Read the following text to answer questions 1 to 4.
The United Stated does not have a national university, but the idea has been around for quite some time. George Woshington first recommended the idea to Congress; he even selected an actual site in Washington, D.C., and then left and endowment for proposed national university in his will. During the century following the Revolution, the idea of national university continued to receive the support of various U.S. president, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie pursued the cause at the beginning of the present century. Although the original idea has not yet been acted upon, it continues to be proposed in bills before Congress.
1. According to the passage, the national university of the United Stated....
A. has been around for a while
B. does not exist
C. is a very recent idea
D. is an idea that developed during the present century
2. The passage indicates that George Washington did NOT do which of the following?
A. He suggested the concept for a national university to Congress.
B. He chose a location for the national university.
C. He left money in his will for a national university.
D.He succeeded in establishing a national university.
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage about Andrew Carnegie?
A. He was interested in doing charity work and good deeds for the public.
B. He was a member of Congress.
C. He was interested in the idea of a national university.
D. He was active in the early twentieth century.
4. The pronoun 'it' in line 6 refers to....
A. the cause
B. the original idea
C. the beginning of the present centuty
D. Congress
The following passage is for questions 5 to 9.
The La Brie tarpits, located in Hancock Park in the Los Angeles area, have proven to be an extremely fertile source of Ice Age fossils. Apparently, during the period of the Ice Age, the tarpits were covered by shallow pools of water; when animals came there to drink, the got caught in the sticky tar and perished. The tar not only trapped the animals, leading to their death, but also served as a remarkably effective preservant, allowing near-perfect skeletons to remain hidden until the present era.
In 1906, the remains of a huge prehistoric bear discovered in the tarpits alerted archeologists to the potential treasure laying within the tar. Since the thousands and thousands of well-preserved skeletons have been uncovered, including the skeleton of camels, horses, wolves, tigers, sloths, and dinosaurs.
5. Which of the following is NOT true about La Brea tarpits?
A. They contain fossils that are quite old.
B. They are found in Hancock Park.
C. They have existed since the Ice Age.
D. They are located under a swimming Pool.
6. The pronoun 'they' in line 3 refers to...
A. the La Brea tarpits
B. shallow pools of water
C. Ice Age fossils
D. animal
7. According to the passage, how did the Ice Age animals die?
A. The water poisoned them
B. They got stuck in the tar
C. They were attacked by other animals
D. They were killed by hunters
8. When did archeologists became aware of the possible value of the contents of the tarpits?
A. During the Ice Age
B. Early in the twentieth century
C. Thousands and thousands of years ago
D. Within the past decade
9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an example of a skeleton found in the tarpits?
A. A bear
B. A horse
C. A sloth
D.A snake
The following passage is for questions 10 to 14.
When the president of United Stated wants to get away from the hectic pace in Woshington, D.C., Camp David is the place to go. Camp David in a wooded mountain area about 70 miles from Woshington, D.C., is the official retreat of the president of the United State. It consists of living space of the president, the first family; and the presidential staff as well as sporting and recreational facilities.
Camp David was established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942. He found the site particularly appealing in that its mountain air provided relief from the summer heat of Woshington and its remote location offered a more relaxing environment than could be achieved in the capital city.
When Roosevelt first established the retreat, he called it Shangri-La, which evoked the blissful mountain kingdom in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon. Later, President Dwight David Eisenhower renamed the location Camp David after his grandson David Eisenhower.
Camp David has been used for a number of significant meetings. In 1943 during World War II, President Roosevelt met there with Great Brotein's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In 1959 at the height of the Cold War, President Eisenhower met there with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; in 1978 President Jimmy Carter sponsored peace talks between Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Eigypt's President Anwar el Sadat at the retreat at Camp David.
10. Which of the following is NOT discussed about Camp David?
A. Its location
B. Its facilities Khrushchev
C. Its coat
D. Its uses
11. According to the passage, who founded Camp David?
A. George Woshington
B. Frenklin Delano Roosevelt
C. The first family
D. Dwight David Eisenhower
12. The pronoun 'he' in line 10 refers to....
A. Camp David
B. Roosevelt
C. James Hilton
D. President Dwight David Eisenhower
13. Which of the following is NOT true about President Eisenhower?
A. He had a grandson named David
B. He attended a conference with Nikita
C. He named the presidential retreat Shangri-La
D. He visited Camp David
14. Khrushchev was at Camp David in
A. 1942
B. 1959
C. 1943
D. 1978
Read the following text to answer questions 15 to 18.
Hay fever is a seasonal allergy to pollens; the term 'hay feve4' however, is a less than adequate description since an attack of this allergy doe deps not incur fever and since such an attack can be brought on by sources other than hay-producing grasses. Hey fever is generally caused by air-borne pollens, particularly ragweed pollen. The amount of pollen in the air is largely dependent on geographical location, weather, and season.
In the eastern section of the United States, for example, there are generally three periods when pollen from various sources can cause intense hay fever suffering: in the springtime months of March and April when pollen from trees is prevalent, in the summer month of June and July when grass pollen fills the ail and at the end of August when ragweed pollen is at its most concentrated levels.
15. Which of the following would be the best in title for the passage?
A. The relationship between Season and Allergies
B. Misconceptions and Facts about Hay Fever
C. Hay Fever in the Eastern United States
D. How Ragweed Causes Hay Fever
16. According to the passage, which of the following helps to explain why the term "hay fever' is somewhat of a misnomer?
