Question 1-9
warnings, enalrgedservice include
They were many causes for the
growth of an efficient national weather
service in the united states. Meteorology
progressed in the nineteenth century, along
with other branches of the natural and
physical sciences, but sciences
meteorology depends on the collecting of
information simultaneouslyin distant
places, little
5 could be done before the invention pf
telegraph to develop the sciences and
make it useful in daily life. In 1849 the
first meteorological observation to be
communicated by telegraph reached the
secretary of the newly founded
Smithsonian institution. Joseph henry, who
had organized a network of observers. By
1854 these Smithsonian observes were at
work in thirty-one states. Canada
10 and Paraguay. And the outbreak of the
civil war, weather observations were
collected for military purposes, and when
congress created a national weather service
in 1870 it was placed within the signal
corps for the army. Forecast were sent by
telegraph to weather stations, railstations ,
and the syndicated newspapers, and copies
15 were made and distributed to post office,
where they were received five hours after
the midnight predictions.
Forecast were obviously important
fot the farmer. In the early 1880’s a thirty-
six hour advance frost warning was sent to
Madison, Wisconsin, which would have
allowed some time to protect the ripened
tobacco crops, but because a
20 negligent telegraph operator failed to
relay the information speedily, the crops
was lost. In 1891 the weather bureau was
put under civilian control in the recently
established department of agricultucal
where it improves and expanded its
services, there-days forecast came in 1901,
along with improved cold-wave and frost
hurricane and flood warnings, a new
25 system to inform the public of of
dangers of forest fire, and warnings of
severe storms to protect the operator of
pleasure craft. In 1940, with the increased
importance of aviation, the weather bureau
was moved to department of commerce.
Then on april 1, 1960, as a by-product of
the space program, the tiros weather
satellite was launched into orbit, and its
two television camera gave meteorologists
a view of large-scale weather patterns
from the first time.
1. The word “stimultaneously” in line 4 is
closest in the meaning to?
a. Rapidly
b. Disturbingly
c. Concurrently
d. Optimistically
2. Which of the following was directly
responsible for up-to-date weather
forecast?
a. The establishment of weather station
b. The invention of the telegraph
c. Advancement in the physical science
d. Increased responsibility of the signal
crops
3. According the passage, between 1870 and
1891 the national weather services of the
united states was controlled by the?
a. department of agriculture
b. army signal crops
c. Smithsonian institution
d. department of commerce
4. how long did it take for the post offices to
receive copies of signak corps weather
forecast?
a. 5 hours
b. 24 hours
c. 36 hours
d. 72 hours
e.
5. The word “they” in line 15 refers to
 a. Railroad stations a. Very high
b. Post office b. High
c. Copies c. Medium
d. Weather stations d. Low
6. The word “ripended” in line 19 is closest 13. The author mention Z, D and K in line 17
in meaning to because they
a. Overdue a. Are organizing principles
b. Anticipated b. Are unusual constituents of matter
c. Mature c. Are easy for students to understand
d. Expensive d. Were recently developed
7. In line 20, the word “negligent” is closest 14. The word “etached on” in line 19-20 are
in meaning to closest in meaning to which of the
a. Solitary following?
b. Incorrect a. Transformed in
c. Careless b. Modeled on’imprinted on
d. Inexperienced c. Improves by
8. The author mentions hurricane warnings in 15. The purpose of the poster is explained in
line 24 as an example of information which of the following lines?
a. Provided when the weather bureu a. Line 1-3
expended its service b. Line 4-6
b. Relayed by the signal corps c. Line 9-11
c. Distributed by the army d. Line 13-15
d. Collected during the 1880’s
9. The word “severe” in line 25 is closest in
menaing to Question 16 - 29
a. Harsh There are many different types of lakes,but
b. Tropical line
three factors always play major
c. Expected
d. Sudden roles in determining the plants and animals that
live in thern. Any one lake can

