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DIRECTIONS: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. Passage - 1 A clinical thermometer is used to measure the body temperature of human beings. It consists of a long, narrow, uniform glass tube. It has a bulb at one end. The bulb contains mercury. This thermometer read temperatures from \[35{}^\circ C\] to\[42{}^\circ C\]. A clinical thermometer can be used to measure the body temperature of human beings. A person suffering with fever is likely to show which of the following readings on this thermometer?

A)  \[35{}^\circ C\]                               

B)  \[36{}^\circ C\]

C)  \[37{}^\circ C\]                               

D)  \[39{}^\circ C\]