but not flip-flops.

B. can wear short-sleeved shirts but not T-shirts.

C. must wear suits or dresses.

D. can wear shorts on very hot days.

E. cannot wear hats in the office.

What Is the Authors Father Like?

It was an impressive place: old, solidly built, in the Tudor style, with leaded windows, a slate roof, and rooms of royal proportions. Buying it had been a big step for my parents, a sign of growing wealth. This was the best neighborhood in town,

and although it was not a pleasant place to live (especially for children), its prestige outweighed its deadliness. Given the fact that he wound up spending the rest of his life in that house, it is ironic that my father at first resisted moving there.

He complained about the price (a constant theme), and when at last he relented, it was with grudging bad humor. Even so, he paid in cash. All in one go. No mortgage, no monthly payments. It was 1959, and business was going well for him.

Always a man of habit, he would leave for work early in the morning, work hard all day, and then, when he came home (on those days he did not work late), take a short nap before dinner. Sometime during our first week in the new house,

before we had properly moved in, he made a curious kind of mistake. Instead of driving home to the new house after work, he went directly to the old one, as he had done for years, parked his car in the driveway, walked into the house

through the back door, climbed the stairs, entered the bedroom, lay down on the bed, and went to sleep. He slept for about an hour.

Needless to say, when the new mistress of the house returned to find a strange man sleeping in her bed, she was a little surprised. But unlike Goldilocks, my father did not jump up and run away. The confusion was eventually settled, and

everyone had a good laugh. Even today, it still makes me laugh. And yet, for all that, I cannot help regarding it as a pathetic story. It is one thing for a man to drive to his old house by mistake, but it is quite another, I think, for him not to notice

that anything has changed inside it.

Paul Auster, from The Invention of Solitude (1982)

Why did the authors family move into the new house?

A. Their old house was falling apart.

B. They needed a house with more room.

C. The new house was in a prestigious neighborhood.

D. The neighborhood was great for children.

E. The price was affordable.