TEST NAME: Test I
TEST ID: 147530
GRADE: 09­12
SUBJECT: English Language and Literature
TEST CATEGORY: My Classroom
Test I
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Student: Class:
Date:
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”
Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”
by El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeny
In the autumn of 1792, locusts began to appear in West Barbary. The corn was in ear, and therefore safe, as this devouring insect attacks no hard substance. In the period of heavy rains comprised between the forty
longest nights, old style, they disappeared; so that one or two only were seen occasionally: but so soon as the liahli had passed, the small young green locust began to appear, no bigger than a fly. As vegetation
increased, these insects increased in size and quantity. But the country did not yet seem to suffer from them. About the end of March, they increased rapidly.
I was at the emperor’s garden, which belongs to the Europeans, and which was given to the merchants of Mogodor by the emperor Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah, in the kabyl of Idaugourd, in the province of Haha, and the
garden flourished with every green herb, and the fruit­trees were all coming forward in the productive beauty of spring. I went there the following day, and not a green leaf was to be seen: an army of locusts had attacked
it during the night, and had devoured every shrub, every vegetable, and every green leaf; so that the garden had been converted into an unproductive wilderness. And, notwithstanding the incredible devastation that was
thus produced, not one locust was to be seen.
The gardener reported that the king of the locusts had taken his departure eastward early in the morning; the myriads of locusts followed, so that in a quarter of an hour not one was to be seen. The depredations1 of
these devouring insects was too soon felt, and a direful scarcity ensued. The poor would go out a locusting, as they termed it: the bushes were covered; they took their garment, and threw it over them, and then collected
them in a sack. In half an hour they would collect a bushel. These they would take home, and boil a quarter of an hour; they would then put them into a frying­pan, with pepper, salt, and vinegar, and eat them, without
bread or any other food, making a meal of them. They threw away the head, wings, and legs, and ate them as we do prawns. They considered them wholesome food, and preferred them to pigeons. Afterwards, whenever
there was any public entertainment given, locusts was a standing dish; and it is remarkable that the dish was always emptied, so generally were they esteemed as palatable2 food.
A few years after the locusts appeared, I performed a journey from Mogodor to Tangier. The face of the country appeared like a newly ploughed field of a brown soil; for it was completely covered with these insects,
insomuch that they had devoured even the bark of the trees. They rose up about a yard, as the horses went on, and settled again; in some places they were one upon another, three or four inches deep on the ground; a
few were flying in the air, and they flew against the face, as if they were blind, to the no small annoyance of the traveler. It is very remarkable, that on reaching the banks of the river Elkos, which we crossed, there was
not, on the north side of that river, to my great astonishment, one locust any where to be seen; but the country was flourishing in all the luxuriance of verdure,3 although the river was not wider than the Thames at
Windsor. This extraordinary circumstance was accounted for by the Arabs, who said that not a locust would cross the river, till (sultan jeraad) the king of the locusts should precede and direct the way.
1
depredations: destruction
2 palatable: delicious
3
verdure: greenery
Project Gutenberg, 2007. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22631/22631­h/22631­h.htm (02/25/2013).
1.
What does the speaker mean by the term “incredible devastation” as
used at the end of paragraph 2?
A.
The corn crop was ruined.
B.
All of the locusts had been killed.
C.
All of the plants had been destroyed.
D.
The garden’s structures were destroyed.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”' ­ and answer the question below:
2.
What is the “extraordinary circumstance” referred to in the last sentence
of the selection?
A.
The locusts were three to four inches deep on the ground.
B.
The locusts flew into people’s faces as if they were blind.
C.
The locusts only moved on if the king of the locusts led them.
D.
The locusts had not crossed the narrow river to eat crops on the
other side.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”' ­ and answer the question below:
3.
What impression does the phrase “the country was flourishing in all the
luxuriance of verdure” give the reader?
A.
It reveals the ability of the crops to thrive despite the locusts.
B.
It creates a clear image of the locusts’ appearance on the crops.
C.
It establishes the beauty of the river contrasted with the country.
D.
It depicts the beauty of the country without the locusts’ presence.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”' ­ and answer the question below:
4.
Which explains the effect of the locusts’ destruction to the land?
A.
“I went there the following day, and not a green leaf was to be
seen.”
B.
“And, not withstanding, the incredible devastation that was thus
produced, not one locust was to be seen.”
C.
“The depredations of these devouring insects was too soon felt, and
a direful scarcity ensued.”
D.
“The face of the country appeared like a newly ploughed field of a
brown soil.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa: “The Plague of Locusts”' ­ and answer the question below:
5.
Based on paragraph 3, how did the people feel about eating the locusts?
A.
They preferred to eat prawns and found the locusts to be a good
substitute. B.
They ate the locusts out of necessity but did enjoy them more than
some other foods. C.
Many were repulsed by the thought of eating insects but started later
on to eat them anyway.
D.
Many had wanted to try cooked locusts before, and the abundance
was a good excuse to do so.
Read the passage ­ 'Up From Slavery: An Autobiography' ­ and answer the question below:
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Excerpt from Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by Booker T. Washington
From the very beginning, at Tuskegee, I was determined to have the students do not only the agricultural and domestic work, but to have them erect their own buildings. My plan was to have them, while performing this
service, taught the latest and best methods of labor, so that the school would not only get the benefit of their efforts, but the students themselves would be taught to see not only utility in labor, but beauty and dignity;
would be taught, in fact, how to lift labor up from mere drudgery1 and toil, and would learn to love work for its own sake. My plan was not to teach them to work in the old way, but to show them how to make the forces
of nature—air, water, steam, electricity, horsepower—assist them in their labor.
At first many advised against the experiment of having the buildings erected by the labor of the students, but I was determined to stick to it. I told those who doubted the wisdom of the plan that I knew that our first
buildings would not be so comfortable or so complete in their finish as buildings erected by the experienced hands of outside workmen, but that in the teaching of civilization, self­help, and self­reliance, the erection of
buildings by the students themselves would more than compensate for any lack of comfort or fine finish.
I further told those who doubted the wisdom of this plan, that the majority of our students came to us in poverty, from the cabins of the cotton, sugar, and rice plantations of the South, and that while I knew it would
please the students very much to place them at once in finely constructed buildings, I felt that it would be following out a more natural process of development to teach them how to construct their own buildings.
Mistakes I knew would be made, but these mistakes would teach us valuable lessons for the future.
During the now nineteen years’ existence of the Tuskegee school, the plan of having the buildings erected by student labor has been adhered2 to. In this time forty buildings, counting small and large, have been built, and
all except four are almost wholly the product of student labor. As an additional result, hundreds of men are now scattered throughout the South who received their knowledge of mechanics while being taught how to erect
these buildings. Skill and knowledge are now handed down from one set of students to another in this way, until at the present time a building of any description or size can be constructed wholly by our instructors and
students, from the drawing of the plans to the putting in of the electric fixtures, without going off the grounds for a single workman.
Not a few times, when a new student has been led into the temptation of marring the looks of some building by lead pencil marks or by the cuts of a jack­knife, I have heard an old student remind him: “Don’t do that.
That is our building. I helped put it up.”
1
drudgery: tiring work
2 adhered: stuck to; followed
Project Gutenberg, 2008. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2376/2376­h/2376­h.htm (02/22/2013).
6.
Which explains the author’s lack of concern about the mistakes students
would make erecting the buildings?
A.
Student labor was more economical, regardless of the mistakes.
B.
He knew the buildings would be safe even with mistakes.
C.
He believed students would learn from their mistakes.
D.
The mistakes would be corrected by skilled laborers.
Read the passage ­ 'Up From Slavery: An Autobiography' ­ and answer the question below:
7.
How does the author further his point of view about having students
construct their own buildings?
A.
by including the necessity of older students teaching younger ones as
part of the school’s course work
B.
by stating the importance of students learning to be independent and
able
C.
by arguing that students should be taught the value of hard work
D.
by using the fact that student labor will help the school’s budget
Read the passage ­ 'Up From Slavery: An Autobiography' ­ and answer the question below:
8.
How does the author use paragraphs 2 and 3 to contribute to the text?
A.
They debate whether the students would have the right attitude
about constructing the buildings.
B.
They show how the school would save money and resources by
implementing the plan.
C.
They address the concerns of those who had misgivings about the
plan.
D.
They cast doubt on the ability of students to physically do the work.
Read the passage ­ 'Up From Slavery: An Autobiography' ­ and answer the question below:
9.
How does the author use the last sentence of paragraph 3 to develop his
point about possible student mistakes?
A.
to show how challenges encountered by one group will teach skills to
the next group
B.
to show how students can be successful at erecting buildings despite
any flaws
C.
to show students will have to continue to work to pay for any flaws
D.
to show students will make errors because it is human to do so
Read the passage ­ 'Up From Slavery: An Autobiography' ­ and answer the question below:
10.
Which was the author’s purpose for including the final paragraph?
A.
to show that older students reprimanded younger students who
defaced the buildings
B.
to show that students who erected the buildings often bragged about
their work
C.
to show that some students were often tempted to mar their school
buildings
D.
to show that students who erected the buildings took great pride in
them
Read the passage ­ 'The Beggar’s Complaint' ­ and answer the question below:
The Beggar’s Complaint
The Beggar’s Complaint
A poem from Japan.
The Beggar’s Complaint
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The heaven and earth they call so great,
For me are mickle1 small;
The sun and moon they call so bright,
For me ne’er shine at all.
Are all men sad, or only I?
And what have I obtained—
What good the gift of mortal life,
That prize so rarely gained,
If nought2 my chilly back protects
But one thin grass­cloth coat,
In tatters hanging like the weeds
That on the billows float—
If here in smoke­stained, darksome hut,
Upon the bare cold ground,
I make my wretched bed of straw,
And hear the mournful sound—
Hear how mine aged parents groan,
And wife and children cry,
Father and mother, children, wife,
Huddling in misery—
If in the rice­pan, nigh forgot,
The spider hangs its nest,
And from the hearth no smoke goes up
Where all is so unblest?
And now, to make our wail more deep,
That saying is proved true
Of “snipping what was short before:”—
Here comes to claim his due,
The village provost,3 stick in hand
He’s shouting at the door;—
And can such pain and grief be all
Existence has in store?
1 mickle: very; extremely
2 nought: nothing
3 provost: administrator in charge
Japanese Literature: “The Beggars Complaint.” Project Gutenberg, 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19264 (05/02/2013).
11.
Why does the speaker say, “The sun and moon they call so bright, / For
me ne’er shine at all”?
A.
He longs to see the sky overhead.
B.
He prefers to be home with his family.
C.
He does not enjoy the warmth outside.
D.
He fails to understand the joy of living.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South­West Africa: “The Country of ' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South­West Africa: “The Country of Excerpt from A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South­West Africa: “The Country of Craters, the Path of the Skull, and the Snake”
by Frederick Cornell
Filled, as I could but be, with thankfulness at my escape from captivity and from an awful death, I did not realize for a time what the loss of the diamonds meant to me; indeed I was too exhausted by my terrific struggle
to do more than crawl a few yards away from the brink, throw myself down in the sand and sink into the sleep of utter weariness.
But with my awakening the bitter truth was borne upon me in a flash. All my struggle had then been in vain. I had won my freedom but had lost all that would make life bearable. Even if I could win back through the
desert, what had I now to compensate me for the horrible disfigurement that would make me shunned and despised, a leper1 amongst my fellowmen?
Bitterly did I regret my pleasant prison down below. Surely it would have been better to stay there in peace till I died, as fate had apparently decreed; and if I could have done so I would certainly have returned. But to
return was impossible, and I must make up my mind to struggle through the desert or die where I was. Moreover, in the midst of my bitter reflections there came the comforting recollection that I had still the blue
diamonds that I had kept apart and put in my pocket. Eagerly I felt for them yes! they were safe, and in themselves they must be worth a fortune!
My spirits rose with a bound again; why should I dream of giving in? I was strong and hard, and if I could win through, the diamonds would surely enable me to fit out an expedition and return; and with ropes, the descent
into the crater would be easy.
Rested by the cool of the night I felt little the worse for my climb, and was all eagerness for dawn to break that I might see what manner of country I was in, for I had been half demented when my terrible ride from the
pursuing sandstorm had brought me into it.
At last daylight came, and I saw that although in the midst of a wide sandy plain, there were no dunes; scattered bushes grew here and there, and dotted about in the distance were a number of bare granite rocks. The
crater I had climbed from went sheer down at my feet so abruptly indeed, and with so little to denote its presence, that within a few yards of its brink nothing whatever could be seen of it.
I looked once more into its depths, to where the pool lay dark in the still dim light of dawn, and from it my eyes followed the course that I had taken in my climb, and I marveled that I had ever reached the top. And a
great thankfulness rose in my heart and drowned the unworthy regret that I had felt at the loss of the diamonds.
And with a last long look at my late prison, I turned and made my way towards a prominent pile of rocks in the distance, from which I hoped to be able to see more of my surroundings. My water bottle was nearly empty
already, and the old haunting dread of thirst was beginning to fill my mind, but soon this fear left me, for within a mile I found t'samma1 flourishing, and at the first pile of rocks a little spring of water.
Cheered and encouraged I made good progress in spite of the now blazing sun, and soon I reached the pile of rocks. And to my astonishment I found that they formed part of the margin of a crater almost identical with
the one from which I had escaped; deep and inaccessible, and with a mass of vegetation filling the bottom.
This discovery gave me food for thought. It had never entered my head that the strange place of my imprisonment had been one of many, and I had thought that once I could reach even a friendly native tribe where some
kind of rope was obtainable I could locate the crater again and secure the bag of diamonds. But I had already stumbled upon another crater, and maybe there were many? And this indeed I found to be the case, for they
became more numerous as I proceeded, until the whole country was pitted with them. They were of all sizes and depths, some mere pits of fifty feet in diameter or less, some huge gulfs a mile or more across, and so
deep that it was difficult to distinguish what was at the bottom. Invariably their walls were sheer and I could explore none of them, but in nearly all I saw the gleam of water.
So numerous were they, as I penetrated farther into this strange country, that I was forced to make wide detours in my endeavor to avoid them, and so bewildering did this labyrinth of huge pits at last become that I
became hopelessly lost among them, and at times thought that I should never break clear of them again. Day after day I wandered about this vast and apparently level plain, finding every short distance a huge yawning
gulf at my feet, forced to try new routes, and constantly being pulled up by similar obstacles. And all this time I saw no sign of life, not even a spoor2 in the sand to show that mankind had ever trod there. There was no
animal life, even; a few birds, and a few snakes, nothing more indeed so deserted and dead was this weird land that it appeared unreal, and often I imagined that by some strange chance I had been transported to some
other and long­dead planet, so little was this maze of craters like Mother Earth.
I had food and water enough, and as the moon now gave plenty of light I walked only at night, resting in the shadow of the rocks by day.
1 leper: a person with a deforming skin disease
2 t’samma: a type of melon
3
spoor: a trail
Project Gutenberg, 2007. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21899/pg21899.html/ (03/26/2013).
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12.
Which line reveals the speaker’s main concern?
A.
“I was too exhausted by my terrific struggle to do more than crawl a
few yards away from the brink, throw myself down in the sand and
sink into the sleep of utter weariness.”
B.
“I had still the blue diamonds that I had kept apart and put in my
pocket. Eagerly I felt for them yes! they were safe, and in
themselves they must be worth a fortune!”
C.
“My water bottle was nearly empty already, and the old haunting
dread of thirst was beginning to fill my mind, but soon this fear left
me.”
D.
“So numerous were they, as I penetrated farther into this strange
country, that I was forced to make wide detours in my endeavor to
avoid them.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”
From Russia
Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”
by Leo Tolstoy
Mamma was sitting in the drawing­room and making tea. In one hand she was holding the tea­pot, while with the other one she was drawing water from the urn and letting it drip into the tray. Yet though she appeared to
be noticing what she doing, in reality she noted neither this fact nor our entry.
However vivid be one’s recollection of the past, any attempt to recall the features of a beloved being shows them to one’s vision as through a mist of tears—dim and blurred. Those tears are the tears of the imagination.
When I try to recall Mamma as she was then, I see, true, her brown eyes, expressive always of love and kindness, the small mole on her neck below where the small hairs grow, her white embroidered collar, and the
delicate, fresh hand which so often caressed me, and which I so often kissed; but her general appearance escapes me altogether.
To the left of the sofa stood an English piano, at which my dark­haired sister Lubotshka was sitting and playing with manifest1 effort (for her hands were rosy from a recent washing in cold water) Clementi’s “Etudes.”
Then eleven years old, she was dressed in a short cotton frock and white lace­frilled trousers, and could take her octaves only in arpeggio.2 Beside her was sitting Maria Ivanovna, in a cap adorned with pink ribbons and a
blue shawl, Her face was red and cross, and it assumed an expression even more severe when Karl Ivanitch entered the room. Looking angrily at him without answering his bow, she went on beating time with her foot and
counting, “One, two, three—one, two, three,” more loudly and commandingly than ever.
Karl Ivanitch paid no attention to this rudeness, but went, as usual, with German politeness to kiss Mamma’s hand. She drew herself up, shook her head as though by the movement to chase away sad thoughts from her,
and gave Karl her hand, kissing him on his wrinkled temple as he bent his head in salutation.
“I thank you, dear Karl Ivanitch,” she said in German, and then, still using the same language asked him how we (the children) had slept. Karl Ivanitch was deaf in one ear, and the added noise of the piano now prevented
him from hearing anything at all. He moved nearer to the sofa, and, leaning one hand upon the table and lifting his cap above his head, said with, a smile which in those days always seemed to me the perfection of
politeness, “You, will excuse me, will you not, Natalia Nicolaevna?”
The reason for this was that, to avoid catching cold, Karl never took off his red cap, but invariably asked permission, on entering the drawing­room, to retain it on his head.
“Yes, pray replace it, Karl Ivanitch,” said Mamma, bending towards him and raising her voice. “But I asked you whether the children had slept well?”
Still he did not hear, but, covering his bald head again with the red cap, went on smiling more than ever.
“Stop a moment, Mimi,” said Mamma (now smiling also) to Maria Ivanovna. “It is impossible to hear anything.”
