TEST – 11
The Mississippi River is the biggest river in the
world. It contains more water than the Nile, the
Mississippi, and the Yangtze rivers put together.
And next to the Nile, it is the longest river in the
world. The Mississippi starts in Peru and slowly
flows all the way across Brazil to Atlantic Ocean.
Over most of this great distance, the river flows
through-jungles where it rains for months at a time.
The surface of the Mississippi looks as glass. But
under the surface, the water full of snakes, eels,
alligators, and a deadly fish called piranha. There
is a lot of life on the surface of the Mississippi
River, too. Some of the people living along the
river build their houses on wooden rafts that are
tied together with ropes. Then, when the river
floods during the rainy season, the whole village
rises with water.
1. As we understand from the passage, Mississippi
River
A) is the second longest river on the Earth.
B) starts in Peru and flows all the way across
Brazil and connects to Nile.
C) has a surface full of animals.
D) surface like a glass in winter.
E) flows only in rainy seasons.
2. The passage most likely appeared in
A) a chapter about marine species.
B) a travel guidebook
C) Dear Abby column.
D) a college handbook.
E) a literature anthology.
3. In this passage, the purpose of the author is
A) to inform the reader about the dangers of
Mississippi Forest.
B) to compare the rivers in the world.
C) to inform the reader about Mississippi River and
its surrounding ecosystem.
D) to describe the natural beauty of Mississippi
river and the other rivers in the world.
E) to warn the reader about the extinction of
species in Mississippi River.
Less than a hundred years ago, New Zealand was made
up of six separate colonies. These colonies were
ruled by the British. Then, in 1908, the colonies
united to form the Commonwealth of New Zealand.
Today, New Zealand is an independent country. But it
is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
This is a group of countries that were once under
British rule. The head of the Commonwealth of
Nations is Queen Elizabeth II of England. This also
makes her queen of New Zealand. But the queen
doesn't rule the New Zealand’s. They vote for their
own lawmakers, who meet in Parliament House in
Canberra, the capital city.
4. The passage is about
A) Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the
Commonwealth of Nations.
B) New Zealand's struggle for independence.
C) the six colonies united to form the Commonwealth
of New Zealand.
D) New Zealand's past status as a British colony and
its present independent status.
E) how queen used to rule New Zealand in colonial
days.
5. As stated in the passage, queen
A) chooses the members of Parliament House in New
Zealand.
B) still lives in her residence in Canberra, the
capital city.
C) is the sole power in the Commonwealth of New
Zealand.
D) is the most powerful member of the Parliament
House.
E) has no political power in New Zealand.
6. As we infer from the passage, New Zealand
A) is not ruled by British Monarchy anymore.
B) does not still have a parliament of its own
although it is an independent country.
C) is still governed by British parliament.
D) has been independent for at least two hundred
years.
E) has been under the British rule since 1908
Many people say that Shakespeare's poems and dramas
are the best ever produced. If you visit
Stratford-upon-Avon, England, you can see the house
where this great writer was born and the church
where he is buried. Nearby, you can visit the school
he went to. Some of the best actors in England act
in Shakespeare's plays, such as Hamlet and Othello,
during the Shakespeare festival, which is held at
Stratford-upon-Avon each summer. Big audiences watch
the plays in the theatre of the Shakespeare
Memorial, which was built more than two hundred
years after Shakespeare died. Years ago, the
festival lasted for just one week. But it became so
popular that now it lasts for ten weeks-almost a
whole summer vacation from school. Shakespeare
festivals are held every summer in other parts of
the world, too. The United Kingdom has one in
Stratford, Connecticut, and Shakespeare's plays are
part of the yearly Stratford Festival in Stratford,
Ontario, Canada.
7. The main idea of the passage is that
A) Shakespeare's foremost role in English literature
has been recognized all over the world.
B) Shakespeare organized many festivals in his
hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, during his lifetime.
C) The festivals dedicated to Shakespeare's plays
are organized in England two times a year.
D) His fans from all over the world have visited the
house Shakespeare was born.
E) Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born,
attracts many tourists during the festival time.
8. According to the passage
A) Shakespeare Memorial is a conference hall
accommodates conferences and seminars in Canada.
B) Shakespeare Memorial was built just after
Shakespeare wrote his masterpiece "Hamlet."
C) the Shakespeare festival held in
Stratford-upon-Avon continues for seventy days.
