outlinging essay 7 ppt

options are available, incineration is currently the pre￾ferred method for on-site treatment of hospital waste.

A properly designed, maintained, and operated incin￾erator achieves a relatively high level of organism

destruction. Incineration reduces the weight and vol￾ume of the waste as much as 95 percent and is espe￾cially appropriate for pathological wastes.

37. One disadvantage of the compaction method of

waste disposal is that it

a. cannot reduce transportation costs.

b. reduces the volume of solid waste material.

c. does not allow hospitals to confirm that

organic matter has been eliminated.

d. does not reduce the weight of solid waste

material.

e. cannot be done on-site.

38. The process that transforms waste from haz￾ardous to harmless AND diminishes waste vol￾ume is

a. sterilization.

b. hydropulping.

c. oxidizing.

d. processing.

e. compacting.

39. For hospitals that dispose of waste on their own

premises, the optimum treatment method is

a. incineration.

b. compaction.

c. sterilization.

d. hydropulping.

e. grinding.

40. According to the information in the passage,

which of the following is one criterion used to

determine whether waste will be disposed of on￾site or off-site?

a. number of patients the hospital serves

b. amount of pathogens in the waste

c. whether organisms can be properly destroyed

d. whether or not the waste can be reduced

e. whether or not the waste is regulated

Answer question 41 on the basis of the following

passage.

The Sami are an indigenous people living in the

northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Rus￾sia’s Kola peninsula. Originally, the Sami religion was

animistic; that is, for them, nature and natural objects

had a conscious life, a spirit. One was expected to move

quietly in the wilderness and avoid making a distur￾bance out of courtesy to these spirits. Ghengis Khan is

said to have declared that the Sami were one people he

would never try to fight again. Since the Sami were not

warriors and did not believe in war, they simply dis￾appeared in times of conflict. They were known as

“peaceful retreaters.”

41. Based on the tone of the passage, which of the

following words best describes the author’s atti￾tude toward the Sami people?

a. admiring

b. pitying

c. contemptuous

d. patronizing

e. perplexed

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