READING COMPREHENSION
DIRECTIONS
In this section, you will read a number of passages. Each one is followed by approximately ten questions about it. For questions 1-50, choose the one best answer. (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each question. Then, find the number of the question on your answer sheet, and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all of the questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1 through 10 are based on the following passage.
A book which many Americans today are still discussing is Future Shock by ALVIN Toffler, in this book author describes the great changes which have been made in family life because of science end industry.
In this section, you will read a number of passages. Each one is followed by approximately ten questions about it. For questions 1-50, choose the one best answer. (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each question. Then, find the number of the question on your answer sheet, and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all of the questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1 through 10 are based on the following passage.
In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. Large family can not be moved from place to place as smaller families can.
Because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family remains childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A smaller number of families may raise children. These families may raise children as their occupation, leaving the childless families free to move from job to job. Furthermore, these child raising families may raise other, people’s children in addition to their own.
a. The typical families of our life. c. The typical Industries.
b. The great changes of family life. d. The great changes of industries.
a. On farms c. With grand children b. Nearby d. On industry
3. Which one needs workers who can move off the land and move again whenever necessary?
a. American families c. A farm families b. Industry d. Families
4. The families in America became smaller after …
a. Agricultural life became important c. Agriculture was important
b. Industry became more important d. Agriculture was not important
5. Because of industrialization, a typical family … to move even more often than now, so family will be even smaller.
a. Will be required c. Will not be required b. Would be required d. Will have problem
Read the text answer questions no 6 to 10
In our life we often find someone who does a job which is suited for himself. He may be a book keeper who really wants to be an actor or a mechanic who likes taking care of plants. We call this kind of person “a square peg in around hole”. It is a bad thing that many people in the world are “square pegs”, they are not doing a very good job and certainly they are not satisfied with it.
a. American families c. A farm families b. Industry d. Families
a. Agricultural life became important c. Agriculture was important
b. Industry became more important d. Agriculture was not important
a. Will be required c. Will not be required b. Would be required d. Will have problem
In our life we often find someone who does a job which is suited for himself. He may be a book keeper who really wants to be an actor or a mechanic who likes taking care of plants. We call this kind of person “a square peg in around hole”. It is a bad thing that many people in the world are “square pegs”, they are not doing a very good job and certainly they are not satisfied with it.
As we spend a great part of our lives at our job, choosing the right career is very important. For that reason, we should try to find what our talents are and ho we can use them. We can do this through aptitude test, interviews with specialist, and study of books.
There are many careers open to each of us. Perhaps we like science. Then we might prepare ourselves to be chemists, physicists or biologists. May be our interest take us into the business world such work as accounting, personal management, or public relations. Many persons find their place in government service. Teaching, newspaper work, medicine, engineering, and many other fields offer fascinating careers to persons with talented training.
a. He will try to adjust himself with the job c. He will do a very good job
b. He will leave the job right away d. He will be very happy
a. Paragraph 1 c. Paragraph 3 b. Paragraph 2 b. Paragraph 4
a. Someone who does not like his job c. Someone does not his job very well
b. Someone who really wants satisfied d. Those who do not do a good job and are
a. People c. Pegs b. Careers d. Chemist
10. Why is choosing the right career important? Because …
a. It will give us a lot of money
b. This will measured our success in life
c. We will spend the rest of our lives at work
d. We will spend a great part of our lives at work
Questions 11 through 23 are based on the following passage.
Hot boning is an energy-saving technique for the meat processing industry. It has received significant attention in recent years when increased pressure for energy conserva tion has accentuated the need for more efficient methods of processing the bovine carcass. Cooling an entire carcass requires a considerable amount of refrigerated space, since bone and trimmable fat are cooled along with the muscle. It is also necessary to space the carcasses adequately in the refrigerated room for better air movement and prevention of microbial contamination, thus adding to the volume requirements for carcass chillers.
a. It will give us a lot of money
b. This will measured our success in life
c. We will spend the rest of our lives at work
d. We will spend a great part of our lives at work
Questions 11 through 23 are based on the following passage.