Question 10-15 be considered in relation to its particular

combination of these three factors.
10. What is standart model?
a. A theory about the properties of Depth influences lake in various ways, but
matter one of the most obvious is the
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b. A demonstration of up quarks and
extent to which rooted flowering plants can
down quarks
develop. Very shallow lake often
c. A confirmation of the existence of
neutrinos have an extensive cover of plants with floating
d. A graphic summary of a theory leaves, like water liles, or with
11. Which of the following sometimes about
off? stems and leaves that emerge from the water
a. A neutrino surface, like the club rush. In
b. A proton
contrast, the rooted flowering plant in very deep
c. A electron
lakes are mostly restricted to
d. A down quark
12. The standart model was shown to have the edge, although a few species can grow at the
what degree of accuracy? bottom to depths of fifteen
10
 meters or more, providing that the water is
sufficiently clear for light to penetrate
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to that depth.
The temperature of the lake and mixing of
waters from different depth are
also important. The water throughout some lakes
is mixed by vertical currents
resulting from wind action, but in other lakes the
water separates into upper and
15
lower zones at certain seasons, with hardly any
mixing between the two zones.
this stratification happens during late spring in
most deep lakes of temperate
regions, when the heat of the sun causes an upper
zone or warm water to from,
floating on a lower cool zones, with a narrow
transition zone between the two
16. what does the passage mainly discuss ?
A. Stratification of lake water.
B. Factors that influence organisms found in
lakes.
C. How the climate affects a lake.
D. Flowering plants found in lakes.
17. The word ‘determining’ in line 2 is closest in
meaning to
A. deciding
B. changing
C. harming
D. considering
18. The word “them” in line 3 refers to ?
A. factors
B. roles
C. plants and animals
D. lakes
known as the thermocline. In autumn the
stratification is destroyed and the water
is again mixed from top to bottom.
Lastly, lakes can be divided into three
classes according to the level and type
of nutrients present. An oligotrophic lake is very
low in mineral nutrients that
plants need, which a eutrophic lake is rich in
these nutrients; a dystrophic lake
has soft water (containing little calcium or
magnesium) with much peaty material
and usually has a relatively low level of nutrients.
These are of course the
extremes, and all intermediate types of lake are
found.
19. the word “obvious” in line 4 is elosest in
meaning to
a. widespread
b. apparent
c. mysterious
d. serious
20. according to the passage, shallow lakes usialty
are
a. covered with leaves and stems
b. larger than deep lakes
c. very clear
d. relatively warn
21. the phrase “in contrast” in lines 7 – 8 is closest
in meaning to ?
a. likewise
b. in addition
c. on the other hand
 d. for example 26. which of the following can be inferred about
the eutrophic lakes
22. the words “penetrate to” in lines 10-11 are
closest in meaning to a. the water is always circulated by currents

a. return to b. they contain little calcium and magnesium

b. adjust to c. they are usually very deep

c. pass through to d. plants and animals probably thrive in

d. reflect from
23. the development of rooted flowering plants in
a lake is most affected by ?
a. nutrient contect
b. water temperature
c. curresnts
d. water depth
24. in line 19, the term “thermocline” is?
a. an instrument for measuring water in the
center of a lake
b. a tiny area in a lake where most organism
thrive
c. the mixing of hot and cold water in a
lake during seasonal changes.
them
27. lakes are classified in the last paragraph
according to the
a. kind of fish that live in them
b. clarity of the water
c. types of current
d. kind of nourishment available to plants
28. the author mentions all of the following as
influencing plants and animals that live in lake
EXCEPT the
a. depth of the water
b. temperature of the water
c. amount of rainfall
d. nutrient present in the water

d. a layer between water levels of two 29. the passage answers which of the following
different temperatures questions?

25. which of the following best represents the a. what kind of plans live in shallow lakes ?
temperature of a lake in autumn?
b. how do lakes affect weather conditions?

c. what effect/does the thermocline have in

life forms in lakes ?

d. how are lakes formed?


Questions 30-37
People in the United States carry in their
minds a picture of what conditional an
“American house” For many people, it is and has
been a fimesmaruding structurs that
Rises from its own piece of land. Wheth or that
piece of land is a small let as a city
Street or an expanse of farmland stretching off
toeard the horismen is almost inseliesame;
5 share Lewis and Clark’s sense of adventure and
What matters is that the house standas as an
individual object, separents them that waits of
25
Neighbors. So deeply ambedded in the country’s
consciomens in this ideal that even
Young children, when asked to draw a house, will
unhesitatingly make a skatch of a
Building with a pitched roof on top, a few
windows in its façade, and a promilment theer
door.
the trend toward more varied forms of
housing can be compared to the explorers
20
who went into the underveloped territories of
North America before the twentieth
century. Just as some people confidently opened
up a new geographic domain in a quest
for a better life, today there are homeowners who
launch into new architecutural
territories, searching for housing superior to the
typical dwellings of the past. A few
explore risky and breathtaking
architectural terrain, far ahead of any mass
migration. A great many more, by contrast,
resemble the pioneers and settler who were driven
onward by necessity; like these who
went West to find new opportunity, many people
today are moving to innovative housing like
apartment’s, town house, and condominiums
simply because the old

10 Today this particular style of house has lost its
most important reason for being; the
30
Traditional family. Until recently the predominant
for of househelt was a working
standard of a detached house has slipped out of
their financial grasp or in some way
does not meet their needs. The varied forms of
today’s houses do not spring from a

Husband, a wife who stay home, and their not-yet- single impulse; the motivations are as disparate as
grown children. Today such families the house themselves.