How beautiful Mamma’s face was when she smiled! It made her so infinitely more charming, and everything around her seemed to grow brighter! If in the more painful moments of my life I could have seen that smile
before my eyes, I should never have known what grief is. In my opinion, it is in the smile of a face that the essence of what we call beauty lies. If the smile heightens the charm of the face, then the face is a beautiful
one. If the smile does not alter the face, then the face is an ordinary one. But if the smile spoils the face, then the face is an ugly one indeed.
Mamma took my head between her hands, bent it gently backwards, looked at me gravely and said, “You have been crying this morning?”
I did not answer. She kissed my eyes, and said again in German, “Why did you cry?”
When talking to us with particular intimacy she always used this language, which she knew to perfection.
“I cried about a dream, Mamma,” I replied, remembering the invented vision, and trembling involuntarily at the recollection.
Karl Ivanitch confirmed my words, but said nothing as to the subject of the dream. Then, after a little conversation on the weather, in which Mimi also took part, Mamma laid some lumps of sugar on the tray for one or
two of the more privileged servants, and crossed over to her embroidery frame, which stood near one of the windows.
“Go to Papa now, children,” she said, “and ask him to come to me before he goes to the home farm.”
Then the music, the counting, and the wrathful looks from Mimi began again, and we went off to see Papa. Passing through the room which had been known ever since Grandpapa’s time as “the pantry,” we entered the
study.
1 manifest: obvious
2 could take her octaves only in arpeggio: her hands were too small to reach the two notes (eight keys apart) at the same time, so had to hit first one note and then the other.
Project Gutenberg, 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2142/2142­h/2142­h.htm#2H_4_0002 (02/25/2013).
13.
Which statement supports the central idea of the selection?
A.
“Mamma was sitting in the drawing­room and making tea.”
B.
“Those tears are the tears of the imagination.”
C.
“How beautiful Mamma’s face was when she smiled!”
D.
“But if the smile spoils the face, then the face is an ugly one
indeed.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”' ­ and answer the question below:
14.
How does the dialogue between the author and his mother support the
theme of the selection?
A.
The narrator remembers his mother speaking lovingly to comfort him.
B.
The narrator trusts his mother and tells her about his nightmare.
C.
The narrator makes up a nightmare to get his mother’s attention.
D.
The narrator remembers his mother speaking German at times.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”' ­ and answer the question below:
15.
How does the author portray Germans to further the speaker’s point of
view?
A.
as being rude and unfriendly
B.
as being polite and concerned
C.
as being incapacitated and lazy
D.
as being conscientious and friendly
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”' ­ and answer the question below:
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16.
How does the selection reflect a contrast in Russian and German cultural
expectations?
A.
Karl asked permission to wear his hat in the house.
B.
The narrator’s mother interrupted the piano lesson to speak to Karl.
C.
The Russian piano teacher was disciplined in her approach to her
lesson.
D.
Karl was polite even when the piano teacher was rude during the
interrupted lesson.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Childhood: “Mamma”' ­ and answer the question below:
17.
Which is a summary of the selection?
A.
The author wishes he could be a little boy again.
B.
The author recollects the harshness of a childhood piano instructor.
C.
The author lovingly remembers his mother and the comfort she gave.
D.
The author nostalgically thinks about the various languages spoken
as he was growing up.
Read the passage ­ 'New VOA IPhone App Empowers Citizen Journalists' ­ and answer the question below:
New VOA IPhone App Empowers Citizen Journalists
New VOA IPhone App Empowers Citizen Journalists
Voice of America’s Russian Service has rolled out a new iPhone app that does more than just deliver the latest news and information—it lets citizen journalists use their mobile devices to upload and share short reports,
photos or video about key events in their target region.
The app1, which is available for free in the iTunes store, is a true multimedia tool, providing access to VOA Russian service text, video, and audio content, including podcasts2 and the popular Russian blog3. The app also
lets users bookmark VOA articles or create video and audio playlists, as well as connections to Twitter and Facebook for easy content sharing across social media sites.
Russian Service Managing Editor Irina Van Dusen says “the feature on the new app we are most excited about is called ‘You—the Reporter,’ which allows members of our audience to become citizen journalists who can
share with our audience what they have witnessed or observed.”
With the new app, iPhone users can type a short report and attach photos or videos, then send that user­generated content directly to the VOA Russian Service, where journalists will evaluate the material for possible use
on the website.
For other smartphone users, VOA Russian provides a state­of­the­art mobile website that adjusts to the specific features of the user’s phone. VOA’s Russian Service Golos Ameriki employs an all­digital strategy to deliver news and information to Russia and other former Soviet Republics. With reporters in the United States and in the region, the service provides
interactive and timely text, audio and video, and offers insights into U.S. policy and American life.
In the past year the service has experienced significant audience growth, with nearly 4 million visits to the site since January 1. Earlier this month, the service teamed up with award­winning investigative journalist Fatima
Tlisova, on a multi­media project aimed at telling the difficult stories that reporters are often punished for pursuing. More than a blog, the Russian language project, titled Journalism in the Crosshairs (Pressa pod
Pressom), provides a digital media platform for reporters from the former Soviet Union and Central Asia, who are often beaten or killed as a result of their work.
1 app: a program from the internet that can be accessed by cell phones
2podcasts: programs of music or talk 3
blog: an internet website containing a writer’s personal thoughts and comments
Broadcasting Board of Governors, VOA Press Release. (06/27/2011)
18.
What can the reader infer from the last paragraph?
A.
The reader can infer that VOA recruits people to investigate
dangerous news stories.
B.
The reader can infer that some governments try to control the
publication of news stories.
C.
The reader can infer that many people are unwilling to investigate
news stories that may be perilous. D.
The reader can infer that difficult news stories are often not worth
the punishment reporters receive for pursuing them.
Read the passage ­ 'The Babus of Nayanjore' ­ and answer the question below:
The Babus of Nayanjore
Excerpt from “The Babus of Nayanjore”
by Rabindranath Tagore
As lightning accompanies thunder, so in my character a flash of humor was mingled with the mutterings of my wrath. It was, of course, impossible for me to punish the old man merely to give vent to my rage; and for a
long time I did nothing at all. But suddenly one day such an amusing plan came into my head, that I could not resist the temptation of carrying it into effect.
I have already said that many of Kailas Babu’s friends used to flatter the old man’s vanity to the full. One, who was a retired Government servant, had told him that whenever he saw the Chota Lord Sahib he always asked
for the latest news about the Babus of Nayanjore, and the Chota Lord had been heard to say that in all Bengal the only really respectable families were those of the Maharaja of Burdwan and the Babus of Nayanjore.
When this monstrous falsehood was told to Kailas Balm he was extremely gratified, and often repeated the story. And wherever after that he met this Government servant in company he would ask, along with other
questions:
“Oh! er—by the way, how is the Chota Lord Sahib? Quite well, did you say? Ah, yes, I am so delighted to hear it! And the dear Mem Sahib, is she quite well too? Ah, yes! and the little children—are they quite well also?
Ah, yes that’s very good news! Be sure and give them my compliments when you see them.”
Kailas Balm would constantly express his intention of going some day and paying a visit to the Sahib.
But it may be taken for granted that many Chota Lords and Burro Lords also would come and go, and much water would pass down the Hooghly,1 before the family coach of Nayanjore would be furnished up to pay a visit
to Government House.
One day I took Kailas Babu aside, and told him in a whisper: “Thakur Dada, I was at the Levee yesterday, and the Chota Lord happened to mention the Babes of Nayanjore. I told him that Kailas Balm had come to town.
Do you know, he was terribly hurt because you hadn’t called. He told me he was going to put etiquette on one side, and pay you a private visit himself this very afternoon.”
Anybody else could have seen through this plot of mine in a moment. And, if it had been directed against another person, Kailas Balm would have understood the joke. But after all he had heard from his friend the
Government servant, and after all his own exaggerations, a visit from the Lieutenant­Governor seemed the most natural thing in the world. He became highly nervous and excited at my news. Each detail of the coming
visit exercised him greatly—most of all his own ignorance of English. How on earth was that difficulty to be met? I told him there was no difficulty at all: it was aristocratic not to know English: and, besides, the
Lieutenant­Governor always brought an interpreter with him, and he had expressly mentioned that this visit was to be private.
About mid­day, when most of our neighbors are at work, and the rest are asleep, a carriage and pair stopped before the lodging of Kailas Babu. Two flunkeys in livery came up the stairs, and announced in a loud voice,
“The Chota Lord Sahib arrived.” Kailas Babu was ready, waiting for him, in his old­fashioned ceremonial robes and ancestral turban, and Ganesh was by his side, dressed in his master’s best suit of clothes for the
occasion. When the Chota Lord Sahib was announced, Kailas Balm ran panting and puffing and trembling to the door, and led in a friend of mine, in disguise, with repeated salaams2, bowing low at each step, and walking
backward as best he could. He had his old family shawl spread over a hard wooden chair, and he asked the Lord Sahib to be seated. He then made a high flown speech in Urdu, the ancient Court language of the Sahibs,
and presented on the golden salver a string of gold mohurs, the last relics of his broken fortune. The old family servant Ganesh, with an expression of awe bordering on terror, stood behind with the scent­sprinkler,
drenching the Lord Sahib, touching him gingerly from time to time with the otto­of­roses3 from the filigree box.
1 Hooghly: a river in India
2
salaams: a very low bow
3
otto­of­roses: rose oil
Project Gutenberg, 2008. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2518 (02/25/2013).
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19.
How does Babu’s response in paragraph 7 to the news that he will have
an afternoon visitor reflect his culture? A.
Babu understands that many aristocrats do not speak English. B.
Babu does not recognize the joke that the narrator is playing on him.
C.
Babu is very concerned about receiving the Lieutenant­Governor
properly. D.
Babu expects that the Lieutenant­Governor will bring an interpreter
with him. Read the passage ­ 'The Babus of Nayanjore' ­ and answer the question below:
20.
Based on paragraph 7, what does the author use to his advantage in
carrying out the trick on Kailas Babu?
A.
Babu’s sense of self­importance
B.
Babu’s indifference to to flattery
C.
the Chota Lord’s intelligence
D.
the Chota Lord’s elegance
Read the passage ­ 'The Babus of Nayanjore' ­ and answer the question below:
21.
In the final paragraph, what motivates Babu to greet the visitor so
grandly? A.
his exaggerated need to show off his family’s wealth
B.
his intense effort to make up for past failures as a host
C.
his misguided belief that the visitor is the Lieutenant­Governor
D.
his selfish desire to be a wealthy merchant respected by others
Read the passage ­ 'The Babus of Nayanjore' ­ and answer the question below:
22.
How does the last paragraph of the selection intensify the foolishness
shown by Babu?
A.
Babu is unprepared for the arrival of the visitor.
B.
Babu forgets to have a servant present to wait upon the visitor.
C.
Babu makes major mistakes in etiquette as he greets the visitor.
D.
Babu makes such a great effort to greet the visitor who is not really
a Lieutenant­Governor.
Read the passage ­ 'The Grove Park Inn' ­ and answer the question below:
The Grove Park Inn
The Grove Park Inn
The Grove Park Inn, built by Edwin Wiley Grove, is an earnest attempt to erect an honest building with no substitution of contemporary popular design for classic construction forms, all the more remarkable because an
amateur architect designed it during an era of architectural pretension.1 Grove, owner of a pharmaceutical company manufacturing Bromo­Quinine,2 arrived in Asheville in 1900 and found the mild climate so much to his
liking that he purchased a large tract of land on Sunset Mountain. Grove had the idea for a magnificent lodge, grand enough to mirror the majesty of the mountains that would provide its foundation. Grove’s concept called
for a building with the natural rough stone of the mountains surrounding the lodge. After finding that no local architects could grasp his concept, Grove entrusted his son­in­law, Fred L. Seely, to design the building. Seely
had no formal training in architecture but undertook the project as both designer and contractor. The Grove Park Inn was completed in 11 months and 27 days and opened on July 1, 1913. The unusual and striking intimacy
between the building and its natural environment is one of the factors of the continued success of the Grove Park Inn and perhaps the chief factor in its architectural significance.
The Inn was built in five sections that join end­to­end and step terrace­like along the mountain ridge. Native uncut granite boulders quarried from Sunset Mountain form the wall surfaces and chimneys of the Inn. Grove
himself ordered that “not a piece of stone was to be visible to the eye except it show the time­etched face given it by thousands of years of sun and rain that had beaten on it.” The Grove Park Inn has enjoyed a long and
colorful history with many distinguished guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and President Woodrow Wilson.
Federal agencies controlled the property from 1942 to 1946, during which time the State Department used the Inn as an internment center for Axis diplomats. Philippine government officials were in exile at this time and
were also located in one of the guest cottages. The United States Navy has also used the Inn as a rest and rehabilitation center. Substantial renovations occurred in 1955, and additional wings were added to the Inn in
1958 and 1963. A major expansion, completed in February of 2001, added a spa to the grounds.
1 pretention: artificiality; snobbishness
2 Bromo­Quinine: a cold medicine
National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/gro.htm (03/27/2013). 23.
Which detail shows how the Grove Park Inn’s design would “mirror the
majesty of the mountains”?
A.
“The Grove Park Inn . . . is an earnest attempt to erect an honest
building with no substitution of contemporary popular design for
classic construction forms.”
B.
“Grove’s concept called for a building with the natural rough stone of
the mountains surrounding the lodge.”
C.
“The Inn was built in five sections that join end­to­end and step
terrace­like along the mountain ridge.”
D.
“Grove . . . ordered that ‘not a piece of stone was to be visible to the
eye except it show the time­etched face given it by thousands of
years of sun and rain that had beaten on it.’ ”
Read the passage ­ 'The Grove Park Inn' ­ and answer the question below:
24.
The fact that Edwin Wiley Grove entrusted the inn project to his son­in­
law shows he held which belief?
A.
Comfort is more important than design.
B.
Easiness is more important than usefulness.
C.
Natural beauty is more important than comfort.
D.
Inspiration is more important than formal education.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from South America: “The Discovery and Early History of Brazil”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from South America: “The Discovery and Early History of Brazil”
Excerpt from South America: “The Discovery and Early History of Brazil”
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by William Henry Koebel
It still remains a point of dispute between the Spanish and Portuguese nations as to who was the discoverer of Brazil. There is, moreover, Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo Vespucci may be said to have been more successful in
his accounts of his voyages than in the feats which he actually accomplished. To have succeeded on such slender foundation in causing an entire continent to be christened by his name was in itself no mean performance,
and this was probably his greatest claim to distinction.
Some historians take him more seriously than this. Southey, for one, appears to accept Vespucci very much at his own valuation, and states that the honor of having formed the first settlement in Brazil is due to Amerigo
Vespucci.
The Spaniards claim this distinction for their famous seaman, Vicente Pinzon. Pinzon sailed from Spain in December, 1499. He shaped a more southerly course than any previous navigator in the Spanish service, and he
appears to have made his landfall in the neighborhood of Pernambuco. He went ashore, it would seem, at a spot he named Cape Consolation, and of this he took possession in the name of the Spanish Crown. His voyage,
however, appears to have had very little practical result, for almost immediately afterwards he returned to Europe, and no steps seem to have been taken by the Spanish Court for the colonization of the land which he had
discovered.
The Portuguese, for their part, assert that the territories of Brazil were first sighted by their great navigator, Pedro Alvarez Cabral. The discovery was in one sense something of an accident. It was necessary for the
seamen who were setting their course for the East Indies to steer well to the west, in order to avoid the zones of calms which prevail in the neighborhood of the African coast. Cabral appears to have steered so boldly into
the west that he fell in with the coast of Brazil. This was in 1500. Word of this event was sent to Portugal, and the enterprising little kingdom, at that time at the height of her maritime power, made preparations to
colonize the country.
The auspices1 under which the Spaniards and the Portuguese arrived in the New World were curiously different. The Spaniards were frankly in quest of gold, and in many cases ransacked2 the fertile agricultural lands in
search of minerals which were non­existent. The Portuguese, on the other hand, had no reason to suspect the presence of precious metals in their new colony, and it was in the first instance for its vegetable products that
the land, so rich in minerals, became famed.
It was only natural that the pioneer Portuguese should have been struck with the admirable quality of the valuable Brazilian woods. Shipments of timber were the first to be sent from the new colony to the Mother
Country. It was from this very wood that Portuguese South America took its name, since much of it, being of a brilliant red color, was known in the Portuguese language as “brasa.”
1 auspices: reasons
2 ransacked: caused damage by searching closely
Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17877/17877­h/17877­h.htm (08/30/2012).
25.
Which detail weakens the Spaniards’ argument of being the first to settle
in Brazil?
A.
No steps were made by the Spanish to establish a settlement.
B.
Pinzon sailed further south than previous Spanish navigators.
C.
Pinzon took possession of a spot he called Cape Consolation.
D.
The Spaniards were interested in finding gold.
Read the passage ­ 'Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery' ­ and answer the question below:
Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery
Edgar Allan Poe—A Mystery
by William H. Elson and Christine Keck
So irregular was the life of Edgar Allan Poe, and so strong were the prejudices of his critics that not only his character and habits of life, but even the simplest facts of his biography, are surrounded with mystery and are
subjects of doubt and dispute.
By everything, but the accident of birth, Poe belongs to the South. His father was from Baltimore, and his mother was of English birth. They were both members of a theatrical company playing in Boston at the time of
Poe’s birth, January 19, 1809. At the age of three, he was left an orphan by the death of his mother. A wealthy Scotchman of Virginia, Mr. John Allan, adopted him and brought him up in luxury—a much spoiled child,
everywhere adored for his beauty and precocity1.
He was sent to school in a suburb of London and upon his return to America entered the University of Virginia, a proud, reserved, and self­willed youth. Here he led an irregular life, so that Mr. Allan was forced to withdraw
him from school and gave him work in his office. The routine of office work was very distasteful to Poe, and he ran away to Boston, where he published his first volume of poems. Here he enlisted in the army, but when
Mr. Allan heard of his whereabouts, he secured his discharge and obtained an appointment for him, as a cadet, at West Point. The severe discipline of that school proved irksome to his restless nature, and after a few
months, he brought upon himself his dismissal. At the age of twenty­two, he found himself adrift with nothing further to expect from Mr. Allan.
