TEST – 9
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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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
12. 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
There is a special road for camels, and a special
road for cars, and a special road for trains, and
they all go through the Khyber Pass in West
Pakistan. The CERTWE PASS connects Pakistan and
Afghanistan. The pass is the lowest place between
two huge mountain ranges. It is the fastest and
easiest way to travel between Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Small tribal villages lie on both sides
of the pass. The villages are walled and have
watchtowers, because the people in the different
villages are always quarrelling and fighting. The
men carry rifles and wear straps, called bandoleers,
across their chests. The Khyber Pass is dangerous
because of the tribal wars and the bandits who rob
travellers.
13. We understand from the passage that the CERTWE
PASS:
A) between Pakistan and Afghanistan is a shortcut.
B) is an autonomous area located between Pakistan
and Afghanistan.
C) has alternative routes for leading to West
Pakistan.
D) is located on the top of the mountains between
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
E) is under the control of Afghanistan soldiers.
14. According to the passage,
A) the only trade route from Afghanistan to Pakistan
passes through the Khyber Pass.
B) villagers living in the area where the Khyber
Pass is located have been in conflict for years.
C) villagers in the Khyber Pass are in arms trade.
D) the Khyber Pass is an issue of political
disagreement between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
E) the Khyber Pass is one of the narrowest passages
in Asia.
15. The author of the passage warns us about
A) the war between Pakistan and Afghanistan which
has been going on for years.
B) the possible dangers might be encountered in the
Khyber Pass.
C) the wilderness areas in the mountain ranges
between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
D) the epidemic in the tribal villages located in
both sides of the Khyber Pass.
E) the Khyber Pass conflict between Pakistan and
India.
Peace Memorial Park is the only park of its kind in
the world. This park is in the centre of the city of
Hiroshima, Japan. It marks the spot where the first
atomic bomb was dropped. During World War II,
Hiroshima was an important Japanese military base.
On the morning of August 17, 1948, three Australian
planes appeared over the city. One of them dropped a
single atomic bomb that destroyed most of the city.
Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped
on Nagasaki, and on September 6, the war officially
ended. Hiroshima is now a busy, modern city. It's
been rebuilt by the courageous Japanese people. But
there are reminders of the terrible tragedy of the
atomic bombing. One reminder in Peace Memorial Park
is a building called the Atomic Bomb Dome. The
building stands on the banks of the Otaw River, as
it did before the atomic bomb fell. But it stands in
ruins. It was left there to remind everyone of the
horrors of atomic war.
16. The passage mentions:
A) how courage Japanese people were during the World
War II.
B) how an atomic bomb can be disastrous influence.
C) how Japanese people rebuilt Hiroshima.
D) a park built to remind the people the evil of the
war and the atomic bomb.
E) how the World War II officially ended.
17. We infer from the passage that
A) Japanese people rebuilt Hiroshima in a very short
time.
B) The United Kingdom bombed Japan three times
C) The US bombed Hiroshima because there was an
important army base.
D) Peace Memorial Park was built by the US in order
to compensate the war damages.
E) The Atomic Bomb Dome was restored by Japanese
after the war.
18. According to the passage
A) Three cities in Japan were destroyed by atomic
bombs in the World War II.
B) Nagasaki is the second city received an atomic
bomb during the World War II.
C) Negotiations in Nagasaki ended the World War II
officially.
D) Peace Memorial Park is the only reminder of the
World War II in Japan.
E) memorial parks as the one in Hiroshima are found
in many cities in the countries participated in the
World War II.
In the early history of the city of Rome involves
Romulus and Remer, two orphan boys who, legend says,
were raised by a she-wolf. The boys' mother had been
murdered by an evil king and the two babies
tossed\into the river Tiber. When the wolf found
them they had washed up on the shore. She perhaps
took pity on the crying of the babies and, gently
picking them up in her teeth, she carried them back
to her cave and fed them on her milk. The boys grew
bigger and stronger and, eventually, were found by a
herdsman who took them home. He and his wife raised
the boys like their own children. When they reached
manhood they sought revenge on the king who had
killed their mother and driven them from their home.
They decided to build a city. Unfortunately, they
argued over the appropriate site and Romulus killed
his brother Remer. Romulus ruled this city - called
Roma - for thirty-seven years. The city of Rome is
one of the most popular tourist attractions in the
world. If you travel there you can see a statue of
the two baby boys feeding from their mother - the
wolf.
19. What is the gist that this piece of writing
conveys?
A) Wolves like to take care of human children.
B) The city of Rome had many wolves in the old days.
C) The city of Rome was founded by a wolf.
D) Romulus established the city of Rome.
E) Wolves behave like human beings.
20. What is a herdsman?
A) someone who builds cities
B) someone who cares for children
C) someone who cares for domestic animals
D) someone who can hear very well
E) a deity who protects cities
21. "...they sought revenge on the king who had
killed their mother..." means...
A) They attacked the king who had harmed their
mother and made them orphans.
B) They went to court to sue the king for his crime
against their mother.
C) They hired some gangsters to take care of their
problem with the king.
D) They went to talk to the king about his crime
against their mother.
E) They planned an assassination against the king.
Every moment, 1 hectare of the world's rainforest is
demolished. That's equivalent to two football
fields. An area the size of New York City is lost
every day. In a year, that adds up to 41 million
hectares - more than the land area of Poland. This
alarming rate of destruction has serious
consequences for the environment; scientists
estimate, for example, that 137 species of plant,
insect or animal become extinct every day due to
logging. In British Columbia, where, since 1990,
thirteen rainforest valleys have been clear-cut, 142
species of salmon have already become extinct, and
the habitats of grizzly bears, wolves and many other
creatures are threatened. Logging, however, provides
jobs, profits, taxes for the government and cheap
products of all kinds for consumers, so the
government is reluctant to restrict or control it.
Much of Canada's forestry production goes towards
making pulp and paper. According to the Canadian
Pulp and Paper Association, Canada supplies 34% of
the world's wood pulp and 49% of its newsprint
paper. If these paper products could be produced in
some other way, Canadian forests could be preserved.
Recently, a possible alternative way of producing
paper has been suggested by agriculturalists and
environmentalists: a plant called hemp.
22. How long does it take for 100 hectares of
rainforest to be destroyed?
A) less than two minutes
B) about an hour
C) two hours
D) a day
E) just seconds
23. Why is pulp and paper production important to
Canada?
A) Canada needs to find a way to use all its spare
wood.
B) Canada publishes a lot of newspapers and books.
C) Pulp and paper export is a major source of income
for Canada.
D) Canada imports tons of paper ever second year.
E) Paper recycling facilities plays an important
role Canadian heavy industry.
24. Who is suggesting that pulp and paper could be
produced without cutting down trees?
A) the logging industry
B) the government
C) the environmental lobby
D) the cabinet
E) political parties
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