Conventional handling of meat involves holding the beef sides in the cooler for 24 to 36 hours before boning. Chilling in the traditional fashion is also associated with a loss of carcass weight ranging from 2 percent to 4 percent due to evaporation of moisture from the meat tissue.
Early excision, or hot boning, of muscle prerigor followed by vacuum packaging has several potential advantages. By removing only the edible muscle and fat prerigor, refrigeration space and costs are minimized, boning labor is de creased, and storage yields increased. Because hot boning often results in the toughening of meat, a more recent approach, hot boning following electrical stimulation, has been used to reduce the necessary time of rigor mortis.
Some researchers have found this method beneficial in maintaining tender meat, while others have found that the meat also becomes tough after electrical stimulation.
(A) de-emphasized (B) speeded up (C) caused (D) highlighted
(A) Storage space requirements (B) Energy waste
(C) Loss of carcass weight (D) Toughness of meat
(A) urgency (B) weight (C) flavor (D) cooking texture
(A) it causes meat to be very tender
(B) it helps conserve energy and is less expensive than conven tional methods
(C) meat tastes better when the bone is adequately seared along with the meat
(D) it reduces the weight of the carcass
(A) a refrigerator for the animal body (B) a method of boning meat
(C) electrical stimulation of beef (D) early excision
(A) vacuum packaging (C) carcass chilling
(B) hot boning (D) electrical stimulation
(A) following hot boning with electrical stimulation
(B) tenderizing the meat
(C) using electrical stimulation before hot boning
(D) removing only the edible muscle and fat prerigor
(A) cold (B) electrically stimulated (C) beef (D) pork
(A) hot boning (B) hot boning following electrical stimulation
(C) rigor mortis (D) removing edibie muscle and fat prerigor
(A) debonedmeat (B) body (C) refrigerator (D) fat "
(A) frigid (B) kind (C) lesser (D) substantial
(A) it makes the meat more tender
(B) the bones are able to be used for other purposes
(C) it increases chilling time
(D) it saves cooling space by not refrigerating parts that will be discarded
(A) unsaturated (B) removable (C) unhealthy (D) dutiable
Questions 24 through 31 are based on the following passage.
(A) France (B) United States (C) Panama (D) Canal Zone
(A) securities (B) latches (C) lakes (D) canal gates
(A) $1,500 (B) $15,000 (C) $150,000 (D) $1,500,000
(A) 1881 (B) 1920 (C) 1939 (D) 1999
(A) the canal is a costly project which should be reevaluated
(B) despite all the problems involved, the project is beneficial
(C) many captains prefer to sail around Cape Horn because it • is less expensive
(D) problems have made it necessary for three governments to control the canal over the years
(A) controlling (C) detaching (B) dispersing (D) joining
(A) purchased '" (B) launched (C) forfeited (D) forced
(A) it costs so much to pass through the locks because very few ships use them
(B) the United States received the rights to the canal from the French;
(C) a ship can pass through the canal in only eight hours
(D) passing through the canal saves thousands of miles of travel time around Cape Horn
questions 32 through 41 are based on the following passage.
preparedness in war, and their lifestyle caused the Greeks A to create competitive sports. Only the elite and military could participate at first, but later the games were open to all free Greek males who had no criminal record. The Greeks emphasized physical fitness and strength in their education of youth. Therefore, contests in running, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, boxing, and horse and chariot racing were held in individual cities, and the winners competed every four years at Mount Olympus. Winners were greatly honored by having olive wreaths placed on their heads and having poems sung about their deeds.
Originally these contests were held as games of friendship, and any wars in progress were halted to allow the games to take place. They also helped to strengthen bonds among competitors and the different cities represented. The Greeks attached so much importance to the games that they calculated time in four-year cycles called "Olympi ads," dating from 776 b.c. The contests coincided with religious festivities and constituted an all-out effort on the part of the participants to please the gods. Any who disobeyed the rules were dismissed and seriously punished. These athletes brought shame not only to themselves, but also to the cities they represented.