Literature presented itself as his most natural vocation. He had written poetry from the pure love of it, but now actual poverty drove him to the more remunerative2 prose writing. He engaged in journalistic work in
Baltimore, living with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia. Two years later, he married Virginia Clemm, a mere child; but Poe, whose reverence for women was his noblest trait, loved her and cared for her
through poverty and ill­health, until her death eleven years later, a short time before his own. His life was a melancholy one, a fierce struggle and final defeat. In 1849, on his way to New York from Richmond, chance
brought him and election day together in the city of Baltimore. He was found in an election booth, delirious, and died a few days later.
Poe was a keen critic of the literary men of his day, but he applied the same standards to himself. He was constantly rewriting and polishing what he had written. Poe’s greatness lay in his imaginative work—his tales and
his poems. The tales may be said to constitute a distinct addition to the world’s literature. From times past, there have been tales in prose and in verse, tales legendary, romantic, and humorous, but never any quite like
Poe’s.
The appeal of his poetry is to the sentiment of beauty—the one appeal, which according to his theory is the final justification of any poem. Language is made to yield its utmost of melody. “The Raven” was first published
in January, 1845, and immediately became and remains one of the most widely known of English poems. It can be mentioned anywhere, without apology or explanation, and there is scarcely a lover of melodious verse
who cannot repeat many of its lines and stanzas.
Every reader of Poe’s prose will be impressed with the charm of the language itself, the fascination of the vivid scenes and the magic touch like the Necromancer’s2 wand, which removes these scenes into the uncharted
realm of the supernatural and invests them with a kind of sacred awe.
1
precocity: intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules
remunerative: money­making
2
3 Necromancer: one who practices magic or sorcery
From Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/ (8/7/2012).
26.
Which is the central idea of the selection?
A.
Edgar Allan Poe lived a unique life.
B.
Edgar Allan Poe was a disturbed man.
C.
Edgar Allan Poe lost many of his loved ones.
D.
Edgar Allan Poe became a well­known writer. Read the passage ­ 'Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery' ­ and answer the question below:
27.
Which is a summary of the selection?
A.
Poe was a loving man who set the standard for future writers.
B.
Poe was a lonely man who put all his energy into his literary works.
C.
Poe was a mysterious man who left a legacy of imaginative
literature.
D.
Poe was a troubled man whose personal life interfered with his
writing.
Read the passage ­ 'Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery' ­ and answer the question below:
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Which detail from the selection supports the central idea?
28.
A.
“His father was from Baltimore, and his mother was of English birth.”
B.
“Here he led an irregular life, so that Mr. Allan was forced to
withdraw him from school and gave him work in his office.”
C.
“The routine of office work was very distasteful to Poe, and he ran
away to Boston.”
D.
“He was constantly rewriting and polishing what he had written.”
Read the passage ­ 'Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery' ­ and answer the question below:
What evidence supports the idea that Poe was critical of his own work?
29.
A.
“Poe was a keen critic of the literary men of his day.”
B.
“He was constantly rewriting and polishing what he had written.”
C.
“There have been tales in prose and in verse . . . but never any quite
like Poe’s.”
D.
“The one appeal, which according to his theory is the final
justification of any poem.”
Read the passage ­ 'Edgar Allan Poe ­ A Mystery' ­ and answer the question below:
How do the authors develop the central idea?
30.
A.
by highlighting those most important to Poe
B.
by depicting Poe through those who knew him
C.
by describing the difficult experiences in Poe’s life
D.
by providing examples of Poe’s literary achievements
Read the passage ­ 'Solitude' ­ and answer the question below:
Solitude
Solitude
by Alexei Fyodorovich Merzlyakov
5
10
15
20
Upon a hill, which rears itself midst plains extending wide,
Fair flourishes a lofty oak in beauty’s blooming pride;
This lofty oak in solitude its branches wide expands,
All lonesome on the cheerless height like sentinel1 it stands.
Whom can it lend its friendly shade, should Sol with fervor glow?
And who can shelter it from harm, should tempests rudely blow?
No bushes green, entwining close, here deck the neighboring ground,
No tufted pines beside it grow, no osiers2 thrive around.
Sad even to trees their cheerless fate in solitude if grown,
And bitter, bitter is the lot for youth to live alone!
Though gold and silver much is his, how vain the selfish pride!
Though crowned with glory’s laureled wreath, with whom that crown divide?
When I with an acquaintance meet he scarce a bow affords,
And beauties, half saluting me, but grant some transient words.
On some I look myself with dread, whilst others from me fly,
But sadder still the uncherished soul when Fate’s dark hour draws nigh;
Oh! where my aching heart relieve when griefs assail me sore?
My friend, who sleeps in the cold earth, comes to my aid no more!
No relatives, alas! of mine in this strange clime appear,
No wife imparts love’s fond caress, sweet smile, or pitying tear;
No father feels joy’s thrilling throb, as he our transport sees;
No gay and sportive little ones come clambering on my knees;­­
Take back all honors, wealth, and fame, the heart they cannot move,
And give instead the smiles of friends, the tender look of love!
1sentinel: the guard or watchers
2
osiers: willow trees
Project Gutenberg, 2005. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8192/old/bakch10h.htm (02/25/2013).
31.
How does the poet develop a feeling of isolation in lines 1–4?
A.
by using repetition to emphasize the tree’s unusual height
B.
by stating that the tree grows “upon a hill”
C.
by indicating the tree’s sickly appearance
D.
by including the word “solitude”
Read the passage ­ 'Solitude' ­ and answer the question below:
32.
Which effect is created by lines 13 and 14?
A.
They create hope that the speaker’s situation may soon improve.
B.
They create sympathy by describing how the speaker is being
ignored.
C.
They create surprise at the fact that the speaker is not completely
alone.
D.
They create tension as the speaker is angered by the disrespect he
receives.
Read the passage ­ 'The Scholar in the Narrow Street' ­ and answer the question below:
The Scholar in the Narrow Street
The Scholar in the Narrow Street
By Tso Ssu
5
Flap, flap, the captive bird in the cage
Beating its wings against the four corners.
Depressed, depressed the scholar in the narrow street:
Clasping a shadow, he dwells in an empty house.
When he goes out, there is nowhere for him to go:
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10
15
20
1
Bunches and brambles block up his path.
He composes a memorial, but it is rejected and unread.
He is left stranded, like a fish in a dry pond.
Without — he has not a single farthing1 of salary:
Within — there is not a peck of grain in his larder2.
His relations upbraid3 him for his lack of success:
His friends and callers daily decrease in number.
Su Ch’in used to go preaching in the North
And Li Ssu sent a memorandum to the West.
I once hoped to pluck the fruits of life:
But now alas, they are all withered and dry.
Though one drinks at a river, one cannot drink more than a
bellyful;
Enough is good, but there is no use in satiety.4
The bird in a forest can perch but on one bough,
And this should be the wise man’s pattern.
farthing: small coin worth little
2 larder: place where food is stored
3
upbraid: scold
4
satiety: the state of being satisfied
“The Scholar in the Narrow Street” by Tso Ssu from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems.
33.
What can be inferred from lines 17­20?
A.
One should be happy with little in life.
B.
One cannot gain more than the basics of life.
C.
One cannot have more than one is allotted in life.
D.
One should strive for more than the minimum in life.
Read the passage ­ 'The Scholar in the Narrow Street' ­ and answer the question below:
34.
Which line reflects a cultural belief that one should live with the
resources one has and avoid grasping for dreams?
A.
“Depressed, depressed the scholar in the narrow street.”
B.
“He composes a memorial, but it is rejected and unread.”
C.
“He is left stranded, like a fish in a dry pond.”
D.
“Though one drinks at a river, one cannot drink more than a bellyful;”
Read the passage ­ 'The Scholar in the Narrow Street' ­ and answer the question below:
35.
How do the first two lines of the poem reflect the author’s attitude about
living in his society?
A.
by showing his anger at being trapped
B.
by showing he is feeling confined
C.
by showing he is being punished
D.
by showing his joy in being safe
Read the passage ­ 'The Scholar in the Narrow Street' ­ and answer the question below:
36.
What do lines 7–10 convey about the speaker?
A.
He is poor and lonely.
B.
He is sick and penniless.
C.
He is angry and will not work.
D.
He is fearful and cannot get a job.
Read the passage ­ 'The Scholar in the Narrow Street' ­ and answer the question below:
37.
Which line reflects what happened to the the speaker’s dreams of the
better things in life?
A.
“When he goes out, there is nowhere for him to go:”
B.
“He composes a memorial, but it is rejected and unread.”
C.
“His relations upbraid him for his lack of success:”
D.
“But now alas, they are all withered and dry.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt From: Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c.1900' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt From: Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c.1900
Excerpt From: Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c.1900
There wasn’t a clock in the village. In every house, however, there was a rooster, whose shrill crowing told you in winter when to get up. And he would crow with the greatest regularity; the first time at midnight, the
second about three in the morning, the third time ‘for the day’ about four. It was the wife’s business to keep track of his crowing, for she would waken the household after a second, or at the latest right after the third
crow. Apart from this the farmer would step out to the yard and look at the stars to see how near it was to the morning.
From the start, I did not like the idea of getting out in the cold and observing the stars in winter time, so as to see when to get up. At times, the rooster made a mistake, or when he crowed for midnight one thought it
was the second or third. I therefore decided to have a clock in the house. In order, however, not to have unpleasantness from our neighbors as a result (for clocks at that time were thought of as a curiosity and an
extravagance!), I consulted the wife, and we decided for as long as possible to hide it from the village. We went together to the watchmaker in Tarnobrzeg and bought a clock for four ducats,1 with the understanding that
he was to bring it over in the evening and hang it for us. This was done. But the cat was soon out of the bag,2 for the children, while playing in the street in front of the house, heard the striking of the hours.
“Slomkas have a clock!” was the cry, and we soon had all the children at the door. They would listen for the ticking under the window; and in time their elders began to come, too, to look at the clock. They were amazed
that I could pay four ducats for it, and more than one made the remark that I thought myself quite a person! Later on, the nearer neighbors, who had some date to keep, would come to the window day or night and ask
what time it was. In time, everyone came to the conclusion that a clock is a useful thing in a house, and today there isn’t a cottage in Dzikov without one. Even watches became the fashion with the farmers.
1
ducats: a gold coin
2
the cat was soon out of the bag: the secret was exposed
Fordham University, Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900polishpeasant.asp (03/27/2013).
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Which detail supports the idea that a clock is considered a novelty during
this time period?
38.
A.
“From the start, I did not like the idea of getting out in the cold and
observing the stars in winter time, so as to see when to get up.”
B.
“We went together to the watchmaker in Tarnobrzeg and bought a
clock for four ducats, with the understanding that he was to bring it
over in the evening and hang it for us.”
C.
“They would listen for the ticking under the window; and in time their
elders began to come, too, to look at the clock.”
D.
“Later on, the nearer neighbors, who had some date to keep, would
come to the window day or night and ask what time it was.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt From: Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c.1900' ­ and answer the question below:
Which summarizes the selection?
39.
A.
Significant lifestyle changes take time to accept.
B.
Roosters are an unreliable means of telling time.
C.
Farmers are resistant to technological advances.
D.
Cost often deters people from technology.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt From: Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c.1900' ­ and answer the question below:
How does the final paragraph support the central idea of the selection?
40.
A.
The cost of the clocks prevents most of the townspeople from using
them.
B.
While hesitant at first, the people of the village eventually accept
change.
C.
The citizens grow tired of relying upon the speaker to keep their
dates.
D.
Without the children’s influence, clocks would not have been
adopted.
Read the passage ­ 'Hussar Song' ­ and answer the question below:
Hussar Song
From HungaryHussar Song
Hussar Song
by Gabriel Döbrentei
5
10
15
20
Mother! dost weep that thy boy’s right hand
Hath taken a sword for his father­land?
Mother! where should the brave one be
But in the ranks of bravery?
Mother! and was it not sad to leave
Mine own sweet maiden alone to grieve?
Julia! where should the brave one be
But in the ranks of bravery?
Mother! if thou in death were laid,
Julia! if thou were a treacherous maid;
O then it were well that the brave should be
In the front ranks of bravery.
Mother! the thought brings heavy tears,
And I look round on my youth’s compeers1;
They have their griefs and loves like me,
Touching the brave in their bravery.
Mother! my guardian! O be still;
Maiden! let hope thy bosom fill;
Kiral2 and country! how sweet to be
Battling for both in bravery!
Bravery—aye—and victory’s hand
Shall wreath my Saki3 with golden band
And in the camp the shout shall be,
O! how he fought for liberty!
1
compeers: comrades, close friends
2
3
Kiral: King
Saki: French military cap
From Google Books at http://books.google.com/ (03/29/12)
41.
What effect does the author create by directing his words to the
speaker’s loved ones?
A.
It emphasizes the emotions felt during stressful times of war.
B.
It reveals hope for a joyful reunion with family and friends after the
war.
C.
It produces tension because the women may have forgotten the
speaker.
D.
It produces anticipation about how the two women may respond to
the speaker.
Read the passage ­ 'Hussar Song' ­ and answer the question below:
42.
What effect does the author create by beginning the first five stanzas
with the word mother?
A.
anger about the speaker abandoning his mother
B.
tension between the speaker and his mother
C.
curiosity about the mother’s identity
D.
sympathy for the speaker’s mother
Test I
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Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from My Reminiscences' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from My Reminiscences
Excerpt from My Reminiscences
by Rabindranath Tagore
I know not who paints the pictures on memory’s canvas; but whoever he may be, what he is painting are pictures; by which I mean that he is not there with his brush simply to make a faithful copy of all that is
happening. He takes in and leaves out according to his taste. He makes many a big thing small and small thing big. He has no compunction1 in putting into the background that which was to the fore, or bringing to the
front that which was behind. In short he is painting pictures, and not writing history.
Thus, over Life’s outward aspect passes the series of events, and within is being painted a set of pictures. The two correspond but are not one.
We do not get the leisure to view thoroughly this studio within us. Portions of it now and then catch our eye, but the greater part remains out of sight in the darkness. Why the ever­busy painter is painting; when he will
have done; for what gallery his pictures are destined—who can tell?
Some years ago, on being questioned as to the events of my past life, I had occasion to pry into this picture­chamber. I had thought to be content with selecting some few materials for my Life’s story. I then discovered,
as I opened the door, that Life’s memories are not Life’s history, but the original work of an unseen Artist. The variegated2 colors scattered about are not reflections of outside lights, but belong to the painter himself, and
come passion­tinged from his heart; thereby unfitting the record on the canvas for use as evidence in a court of law.
But though the attempt to gather precise history from memory’s storehouse may be fruitless, there is a fascination in looking over the pictures, a fascination which cast its spell on me.
The road over which we journey, the wayside shelter in which we pause, are not pictures while yet we travel—they are too necessary, too obvious. When, however, before turning into the evening resthouse, we look back
upon the cities, fields, rivers, and hills which we have been through in Life’s morning, then, in the light of the passing day, are they pictures indeed. Thus, when my opportunity came, did I look back, and was engrossed.
Was this interest aroused within me solely by a natural affection for my own past? Some personal feeling, of course, there must have been, but the pictures had also an independent artistic value of their own. There is no
event in my reminiscences3 worthy of being preserved for all time. But the quality of the subject is not the only justification for a record. What one has truly felt, if only it can be made sensible to others, is always of
importance to one’s fellow men. If pictures which have taken shape in memory can be brought out in words, they are worth a place in literature.
It is as literary material that I offer my memory pictures. To take them as an attempt at autobiography would be a mistake. In such a view these reminiscences would appear useless as well as incomplete.
1
compunction: moral issue
2
variegated: having a variety
3
reminiscences: memories
Project Gutenberg, 2007. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22217/22217­h/22217­h.htm (04/03/12).
How does the author’s use of compunction in the first paragraph impact
the representation of the artist?
43.
A.
It represents the lack of conscience the artist uses when creating
life’s paintings.
B.
It demonstrates the attention to detail the artist uses in rendering
his paintings.
C.
It acknowledges the importance of precision used by the artist in his
paintings.
D.
It shows the lack of compassion the artist uses in painting memories.
Read the passage ­ 'Returning to the Fields' ­ and answer the question below:
Returning to the Fields
Returning to the Fields
by Tao Ch’ien
5
10
15
20
When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd:
My only love was for the hills and mountains.
Unwitting I fell into the Web of the World’s dust
And was not free until my thirtieth year.
The migrant bird longs for the old wood:
The fish in the tank thinks of its native pool.
I had rescued from wildness a patch of the Southern Moor1
And, still rustic, I returned to field and garden.
My ground covers no more than ten acres:
My thatched2 cottage has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows cluster by the eaves:
Peach trees and plum trees grow before the hall.
Hazy, hazy the distant hamlets3 of men.
Steady the smoke of the half­deserted village,
A dog barks somewhere in the deep lanes,
A cock crows at the top of the mulberry tree.
At gate and courtyard—no murmur of the World’s dust:
In the empty rooms—leisure and deep stillness.
Long I lived checked by the bars of a cage:
Now I have turned again to Nature and Freedom.
1
moor: a wet area of land
2
thatched: covered with dry vegetation, as in a thatched roof
3 hamlets: small villages
Internet Archive at archive.org/stream/ahundredandseve02walegoog (04/02/12).
44.
What does the speaker value?
A.
work and wealth
B.
land and solitude
C.
friends and family
D.
education and society
Read the passage ­ 'Returning to the Fields' ­ and answer the question below:
45.
How did the speaker view himself in lines 1 and 2 in comparison to the
rest of the world?
A.
young and naive
B.
strong and brave
C.
modern and urban
D.
free and nonconforming
Read the passage ­ 'Small­scale Fishers in the Coral Triangle Get Big Break in the Global Market' ­ and answer the question below:
Small­scale Fishers in the Coral Triangle Get Big Break in the Global Market
Small­scale Fishers in the Coral Triangle Get Big Break in the Global Market
Test I
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Anonymous
Tuna handline fishers in the Philippines now have a better chance at competing in European markets through a private­public partnership between World Wildlife Federation, Blueyou Consultancy, European seafood
companies and the Government of Germany.
Strict European Union policies on sourcing tuna plus increasing consumer demand for responsibly­caught seafood have made it difficult for small­scale fishers in impoverished tuna­producing countries to stay on par1 with
global standards, oftentimes losing out on profitable market opportunities.
“Through this partnership, we aim to create enabling conditions for small­scale fisheries to move towards a more sustainable management regime and generate more equitable2 market benefits in the long term,” says Dr.
