PRE-TEST

LISTENING COMPREHENSION (13 QUESTIONS)

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READING COMPREHENSION

(10 QUESTIONS FOR 10 MINUTES)

1. The phrase “attachment to” in line 2 is

closest in meaning to 3. The relationship of a mortise and a

(A) control of tenon is most similar to that of

(B) distance from (A) a lock and a key

(C) curiosity about (B) a book and its cover

(D) preference for (C) a cup and a saucer

2. The word “protruding” in line 13 is (D) a hammer and a nail

closest in meaning to 4. For what purpose did woodworkers

(A) parallel use an auger

(B) simple (A) To whittle a peg

(C) projecting (B) To make a tenon

(D) important (C) To drill a hole

(D) To measure a panel

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5. Which of the following were NOT used

in the construction of colonial 8. The word “they ”in line 25 refers to

furniture? (A) designs

(A) Mortises (B) types

(B) Nails (C) colonists

(C) Hinges (D) all

(D) Screws 9. The author implies that the colonial

6. The author implies that colonial joiners

metalworkers were (A) were highly paid

(A) unable to make elaborate parts (B) based their furniture on English

(B) more skilled than woodworkers models

(C) more conservative than other (C) used many specialized tools

colonists (D) had to adjust to using new kinds

(D) frequently employed by joiners of wood in New England

7. The word “shield” in line 23 is closest 10. Which of the following terms does the

in meaning to author explain in the passage?

(A) decorate (A) “millennia”(line 5)

(B) copy (B) “joiners ”(line 10)

(C) shape (C) “whittled”(line 15)

(D) protect (D) “blacksmiths ”(line 21)

STRUCTURE & WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Question 11-24 (10 MINUTES)

11. Dairy farming is _____ leading produced at the same time, light

agricultural activity in the United waves travel faster _____, so we

States. see the lightening before we h ear

(A) a the thunder.

(B) at (A) than sound waves do

(C) then (B) than sound waves are

(D) none (C) do sound waves

12. Although thunder and lightening are (D) sound waves

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 13. Beef cattle _____ of all livestock for (B) possible to reproduce

economic growth in certain (C) the possibility of reproducing

geographic regions. (D) possibly reproduce

(A) the most are important

(B) are the most important 15. Flag Day is a legal holiday only in

(C) the most important are the state of Pennsylvania, _____

(D) that are themost important Betsy Ross sewed the first American

14. The discovery of the halftone flag.

process in photography in 1881 (A) which

made it _____ photographs in books (B) where

and newspapers. (C) that

(A) the possible reproduction (D) has

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