(A) Winners placed olive wreaths on their own heads.
(B) The, games were held in Greece every four years.
(C) .Battles were interrupted to participate in the games.
(D) Poems glorified the winners in song.
(A) aristocracy (B) brave (C) intellectuals (D) muscular
(A) To stop wars (B) To honor Zeus
(C) To crown the best athletes (D) To sing songs about the athletes
(A) 800 years (B) 1,200years (C) 2,300 years (D) 2,800years
(A) They were pacifists. (B) They believed athletic events were important.
(C) They were very simple. (D) They couldn't count, so they used "Olympiads" for dates.
(A) Physical fitness was an integral part of the lives of the ancient Greeks.
(B) The Greeks severely punished those who did not partici pate in physical fitness programs.
(C) The Greeks had always encouraged everyone to partici pate in the games.
(D) The Greeks had the games coincide with religious festivi ties so that they could go back to war when the games were over.
(A) accomplishments (B) ancestors (C) documents (D) property
(A) They must have completed military service.
(B) They had to attend special training sessions.
(C) They had to be Greek males with no criminal record.
(D) They had to be very religious.
(A) encouraged (B) started (C) curtailed (D) fixed
(A) The time it took to finish the games (B) The time between games
(C) The time it took to finish a war (D) The time it took the athletes to train
Questions 42 through 50 are based on the following passage,
(A) South Florida (B) Cuba (C) West Florida (D) Marti ,
(A) escape (B) return to (C) fight (D) disembody
(A) purchase (B) pursue (C) elude (D) develop
(A) He suffered a great deal. (B) An area was named in his honor.
(C) He was .a Cuban revolutionary. (D) He was forced to flee his homeland.
(A) came in large numbers (B) escaped hurriedly
(C) increased rapidly (D) prospered greatly
(A) 4,000 (B) 5,000 (C) 10,000 (D) 20,000
(A) TbeSpanish-American War
(B) Cuban Contributions in the Development of Ybor City
(C) Ybor's Contribution to Developing Part of the Tampa Area
(D) The Process of Cigar Manufacturing
(A) location (B) view (C) vision (D) indebtedness
(A) A good friend of Ybor (B) One of Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders"
(C) A Cuban writer who sought to free his country (D) A worker in the cigar factory
READING COMPREHENSION
DIRECTIONS
In this section, you will read a number of passages. Each one is followed by approximately ten questions about it. For questions 1-50, choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each question. Then, find the number of the question on your answer sheet, and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all of the questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1 through 10 are based on the following passage.
Twenty-three years after the discovery of the Rosetta (20) stone, Jean Francois Champollion, a French philologist fluent in several languages, was able to decipher the first word—Ptolemy—the name of an Egyptian ruler. This name was written inside an oval called a "cartouche." Further investigation revealed that cartouches contained names of (25) important people of that period. Champollion painstakingly continued his search and was able to increase his growing list of known phonetic signs. He and an Englishman, Thomas Young, worked independently of each other to unravel the deeply hidden mysteries of this strange lan-(30) guage. Young believed that sound values could be assigned to the symbols, while Champollion insisted that the pictures represented words.
(A) French (C) Greek (B) demotic (D) hieroglyphics
(A) cartouches contained names of prominent people of the period
(B) Champollion and Young worked together in an attempt to decipher the hieroglyphics
(C) one of Napoleon's soldiers discovered the Rosetta stone
(D) Thomas Young believed that sound values could be assigned to the symbols
(A) decoding (C) discovery (B) downfall (D) probing
(A) cartouche (C) demotic (B) Ptolemy (D) Champollion
5. Napoleon's soldiers were in Egypt in 1799 because they were………
(A) celebrating a naval victory (B) looking for the Rosetta stone
(C) waiting to continue their campaign (D) trying to decipher the hieroglyphics
(A) Champollion (C) Ptolemy (B) Young (D) Napoleon
(A) It was shaped like a rosette. (B) It was to honor Napoleon's friend Rosetta.