A. A strong fever occurs after an attack.
B. The amount of pollen in the air suffering in the spring depends on geographical location.
C. Hay fever is often caused by ragweed pollen.
D. Grass pollen is prevalent in June and July.
17. Which of the following is NOT discussed the passage as a determining factor of the amount of pollen in the air?
A. Place
B. Climate
C. Time of year
D. Ragweed pollen is most prevalent at the end of the summer
18. Which of the following is not true about hay fever in the eastern United States?
A. Suffering from hay fever is equally
B. Pollen from trees causes hay fever suffering in the spring
C. Grass pollen fills the air earlier in the year than ragweed pollen
D. Ragweed pollen is most prevalent at the end of the summer
The following text is for questions 19 to 28.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is perhaps not a name that is universally recognized, but Dodgson did achieve enormous success under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol. He created this pseudonym from the Latinization, Carlous Ludovicus, of his real given names. It was under the name Lewis Carrol that Dodgson published the children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the looking Glass (1872). Though dodgson achieved this success in children's literature, he was not an author of children's books by training or profession. His education and chosen field of pursuit were far removed from the field of children's literature and were instead focused on theoretical mathematics.
Dodgson graduated with honors from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1854 and then embarked on a career in the world of academia. He worked as a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford and, later in his career published a number of theoretical works on mathematics under his own name rather than under the pseudonym that he used to for his children's theories. He produced a numbers of texts for students, such as a syllabus of Plane Algebraically Geometry (1360), Formulae of Plane Trigonometry (1861), which was notable for the creativity of the symbols that he used to express trigonometric function such as sine and cosine, and a guide for the Mathematical Students (1866). In a number of more esoteric works, he championed the principles of Euclid; in Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1879), he presented his ideas on the superiority of Euclid over rival mathematicians in a highly imaginative fashion, by devising a courtroom trial of nti-Euclid mathematicians that he named "Eulid-wreakers" and ultimately finding the defendants guilty as charged. Curiosa Mathematica (1838-1893) made a further defense of Euclid's work, focusing on Euclid's definition of parallel lines. These academic works never had the universal impact of Dodgson's works for children using the name Lewis Carrol, but they demonstrate a solid body of well-regarde academic material.
19. The topic of this passage is...
A. The works of Lewis Carrol
B. Charles Dodgson and Euclid
C. The story of Alice's Advenures in Wonderland
D. Dodgson and Carrolk: mathematics and children's stories
20. According to the passage, Dodgson......
A. did not use his given name on his stories for children
B. used the same name on all his published works
C. used the name Carroll on his mathematical works
D. used a pseudonym for work about the courtroom triel
21. Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
A. "Lewis" is a Latin name
B. "Lutwidge" is part of Dodgson pseudonym
C. "Carolus" is the Latin version of the name "Carles"
D."Ludovicus" is part of Dodgson's given name
22. It is not stated in the passage that Dodgson.....
A. attended Christ Church, Oxford
B. studied children's literature
C. was an outstanding students
D.was a published author of academic works
23. What is stated in the passage about the work Formulate of Plane Trigonometry?
A. It is portrayed mathematics in a creative way
B. It was written by Euclid
C. It was published in 1860
D.It was one of the text that Dodgson studied of Oxford
24. All of the following are stated in the passage about the work Euclid and His Modern Rivals EXCEPT that....
A. it was published in 1879
B. it was a highly creative work
C. it described an actual trial in which Euclid participated
D.it described a trial in which "Euclid-wreakers" were found guilty
25. The passage indicates that which of the following works was about Euclid?
A. A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry
B. Formulae of Plane Trigonometry
C. A Guide for the Mathematical students
D. Curiosa Mathematics
26. The pronoun "they" in the last sentence refers to...
A. Parralel lines
B. these academic works
C. Dodgson's works for children
D. children
27. What is stated in the passage about Dodgson's academic works?
A. They are all about Euclid
B. They had an impact on his works for children
C. They were published under the name Lewis Carroll
D.They were well received in the academic world
Read the following text for questions 28 to 32.
According to the theory of continental drift, the continents are not fixed in position but instead move slowly across the surface of the Earth, constantly changing in position relative to one another.This theory was first proposed in the eighteenth century when mapmakers noticed how closely the continent of the Earth fit together when they were matched up. It was suggested then that the present-day continents had once been one large continent that had broken up into pieces which drifted apart. Today the modern theory of plate tectonics has developed from the theory of continental drift. The theory of plate tectonics suggest that the crust of the Earth is divided into six large, and many small, tectonic plates that drift on the lava that composes the inner core of the Earth. These places consist of ocean floor and continent that quite probably began breaking up and moving relative to one another more than 200 million years ago.
28. The topic of this passage is.....
A. continental drift
B. the theory of plate tectonics
C. the development of ideas about the movement of the Earth's surface
D.eighteenth-century mapmakers
29. The passage states that the theory of continental drift developed as a result of....
A. the fixed position of the continents
B. the works of mapmakers
C. the rapid movement of continents
D.the fit of the Earth's plates
30. The pronoun 'they' in line 4 refers to...
A. mapmakers
B. continents
C. pieces
D.tectonic plates
31. Which of the following is NOT true about the theory of plates tectonics?
A. It is not as old as the theory of continental drift.
B. It is evolved from the theory of continental drift.
C. It postulates that the Earth's surface is separated into Plates
D. It was proposed by mapmakers
32. According to the passage, what constitutes a tectonic plate?
A. Lava
B. Only the continents
C. The inner core of the Earth
D.The surface of the land and the floor of the oceans
33. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
A. Two unrelated theories are presented.
B. Two contrasting opinions are stated.
C. A theory is followed by examples.
D.One hypothesis is developed from another.
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