Jose Ingles, WWF Coral Triangle Program Tuna Strategy Leader.
The project, which focuses on handline­caught Yellowfin tuna, will be implemented in identified pilot sites in the Philippines for four years, in partnership with the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and
relevant local government units.
It will guide fishers to move towards meeting the sustainability criteria of the Marine Stewardship Council—the world’s leading certification and ecolabeling program for sustainable seafood.
Tuna handline fishing, done on small traditional boats, involves the use of single hooks that catch tuna individually. Because of its highly selective method, handline fishing is seen to have less impact on the marine
environment, usually targeting large and mature tuna that have already reproduced.
The fishery, however, stands to gain much more by meeting global standards. The management plan will protect tuna stocks and the socioeconomic requirements of its stakeholders through infrastructure improvements,
including a traceability system, scientific monitoring methods, safety standard procedures and product quality measures both at local and national levels.
“Our approach is to work closely with key players along the tuna supply chain from fishing communities, Philippine traders, European processors, to high value consumer markets in Europe and help build the right capacity
and management systems for long term engagement,” adds Ingles.
Around 2,200 wooden boats and 8,000 fishermen will initially be involved in the project.
“Lessons learned from this project will definitely benefit the entire Philippine tuna industry and can be replicated in other parts of the Coral Triangle region.”
The Coral Triangle contains spawning and nursery grounds and migratory routes for commercially­valuable tuna species such as Bigeye, Yellowfin and Skipjack, producing more than 40% of the total catch for the Western
Central Pacific region, and representing more than 20% of the total global catch.
Tuna is a highly valuable marine resource that fuels the economies of this region’s developing nations and supports the livelihoods of millions of people.
However, the rising demand for tuna products and the lack of effective policies to regulate the fishing industry is causing the over­exploitation of certain tuna species in the Coral Triangle.
“This project is a win­win situation for handline fishers in the region who see this trade as their only source of income, for European markets that are looking for more and more responsibly­caught tuna products, and for
the health of tuna stocks of this region.”
1
on par: up to date with or equal to
2 equitable: fair or just
World Wildlife Fund at http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/philippines/?199811/Small­scale­fishers­in­the­Coral­Triangle­get­big­break­in­global­market (07/30/2012)
46.
How does the author compare the ideas of the rising demand for tuna and
its availability?
A.
tuna demand is low and tuna stock is low
B.
tuna demand is high and tuna stock is low
C.
tuna demand is low and tuna stock is high
D.
tuna demand is high and tuna stock is high
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland. At age 8, he was sent to work for a while as a house servant for a family in Baltimore. Years later he escaped to the North where he became a
successful orator and abolitionist, and eventually purchased his freedom.
Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
by Frederick Douglass
I lived in Master Hugh’s family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress,
who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else. It is due,
however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity1 indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her
to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tenderhearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat
another. In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel2, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but
dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tenderhearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for
the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone,
and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger­like fierceness. The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me. She now commenced to practice her husband’s precepts. She finally became
even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to make her angrier than to see
me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was
an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this,
however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.3
The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their
kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read. When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time
to get a lesson before my return. I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white
children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.
1
2
depravity: moral corruption
mere chattel: only a servant
3 taking the ell: the expression “Give him an inch, and he’ll take the ell” means “Give him an inch, and he will take four.”
Project Gutenberg, 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23­h/23­h.htm (02/22/2013).
47.
Based on paragraph 2, what can the reader infer?
A.
Slavery is an evil that can only be cured by education. B.
Slavery is an evil that is passed down through generations.
C.
Slavery has the power to turn good people into cruel ones.
D.
Slavery has the power to inspire slaves to earn an education.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' ­ and answer the question below:
48.
What is Douglass’s purpose in the quote, “I have had her rush at me with
a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner
that fully revealed her apprehension.”
A.
to show how being a slave owner violently changed his mistress
B.
to prove that his mistress had always been a mean­spirited woman
C.
to highlight the aspects of his mistress’s personality that made her
an apt slaveholder
D.
to underscore the fact that most women did not behave as violently
as his mistress did
Test I
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Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' ­ and answer the question below:
49.
Based on paragraph 2, with which statement about slavery would
Frederick Douglass agree?
A.
Slavery is a burden that cannot be overcome.
B.
Slavery is an evil that primarily hurts slave owners. C.
Slavery is a moral evil that harms slave owners and slaves.
D.
Slavery would not exist if everyone was properly educated.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' ­ and answer the question below:
50.
Which line from paragraph 2 directly states Douglass’s purpose? A.
“When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tenderhearted
woman.”
B.
“The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct
me.”
C.
“Nothing seemed to make her angrier than to see me with a
newspaper.”
D.
“Education and slavery were incompatible with each other.”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Saunderson and the Dynamite' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from Saunderson and the Dynamite
Excerpt from “Saunderson and the Dynamite”
by Louis Becke
Saunderson was one of those men who firmly believed that he knew everything, and exasperated people by telling them how to do things; and Denison, the supercargo1 of the Palestine, hated him most fervently for the
continual trouble he was giving to everyone, and also because he had brought a harmonium on board, and played dismal tunes on it every night and all day on Sundays. But, as Saunderson was one of the partners in the
firm who owned the Palestine, Denison, and Packenham the skipper, had to suffer him in silence, and trust that something might happen to him before long. What irritated Denison more than anything else was that
Saunderson frequently expressed the opinion that supercargoes were superfluous2 luxuries to owners, and that such work as they tried to do could well be done by the captains, provided the latter were intelligent men!
“Never mind, Tom,” said Packenham hopefully, one day, “he’s a big eater, and is bound to get the fever if we give him a fair show in the Solomons. Then we can dump him ashore at some missionary’s—he and his infernal
groan­box—and go back to Sydney without the beast.”
When the Palestine arrived at Leone Bay, in Tutuila, Saunderson dressed himself beautifully and went ashore to the mission­house, and in the evening, Mrs. O—(the missionary’s wife) wrote Denison a note and asked if
he could spare a cheese from the ship’ stores, and added a P.S., “What a terrible bore he is!” This made the captain and himself feel better.
The next morning Saunderson came on board. Denison was in the cabin, showing a trader named Rigby some samples of dynamite; the trader wanted a case or two of the dangerous compound to blow a boat passage
through the reef opposite his house, and Denison was telling him how to use it. Of course Saunderson must interfere, and said he would show Rigby what to do. He had never fired a charge of dynamite in his life, nor
even seen one fired or a cartridge prepared, but had listened carefully to Denison. Then he sarcastically told Denison that the cheese he had sent Mrs. O—might have passed for dynamite, it was so dry and tasteless.
“Well, dynamite is made from cheese, you know,” said the supercargo deferentially,3 “just cheese slightly impregnated with picric acid, gastrito­nepenthe, and cubes of oxalicogene.”
Saunderson said he knew that, and after telling Rigby that he would walk over to his station before dinner, and show him where to begin operations on the reef, went on shore again.
1 supercargo: an officer in charge of the commercial concerns on a ship
2
superfluous: extra, unnecessary
3 deferentially: courteously
Project Gutenberg, 2008. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24807/24807­h/24807­h.htm (03/26/2013).
51.
Which excerpt from the selection shows that Saunderson is dishonest?
A.
“Saunderson was one of those men who firmly believed that he knew
everything, and exasperated people by telling them how to do
things.”
B.
“In the evening, Mrs. O—(the missionary’s wife) wrote Denison a note
and asked if he could spare a cheese from the ship’s stores, and
added a P.S., ‘What a terrible bore he is!’ ”
C.
“Then he sarcastically told Denison that the cheese he had sent Mrs.
O—might have passed for dynamite, it was so dry and tasteless.”
D.
“Saunderson said he knew that, and after telling Rigby that he would
walk over to his station before dinner, and show him where to begin
operations on the reef, went on shore again.” Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Saunderson and the Dynamite' ­ and answer the question below:
52.
Which can the reader infer about the relationship between Denison,
Packenham, and Saunderson in the first paragraph of the selection?
A.
The supercargo and skipper had no authority to speak negatively to
someone in Saunderson’s position.
B.
Saunderson especially irritated the supercargo and skipper when he
tried to run the ship.
C.
Packenham, in particular, was able to negotiate with Saunderson.
D.
Denison, in particular, was more patient with Saunderson.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Saunderson and the Dynamite' ­ and answer the question below:
53.
Which sentence suggests that Saunderson is a person intensely disliked
by the other men on board the ship?
A.
“Saunderson was one of the partners in the firm who owned the
Palestine.” B.
“ ‘He’s a big eater, and is bound to get the fever if we give him a fair
show in the Solomons.’ ”
C.
“Then we can dump him ashore at some missionary’s—he and his
infernal groan­box.”
D.
“He had never fired a charge of dynamite in his life, nor even seen
one fired.” Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Saunderson and the Dynamite' ­ and answer the question below:
Test I
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54.
Which line from the selection indicates that Saunderson is a person of
excess?
A.
“Saunderson was one of those men who firmly believed that he knew
everything, and exasperated people by telling them how to do
things.”
B.
“ ‘Never mind, Tom,’ said Packenham hopefully, one day, ‘he’s a big
eater, and is bound to get the fever if we give him a fair show in the
Solomons.’ ” C.
“When the Palestine arrived at Leone Bay, in Tutuila, Saunderson
dressed himself beautifully and went ashore to the mission­house.”
D.
“Saunderson said he knew that, and after telling Rigby that he would
walk over to his station before dinner, and show him where to begin
operations on the reef, went on shore again.”
Read the passage ­ 'Native American Women in Science —Hope for the Future' ­ and answer the question below:
Native American Women in Science —Hope for the Future
Native American Women in Science—Hope for the Future
by Sara Young
The current national statistics on Native American women in science fields is discouraging; an average of 20 doctorates in science­related fields were awarded to Native American women each year between 1985 and 1995,
and less than one Native American woman per year completed a doctorate in engineering during the same period (National Science Foundation/SRS Survey of Earned Doctorates). Although data shows that the percentage
of Native American women in the science and engineering workforce is approximately the same as women compared to men nationally, the percentage in relation to the overall Native American population is much lower.
However, if the participation of Native American females in programs sponsored by the American Indian Research Opportunities (AIRO) program at Montana State University (MSU)­Bozeman is any indication of the growing
numbers of Native American women in science, the future looks bright.
AIRO has three programs for Native Americans: one for undergraduates attending MSU­Bozeman (IMSD), one for tribal college students interested in transitioning on to a four year college in a science field (Bridges to
MSU), and one for high school students interested in learning more about science and engineering research (MAP). The program participants are predominantly Native American females.
IMSD supports 20 students through funds from both the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. On average, seventy­five percent of the students in the program are Native American
women. The students are majoring in microbiology, cell biology, nutrition, pre­veterinary science, psychology, and family health sciences. Students spend ten hours each week during the academic year and ten weeks
during the summer in a research lab. The students also attend at least two minority student research conferences each year to present their research.
Lisa Sun Rhodes, Vanessa Watts, and Vicki LaFromboise exemplify the caliber1 of work being done by the women of IMSD. Lisa, a junior in microbiology, received one of the SACNAS poster competition awards during the
2003 national conference. Initially Lisa’s plans were directed at attending medical school, but her experience as an undergraduate conducting research has influenced her to look at M.D. / Ph.D. programs. Vanessa is in a
graduate program at Harvard’s School of Public Health, and Vicki will complete a master’s degree at MSU­Bozeman this spring in community health. She is currently engaged in conducting research on health concerns
among the Blackfeet tribe. But women like Lisa, Vanessa, and Vicki are facing challenging decisions as they pursue their graduate educations.
Although the numbers of Native American women and men in the science and engineering workforce is climbing, the numbers employed with Ph.D.s remains low. Programs such as AIRO prove that Native Americans are
getting their undergraduate degrees, but deciding to pursue an M.S. or M.D. instead of Ph.D.s. Students know that once they obtain a Ph.D., the opportunities for returning home and utilizing their education with their own
people becomes extremely limited. There are just very few needs for research scientists right on the reservation—for now.
The true diversification2 of the science and engineering workforce is dependent on the diversification of how the workforce operates. Opportunities for research must go beyond the boundaries of the university and
corporate worlds and be extended into areas where diverse populations live. With such rapid advances in scientific technology, setting up a “satellite” laboratory on a reservation could well become a reality. These labs
could provide role models for the community and an opportunity for Ph.D. scientists to return home.
If we want to bring about a diverse workforce in science and engineering, we have to continue efforts at recruitment and support for diverse populations at all levels. Institutions and companies must begin to think
outside the box and support systems like those provided through the American Indian Research Opportunities program must be provided in states with large Native American populations. The future does look bright, but
there is much work ahead.
1 caliber: degree of excellence
2
diversification: changes that show differences Editor’s Note: Sara L. Young, M.Ed., is the director of the American Indian Research Opportunities program at Montana State University­Bozeman and is a member of the National Science Foundation’s Committee on
Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering. In March 2003, she received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
55.
Which line from the selection shows the author’s use of cause and effect
to address possible opponents to her point of view?
A.
“The students also attend at least two minority student research
conferences each year to present their research.”
B.
“Vanessa is in a graduate program at Harvard’s School of Public
Health, and Vicki will complete a master’s degree at MSU­Bozeman
this spring in community health.”
C.
“Although the numbers of Native American women and men in the
science and engineering workforce is climbing, the numbers employed
with Ph.D.s remains low.”
D.
“The true diversification of the science and engineering workforce is
dependent on the diversification of how the workforce operates.”
Read the passage ­ 'Native American Women in Science —Hope for the Future' ­ and answer the question below:
56.
Which sentence from the selection offers evidence for the claim made in
paragraph 3?
A.
“An average of 20 doctorates in science­related fields were awarded
to Native American women each year between 1985 and 1995.”
B.
“Lisa Sun Rhodes, Vanessa Watts, and Vicki LaFromboise exemplify
the caliber of work being done.”
C.
“Programs such as AIRO prove that Native Americans are getting
their undergraduate degrees.”
D.
“These labs could provide role models for the community and an
opportunity for Ph.D. scientists to return home.”
Read the passage ­ 'Native American Women in Science —Hope for the Future' ­ and answer the question below:
57.
How do the last two paragraphs support the author’s viewpoint about a
need for more women in science?
A.
They explain the specific steps to solving the problem.
B.
They call the audience to action in addressing the problem.
C.
They provide more reasons why solutions are needed for the problem.
D.
They offer details of solutions that are already being developed.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from The Story of an African Farm: “Times and Seasons”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from The Story of an African Farm: “Times and Seasons”
Excerpt from The Story of an African Farm: “Times and Seasons”
Test I
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by Olive Schreiner
The year of infancy, where from the shadowy background of forgetfulness start out pictures of startling clearness, disconnected, but brightly colored, and indelibly1 printed in the mind. Much that follows fades, but the
colors of those baby­pictures are permanent.
There rises, perhaps, a warm summer’s evening; we are seated on the doorstep; we have yet the taste of the bread and milk in our mouth, and the red sunset is reflected in our basin.
Then there is a dark night, where, waking with a fear that there is some great being in the room, we run from our own bed to another, creep close to some large figure, and are comforted.
Then there is remembrance of the pride when, on someone’s shoulder, with our arms around their head, we ride to see the little pigs, the new little pigs with their curled tails and tiny snouts—where do they come from?
Remembrance of delight in the feel and smell of the first orange we ever see; of sorrow which makes us put up our lip, and cry hard, when one morning we run out to try and catch the dewdrops, and they melt and wet our
little fingers; of almighty and despairing sorrow when we are lost behind the kraals2, and cannot see the house anywhere.
And then one picture starts out more vividly than any.
There has been a thunderstorm; the ground, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with white hail; the clouds are gone, and overhead a deep blue sky is showing; far off a great rainbow rests on the white earth. We,
standing in a window to look, feel the cool, unspeakably sweet wind blowing in on us, and a feeling of longing comes over us—unutterable3 longing, we cannot tell for what. We are so small, our head only reaches as high
as the first three panes. We look at the white earth, and the rainbow, and the blue sky; and oh, we want it, we want—we do not know what. We cry as though our heart was broken. When one lifts our little body from the
window we cannot tell what ails us. We run away to play.
So looks the first year.
1 indelibly: in a manner that is impossible to remove
2 kraals: an enclosure for cattle and other animals in southern Africa
3
unutterable: cannot be spoken
From Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/338/ (6/25/12).
How does the author’s use of the words feel, smell, melt, and wet in
paragraph 5 relate to the meaning of the selection? 58.
A.
by showing how sensory experiences create strong memories
B.
by showing how people experience the world through their senses
C.
by indicating how strong memories are a result of painful experiences
D.
by indicating that people’s sense of touch is stronger than their
sense of sight
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from The Story of an African Farm: “Times and Seasons”' ­ and answer the question below:
What is the connotation of the word great in paragraph 3? 59.
A.
wonderful and exciting
B.
familiar and comforting
C.
enormous and beautiful
D.
powerful and intimidating
Read the passage ­ 'Love's Festival' ­ and answer the question below:
Love's Festival
Love’s Festival
by Alojs Szentmiklossy
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There are dark clouds upgathered in the heavens,
And the full moon can hardly look them through;
All nature sleeps, wrapp’d round in misty dew,
And the stars shine not, while in slumber’s arms
All find repose; lire’s heavy load forgot.
All? No! I in the green shade slumber not;
For a transporting hope holds all my soul,
Bound me the fragrant clouds of Jasmines roll.
’Twas here—’twas here she spoke at eventide;
Here said, Farewell! And will she come again
When fair Chitona fills her lamp?—In vain
I wait—that lamp is filled. Where tarries1 she?
Impatience, weary of her lingering, stands,
And doubt comes on the mind overwhelmingly.
She comes! she comes!—I hear the rustling leaves;
Nay, ’twas the trembling which my sighs awaken,
As gliding thro’ the branches idly shaken;
They rouse delusive thought, which only grieves.
What, what forbids her to these arms to flee!
Why would she make of love a mockery?
Why will she trifle with my misery? Why?
O ye warm­breathings of my bosom—plaints
Of deepest­drawn emotion—hasten—fly—
Break on her proud repose2—arouse and melt
Her frozen sympathies—awake, inspire
The sleeping passion, the concealed desire,
And make her feel what I so long have felt.
