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27. (A) He's sorry that the woman didn't like the
book.
(B) He can order the math book for the woman.
(C) It's too late for the woman to get a refund.
(D) The woman bought the book less than ten
days ago.
20. (A) She doesn't think that she looks like the
student.
(B) Many of her students look alike.
(C) She isn't related to the student.
(D) Her daughter isn't in her class.
1950's.
(C) They are discussed in the student's textbook.
(D) They have been worn for hundreds of years.
35. (A) Get some books for the man to look at.
(B) Ask the man to look over her notes.
(C) Continue her research in the library.
(D) Find more information on how books are
preserved.
of
7. ____
, such as jazz, are often played
from memory rather than from a written score.
(A) Of some types music
(B) Music some of types
(C) Some types of music
(D) Types of music some
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
11.
over 100 years since the invention of
the square-bottomed paper bag.
(A) Now is
(B) Now it has
(C) There is now
(D) It is now
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
it possible
possibly
possible
it was possible
16. Lake trout, fish usually finding in deep, cool lakes, are greenish gray and are
A
B
covered with pale spots.
C
D
17. During the first 20 years of the space age, the United States spent more than 90
A
B
billion dollars onto its civilian and military space programs.
C
D
118. Vitamins A and C and most of the B vitamins are retain in foods that have
A
B
C
been canned.
D
19. Ella Baker spent her adult life working for social change by lecturing, writing,
A
B
teacher, and organizing adult literacy programs.
C
D
20. Gold can combined with silver in any proportion, but alloys with 50 to 60 percent
A
B
C
silver are the_strongest.
D
21. The camera obscura, a lensless precursor of the photographic camera, consists_of
A
a darkened chamber, with light pass into it through a single tiny hole.
B
C
D
22. Lumber production was the main industry in Michigan until the early 1900's,
A
B
C
which the automobile industry was established in Detroit.
D
23. Twenty minutes of vigorous exercise every day is very effect in helping a person
A
B
C
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A
B
C
with a same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
D
38. There are a series of large-scale wind patterns all over Earth are called prevailing
A
B
winds that have a direct effect on weather and climate.
C
D
39. 1n June, 1846, near Sacramento, California, a number of new settlers rebelled in
A
B
C
the Bear Flag Revolt and proclaiming California an independent republic.
D
40. A mutation is result of a definite biochemical change in a gene that causes the
A
B
offspring to vary in some characteristic from the parents.
C
D
(A) dinosaurs
(B) birds
(C) Archaeopteryx
(D)crows
(D) merited
Questions 10-19
Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users
and distributors of weather maps. Although some newspapers that had carried the
United States Weather Bureau's national weather map in 1912 dropped it once the
novelty had passed, many continued to print the daily weather chart provided by
1(5) their local forecasting office. In the 1930's, when interest in aviation and progress in
air-mass analysis made weather patterns more newsworthy, additional newspapers
started or resumed the daily weather map. In 1935, The Associated Press (AP) news
service inaugurated its WirePhoto network and offered subscribing newspapers
morning and afternoon weather maps redrafted by the AP's Washington, B.C., office
1(10)from charts provided by the government agency. Another news service, United Press
International (UPI), developed a competing photowire network and also provided
timely weather maps for both morning and afternoon newspapers. After the United
States government launched a series of weather satellites in 1966, both the AP and
UPI offered cloud-cover photos obtained from the Weather Bureau.
1(15) In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the weather map became an essential
ingredient in the redesign of the American newspaper. News publishers, threatened
by increased competition from television for readers' attention, sought to package
the news more conveniently and attractively. In 1982, many publishers felt
threatened by the new USA Today, a national daily newspaper that used a page-wide,
1(20)full-color weather map as its key design element. That the weather map in USA
2 21 Today did not include information about weather fronts and pressures attests to the
largely symbolic role it played. Nonetheless, competing local and metropolitan
newspapers responded in a variety of ways. Most substituted full-color temperature
maps for the standard weather maps, while others dropped the comparatively drab
(25)satellite photos or added regional forecast maps with pictorial symbols to indicate
rainy, snowy, cloudy, or clear conditions. A few newspapers, notably The New York
Times, adopted a highly informative yet less visually prominent weather map that
was specially designed to explain an important recent or imminent weather event.
Ironically, a newspaper's richest, most instructive weather maps often are
1(30)comparatively small and inconspicuous.
10. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The differences between government and
newspaper weather forecasting in the United
States.
(B) The history of publishing weather maps in
United States newspapers
(C) A comparison of regional and national
weather reporting in the United States.
(D) Information that forms the basis for weather
forecasting in the United States
Question 20-30
Some animal behaviorists argue that certain animals can remember past events,
anticipate future ones, make plans and choices, and coordinate activities within a
group. These scientists, however, are cautious about the extent to which animals can
be credited with conscious processing.
1(5) Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all
and ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered. One
example of such unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of
nectar to one another by doing a dance in a figure-eight pattern. The orientation of
the dance conveys the position of the food relative to the sun's position in the sky,
1(10)and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source is from the hive. Most
researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance is innate and
shows no special intelligence. But in one study, when experimenters kept changing
the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percent farther from the
previous site, foraging honeybees began to anticipate where the food source would
1(15) appear next. When the researchers arrived at the new location, they would find the
bees circling the spot, waiting for their food. No one has yet explained how bees,
whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths of an ounce, could have inferred the
location of the new site.
Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use. Many
1(20)animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using
objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools. One researcher has found
that mother chimpanzees occasionally show their young how to use tools to open
hard nuts. In one study, chimpanzees compared two pairs of food wells containing
chocolate chips. One pair might contain, say, five chips and three chips, the other
1(25)our chips and three chips. Allowed to choose which pair they wanted, the
chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some sort
of summing ability. Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label
quantities of items and do simple sums.
20. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The role of instinct in animal behavior
(B) Observations that suggest consciousness in
animal behavior
(C) The use of food in studies of animal
behavior
(D) Differences between the behavior of
animals in their natural environments and
in laboratory experiments.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
however
since
generally
so far
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animals
(B) To prove that certain species demonstrate
greater ability in tool use than other species
(C)
(D)
Questions 31-39
In eighteenth-century colonial America, flowers and fruit were typically the
province of the botanical artist interested in scientific illustration rather than being
the subjects of fine art. Early in the nineteenth century, however, the Peale family of
Philadelphia established the still life, a picture consisting mainly of inanimate
(5) objects, as a valuable part of the artist's repertoire. The fruit paintings by James and
Sarah Miriam Peale are simple arrangements of a few objects, handsomely colored,
small in size, and representing little more than what they are. In contrast were the
highly symbolic, complex compositions by Charles Bird King, with their biting
satire and critical social commentary. Each of these strains comminuted into and
(10) well past mid-century.
John F. Francis (1808-86) was a part of the Pennsylvania still-life tradition that
arose, at least in part, from the work of the Peales. Most of his still lifes date from
around 1850 to 1875. Luncheon Still Life looks like one of the Peales' pieces on a
larger scale, kits greater complexity resulting from the number of objects. It is also
(15) indebted to the luncheon type of still life found in seventeenth-century Dutch
painting. The opened bottles of wine and the glasses of wine partially consumed
suggest a number of unseen guests. The appeal of the fruit and nuts to our sense of
taste is heightened by the juicy orange, which has already been sliced. The
arrangement is additive, that is, made up of many different parts, not always
(20) compositionally integrated, with all objects of essentially equal importance.
About 1848, Severin Roesen came to the United States from Germany and
settled in New York City, where he began to paint large, lush still lifes of flowers,
fruit, or both, often measuring over four feet across. Still Life with Fruit and
Champagne is typical in its brilliance of color, meticulous rendering of detail,
(25) compact composition, and unabashed abundance. Rich in symbolic overtones, the
beautifully painted objects carry additional meanings------butterflies or fallen buds
suggest the impermanence of life, a bird's nest with eggs means fertility, and so on.
Above all, Roesen's art expresses the abundance that America symbolized to many of its citizens.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The artwork of James and Sarah Miriam
Peale
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United States
(D) How botanical art inspired the first still-life
paintings
Question 40-50
Scientists have discovered that for the last 160,000 years, at least, there has
been a consistent relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and
the average temperature of the planet. The importance of carbon dioxide in
regulating the Earth's temperature was confirmed by scientists working in eastern
1(5) Antarctica. Drilling down into a glacier, they extracted a mile-long cylinder of ice
from the hole. The glacier had formed as layer upon layer of snow accumulated year
after year. Thus drilling into the ice was tantamount to drilling back through time.
The deepest sections of the core are composed of water that fell as snow
160,000 years ago. Scientists in Grenoble, France, fractured portions of the core and
1(10)measured the composition of ancient air released from bubbles in the ice.
Instruments were used to measure the ratio of certain isotopes in the frozen water to
get an idea of the prevailing atmospheric temperature at the time when that
particular bit of water became locked in the glacier.
The result is a remarkable unbroken record of temperature and of atmospheric
1(15)levels of carbon dioxide. Almost every time the chill of an ice age descended on the
planet, carbon dioxide levels dropped. When the global temperature dropped 9F (5 C),
carbon dioxide levels dropped to 190 parts per million or so. Generally, as each
ice age ended and the Earth basked in a warm interglacial period, carbon dioxide
levels were around 280 parts per million. Through the 160,000 years of that ice
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1(20)record, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fluctuated between 190 and
280 parts per million, but never rose much higher-until the Industrial Revolution
beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing today.
There is indirect evidence that the link between carbon dioxide levels and
global temperature change goes back much further than the glacial record. Carbon
1(25) dioxide levels may have been much greater than the current concentration during the
2 Carboniferous period, 360 to 285 million years ago. The period was named for a
profusion of plant life whose buried remains produced a large fraction of the coal
deposits that are being brought to the surface and burned today.
40. Which of the following does the passage
mainly discuss?
(A) Chemical causes of ice ages
(B) Techniques for studying ancient layers of
ice in glaciers
(C) Evidence of a relationship between levels of
carbon dioxide and global temperature
(D) Effects of plant life on carbon dioxide
levels in the atmosphere
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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