... laughter of a group. It may, perchance, have happened to you, when seated in a railway carriage or at tabled’hote, to hear travelers relating to one another’s stories which must have been comic to them, ... test your ability to understand what you read.■From each passage, you must be able to extract information, both expressed and implied.■Phrases such as the passage implies that and the author ... comparisons are just as, as _______ as, for example, as shown, and as illustrated by.■Words and phrases that signal restatement are namely, in other words, in fact, and that is.■In restatement...