(C) The town near the fort was called Rosetta. (D) The fort was called Rosetta.
(A) aspiration (B) indolence is nearest in meaning to (C) indifference (D) apathy
(A) Napoleon's Great Discovery (B) Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone
(C) Thomas Young's Great Contribution (D) The Importance of Cartouches
(A) Lines 5-8 (C) Lines 19-22 (B) Lines 14-18 (D) Lines 25-27
Questions 11 through 20 are based on the following passage.
His family and friends thought him mad, but while recuperating from a hunting accident, he diligently and independently set out to create a form of communication for his own people as well as for other Indians. In 1821, after twelve years of work, he had successfully developed a written language that would enable thousands of Indians to read and write.
Sequoyah's desire to preserve words and events for later generations has caused him to be remembered among the important inventors. The giant redwood trees of California, called "sequoias" in his honor, will further imprint his name in history.
(A) California redwoods were named in his honor. (B) He was illiterate.
(C) He created a unique alphabet. (D) He recovered from his madness and helped humankind.
(A) woman (B) teacher (C) cook (D) trader
13. How did Sequoyah's family react to his idea of developing his own "talking leaf'?
(A) They arranged for his hunting accident. (B) They thought he was crazy.
(C) They decided to help him. (D) They asked him to teach them to read and write.
(A) People were writing things about him that he couldn't read.
(B) He wanted to become famous.
(C) After his hunting accident, he needed something to keep him busy.
(D) He wanted the history of his people preserved for future generations.
(A) fierce (B) poor (C) abandoned (D) unable to read or write
(A) they played music
(B) when he observed white people reading, they seemed to understand what was written
(C) he was going mad, and he thought the leaves were talking .to him
(D) it was the only way that the Great Spirit had of communi cating with them
(A) determined (C) backwards (B) mad (D) meek
(A) Sequoyah's Determination to Preserve the Cherokee Lan guage
(B) The Origin of the Cherokee Language
(C) Sequoyah's Madness Leads to a New Language
(D) The Origin of the "Sequoia" Trees in California
(A) absorbed (C) confused (B) exasperated (D) imaginative
(A) Sequoyah developed a form of writing with the help of the Cherokee tribe
(B) Sequoyah was a very observant young man
(C) Sequoyah spent twelve years developing his alphabet
(D) Sequoyah was honored by having some trees named after him
Questions 21 through 30 are based on the following passage.
The Aztecs were constantly at war in order to have enough captives from battle to serve as sacrificial victims.
The prisoners were indoctrinated before their deaths into believing that they, too, would find a place of honor in the afterlife and that their death insured the prosperity of the great Aztec nation. After being heavily sedated with marijuana or a similar drug, they were led up the steps to the top of the ceremonial centers where they accepted their fate passively, and their palpitating hearts were removed from their bodies as an offering to the gods.
(A) They were cruel and inhuman. (B) They believed they had to pacify the gods.
(C) They wanted to force the citizens to obey. (D) They wanted to deter crime.
(A) tortured and harassed (B) fed and entertained
(C) brainwashed and drugged (D) interrogated and drugged
(A) Submissively (B) Rebelliously (C) Violently (D) Notoriously
(A) glorified (B) assaulted (C) angered (D) satisfied
(A) The Aztecs' Need to Offer Human Sacrifice (B) Aztec Victims
(C) The History of the Mighty Aztec Nation (D) Aztec High Priests
(A) Sunshine (B) Blood (C) Thorns (D) Drugs
(A) The sun would not rise. (B) The crops would not grow.
(C) The warriors would not be famous. (D) The empire would not be successful.
(A) They liked to see the sun shine.
(B) They wanted everyone to see them at the top of the ceremonial centers.
(C) They were made to believe they would have a place of honor in eternity.
(D) They liked to take drugs.
(A) Indoctrination (B) Heavy sedation (C) Piercing their tongues (D) Sacrificing victims
(A) primitive (C) meticulous (B) unimposing (D) powerful
Questions 3} through 41 are based on the following passage.
