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Through which muscle must the needle traverse to block the musculocutaneous nerve in the upper forearm? 

Which oxygen delivery device is associated with abdominal insufflation of air? 

After a general anesthesia procedure, the patient complains of diminished sensation in the fourth and fifth finger of the left hand in the recovery room. What is the possible cause of the patients’ symptoms? 

(1)Many of the computer industry’s best innovators were young when they first achieved success.  (2)For example, David Filo and Jerry Yang were graduate students at Stanford when they realized that their hobby of listing the best pages on the World Wide Web might become a business.  (3) They created Yahoo!, a Web index now used by more than 500,000 people every day.  (4)Another youthful example is Marc Andreesen, who helped start the software company Netscape and designed one of the most popular computer programs ever, the Navigator.  (5)At age twenty-four, Andreesen suddenly had $58 million in the bank.  (6)A third young computer genius is Masayoshi Son.  (7)As a Berkeley undergraduate, he started importing the Space Invaders video game from his native Japan and made a small fortune.  (8)After graduation, at twenty-four, Son returned to Japan, started the Softbank Company, and built a worldwide computer empire. Read the above paragraph carefully and use it to answer the following four questions (V, VI, VII, and VIII) Question V Which is the topic sentence?

Question VI Which sentence contains the first major detail?

(1)My hometown is famous for several amazing natural features. (2) First, it is noted for the Wheaton River, which is very wide and beautiful.  (3)On either side of this river, which is 175 feet wide, are many willow trees which have long branches that can move gracefully in the wind.  (4)In autumn the leaves of the trees fall and cover the riverbanks like golden snow.  (5)Also, on the other side of the town is Wheaton Hill, which is unusual because it is very steep.  (6)Even though it is steep, climbing this hill is not dangerous because there are some firm rocks along the sides that can be used as stairs.  (7)There are no trees around this hill, so it stands clearly against the sky and can be seen from many miles away.  (8)The third amazing feature is Big Old Tree. (9)This tree stands two hundred feet tall and is probably about six hundred years old.  (10)These three landmarks are truly amazing and make my hometown a famous place. Read the above paragraph carefully and use it to answer the following four questions (I, II, III, and IV) Question I Which is the topic sentence?

English is not usually a student’s favorite subject, however, it is necessary.

Writing always flows in a simple, straight line from the writer’s head onto the page.

Public policy are guides to legislative action that is more or less fixed for long periods of time.

The power of a court to hear a case on appeal from a lower court and possibly change the lower court’s decision is called appellate jurisdiction.