What! do I feel those round and beauteous arms,
White as the snows, enfolding me? ’Tis thou!
O thou art pouring streams of transport now,
And my heart beats ’gainst thine—O how it beats!
The raptures of thy spirit mine repeats—
And misery flies from mine exalted brow.
From thy sweet looks what peace and calmness flow!
The clouds are all departing,
And from thine eyes a flame of beauty darting,
Kindles the stars. The heaven’s bright blue
Smiles like a Lotus flower, and nightingales
Float their rich harmonies,
While odorous flow’r­sweets hang amidst the trees,
And silver­voices, in tuned madrigals,
Hang on the wings of love, breathing delight;
All joy and blessings all—while this sweet place
Anadiomen’s3 temple is—to lull
Our spirits to a rest so beautiful,
That here we may build up that temple bright
Where love’s best incense shall the altar grace.
1 tarries: delays; waits too long
2 repose: calmness; serenity
3 Anadiomen’s: belonging to the Greek goddess Aphrodite
From Google Books at http://books.google.com/ (accessed 3/29/12)
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Which reflects the speaker’s belief about love in lines 43–44?
60.
A.
Love is a worshipful place of beauty and rest.
B.
Love is a place to worship Greek goddesses.
C.
Love is a place to build a temple of worship.
D.
Love is a place that brings great tidings.
Read the passage ­ 'Love's Festival' ­ and answer the question below:
Which line from the poem does the speaker use to support his belief
about the power of love?
61.
A.
“All nature sleeps, wrapp’d round in misty dew,”
B.
“She comes! She comes!—I hear the rustling leaves;”
C.
“And make her feel what I so long have felt.”
D.
“From thy sweet looks what peace and calmness flow!”
Read the passage ­ 'The Lake Shore Road' ­ and answer the question below:
The Lake Shore Road
From Canada
The Lake Shore Road
by Jean Blewett
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‘Tis noon, the meadow stretches in the sun,
And every little spear of grass uplifts its slimness to the glow
To let the heavy­laden bees pass out.
A stream comes at a snail’s pace through the gloom
Of shrub and fern and brake,1
Leaps o’er a wall, goes singing on to find
The coolness of the lake.
A wild rose spreads her greenness on a hedge,
And flings her tinted blossoms in the air;
The sweetbriar neighbors with that porcupine
Of shrubs, the gooseberry; with parasol2
Of white the elderberry shades her head
And dreams of purple fruit and wine­press chill.
From off her four warm eggs of mottled3 shade,
A bird flies with a call of love and joy
That wins an answer straight
From that brown thing of gladness on a bough,
Too slight to hold him and his weight of song,
The proud and watchful mate.
The wind comes heavy freighted from the wood,
With jasmine, honeysuckle, iris, phlox,
And lilies red and white;
The blue lake murmurs, and the world seems all
A garden of delight.
1 brake: a place overgrown with bushes
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parasol: a small umbrella
3mottled: mixed colors
Project Gutenberg, 2011. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35779/35779­h/35779­h.htm#Page_207 (03/26/2013).
62.
Which supports the central idea of the selection?
A.
“Tis noon, the meadow stretches in the sun, / And every little spear
of grass uplifts its slimness to the glow”
B.
“A stream comes at a snail’s pace through the gloom / Of shrub and
fern and brake”
C.
“A bird flies with a call of love and joy / That wins an answer
straight”
D.
“The blue lake murmurs, and the world seems all / A garden of
delight.”
Read the passage ­ 'The Lake Shore Road' ­ and answer the question below:
63.
How does the setting contribute to the theme of the poem?
A.
An interaction of its elements shows how the forest survives from
day to day.
B.
The many plants and animals interact to show how the forest is
alive.
C.
The forest provides a home to its many families of living creatures.
D.
Each element of nature is dependent upon one another.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Anna Karenina: Chapter 3' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from Anna Karenina: Chapter 3
Excerpt from Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he could not answer, “I have come to make your sister­in­law an offer,“ though that was
precisely what he had come for.
The families of the Levins and the Shtcherbatskys were old, noble Moscow families, and had always been on intimate and friendly terms. This intimacy had grown still closer during Levin’s student days. He had both
prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him. In those days Levin used often to be in the Shtcherbatskys’ house, and he was
in love with the Shtcherbatsky household. Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin was in love, especially with the feminine half of the household. Levin did not remember his
own mother, and his only sister was older than he was, so that it was in the Shtcherbatskys’ house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he had been
deprived by the death of his father and mother.
All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical
veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection. Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain
hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother’s room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of
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drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky Boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half­long one, and
Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly­drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky Boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat—all
this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
In his student days he had all but been in love with the eldest, Dolly, but she was soon married to Oblonsky. Then he began being in love with the second. He felt, as it were, that he had to be in love with one of the
sisters, only he could not quite make out which. But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the world when she married the diplomat Lvov. Kitty was still a child when Levin left the university. Young
Shtcherbatsky went into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin’s relations with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his friendship with Oblonsky, became less intimate. But when early in the winter of this year Levin
came to Moscow, after a year in the country, and saw the Shtcherbatskys, he realized which of the three sisters he was indeed destined to love.
One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty­two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood
he would at once have been looked upon as a good match. But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a
creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
After spending two months in Moscow in a state of enchantment, seeing Kitty almost every day in society, into which he went so as to meet her, he abruptly decided that it could not be, and went back to the country.
Levin’s conviction that it could not be was founded on the idea that in the eyes of her family he was a disadvantageous and worthless match for the charming Kitty, and that Kitty herself could not love him. In her family’s
eyes he had no ordinary, definite career and position in society, while his contemporaries by this time, when he was thirty­two, were already, one a colonel, and another a professor, another director of a bank and
railways, or president of a board like Oblonsky. But he (he knew very well how he must appear to others) was a country gentleman, occupied in breeding cattle, shooting game, and building barns; in other words, a fellow
of no ability, who had not turned out well, and who was doing just what, according to the ideas of the world, is done by people fit for nothing else.
The mysterious, enchanting Kitty herself could not love such an ugly person as he conceived himself to be, and, above all, such an ordinary, in no way striking person. Moreover, his attitude to Kitty in the past—the
attitude of a grown­up person to a child, arising from his friendship with her brother—seemed to him yet another obstacle to love. An ugly, good­natured man, as he considered himself, might, he supposed, be liked as a
friend; but to be loved with such a love as that with which he loved Kitty, one would need to be a handsome and, still more, a distinguished man.
He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
But after spending two months alone in the country, he was convinced that this was not one of those passions of which he had had experience in his early youth; that this feeling gave him not an instant’s rest; that he
could not live without deciding the question, would she or would she not be his wife, and that his despair had arisen only from his own imaginings, that he had no sort of proof that he would be rejected. And he had now
come to Moscow with a firm determination to make an offer, and get married if he were accepted. Or…he could not conceive what would become of him if he were rejected.
Project Gutenberg, 2005 at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1399/pg1399.html (10/12/2012). 64.
Which is the effect of giving details about the family history of Levin and
the Shtcherbatskys in paragraph 2?
A.
It creates mystery about why Levin loves Kitty.
B.
It focuses on the romance between Kitty and Levin.
C.
It enhances the conflict between Oblonsky and Levin.
D.
It contrasts Levin’s family circumstances to that of Oblonsky’s family.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Anna Karenina: Chapter 3' ­ and answer the question below:
65.
Which effect is created by including the details of the girls’ lives
described in paragraph 3?
A.
It creates a spirit of romance by showing Levin’s adoration of Kitty.
B.
It creates tension because of Levin’s inability to understand high
society.
C.
It creates conflict because of Levin’s jealousy of the girls’ wealthy
lifestyle.
D.
It creates mystery by showing how Levin is enthralled with the
routines.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Anna Karenina: Chapter 3' ­ and answer the question below:
66.
Which effect does the opening paragraph have on this selection?
A.
It creates suspense about the nature of Levin’s offer.
B.
It creates conflict because of Levin’s lack of confidence.
C.
It creates mystery about Levin’s motivation for being in town.
D.
It creates tension regarding Levin’s confrontational attitude.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 1 from “The Outrage ­ A True Story”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt 1 from “The Outrage ­ A True Story”
From Russia
Excerpt from “The Outrage—A True Story”
by Aleksandr I. Kuprin
The gentleman in the sandy suit bowed just his head, neatly and easily, and said with a half­question in his voice: “Mr. Chairman?”
“Yes. I am the chairman. What is your business?”
“We—all whom you see before you,” the gentleman began in a quiet voice and turned round to indicate his companions, “we come as delegates from the United Rostov­Kharkov­and­Odessa­Nikolayev Association of
Thieves.”
The barristers1 began to shift in their seats.
The chairman flung himself back and opened his eyes wide. “Association of what?” he said, perplexed.
“The Association of Thieves,” the gentleman in the sandy suit coolly repeated. “As for myself, my comrades did me the signal honor of electing me as the spokesman of the deputation.”
“Very . . . pleased,” the chairman said uncertainly.
“Thank you. All seven of us are ordinary thieves—naturally of different departments. The Association has authorized us to put before your esteemed Committee”—the gentleman again made an elegant bow—“our
respectful demand for assistance.”
“I don’t quite understand . . . quite frankly . . . what is the connection . . .” The chairman waved his hands helplessly. “However, please go on.”
“The matter about which we have the courage and the honor to apply to you, gentlemen, is very clear, very simple, and very brief. It will take only six or seven minutes. I consider it my duty to warn you of this
beforehand, in view of the late hour and the 115 degrees that Fahrenheit marks in the shade.” The orator expectorated2 slightly and glanced at his superb gold watch. “You see, in the reports that have lately appeared in
the local papers of the melancholy and terrible days of the last pogrom,3 there have very often been indications that among the instigators of the pogrom who were paid and organized by the police—the dregs of society,
consisting of drunkards, tramps, souteneurs, and hooligans from the slums—thieves were also to be found. At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an
unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society. I know well that in the eye of the law we are offenders and enemies of society. But imagine only for a moment, gentlemen, the situation
of this enemy of society when he is accused wholesale of an offense which he not only never committed, but which he is ready to resist with the whole strength of his soul. It goes without saying that he will feel the
outrage of such an injustice more keenly than a normal, average, fortunate citizen. Now, we declare that the accusation brought against us is utterly devoid of4 all basis, not merely of fact but even of logic. I intend to
prove this in a few words if the honorable committee will kindly listen.”
“Proceed,” said the chairman.
“Please do . . . Please . . .” was heard from the barristers, now animated.
“I offer you my sincere thanks in the name of all my comrades. Believe me, you will never repent your attention to the representatives of our . . . well, let us say, slippery, but nevertheless difficult, profession. ‘So we
begin,’ as Giraldoni sings in the prologue to Pagliacci.”
1 barristers: lawyers who may argue in the higher courts
2 expectorated: cleared his throat
3 pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group
4
devoid of: completely lacking
Project Gutenberg, 2004. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html (02/25/2013).
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67.
Which sentence from the selection shows the duality that exists within
the character of the gentleman?
A.
“ ‘The Association of Thieves,’ the gentleman in the sandy suit coolly
repeated.”
B.
“ ‘Thank you. All seven of us are ordinary thieves—naturally of
different departments.’ ”
C.
“ ‘The matter about which we have the courage and the honor to
apply to you, gentlemen, is very clear, very simple, and very brief.’ ”
D.
“ ‘I know well that in the eye of the law we are offenders and
enemies of society.’ ”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 1 from “The Outrage ­ A True Story”' ­ and answer the question below:
68.
Which detail about the gentleman represents the idea that the thieves
are, in fact, a part of “intellectual society”?
A.
the speaker’s polite manners
B.
the speaker’s suit and gold watch
C.
the speaker’s leadership qualities
D.
the speaker’s words and reasoning
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 1 from “The Outrage ­ A True Story”' ­ and answer the question below:
69.
Which sentence in the selection shows the chairman’s confusion about
the reason for the gentleman’s visit? A.
“ ‘Yes. I am the chairman. What is your business?’ ”
B.
“ ‘Very . . . pleased,’ the chairman said uncertainly.”
C.
“ ‘I don’t quite understand . . . quite frankly . . . what is the
connection’ ”
D.
“The chairman waved his hands helplessly.”
Read the passage ­ 'India Releases Tiger Numbers as Experts Convene' ­ and answer the question below:
India Releases Tiger Numbers as Experts Convene
India Releases Tiger Numbers as Experts Convene
The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world’s remaining wild tigers. The government
estimated current tiger numbers in India at 1,706, up from 1,411 during the last count in 2007. However, the 1,706 figure includes an additional tiger reserve in the count, the Sundarbans, that contained 70 tigers. This
area was not counted in 2007. Therefore, when comparing the previous survey with the current one, the official estimate stands at 1,636 when leaving out the Sundarbans, or an increase of 225.
Figures were broken down by site with some populations showing increases, and others falling. “As seen from the results, recovery requires strong protection of core tiger areas and areas that link them, as well as
effective management in the surrounding areas,” said Mike Baltzer, Head of WWF’s Tigers Alive Initiative. “With these two vital conservation ingredients, we can not only halt their decline, but ensure tigers make a strong
and lasting comeback.”
The figures marked the opening of the International Tiger Conservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the
species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The count was conducted by India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority with key partners, including WWF, in the largest tiger population survey ever undertaken.
“These numbers give us hope for the future of tigers in the wild, and that India continues to play an integral role in the tiger’s recovery,” said WWF International Director General Jim Leape, who is chairing a conference
session on the role of international and national partners in the GTRP’s implementation.
In its detail, this tiger estimation exercise shows the importance India attaches to this prime conservation issue,” said WWF India CEO Ravi Singh. “The results indicate the need to intensify field based management and
intervention to go beyond the present benchmark, bringing more people and partners into the process.”
Several areas in India, including those that are not Tiger Reserves and outside national parks, were intensively surveyed for the first time. The Moyar Valley and Sigur Plateau in Southwest India’s Western Ghats Complex,
that has been a focus of recent WWF conservation efforts, was found to contain more than 50 tigers. Similarly, the Ramnagar Forest Reserve outside Corbett National Park showed a good number of tigers.
In addition to high­level officials from the 13 countries that still have tigers, the conference is expected to hear from key NGOs and global partners in the GTRP, including the World Bank’s Global Tiger Initiative, the
Global Tiger Forum, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Smithsonian Institute, the wildlife trade network TRAFFIC, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
Numbering more than 100,000 at the turn of the last century, tigers have lost more than 97 percent of their population and 94 percent of their home range in just 100 years. They live in increasingly isolated pockets of
land in Asia and the Russian Far East in Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, China and Russia. The Global Tiger Recovery Programme marks the first
formalized international initiative to save the species from extinction.
WWF International. http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?199803/India­releases­tiger­numbers­as­experts­convene (03/27/2013).
70.
Which is an accurate inference based on paragraph 2?
A.
Much work remains to be done in tiger population recovery.
B.
Poaching is a major factor in the decline of tiger populations.
C.
Tiger conservationists are unaware of needs in some regions.
D.
Tiger migration patterns make it difficult to estimate their
population.
Read the passage ­ 'India Releases Tiger Numbers as Experts Convene' ­ and answer the question below:
71.
How does the author introduce the idea that tiger conservation involves
two parallel strategies?
A.
by showing the cooperation of India and Russia
B.
by interpreting data from two different tiger counts
C.
by including a quotation from an expert in the field
D.
by identifying two areas where populations have grown
Read the passage ­ 'India Releases Tiger Numbers as Experts Convene' ­ and answer the question below:
72.
Which is an accurate inference based on paragraph 8?
A.
Tiger recovery groups are in desperate need of funding.
B.
Tiger conservation efforts require extensive collaboration.
C.
Rivalry between organizations is hindering tiger recovery.
D.
National governments are leading the way in saving tigers.
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Read the passage ­ 'Stray Birds' ­ and answer the question below:
Stray Birds
Excerpt from “Stray Birds”
by Rabindranath Tagore
1
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
2
O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
3
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
4
It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
5
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
6
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
7
The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?
8
Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
9
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
10
Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.
11
Some unseen fingers, like idle breeze, are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples.
12
“What language is thine, O sea?”
“The language of eternal question.”
“What language is thy answer, O sky?
“The language of eternal silence.”
13
Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.
14
The mystery of creation is like the darkness of night­­it is great. Delusions* of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.
15
Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
16
I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer­by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
17
These little thoughts are the rustle of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.
*
delusions: Project Gutenberg, 2004 at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6524/6524­h/6524­h.htm (09/11/2012).
73.
How does the structure of the selection contribute to its meaning?
A.
Short stanzas may not engage the reader as readily.
B.
Short stanzas contribute to more frequent mood changes. C.
Short stanzas allow the poet to shift the tone more frequently.
D.
Short stanzas enhance the reader’s enjoyment of simple unrelated
reflections.
Read the passage ­ 'In Focus: Janet Daley' ­ and answer the question below:
In Focus: Janet Daley
In Focus: Janet Daley
by Maggie Riechers
“Besides family, books are my greatest treasure,” says Janet Daley, executive director of The North Dakota Humanities Council. Her love of literature and her devotion to her native state have fueled Daley’s mission to
bring the humanities1 to North Dakota’s far­flung small towns, rural communities, and Indian reservations. As one who has lived in North Dakota all her life, she has a special understanding of the state. “There are only
650,000 people in North Dakota, and it’s a very educated populace. The entire state is like a small town.”
While the state may have a hometown feeling, most of its real small towns are miles apart. Bringing them together is a favorite project of Daley’s: North Dakota Reads. The book discussion program, which uses NEH2
matching funds, is now in nine communities. “It’s the first time we’ve done anything like this in North Dakota,” says Daley. “We’ve been able to lower the costs for speakers to make them more affordable to the
communities. With my own background in literature, North Dakota Reads is so exciting to me.”
Under the program, the Humanities Council works with local and school libraries to supply books, a gathering place, and a guest speaker for discussion meetings on assigned books. The program focuses on authors such as
Louise Erdrich, Larry Watson, and Larry Woiwode who have childhood ties to the state.