Make up a minority of the population of the

United States. As the comparison og the

Household and the work force has dramatically

changed, the house has been preased to

15 adapt. Detached dwelling accounted for 80

percent of the newly constructed private

housing in the United States as late as 1975; a

decade later, the proportion had streadtly

diminished to 62 percent. Instead of an “American

house” it has become more accurate

to speak in the plural: “American house”

30. what is the main idea of the passage ?

a. traditional form of America housing are changing

b. the demand for housing in the United States has increased

c. people desire to move back into traditional house

d. purchasing innovative and unusual house is risky

31. the word”constitutes” in line 1 is closest in meaning to

a. complements

b. makes up

c. costs more than

d. contrast with

32. Based on the information in the passage, what can be inferred about children’s drawings of
houses ?

a) Children’s drawing are all very similar

b) Children’s drawings are sometimes abstract
c) Architects have used children’s drawing as inspiration
d) Children take a long time to make the drawings

33. the word “ pressed” in line 14 is closest in meaning to …

a) Helped
b) Allowed
c) Forbidden
d) Forced

34. what does the author mean by stating in lines 17-18 that “it has become more accurate to
speak in the plural :” American house”?

a) There are now too many houses for sale

b) There is no longer a single style of house that can be considered typical
c) Many houses are now being built on small amounts of land
d) Many people are still building houses in the traditional

35. the word “ confidently” in line 21 is closest in meaning to ?

a) Assuredly
b) Selflessly
c) Brilliantly
d) Quickly

36. the author compares modern homeowners to explorers because both …

a) Are willing to seek new experiences

b) Believe in a more traditional family structure
c) Prefer to live in rural areas
d) Prefer to live in many different locations

37. the word “ disparate” in line 31 is closest in meaning to ?

a) New
b) Varied
c) Adventurous
d) Unconventional

Questions 38-50

As an artistic style, the illustrational realism of American scene painting gained a large
audience, partially because it appealed to popular taste and partially because it was widely
disseminated troughout the united states by mural painters such as Mitchell Siporin, Boardman
Robinson, George Biddle and Anton Refregier. These artists were commissioned to decorate
local banks, railway stations and public buildings as part of a government program to employ
those who lost their jobs because of great depression of the 1930’s. artists, who were living on
the fringers of the economy in the best of times, were particularly hard hit. To give them relief,
the Public Works of Art Project, administered by the united states treasury department, was set
up in 1933. Abandoned in June 1934, it was replaced a year later by several programs. The most
important was the works progress administrations federal art project (WPA/FAP).The project
was surprised by Holger Cahill,who also organized the index of America Design, a vast record of
three history of decorative arts in America.

Through the Federal Art Project, painters, sculptors, and grapic artists were employed by the
government at a monthly stipend. Among the artists who worked for the WPA mural and easel
painting projects were Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kunoyoshi, Marsden Hartley, Jack Levine, Hyman
Bloom, Loren Maclver, and Morris Graves, Younger artist included Willem de kooning, Arshille
Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Philip Rothko. By the time the federal art project was abandoned in
1943, more than 5000 artists had created thousands of works of art in over 1000 Amerika cities.

The mural illustrated familiar scene considered appropriate to their settings bus and airline
terminal, radio stations, schools, and housing projects, their subject included trains pulling into
stations, crowds at work, and event in the history or communication and transportation.
Unfortunately, many have since been destroy or painted over.

38. what does the passage mainly discus ?

a) Subject depicted in American scene painting

b) The depression as a theme in America Painting
c) Why artists lost work during the depression
d) Art created through government programs

39. the word “disseminated” line 3 is closest in meaning to…

a) Spread
b) Imitated
c) Advertised
d) Praised

40.what does the auother mean by stating. That artist lived “ on the fringers of the economy
(lines 7-8)

a) They lived in government built housing

b) They usually had more than one job at the same line
c) They were not allowed to participate in public works programs
d) They experienced financial difficulties

41.The word “ set up” in line 10 are closest in meaning to

a) Estabilished
b) Planned
c) Adjusted
d) Constructed

42.the word “it” in line 10 refers to the ?

a) Relief
b) Public work of art project
c) Treasury department
d) Economy

43.according to the passage, the federal art project was part of the

a) Public work of art project

b) Index of American design
c) Work progress administration
d) American scene style of painting
44. the word “vast” in line 13 is closest in meaning to

a) Enormous
b) Complex
c) Impressive
d) Accurate

45.the wprd “familiar” in line 22 is closest in meaning to

a) Colorful
b) Common
c) Modern
d) Accurate

46.which of the following best describe the federal art project

a) Many of them were never finished

b) They were difficult to paint
c) They depicted real life
d) They were not very colorful

47.the author mentions “crowds at work” in line 24 as an example of

a) People who painted murals

b) An entry in the index of American design
c) A typical subject of mural paintings
d) People employed by the WPA

48.the word “many” in line 25 refers to

a) Subjects
b) Projects
c) Murals
d) Settings

49.where in the passage does the author explain why the government created programs to
employ artists ?

a) Line 4-7
b) Line 10-12
c) Line 14-15
d) Line 19-20

50.which of the following would probably NOT be the subject of a federal art project mural ?
a) A self-portrait of the artist
b) People working in a factory
c) The invention of the telephone

A plane landing at an airport