Crude oil wells flow at varying rates, from about ten to thousands of barrels per hour. Petroleum products are always measured in forty-two-gallon barrels.
Petroleum products vary greatly in physical appearance: thin, thick, transparent, or opaque, but regardless, their chemical composition is made up of only two elements: carbon and hydrogen, which form compounds called hydro carbons. Other chemical elements found in union with the hydrocarbons are few and are classified as impurities. Trace elements are also found, but in such minute quantities that they are disregarded. The combination of carbon and hydrogen forms many thousands of compounds which are possible because of the various positions and unions of these two atoms in the hydrocarbon molecule. The various petroleum products are refined by heating crude oil and then condensing the vapors. These products are the so-called light oils, such as gasoline, kerosene, and distillate oil. The residue remaining after the light oils are distilled is known as heavy or residual fuel oil and is used mostly for burning under boilers. Additional complicated refining processes rearrange the chemical structure of the hydrocarbons to produce other products, some of which are used to upgrade and increase the octane rating of various types of gasoline.
(A) crude oil is found below land and water
(B) crude oil is always found a few hundred feet below the surface
(C) pumping and pressure force crude oil to the surface
(D) many petroleum products are obtained from crude oil
(A) instant (B) huge (C). insignificant (D) timely
(A) the petroleum products vary greatly in physical appearance
(B) complicated refining processes rearrange the chemical structure
(C) the two atoms in the molecule assume many positions
(D) the pressure needed to force it to the surface causes molecular transformation
(A) improve (C) charge (B) counteract (D) unite
(A) The various petroleum products are produced by filtration.
(B) Heating and condensing produce the various products.
(C) Chemical separation is used to produce the various prod ucts.
(D) Mechanical means, such as centrifuging, are used to produce the various products.
(A) transparent (B) turbid (Q light (D) crude
(A) Expansion of the hydrocarbons (B) Pressure and pumping
(C) Vacuum created in the drilling pipe (D) Expansion and contraction of the earth's surface
(A) Distillate oil (C) Lubricating oil (B) Gasoline (D) Kerosene
(A) Hydrogen and carbon (B) Residual fuel oils (C) Crude oils (D) Refined substances
(A) cooling (C) diluting (B) expanding (D) refuting
(A) impurities (C) hydrocarbons (B) minute quantities (D) trace elements
Questions 42 through 50 are based on the following passage.
Abraham Lincoln was one of four presidents who were assassinated. He was elected in 1860, and his untimely death came just five years later. James A, Garfield, a former (10) Union army general from Ohio, was shot during his first year in office (1881) by a man to whom he wouldn't give a job. While in his second term of office (1901), William McKinley, another Ohioan, attend• -i the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. During the reception, he was assassinated while shaking hands with some of the guests. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas only three years after his election.
Three years after his election in 1920, Warren O. Hording died in office. Although it was never proved, many believe he was poisoned. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times (1932,1936,1940, and 1944), the only man to serve so long a term. He had contracted polio in 1921 and eventually died of the illness in 1945.
Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980 and re-elected four years later, suffered an assassination attempt but did not succumb to the assassin's bullets. He was the first to break the long chain of unfortunate events. Will the candidate in the election of 2000 also be as lucky?
(A) 1960 (B) 1930 (C) 1888 (D) 1824
(A) Abraham Lincoln (C) William McKinley
(B) Warren G. Harding (D) William H. Harrison
(A) All presidents elected in years ending in zero have died in office.
(B) Only presidents from Ohio have died in office.
(C) Franklin D. Roosevelt completed four terms as president.
(D) Four American presidents have been assassinated.
(A) 7 (B)5 (C)4 (D)3
(A) election (B) acceptance speech (C) swearing-in ceremony (D) campaign
(A) John F. Kennedy (B) Abraham Lincoln
(C) Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) James A. Garfield
(A) Garfield (B) Garfield's assassin (C) a Union army general (D) McKinley
(A) murdered (C) honored (B) decorated (D) sickened
(A) communicated about (C) agreed about (B) developed (D) notified