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As a Phi Beta Kappa3 graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English, and experience in teaching, writing and editing, and publishing, Daley is well­equipped to
take on the job of increasing humanities awareness throughout the state. She grew up in Nash, a town of about fifty people, and from childhood loved reading and books. Daley began her career teaching English in
secondary schools. After she moved to Bismarck, she became the publications editor at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, editing the state scholarly journal, North Dakota History, as well as editing and
publishing more than a dozen books. Later she became a freelance editor working on book projects for, among others, the North Dakota Institute of Regional Studies, the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and
Syracuse University Press, where she was content editor and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of New York State.
“My education and professional experience have come together in serendipitous fashion to prepare for this job,” says Daley. “But growing up in North Dakota, where education matters and people care about their
neighbors, is probably the best grounding I could have to help provide humanities — ways of connecting people to ideas and an understanding of what makes us all humans—for my fellow North Dakotans.” Besides
literature, the history of North Dakota and the culture of the Plains are important topics to Daley. One of the Humanities Council programs provides resources for the state’s middle schoolers who are required to take North
Dakota history in eighth grade. Because there is no state history textbook, the council developed materials for schools, including its newspaper, The North Star Dakotan, which reports the news during different eras of the
state’s history. “This newspaper speaks directly to a need for classrooms and all North Dakotans,” says Daley. Issue Five, for example, covers 1915 to 1940 and includes articles such as “European War Worries North
Dakotans Most Against Intervention,” from December 15, 1915, and “Farmers Told ‘Go Home and Slop the Hog,’ State­Owned Elevator Bill is Dead,” dated February 4, 1915.
The Council has not neglected its Indian population, which comprises five percent of the state. In the spring of 2005, the Council sponsored a tour of reservations of the film Water Buster, which portrayed the damage to
the Indian population when the building of the Garrison Dam flooded many small towns on reservations. “We’re working with Indians across the state,” says Daley. “We want to bridge cultural divides where they exist
through appreciation of history, culture, and arts.”
“Our small towns need the humanities,” says Daley. “We want to make sure our programs reach to Main Street, to the people and where they live.” 1 humanities: branches of knowledge that investigate human beings, their culture, and their self­expression 2 NEH: a grant­making agency dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities 3 Phi Beta Kappa: academic honor society with the mission of fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences
HUMANITIES, May/June 2006, Vol. 27, No. 3
74.
Which paragraph develops the idea that Daley is well­suited for her
position?
A.
Paragraph 1
B.
Paragraph 2
C.
Paragraph 4
D.
Paragraph 5
Read the passage ­ 'In Focus: Janet Daley' ­ and answer the question below:
75.
How does the author explain what Daley believes contributed to her
preparation for her current position?
A.
“Her love of literature and her devotion to her native state have
fueled Daley’s mission to bring the humanities to North Dakota.”
B.
“As one who has lived in North Dakota all her life, she has a special
understanding of the state.”
C.
“ ‘But growing up in North Dakota, where education matters and
people care about their neighbors, is probably the best grounding I
could have to help provide humanities.’ ”
D.
“ ‘We want to bridge cultural divides where they exist through
appreciation of history, culture, and arts.’ ”
Read the passage ­ 'The Peach­Blossom Fountain' ­ and answer the question below:
The Peach­Blossom Fountain
The Peach­Blossom Fountain
By T’ao Yuan­Ming
Towards the close of the fourth century A.D., a certain fisherman of Wu­ling, who had followed up one of the river branches without taking note whither he was going, came suddenly upon a grove of peach trees in full
bloom, extending some distance on each bank, with not a tree of any other kind in sight. The beauty of the scene and the exquisite perfume of the flowers filled the heart of the fisherman with surprise, as he proceeded
onwards, anxious to reach the limit of this lovely grove. He found that the peach trees ended where the water began, at the foot of a hill; and there he espied what seemed to be a cave with light issuing from it. So he
made fast his boat, and crept in through a narrow entrance, which shortly ushered him into a new world of level country, of fine houses, of rich fields, of fine pools, and of luxuriance of mulberry and bamboo. Highways of
traffic ran north and south; sounds of crowing cocks and barking dogs were heard around; the dress of the people who passed along or were at work in the fields was of a strange cut; while young and old alike appeared to
be contented and happy.
One of the inhabitants, catching sight of the fisherman, was greatly astonished; but, after learning whence he came, insisted on carrying him home, and killed a chicken and placed some wine before him. Before long, all
the people of the place had turned out to see the visitor, and they informed him that their ancestors had sought refuge here, with their wives and families, from the troubled times of the House of Ch’in, adding that they
had thus become finally cut off from the rest of the human race. They then inquired about the politics of the day, ignorant of the establishment of the Han dynasty,1 and of course of the later dynasties which had
succeeded it. And when the fisherman told them the story, they grieved over the vicissitudes2 of human affairs.
Each in turn invited the fisherman to his home and entertained him hospitably, until at length the latter prepared to take his leave. “It will not be worthwhile to talk about what you have seen to the outside world,” said
the people of the place to the fisherman, as he bade them farewell and returned to his boat, making mental notes of his route as he proceeded on his homeward voyage.
When he reached home, he at once went and reported what he had seen to the Governor of the district, and the Governor sent off men with him to seek, by the aid of the fisherman’s notes, to discover this unknown
region. But he was never able to find it again. Subsequently, another desperate attempt was made by a famous adventurer to pierce the mystery; but he also failed, and died soon afterwards of chagrin,3 from which time
forth no further attempts were made.
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Han dynasty: period of Chinese history from 206 BC­220 BC 2
vicissitudes: changes; fluctuations
3 chagrin: frustration; embarrassment
76.
How does the phrase “grieved over the vicissitudes of human affairs” in
paragraph 2 affect the tone?
A.
by inserting details of emotion to deepen the sense of depression
experienced by the inhabitants
B.
by implying the negative change which would soon happen in the
inhabitants’ lives
C.
by showing a contrast of the outside world to the inhabitants’ way of
life
D.
by adding negative information to intensify the inhabitants’ confusion
Read the passage ­ 'The Peach­Blossom Fountain' ­ and answer the question below:
77.
What impact do the parting words “it will not be worthwhile to talk about
what you have seen” in paragraph 3 have on the overall tone of the
passage?
A.
They create tension due to the implied concern of the inhabitants’
being discovered.
B.
They anger the speaker because he is being influenced in what he
should do.
C.
They serve as an excuse for the fisherman’s inability to find the place
again.
D.
They increase the speaker’s respect for the mysterious people.
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Read the passage ­ 'The Soldier of Liberty' ­ and answer the question below:
The Soldier of Liberty
The Soldier of Liberty
Excerpt from “The Soldier of Liberty”
by Fernando Calderon
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On a spirited steed
A young warrior rides,
Covered with solid steel
And filled with bellicose ardor.1
He carries his sword in the belt,
And at his side the spear:
On his face shines the light of hope
And in his eyes the flash of valor.
From his right hand he draws the glove
And caresses the stout neck,
And the mane that waves in the wind,
Of his faithful companion.
The noble charger proudly lifts
His head with a neigh
On feeling the caressing hand
Of the fearless rider.
His black breast and limbs
With white foam are covered;
His hoofs clatter
Upon the hard flint;
And at the measure of his steps
And the sharp sound of the steel,
The warrior raises his voice
With these immortal words:
“Fly, fly, my intrepid2
Charger;
The hostile squadrons will
Not beat thy noble spirit
That has always proudly despised
The cannon’s blast,
And a thousand times Thou hast heard Its terrifying Report,
Like a song
Of victory;
A precursor
Of thy glory.
In irons, with opprobrium,3
Others enjoy peace;
Not I who seek in war
Liberty or death.
“I left my delightful
Paternal abode;
I left my tranquil existence
To gird on the sword,
And with courage tore myself
From the bosom of my beloved.
On our parting
I saw her anguish—
What a moment Of sorrow!
I saw her tears And merciless grief—
It was greater
Than mine.
In irons, with opprobrium,
Others enjoy peace;
Not I who seek in war
Liberty or death.
“The cunning courtier4
May seek
For greatness in flattering the tyrant
And bending his knee.
My horse and humble saddle
I would not give for all his wealth.
And well may
His halls Resound
With songs;
But the proud
Neighing
Of my charger
I prefer.
In irons, with opprobrium,
Others enjoy peace;
Not I who seek in war
Liberty or death.
1
bellicose ardor: intense desire to fight
2
intrepid:courageous
3
opprobrium: disgrace or shame
4 courtier: one who seeks favor from royalty or attends to royalty
From Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?
id=YjtDAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=mexican+and+south+american+poems&source=bl&ots=Qp02Dc_rA8&sig=NX87ogoy9BQRtD8ry5R8OWqfAVU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xbRtUNOGB4Wy8QTtnYHQBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
“The Soldier of Liberty” by Fernando Calderon from Mexican and South American Poems (10/04/2012).
78.
What is the effect of the poet’s description of the main character in the
first stanza?
A.
to establish the main character’s image B.
to establish the internal conflict
C.
to create a tone of frustration
D.
to foreshadow a death
Read the passage ­ 'The Soldier of Liberty' ­ and answer the question below:
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79.
How does the repetition of the lines “In irons, with opprobrium, / Others
enjoy peace; / Not I who seek in war / Liberty or death,” create tension in
the poem? A.
It foreshadows the death of the speaker.
B.
It reaffirms the speaker’s desire to be in battle.
C.
It reflects the joy of the speaker’s homecoming.
D.
It portrays the honors he receives through victory in battle.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from "Boys"' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from "Boys"
Excerpt from Boys
by Anton Chekhov
Volodya’s three sisters, Katya, Sonya, and Masha (the eldest was eleven), sat at the table and never took their eyes off the newcomer.
Lentilov was of the same height and age as Volodya, but not as round­faced and fair­skinned. He was thin, dark, and freckled; his hair stood up like a brush, his eyes were small, and his lips were thick. He was, in fact,
distinctly ugly, and if he had not been wearing the school uniform, he might have been taken for the son of a cook. He seemed morose,1 did not speak, and never once smiled. The little girls, staring at him, immediately
came to the conclusion that he must be a very clever and learned person. He seemed to be thinking about something all the time, and was so absorbed in his own thoughts, that, whenever he was spoken to, he started,
threw his head back, and asked to have the question repeated.
The little girls noticed that Volodya, who had always been so merry and talkative, also said very little, did not smile at all, and hardly seemed to be glad to be home. All the time they were at tea he only once addressed
his sisters, and then he said something so strange. He pointed to the samovar2 and said: “In California they don't drink tea, but gin.”
He, too, seemed absorbed in his own thoughts, and, to judge by the looks that passed between him and his friend Lentilov, their thoughts were the same.
After tea, they all went into the nursery. The girls and their father took up the work that had been interrupted by the arrival of the boys. They were making flowers and frills for the Christmas tree out of paper of different
colors. It was an attractive and noisy occupation. Every fresh flower was greeted by the little girls with shrieks of delight, even of awe, as though the flower had dropped straight from heaven; their father was in ecstasies
too, and every now and then he threw the scissors on the floor, in vexation at their bluntness. Their mother kept running into the nursery with an anxious face, asking: “Who has taken my scissors? Ivan Nikolaitch, have
you taken my scissors again?”
“Mercy on us! I'm not even allowed a pair of scissors!” their father would respond in a lachrymose3 voice, and, flinging himself back in his chair, he would pretend to be a deeply injured man; but a minute later, he would
be in ecstasies again.
On his former holidays Volodya, too, had taken part in the preparations for the Christmas tree, or had been running in the yard to look at the snow mountain that the watchman and the shepherd were building. But this
time Volodya and Lentilov took no notice whatever of the colored paper, and did not once go into the stable. They sat in the window and began whispering to one another; then they opened an atlas and looked carefully
at a map.
“First to Perm . . .” Lentilov said, in an undertone, “from there to Tiumen, then Tomsk . . . then . . . then . . . Kamchatka. There the Samoyedes take one over Behring's Straits in boats . . . . And then we are in America. . .
. There are lots of furry animals there. . . .”
“And California?” asked Volodya.
“California is lower down. . . . We've only to get to America and California is not far off. . . . And one can get a living by hunting and plunder.”
1
morose: gloomy 2
samovar: large jar or container
3 lachrymose: depressed or sad
Classic Reader. http://www.classicreader.com/book/3127/1/ (02/20/2013).
80.
How has Volodya’s behavior been affected by his emerging view of
America?
A.
He is feeling angry because he wants to go to America immediately.
B.
He is feeling left out and too old to participate in making
decorations.
C.
He has become more serious in his preoccupation with going to
America.
D.
He has become more animated as he talks continuously about
America.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Chapter I, Anne of Avonlea: An Irate Neighbor' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from Chapter I, Anne of Avonlea: An Irate Neighbor
Excerpt from Anne of Avonlea: “An Irate Neighbor”
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A tall, slim girl, “half­past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August,
firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil1.
But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing splendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice2 of young firs in a corner of
the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that
were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison’s house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain schoolteacher was doing wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and
inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions.
To be sure, if you came down to harsh facts which, it must be confessed, Anne seldom did until she had to, it did not seem likely that there was much promising material for celebrities in Avonlea school; but you could
never tell what might happen if a teacher used her influence for good. Anne had certain rose­tinted ideals of what a teacher might accomplish if she only went the right way about it; and she was in the midst of a
delightful scene, forty years hence, with a famous personage—just exactly what he was to be famous for was left in convenient haziness, but Anne thought it would be rather nice to have him a college president or a
Canadian premier, bowing low over her wrinkled hand and assuring her that it was she who had first kindled his ambition, and that all his success in life was due to the lessons she had instilled so long ago in Avonlea
school. This pleasant vision was shattered by a most unpleasant interruption.
A demure little Jersey cow came scuttling down the lane and five seconds later Mr. Harrison arrived—if “arrived” be not too mild a term to describe the manner of his irruption3 into the yard.
He bounced over the fence without waiting to open the gate, and angrily confronted astonished Anne, who had risen to her feet and stood looking at him in some bewilderment. Mr. Harrison was their new righthand
neighbor and she had never met him before, although she had seen him once or twice.
In early April, before Anne had come home from Queen’s, Mr. Robert Bell, whose farm adjoined the Cuthbert place on the west, had sold out and moved to Charlottetown. His farm had been bought by a certain Mr. J. A.
Harrison, whose name, and the fact that he was a New Brunswick man, were all that was known about him. But before he had been a month in Avonlea he had won the reputation of being an odd person—“a crank,” Mrs.
Rachel Lynde said. Mrs. Rachel was an outspoken lady, as those of you who may have already made her acquaintance will remember. Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people, and that is the essential
characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.
1 Virgil: Roman poet who lived in the first century BCE
2 coppice: trees that have been cut very short
3 irruption: bursting in; a violent invasion
Project Gutenberg, 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47/47­h/47­h.htm (02/25/2013).
81.
Why is Mr. Harrison’s arrival in the yard described as an “irruption” in
paragraph 4?
A.
because he was the newest person to move to the island
B.
because he came quickly and suddenly into the yard
C.
because he was reputed to be a “crank”
D.
because he was a New Brunswick man
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Read the passage ­ 'Energy From the Center of the Milky Way May be the Remnant of Dark Matter' ­ and answer the question below:
Energy From the Center of the Milky Way May be the Remnant of Dark Matter
Energy From the Center of the Milky Way May be the Remnant of Dark Matter
By Abigail Pillitteri
From the center of the Milky Way, dark matter particles may be sending signals of their existence. Astrophysicists analyzing data from the center of our galaxy have determined that the gamma­rays we are receiving may
come from collisions of dark matter particles.
Dark matter is the mysterious “stuff” which makes up the majority of the matter in our universe. It is called “dark” because we cannot yet see it or detect it directly. We know that it must exist because its mass causes
gravitational effects which we can observe. Any object with mass causes gravitational attraction, similar to the way the earth’s mass causes the attraction which holds you to the ground. The gravitational attraction of
dark matter helps hold stars and gas within their galaxies. Based on the effects of gravity in our galaxy, scientists believe that there is a high concentration of dark matter near the galaxy’s center, around the
supermassive black hole which resides there.
For decades, scientists have been studying the activity at the galactic center and the various types of radiation that we receive from it. Astrophysicist Dan Hooper, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA,
has analyzed data received by the Fermi Gamma­ray Telescope. He believes there is strong evidence that some of these gamma­rays come from the annihilation of dark matter particles.
When two particles “annihilate,” both particles disintegrate into energy. That energy can take on a variety of forms, and in this case, part of it is emitted as gamma­rays. By studying the energy spectra of these gamma­
rays, scientists can determine the masses of the annihilated particles.
Hooper has studied those gamma­rays, and he claims, “This is the most compelling evidence of dark matter’s particle nature yet.”
Hooper’s analysis of the gamma­rays suggests that the annihilated particles must each have a mass that is the equivalent of about eight protons. These particles are often called WIMPs, or Weakly Interactive Massive
Particles. They are the leading candidate for dark matter particles today.
Some astrophysicists remain skeptical of Hooper’s findings. They believe that the gamma­rays may have been produced by other sources, and that this is not direct evidence of dark matter. Some say that the gamma­rays
may be emitted by spinning stars or perhaps some other source we have not thought of yet.
Seth Digel, physicist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and analysis coordinator for the Large Area Telescope, says “We feel that astrophysical interpretations for the gamma­ray signals from the region of the
galactic center have to be further explored.”
But Hooper is confident in his analysis. “We have shown in our paper that none of these other sources can account for the observed spectrum or the very highly concentrated nature of the signal. The more we study these
gamma­rays, the harder it is to explain them with anything other than dark matter.”
This is exciting news for scientists who continue on the quest to identify the mysterious form of matter. This peek at one of dark matter’s properties gives hope and motivation for one day completely unveiling the hidden
substance that permeates our universe. The details of Hooper’s analysis can be found in his research paper External link, posted on the preprint server arxiv.org.
While astrophysicists look toward the sky in search of dark matter, others are trying to find it using particle colliders and underground detectors. The Tevatron at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN* are two
major particle accelerators which attempt to create dark matter from the energy of particle collisions. Scientists at the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search also attempt to detect dark matter with their ultra­sensitive
underground detectors in California and Minnesota.
Identifying dark matter particles would be historically remarkable. But there would still be 73% of the mass­energy of the universe left in question. That 73% is known as dark energy, the power source driving the
accelerated expansion of our universe.
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CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research
U.S. Dept of Energy. http://science.energy.gov/news/in­focus/2010/11­17­10­s/ (03/27/2013).