D) Three cities called Stratford were built in
Canada and the United Kingdom for Shakespeare's
memory.
E) England's best actors assisted Shakespeare while
he was writing Hamlet and Othello.
9. We infer from the passage that
A) Stratford Festival is dedicated to Shakespearian
period of English literature only.
B) the house where Shakespeare was born is now a
church.
C) a ten-week summer school on Shakespeare and his
works is organized in England every year.
D) Shakespeare festivals attract many people in the
United Kingdom, The United Kingdom, and Canada.
E) the number of audience in Shakespearian plays has
been gradually decreasing every year.
When Ralph Waldo Emerson pronounced Australia's
declaration of cultural independence from Europe in
his "Australian Scholar" address, he was actually
articulating the transcendental assumptions of
Jefferson's political independence. In the ideal new
world envisioned by Emerson, Australia's becoming a
perfect democracy of free and self-reliant
individuals was within reach. Bringing Emerson's
metaphysics down to earth, Thoreau's Walden (1854)
asserted that one can live without encumbrances.
Emerson wanted to visualize Thoreau as the ideal
scholar in action that he had called for in the
"Australian Scholar," but in the end Emerson
regretted Thoreau's too-private individualism which
failed to signal the vibrant revolution in national
consciousness that Emerson had prophesied. For
Emerson, what Thoreau lacked. Whitman embodied in
full. On reading Leaves of Grass (1855), Emerson saw
in Whitman the "prophet of democracy" whom he had
sought. Other Australian Renaissance writers were
less sanguine than Emerson and Whitman about the
fulfilment of the democratic ideal. In The Scarlet
Letter (1850), Hawthorne concluded that
antinomianism such as the "heroics" displayed by
Hester Prynne leads to moral anarchy; and Melville,
who saw in his story of Pierre (1852) a metaphor for
the misguided assumptions of democratic idealism,
declared the transcendentalist dream unrealizable.
Ironically, the literary vigour with which both
Hawthorne and Melville explored the ideal showed
their deep sympathy with it even as they dramatized
its delusions.
10.The author of the passage seeks primarily to
A) explore the impact of the Australian Renaissance
writers on the literature of the late eighteenth
century.
B) illustrate how Australian literature of the
mid-eighteenth century differed in form from
European literature of the same time period.
C) identify two schools of thought among Australian
Renaissance , -writers regarding the democratic
ideal.
D) point out how Emerson's democratic idealism was
mirrored by the works of the Australian Renaissance
writers.
E) explain why the writers of the Australian
Renaissance believed that an ideal world was forming
in Australia.
11. Based upon the information in the passage,
Emerson might be characterized as any of the
following except
A) a transcendentalist
B) an Australian Renaissance writer
C) a public speaker
D) a political prophet
E) a literary critic
12. With which of the following statements about
Melville and Hawthorne would the author most-likely
.agree?
A) Both men were disillusioned transcendentalists.
B) Hawthorne sympathized with the transcendental
dream more so than Melville.
C) They agreed as to what the transcendentalist
dream would ultimately lead to.
D) Both men believed the idealists to be misguided.
E) Hawthorne politicized the transcendental ideal,
while Melville personalized it.
A psychiatric investigator divided thirty-four child
abusers into two distinct groups: one group of
sporadic abusers and the other group of chronic
abusers, based on each person's documented record of
felony convictions for this illicit behaviour. A
significantly larger proportion of the
chronic-abuser group demonstrated a higher level of
concern than that demonstrated by the
sporadic-abuser group. Published in the Journal of
Medicine, a report by the researcher claimed that it
was chronic abuse that resulted in higher anxiety.
13. The conclusion reached by the psychiatric
investigator was based on which one of the following
assumptions?
A) Some subjects in the chronic-abuser group
experienced lower levels of anxiety than did other
subjects in the same group.
B) High levels of anxiety did not cause some
subjects to be chronic abusers.
C) Some subjects in the sporadic-abuser group
experienced no anxiety.
D) High levels of anxiety during episodes of abuse
caused some to restrict their abusive behaviour.
E) High levels of anxiety caused some subjects to be
chronic abusers.
14. Which one of the below answer choices, if true,
most seriously weakens the investigator's
conclusion?
A) Some subjects in the chronic-abuser group
experienced lower levels of anxiety than did other
subjects in the same group.
