The following passages and questions are reprinted from earlier editions of the text and the test booklets. This exercise is not graded, but working through each question carefully will give you excellent practice to prepare for either a midterm or a final examination, depending on your instructor's course schedule. You can print-out your answers if you like.

Good luck!

(1) To most strangers they [the Los Angeles freeways] suggest chaos, or at least purgatory, and there can certainly be more soothing notices than the one on the Santa Ana Freeway which announces MERGING BUSES AHEAD. (2) There comes a moment, though, when something clicks in one's own mechanism, and suddenly one grasps the rhythm of the freeway system, masters its tribal or ritual forms, and discovers it to be not a disruptive element at all, but a kind of computer key to the use of Los Angeles. (3) One is processed by the freeways. (4) Elevated as they generally are above the flat and centerless expanse of the city, they provide a navigational aid, into which one locks oneself for guidance. (5) Everything is clearer then. (6) There are the mountains, to the north and east. (7) There is the glimmering ocean. (8) The civic landmarks of L.A., such as they are, display themselves conveniently for you. (9) The pattern of the place unfolds until, properly briefed by the experience, the time comes for you to unlock from the system, undo your safety belt, and take the right-hand lane into the everyday life below.

1			The main idea of the paragraph is stated in sentance:
2			In your own words, explain what Morris means when she says that the freeways are "a kind of computer key to the use of Los Angeles."