How does the author use words like confident, exciting, and compelling
to advance his purpose?
82.
A.
by persuading the readers to research gamma rays and come to their
own conclusions
B.
by creating a positive outlook about the possibilities surrounding
Hooper’s research
C.
by creating a positive feeling toward other scientists’ research
D.
by persuading the reader to believe there is no dark matter
Read the passage ­ 'Energy From the Center of the Milky Way May be the Remnant of Dark Matter' ­ and answer the question below:
How does the author respond to some experts’ claims that Hooper’s
analysis is wrong?
83.
A.
by quoting Hooper himself
B.
by using additional sources
C.
by going deeper into the research
D.
by giving examples from other experts
Read the passage ­ 'With My Fancy I Grasped' ­ and answer the question below:
With My Fancy I Grasped
From Russia
With My Fancy I Grasped
by Konstantin Balmont
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With my fancy I grasped at the vague shadows straying,
At the vague shadows straying where the daylight had fled;
I ascended a tower, and the stairway was swaying,
And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread.
And the higher I climbed, ever clearer were rounded,
Ever clearer were rounded dreaming hilltops aglow;
And from Heaven to Earth twilight voices resounded,
Twilight voices resounded from above and below.
And the higher I rose, strange horizons defining,
Strange horizons defining, did the summits appear;
And my eyes as I looked were caressed1 by their shining,
Were caressed by their shining, their farewell, sad and clear.
Now the night had appeared; Earth in darkness lay dreaming,
Earth in darkness lay dreaming, like a slumbering star,
While the smoldering2 sun, his dim embers still gleaming,
His dim embers still gleaming, shone for me from afar.
I had learned to ensnare the vague shadows far straying,
The vague shadows far straying, where the daylight had fled;
Ever higher I rose, and the stairway was swaying,
And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread.
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caressed: touched; stroked
2
smoldering: burning without flames
Internet Archive, 2007. http://www.archive.org/stream/modernrussianpoe00deutuoft/modernrussianpoe00deutuoft_djvu.txt (02/25/2013).
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84.
What is ironic about the speaker’s reference to the sun shining in lines
15–16?
A.
He is supposed to be asleep.
B.
The poem is filled with imagery of night.
C.
He is too far away to be able to see the sun.
D.
He has broken his pattern of talking about the staircase.
Read the passage ­ 'With My Fancy I Grasped' ­ and answer the question below:
85.
What effect is achieved by the poet’s use of repetition?
A.
establishing and maintaining rhythm
B.
establishing and maintaining rhyme
C.
building surprise with each stanza
D.
building tension with each stanza
Read the passage ­ 'With My Fancy I Grasped' ­ and answer the question below:
86.
Which phrase depicts a determined tone?
A.
“And my eyes as I looked were caressed by their shining,”
B.
“Now the night had appeared; Earth in darkness lay dreaming,”
C.
“Earth in darkness lay dreaming, like a slumbering star”
D.
“Ever higher I rose, and the stairway was swaying”
Read the passage ­ 'The Problem With Paper' ­ and answer the question below:
The Problem With Paper
The Problem with Paper
Some members of the pulp and paper industry are leaving an unacceptably large ecological footprint on the planet. Irresponsible pulpwood harvesting and expanding pulpwood plantations threaten fragile ecosystems and
create social problems.
In some places, such as in Indonesia, deforestation caused by unsustainable pulpwood harvesting contributes to climate change.
The pulp and paper manufacturing industry is among the world’s largest users of energy and emitters of greenhouse gases, and a significant source of water pollution and landfill waste.
Paper production is causing a large ecological footprint on forests, as around 40% of the world’s commercially cut timber is processed for paper.
While some of this timber is grown in well­managed forests, too much of it is the result of illegal logging and the irresponsible destruction of old­growth and high conservation value forests.
Some proposed new pulpwood plantations and mills threaten natural habitats in many places with high conservation values.
For example, the remaining natural forests in Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, Russian Far East, Southern Chile and the Atlantic forest region in Brazil are endangered because of growing demand for pulpwood, among other
threats. This has a knock on effect on several rare species including tigers, Asian elephants, Asian rhinos, and orangutans.
What is Causing Forest Conversion?
Rising demand for soy, palm oil, cocoa and coffee is translating into expanding plantations for these crops worldwide. Versatile products like soy and palm oil are found in anything from animal feed to bread, and from
lipstick to burgers—hence their popularity. This human ‘footprint’ on the Earth shows how our behavior in one part of the world can have negative impact on tropical forests and the people living in other part of world.
Cheap land, labor, and government subsidies are creating more and more supplies of agricultural goods to meet needs for increased production.
Poorly implemented environmental regulations are added incentives for some landowners and producers to convert forests for plantations inside protected areas, intimidate local people so that they are driven off their
land, and set fires to clear land with little fear for interference by authorities.
World Wildlife Federation. at http://wwf.panda.org (03/30/12).
87.
How does the author respond to the rising demand of certain crops
worldwide?
A.
The author understands why these crops are so popular.
B.
The author believes that environmental regulations need to be more
strict.
C.
The author thinks that incentives for landowners to sell their land
should be restricted.
D.
The author shows the relationship between product need and the
irresponsible ways of obtaining these products.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 2 from The Trial: "The Arrest"' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt 2 from The Trial: "The Arrest"
Excerpt from The Trial: “The Arrest”
by Franz Kafka
It was already gone half past eleven when someone could be heard in the stairway. K., who had been lost in his thoughts in the hallway, walking up and down loudly as if it were his own room, fled behind his door. Miss
Bürstner had arrived. Shivering, she pulled a silk shawl over her slender shoulders as she locked the door. The next moment she would certainly go into her room, where K. ought not to intrude in the middle of the night;
that meant he would have to speak to her now, but, unfortunately, he had not put the electric light on in his room so that when he stepped out of the dark it would give the impression of being an attack and would
certainly, at the very least, have been quite alarming.
There was no time to lose, and in his helplessness he whispered through the crack of the door, “Miss Bürstner.” It sounded like he was pleading with her, not calling to her.
“Is there someone there?” asked Miss Bürstner, looking round with her eyes wide open.
“It’s me,” said K. and came out.
“Oh, Mr. K.!” said Miss Bürstner with a smile. “Good Evening,” and offered him her hand.
“I wanted to have a word with you, if you would allow me?”
“Now?” asked Miss Bürstner, “does it have to be now? It is a little odd, isn’t it?”
“I’ve been waiting for you since nine o’clock.” “Well, I was at the theatre, I didn’t know anything about you waiting for me.”
“The reason I need to speak to you only came up today.”
“I see, well I don’t see why not, I suppose, apart from being so tired I could drop. Come into my room for a few minutes then. We certainly can’t talk out here, we’d wake everyone up and I think that would be more
unpleasant for us than for them. Wait here till I’ve put the light on in my room, and then turn the light down out here.”
K. did as he was told, and then even waited until Miss Bürstner came out of her room and quietly invited him, once more, to come in. “Sit down,” she said, indicating the ottoman, while she herself remained standing by
the bedpost despite the tiredness she had spoken of; she did not even take off her hat, which was small but decorated with an abundance of flowers. “What is it you wanted, then? I’m really quite curious.” She gently
crossed her legs.
“I expect you’ll say,” K. began, “that the matter really isn’t all that urgent and we don’t need to talk about it right now, but . . .”
“I never listen to introductions,” said Miss Bürstner.
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“That makes my job so much easier,” said K. “This morning, to some extent through my fault, your room was made a little untidy, this happened because of people I did not know and against my will but, as I said,
because of my fault; I wanted to apologize for it.”
“My room?” asked Miss Bürstner, and instead of looking round the room scrutinized K.
“It is true,” said K., and now, for the first time, they looked each other in the eyes, “there’s no point in saying exactly how this came about.”
“But that’s the interesting thing about it,” said Miss Bürstner.
“No,” said K.
“Well then,” said Miss Bürstner, “I don’t want to force my way into any secrets, if you insist that it’s of no interest I won’t insist. I’m quite happy to forgive you for it, as you ask, especially as I can’t see anything at all
that’s been left untidy.”
With her hand laid flat on her lower hip, she made a tour around the room. At the mat where the photographs were she stopped. “Look at this!” she cried. “My photographs really have been put in the wrong places. Oh,
that’s horrible. Someone really has been in my room without permission.” K. nodded, and quietly cursed Kaminer who worked at his bank and who was always active doing things that had neither use nor purpose.
“It is odd,” said Miss Bürstner, “that I’m forced to forbid you to do something that you ought to have forbidden yourself to do, namely to come into my room when I’m not here.”
“But I did explain to you,” said K., and went over to join her by the photographs, “that it wasn’t me who interfered with your photographs; but as you don’t believe me I’ll have to admit that the investigating committee
brought along three bank employees with them, one of them must have touched your photographs and as soon as I get the chance I’ll ask to have him dismissed from the bank. Yes, there was an investigating committee
here,” added K., as the young lady was looking at him enquiringly.
“Because of you?” she asked.
“Yes,” answered K.
“No!” the lady cried with a laugh.
“Yes, they were,” said K., “you believe that I’m innocent then, do you?”
“Well now, innocent . . .” said the lady, “I don’t want to start making any pronouncements that might have serious consequences, I don’t really know you after all, it means they’re dealing with a serious criminal if they
send an investigating committee straight out to get him. But you’re not in custody now—at least I take it you’ve not escaped from prison considering that you seem quite calm—so you can’t have committed any crime of
that sort.”
“Yes,” said K., “but it might be that the investigating committee could see that I’m innocent, or not so guilty as had been supposed.”
“Yes, that’s certainly a possibility,” said Miss Bürstner, who seemed very interested.
“Listen,” said K., “you don’t have much experience in legal matters.”
“No, that’s true, I don’t,” said Miss Bürstner, “and I’ve often regretted it, as I’d like to know everything and I’m very interested in legal matters. There’s something peculiarly attractive about the law, isn’t there? But I’ll
certainly be perfecting my knowledge in this area, as next month I start work in a legal office.”
“That’s very good,” said K., “that means you’ll be able to give me some help with my trial.”
“That could well be,” said Miss Bürstner. “Why not? I like to make use of what I know.”
“I mean it quite seriously,” said K., “or at least, half seriously, as you do. This affair is too petty to call in a lawyer, but I could make good use of someone who could give me advice.”
“Yes, but if I’m to give you advice I’ll have to know what it’s all about,” said Miss Bürstner.
“That’s exactly the problem,” said K., “I don’t know that myself.”
“So you have been making fun of me, then,” said Miss Bürstner exceedingly disappointed, “you really ought not to try something like that on at this time of night.”
And she stepped away from the photographs where they had stood so long together.
“Miss Bürstner, no,” said K., “I’m not making fun of you. Please believe me! I’ve already told you everything I know. More than I know, in fact, as it actually wasn’t even an investigating committee, that’s just what I
called them because I don’t know what else to call them. There was no cross questioning at all, I was merely arrested, but by a committee.”
Miss Bürstner sat on the ottoman and laughed again. “What was it like then?” she asked.
“It was terrible” said K., although his mind was no longer on the subject, he had become totally absorbed by Miss Bürstner’s gaze who was supporting her chin on one hand—the elbow rested on the cushion of the
ottoman—and slowly stroking her hip with the other.
“That’s too vague,” said Miss Bürstner.
“What’s too vague?” asked K. Then he remembered himself and asked, “Would you like me to show you what it was like?” He wanted to move in some way but did not want to leave.
“I’m already tired,” said Miss Bürstner.
“You arrived back so late,” said K. “Now you’ve started telling me off. Well I suppose I deserve it as I shouldn’t have let you in here in the first place, and it turns out there wasn’t even any point.”
“Oh, there was a point, you’ll see now how important a point it was,” said K. “May I move this table away from your bedside and put it here?”
“What do you think you’re doing?” said Miss Bürstner. “Of course you can’t!”
“In that case I can’t show you,” said K., quite upset, as if Miss Bürstner had committed some incomprehensible offense against him.
“Alright then, if you need it to show what you mean, just take the bedside table then,” said Miss Bürstner, and after a short pause added in a weak voice,
“I’m so tired I’m allowing more than I ought to.” K. put the little table in the middle of the room and sat down behind it.
“You have to get a proper idea of where the people were situated, it is very interesting. I’m the supervisor, sitting over there on the chest are two policemen, standing next to the photographs there are three young
people. Hanging on the handle of the window is a white blouse—I just mention that by the way. And now it begins. Ah yes, I’m forgetting myself, the most important person of all, so I’m standing here in front of the
table. The supervisor is sitting extremely comfortably with his legs crossed and his arm hanging over the backrest here like some layabout. And now it really does begin. The supervisor calls out as if he had to wake me
up, in fact he shouts at me, I’m afraid, if I’m to make it clear to you, I’ll have to shout as well, and it’s nothing more than my name that he shouts out.”
Miss Bürstner, laughing as she listened to him, laid her forefinger on her mouth so that K. would not shout, but it was too late. K. was too engrossed in his role and slowly called out, “Josef K.!”. It was not as loud as he
had threatened, but nonetheless, once he had suddenly called it out, the cry seemed gradually to spread itself all round the room.
Project Gutenberg, 2005 at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7849/pg7849.html (8/6/2012).
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88.
What does paragraph 42 reveal about K.’s attitude toward Miss Bürstner?
A.
K. finds her attractive.
B.
K. is curious about her.
C.
K. is intimidated by her.
D.
K. sees her as an adversary.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 2 from The Trial: "The Arrest"' ­ and answer the question below:
89.
What does Miss Bürstner’s response in paragraph 14 show about her
character?
A.
She finds K. foolish.
B.
She values efficiency.
C.
She is unfamiliar with K.
D.
She dislikes conversation.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from A House of Gentlefolk' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from A House of Gentlefolk
Excerpt from A House of Gentlefolk
by Ivan S. Turgenev
Varvara Pavlovna’s father, Pavel Petrovitch Korobyin, a retired general­major, had spent his whole time on duty in Petersburg. He had had the reputation in his youth of a good dancer and driller. Through poverty, he had
served as adjutant1 to two or three generals of no distinction, and had married the daughter of one of them with a dowry2 of twenty­five thousand roubles. He mastered all the science of military discipline and maneuvers
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to the minutest niceties, he went on in harness, till at last, after twenty­five years’ service, he received the rank of a general and the command of a regiment. Then he might have relaxed his efforts and have quietly
secured his pecuniary3 position. Indeed this was what he reckoned upon doing, but he managed things a little incautiously.
He devised a new method of speculating with public funds—the method seemed an excellent one in itself—but he neglected to bribe in the right place, and was consequently informed against, and a more than unpleasant,
a disgraceful scandal followed. The general got out of the affair somehow, but his career was ruined; he was advised to retire from active duty.
For two years he lingered on in Petersburg, hoping to drop into some snug berth in the civil service, but no such snug berth came in his way. His daughter had left school, his expenses were increasing every day. Resigning
himself to his fate, he decided to move to Moscow for the sake of the greater cheapness of living, and took a tiny low­pitched house in the Old Stables Road, with a coat of arms seven feet long on the roof, and there
began the life of a retired general in Moscow on an income of 2750 rubles a year.
Moscow is a hospitable city, ready to welcome all stray comers, generals by preference. Pavel Petrovitch’s heavy figure, which was not quite devoid of martial dignity, however, soon began to be seen in the best drawing­
rooms in Moscow. His bald head with its tufts of dyed hair, and the soiled ribbon of the Order of St. Anne which he wore over a cravat of the color of a raven’s wing, began to be familiar to all the pale and listless young
men who hang morosely about the card­tables while dancing is going on. Pavel Petrovitch knew how to gain a footing in society; he spoke little, but from old habit, condescendingly4—though, of course, not when he was
talking to persons of a higher rank than his own.
He played cards carefully; ate moderately at home, but consumed enough for six at parties. Of his wife there is scarcely anything to be said. Her name was Kalliopa Karlovna. There was always a tear in her left eye, on
the strength of which Kalliopa Karlovna (she was, one must add, of German extraction) considered herself a woman of great sensibility. She was always in a state of nervous agitation, seemed as though she were ill­
nourished, and wore a tight velvet dress, a cap, and tarnished hollow bracelets. The only daughter of Pavel Petrovitch and Kalliopa Karlovna, Varvara Pavlovna, was only just seventeen when she left the boarding­school,
in which she had been reckoned, if not the prettiest, at least the cleverest pupil and the best musician, and where she had taken a decoration. She was not yet nineteen, when Lavretsky saw her for the first time.
1
adjutant: assistant
2 dowry:a gift of money or goods a woman brings to her husband in marriage 3
pecuniary: financial
4 condescendingly: in a manner that shows a superior attitude
Classic Reader at http://www.classicreader.com/book/1787/14/ (03/27/2013).
90.
How did Pavel’s position in the Russian military before his retirement
affect his view of himself?
A.
He was happy to be associating with desirable people of a higher
class.
B.
He continued to feel a need to work under more powerful people.
C.
He felt satisfied to have a job that his adequate skills matched.
D.
He felt his salary did not match his abilities.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 1 from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt 1 from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1933
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor1 and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to
speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let
me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a
leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical
days.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen;
government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their
produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be
thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes2 in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the
exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous3 money changers stand indicted in the court
of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce
our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self­seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no
vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social
values more noble than mere monetary profit. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must
be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of
pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that
confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.
Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.
1 candor: honesty and openness
2 languishes: weakens
3
unscrupulous: without morals; unethical
Project Gutenberg, 2009. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4938/4938­h/4938­h.htm#2H_4_0037 (07/29/12).
91.
What is the impact of Roosevelt’s comment “only a foolish optimist can
deny the dark realities of the moment” on the meaning of his message?
A.
It emphasizes that American businesses no longer exist. B.
It underscores his point about the difficulties the nation is facing. C.
It shows readers more clearly the problems that farmers are
enduring.
D.
It makes more plain the contrast between progress and problems in
America. Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 1 from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address' ­ and answer the question below:
92. What is the effect of contrasting the terms distress, plague, and peril
with bounty and plenty in paragraph 4?
A.
They outline where American businesses have gone wrong.
B.
They stress the long road of recovery before the nation.
C.
They develop hope in an otherwise hopeless situation.
D.
They serve to instill a sense of fear in the listener.