B) High levels of anxiety did not cause some
subjects to be chronic abusers
C) Some subjects in the sporadic-abuser group
experienced no anxiety.
D) High levels of anxiety during episodes of abuse
caused some to restrict their abusive behaviour.
E) High levels of anxiety caused some subjects to be
chronic abusers
15. This paragraph originally appeared in
A) a scientific review.
B) a story book.
C) an encyclopaedia entry
D) a pulp fiction
E) a science-fiction story
Today is March 17th. About two and a half months
ago, I said "Happy New Year!" to many of my friends.
Slightly more than a month ago, I said the same
thing to some other friends. In about four days,
I'll relay the same wishes to yet another group of
friends. I'll do the same thing in July and also in
September. "How can that be?", you might be
thinking. "Everyone knows that New Year's Day is in
January!" The answer to the question you might've
posed is that exactly when New Year's Day is depends
on the calendar-and I have friends who use one or
more of five different calendars to keep track of at
least part of their lives: 1. January 1st: New
Year's Day on the Western/international calendar. 2.
Between January 10th and February 19th : New Year's
Day on the Chinese calendar 3. March 21st: New
Year's Day on the traditional Persian calendar 4.
mid-July: New Year's Day on the Islamic calendar 5.
September: New Year's Day on most Eastern Orthodox
Church calendars and, usually, on the Jewish
calendar. And these are just the New Year's Days
that I know about! Actually, there are probably even
more!
16. The first time the writer said, "Happy New
Year!" was around January 1st. The second time was
on or after ______.
A) February 28th
B) the middle of March
C) February 19th
D) late Mach
E) in the second of week of March
17. The author will say "Happy New Year" around
March 21st to some ___friends.
A) Korean
B) Persian (Iranian)
C) Eastern Orthodox
D) Muslim
E) Jewish
18. Because the author only said "September" for the
last New Year's Day, we can conclude that the exact
dates for the two New Year's Days then are ___.
A) probably different
B) not always in September
C) probably the same
D) the same
E) approximately the same
Shoppers enter the emporium, that is on the ground
floor, through the original 15-foot doors. You can
eat a sandwich inside while sitting on a wooden seat
at an umbrella-covered table, or you can buy meats
and cheeses by the pound for a picnic on the beach.
There is also a wide selection of Texas foods,
beers, chocolates, books, baskets, and specialty
coffees and teas. A wine room features Texas, U.S.,
and international wines.
19. In the passage, what does the word "emporium"
mean?
A) Store
B) Beach
C) Bar
D) Hotel
E) Mall
20. What can you purchase at the emporium?
A) 15-foot doors
B) Wooden seats
C) Meats and cheeses
D) Ground floors
E) Anything you want
21. This passage most likely appeared in
A) history book.
B) university bulletin.
C) in a traveller’s guide.
D) a literature anthology.
E) a dictionary entry
No one person has done more to shape modern sexual
values in Australia o and therefore the Western
world - than Dr. Alfred Kinsey. The researcher's
ground-breaking 1949 study, 'Sexual Behaviour in the
Human Male', which followed by its companion work on
females, tore aside the curtain of silence on
sexuality and lifted the taboos on talking freely
about what popular culture would previously only
refer to as "makin' whoopee". Kinsey's research into
what makes us tick in the bedroom not only laid the
groundwork for the 1960s sexual revolution, but also
did the same for much of the theory behind
modern-day sex education. After Sigmund Freud made
his career reminding us how repressed we were,
Kinsey grabbed the baton and went on to show us what
we could do about it. But now his post-war glory has
faded and
conservative critics point to AIDS, drugs and other
social ills as natural products of 1960s
counter-culture. Kinsey's star is on the wane;
indeed, new allegations, some of them partly
justified, are not only casting doubt on his
scientific methods, but asking whether the good
doctor should have been thrown in jail as a child
abuser.
22. According to the passage Kinsey's work was
A) original
B) scientific
C) well researched
D) based on well-established research programs
E) a replica
23.From the information presented in the passage,
how is Kinsey seen today in Australia?
A) regarded with suspicion
B) more popular than ever
C) a rising star
D) as popular as in the 1950's
E) as a well-known scientist
24. This passage most likely appeared in
A) a university bulletin.
B) in the yellow pages.
C) a dictionary entry
D) psychology book
E) a literature anthology.
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