Read the passage ­ 'Jefferson's Indian Addresses to the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation' ­ and answer the question below:
Jefferson's Indian Addresses to the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation
Jefferson’s Indian Addresses
To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation
We have long heard of your nation as a numerous, peaceable, and friendly people; but this is the first visit we have had from its great men at the seat of our government. I welcome you here; am glad to take you by the
hand, and to assure you, for your nation, that we are their friends. Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to
make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.
Then, brothers, let it forever be peace and good neighborhood between us. Our seventeen States compose a great and growing nation. Their children are as the leaves of the trees, which the winds are spreading over the
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forest. But we are just also. We take from no nation what belongs to it. Our growing numbers make us always willing to buy lands from our red brethren, when they are willing to sell. But be assured we never mean to
disturb them in their possessions. On the contrary, the lines established between us by mutual consent, shall be sacredly preserved, and will protect your lands from all encroachments1 by our own people or any others.
We will give you a copy of the law, made by our great Council, for punishing our people, who may encroach on your lands, or injure you otherwise. Carry it with you to your homes, and preserve it, as the shield which we
spread over you, to protect your land, your property, and persons.
It is at the request which you sent me in September, signed by Puckshanublee and other chiefs, and which you now repeat, that I listen to your proposition to sell us lands. You say you owe a great debt to your
merchants, that you have nothing to pay it with but lands, and you pray us to take lands, and pay your debt. The sum you have occasion for, brothers, is a very great one. We have never yet paid as much to any of our
red brethren for the purchase of lands. You propose to us some on the Tombigbee, and some on the Mississippi. Those on the Mississippi suit us well. We wish to have establishments on that river, as resting places for
our boats, to furnish them provisions, and to receive our people who fall sick on the way to or from New Orleans, which is now ours. In that quarter, therefore, we are willing to purchase as much as you will spare. But as
to the manner in which the line shall be run, we are not judges of it here, nor qualified to make any bargain. But we will appoint persons hereafter to treat with you on the spot, who, knowing the country and quality of
the lands, will be better able to agree with you on a line which will give us a just equivalent for the sum of money you want paid.
You have spoken, brothers, of the lands which your fathers formerly sold and marked off to the English, and which they ceded to us with the rest of the country they held here; and you say that, though you do not know
whether your fathers were paid for them, you have marked the line over again for us, and do not ask repayment. It has always been the custom, brothers, when lands were bought of the red men, to pay for them
immediately, and none of us have ever seen an example of such a debt remaining unpaid. It is to satisfy their immediate wants that the red men have usually sold lands; and in such a case, they would not let the debt
be unpaid. The presumption2 from custom then is strong; so it is also from the great length of time since your fathers sold these lands. But we have, moreover, been informed by persons now living, and who assisted the
English in making the purchase, that the price was paid at the time. Were it otherwise, as it was their contract, it would be their debt, not ours.
I rejoice, brothers, to hear you propose to become cultivators of the earth for the maintenance of your families. Be assured you will support them better and with less labor, by raising stock and bread, and by spinning and
weaving clothes, than by hunting. A little land cultivated, and a little labor, will procure more provisions than the most successful hunt; and a woman will clothe more by spinning and weaving, than a man by hunting.
Compared with you, we are but as of yesterday in this land. Yet see how much more we have multiplied by industry, and the exercise of that reason which you possess in common with us. Follow then our example,
brethren, and we will aid you with great pleasure.
The clothes and other necessaries which we sent you the last year, were, as you supposed, a present from us. We never meant to ask land or any other payment for them; and the store which we sent on, was at your
request also; and to accommodate you with necessaries at a reasonable price, you wished of course to have it on your land; but the land would continue yours, not ours.
As to the removal of the store, the interpreter, and the agent, and any other matters you may wish to speak about, the Secretary at War will enter into explanations with you, and whatever he says, you may consider as
said by myself, and what he promises you will be faithfully performed.
I am glad, brothers, you are willing to go and visit some other parts of our country. Carriages shall be ready to convey you, and you shall be taken care of on your journey; and when you shall have returned here and
rested yourselves to your own mind, you shall be sent home by land. We had provided for your coming by land, and were sorry for the mistake which carried you to Savannah instead of Augusta, and exposed you to the
risks of a voyage by sea. Had any accident happened to you, though we could not help it, it would have been a cause of great mourning to us. But we thank the Great Spirit who took care of you on the ocean, and brought
you safe and in good health to the seat of our great Council; and we hope His care will accompany and protect you, on your journey and return home; and that He will preserve and prosper your nation in all its just
pursuits.
1
encroachments: invasions
2 presumptions: beliefs based on evidence
From The Avalon Project, Yale Law School.
93.
Which of the speaker’s claims lacks support?
A.
The English paid the previous land purchase in full so no one owes
any debt.
B.
The government wants to buy land on the Mississippi for a specific
purpose.
C.
The Americans mean to obtain land from the Indians legally with
proper documents.
D.
The Indians would do better to change their way of life from hunting
to farming.
Read the passage ­ 'Jefferson's Indian Addresses to the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation' ­ and answer the question below:
94.
What claim is being supported by paragraph 7?
A.
The American government is trying to help the Indians.
B.
The American government would never cheat the Indians.
C.
The American government and the Indians are like brothers.
D.
The American government and the Indians should work together.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt From A Young Girl's Diary" Last Half ­Year' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt From A Young Girl's Diary" Last Half ­Year
Excerpt From A Young Girl’s Diary: “Last Half­Year”
Anonymous
January 17th.
The whole school knows about our being invited to see her, the glorious one! I’ve just been reading it over, and I see that I have left a frightful lot out, especially about her father. When we were leaving, just outside the
house door we burst out crying because as I opened the door I had said, “For the last time!” Just then an old gentleman came up and was about to go in, and when he saw that we were crying, though we were standing
quite in the shadow, he came up to us and asked what was the matter. Then Hella said: “We have lost our best friend.” Then the old gentleman looked at us for a tremendously long time and said: “I say, do you happen
to be the two ardent admirers of Frau Doktor Mallburg? She is my daughter, you know.” And then he said: “But you really can’t go through the streets bathed in tears like that. Come upstairs again with me and my
daughter will console you.” So we really did go upstairs again, and she was perfectly unique. Her father opened the door and called out: “Lieserl, your admirers simply can’t part from you, and I found them being washed
out to sea in a river of tears.” Then she came out wearing a rose­colored dressing­gown!!!—exquisite. And she led us into the room and said: “Girls, you must not look at me in this old rag, which is only fit to throw away.”
I should have liked to say: “Give it to me then.” But of course I could not. And when we made our final goodbye, perhaps forever, she kissed each of us twice over and said: “Girls, I wish you all the happiness in the
world!”
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95.
Which line from the selection demonstrates the narrator’s high regard for
Frau Doktor Mallburg?
A.
“We burst out crying because as I opened the door I had said, ‘For
the last time!’ ”
B.
“When he saw that we were crying . . . he came up to us and asked
what was the matter.”
C.
“Then she came out wearing a rose­colored dressing­gown!!!—
exquisite.”
D.
“ ‘Girls, you must not look at me in this old rag, which is only fit to
throw away.’ ”
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt From A Young Girl's Diary" Last Half ­Year' ­ and answer the question below:
96.
Which quote provides evidence of the strong admiration the girls had for
Frau Doktor Mallberg?
A.
“the glorious one”
B.
“we were crying”
C.
“My daughter will console you.”
D.
“She was perfectly unique.”
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Read the passage ­ 'Global Warming Impacts the Arctic and Antarctic' ­ and answer the question below:
Global Warming Impacts the Arctic and Antarctic
Excerpt from About Our Earth: “Global Warming Impacts the Arctic and Antarctic”
The barometers of global climate change
Signs of unprecedented1 change abound at the Earth’s poles. Sea ice in the Arctic has declined drastically in the last 30 years and the Northwest Passage was ice free for the first time in history in 2007. At the Arctic and
Antarctic, massive ice shelves are disintegrating and breaking away, such as the now famous break away of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica in 2002.
But the signs of change at the poles are more pervasive2 than the attention­grabbing declines of sea ice and collapsing ice shelves—and they affect us all.
Melting permafrost releases more greenhouse gases
A vast expanse of the Arctic is made up of permanently frozen ground, called permafrost. This frozen ground supports roads, pipelines, and buildings. As the temperatures increase the permafrost thaws and the
infrastructure becomes twisted and unstable. ‘Drunken forests,’ where the trees fall over as the ground beneath them thaws, have become a more common site.
Beyond the visible impact of thawing ground is the threat posed by the carbon and methane that has been locked in the permafrost and beneath the cold arctic waters (in subsea permafrost) for millions of years. As the
temperatures warm, these greenhouse gases are increasingly released into the atmosphere and cause further warming. This warming in turn releases more greenhouse gas, and unless it is stopped it will reach a “tipping
point”.
Reaching the tipping points
Once a tipping point has been reached, a feedback process takes over and it would be near impossible to slow it down. Scientists are concerned that the release of carbon and methane from thawing permafrost in the
Arctic could be one of several tipping points.
Another tipping point is the change in albedo (the extent to which a surface can reflect sunlight) from reflective ice and snow to absorbent open water. Snow sitting on top of the sea ice reflects about 90% of the sun’s
energy whereas open water absorbs about 94%. So, as the open water of the ocean absorbs more heat and causes more sea ice to disappear, it exposes even more water and another feedback process has begun.
Impact on wildlife
Some species now struggle to survive as polar regions become warmer.
Even small changes in the conditions are enough to have serious impacts.
In the Arctic, a whole ecosystem relies on the presence of sea­ice, from the plankton that live on the bottom on the sea ice and all the way up to harp seals and polar bears.
Walrus are having a harder time as they rely on sea­ice floating close to land on which to haul out. As this sea­ice disappears some walrus pups drown at sea and others are crushed to death during stampedes on crowded
beaches. The emperor penguin colony at Terra Adelie in Antarctica could decline by 95% before the end of the century, if sea­ice continues to decline at the current rate. This would place the population at serious risk of extinction.
Other emperor penguin colonies could face a similar situation.
1 unprecedented: occurring for the first time
2 pervasive: commonly seen
World Wildlife Fund. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/impacts/polar_melting/ (03/27/2013). 97.
For which of the following claims does the author lack supporting details?
A.
The loss of sea ice threatens walrus populations.
B.
Plankton will be harmed by the decline of sea ice.
C.
The change in albedo poses a significant problem.
D.
Apparent changes at the Poles are affecting levels of sea ice.
Read the passage ­ 'Global Warming Impacts the Arctic and Antarctic' ­ and answer the question below:
98.
Why does the author include the section titled “Melting permafrost
releases more greenhouse gases”?
A.
To support the claim that many less visible, but important, changes
happen at the Poles. B.
To show that the gases could sicken many people if they are not
carefully monitored.
C.
To emphasize the dangers that greenhouse gases have on plankton.
D.
To prove that unnoticeable changes at the Poles are not that
important.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt 2 from Stories By Foreign Authors: “Mumu”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt 2 from Stories By Foreign Authors: “Mumu”
Excerpt from Stories By Foreign Authors: “Mumu”
by Ivan Turgenev
Tatiana, one of the laundresses . . . (as a trained and skillful laundress she was in charge of the fine linen only), was a woman of twenty­eight, thin, fair­haired, with moles on her left cheek. Moles on the left cheek are
regarded as an evil omen in Russia—a token of unhappy life . . . Tatiana could not boast of her good luck. From her earliest youth she had been badly treated; she had done the work of two, and had never known
affection; she had been poorly clothed and had received the smallest wages. Relations she had practically none; an uncle she had once had, a butler, left behind in the country as useless, and other uncles of hers were
peasants—that was all. At one time she had passed for a beauty, but her good looks were very soon over. In disposition, she was very meek, or, rather, scared; towards herself, she felt perfect indifference; of others, she
stood in mortal dread; she thought of nothing but how to get her work done in good time, never talked to anyone, and trembled at the very name of her mistress, though the latter scarcely knew her by sight.
When Gerasim, [the mute], was brought from the country, she was ready to die with fear on seeing his huge figure, tried all she could to avoid meeting him, even dropped her eyelids when sometimes she chanced to run
past him, hurrying from the house to the laundry. Gerasim at first paid no special attention to her, then he used to smile when she came his way, then he began even to stare admiringly at her, and at last he never took
his eyes off her. She took his fancy, whether by the mild expression of her face or the timidity of her movements, who can tell?
One day she was stealing across the yard1 with a starched dressing­jacket of her mistress’s carefully poised on her outspread fingers . . . someone suddenly grasped her vigorously by the elbow; she turned round and
fairly screamed; behind her stood Gerasim. With a foolish smile, making inarticulate caressing grunts, he held out to her a gingerbread rooster with gold tinsel on his tail and wings. She was about to refuse it, but he
thrust it forcibly into her hand, shook his head, walked away, and turning round, once more grunted something very affectionately to her.
From that day forward he gave her no peace; wherever she went, he was on the spot at once, coming to meet her, smiling, grunting, waving his hands; all at once he would pull a ribbon out of the bosom of his smock and
put it in her hand, or would sweep the dust out of her way. The poor girl simply did not know how to behave or what to do. Soon the whole household knew of the mute porter’s wiles; jeers, jokes, sly hints, were
showered upon Tatiana. At Gerasim, however, it was not everyone who would dare to scoff; he did not like jokes; indeed, in his presence, she, too, was left in peace. Whether she liked it or not, the girl found herself to
be under his protection. Like all deaf­mutes, he . . . very readily perceived when they were laughing at him or at her.
One day, at dinner, the wardrobe­keeper, Tatiana’s superior, fell to nagging, as it is called, at her, and brought the poor thing to such a state that she did not know where to look, and was almost crying with vexation.2
Gerasim got up all of a sudden, stretched out his gigantic hand, laid it on the wardrobe­maid's head, and looked into her face with such grim ferocity that her head positively flopped upon the table. Everyone was still.
Gerasim took up his spoon again and went on with his cabbage­soup . . . Another time, noticing that Kapiton . . . was gossiping somewhat too attentively with Tatiana, Gerasim beckoned him to him, led him into the
cartshed, and taking up a shaft that was standing in a corner by one end, lightly, but most significantly, menaced3 him with it. Since then no one addressed a word to Tatiana. And all this cost him nothing.
1 stealing across the yard: carefully moving or walking
2 vexation: frustration
3 menaced: threatened
Stories by Foreign Authors: “Mumu” by Ivan Turgenev. Project Gutenberg, 2004. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5741/pg5741.html (11/06/12).
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99.
How does Tatiana’s relationship with other characters develop throughout
the story?
A.
The characters become more antagonistic toward Tatiana because of
her reluctance towards Gerasim.
B.
She is more confident to be around the other characters because she
is protected by Gerasim.
C.
It remains stagnate as she continues to keep to herself from
beginning to end.
D.
Other characters become more protective of her because of Gerasim’s
actions.
Read the passage ­ 'Excerpt from Free from School: “Surveying a Forest”' ­ and answer the question below:
Excerpt from Free from School: “Surveying a Forest”
Excerpt from Free from School: “Surveying a Forest”
by Rahul Alvares
The summer vacation that year was great fun. My cousins from Belgaum arrived on schedule and since no one had Board exams that year the holiday season began in the first week of April itself. We would enjoy two
whole months of the sea, swimming as often as we could in the river that joins the sea at Baga.
One morning in May my dad asked me whether I’d like to participate in a project that the Goa Foundation, an environment organization of which my dad is Executive Secretary, was organizing for college students. I
agreed. The project turned out to be field visits to the forests in Betim in order to identify which areas were still forest, which areas had been cut down and by whom, which projects/constructions had come up, and so on.
The two students who had opted for this project were Stephen and Jerry, both from St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa, doing their graduation degree. I joined the team as an extra.
On the morning of the 20th of May, Dad and I set out in the car for Betim. On the way we picked up Stephen and Jerry. Dad showed us the different spots in and around the area he wanted us to cover and then left.
Steven was the leader of the team. He had obviously been briefed by Dad on how we were to proceed, for he soon took out a note book and started writing notes. I took my notebook and wrote down some names of
birds. Stephen said that just in case anybody questioned us, we were to say we were birdwatchers!
We found two houses in the middle of the forest and a huge clearing made by cutting a lot of big trees. The trees appeared to be cut with the use of an electric saw and tar was smeared on top of them to prevent further
growth. Many logs were thrown nearby. It was a tiring task and being the month of May, it was extremely hot and my shoes had begun cooking my poor feet. Even if we saw a small path, Steven would insist we go to the
end. Jerry would sometimes complain, “Steven who do you think will go down there, in that inaccessible valley, to cut trees?” But Steven was stubborn and would retort, “Jerry if we don’t go down there we will have it on
our conscience that there was a path which we could have checked out but didn’t.” So we trudged down each and every pathway we saw, howsoever narrow and unused it appeared to be
On the second day, I went on my bicycle to Betim. We continued and we found another two houses and a big tree cut, on the hill. This tree was also smeared with tar. The exercise usually took the whole morning and we
would call it a day by about 2 p.m. or so.
On the third day, my Dad and my cousin Luke joined us. We showed my father the different spots we had visited, the places where trees were cut and the illegal houses. Dad had brought along a camera which he gave to
Stephen to take photographs of the different patches of forest, the felling1 and the constructions. In some areas we found that fire had been set to the area after the trees were cut and this had destroyed the scrub
bushes as well.
I was glad that the fourth day would be the last, since by now I was quite tired of this assignment. I had a lot of thorn pricks all over my body and they had become little itchy swellings. My feet were also sore and the
heat was killing. But I carried on, as the project was near completion. On the hill we found a lot of houses coming up in the forest. We also found clear­felled plots with barbed wire fences around.
My part of the assignment was over that day and I received a small stipend2 for my work from the Goa Foundation. Steven and Jerry later prepared the project report with photographs and write­up. The report was
submitted by the Foundation to the Forest Department. The department sent an officer to investigate the matter and also issued orders not to allow felling or constructions in the area.
1 felling: cutting down
2 stipend: small payment for work done
Project Gutenberg, 2004. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10347/pg10347.html (08/03/2012).
100.
Which details does the author use to express his point of view?
A.
words such as “illegal houses” to convey a negative tone
B.
details about the setting to convey the speaker’s excitement
C.
details about personal relationships to convey a positive tone
D.
words such as “barbed wire fences” to explain a dangerous situation
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