INFERRENCE

PASSAGE 1
Rad the following passage and the statements that follow them. Some statements can be
inferred from the passage, other cannot. Put a check mark next to the statements that can
be inferred from the passage.
The mid-1950s saw the growth of a new kind of popular music that was first called “rock ‘n’
roll” and then simply “rock.” Although quite diverse in style, rock music tends to be vocal music
with a hard, driving beat often featuring electric guitar accompaniment, and heavily amplified
sound. Early rock grew mainly out of rhythm and blues, a dance music of African Americans
that combined blues, jazz, and gospel styles. Rock also drew upon country and western music, a
folklike guitar-based style associated with rural Americans and the Nashville Grand Ole Opry. In
little more than a decade, rock evolved from a single, dance-oriented style to a music highly
varied in its tones, lyrics, and electronic technology.

---------------------------- 1. Rock was the first form of popular music.

---------------------------- 2. There is basically one style of rock music
---------------------------- 3. Rock music is often loud.
---------------------------- 4. Several types of music influenced the development of rock.
---------------------------- 5. Rock has always been a complicated style of music.
---------------------------- 6. Folk music is popular in rural areas.
---------------------------- 7. The evolution of rock music occurred relatively quickly.

PASSAGE 2

Read the following passages and the inference questions that follow them. Then, decide
which of the choices (A), (B), (C), (D), best answers the question.
 Although dinosaurs roamed virtually the whole earth for 160 million years, dinosaur
skeleton are relatively scarce. Many dinosaurs are known only from a single tooth or bone chip.
The reason is that it takes very special conditions to make a fossil and a lot of luck to find one.
For many years, information about Tyrannosaurus rex was sketchy at best. However, in
the summer of 1990, the first nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was
excavated in the Montana badlands. That same year a second, even more complete, skeleton was
found in South Dakota. Together these skeletons yielded surprising new insight into the most
famous of dinosaurs, about the anatomy and behavior of T. rex and the world in which it lived.
Among the surprising discoveries were that T. rex was a far sleeker, but more powerful
carnivore than previously thought, perhaps weighing less than 6 ½ tons, no more than a bull
elephant, and T rex habitat was forest, not swamp or plain as previously believed. Moreover,
there appears to have been two forms of T. rex, the male quite different from the female.
Scientists hope that future fossil discoveries and increasingly more sophisticated techniques will
provide more accurate and complete information about not only T. rex but all the dinosaurs,
giving us a window on the world so many millions of years into the past.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that much of what scientists know about T.
rex.
A. has been known for many years
B. has not come from fossil discoveries
C. has been derived from the most sophisticated techniques
D. has been recently discovered
2. This passage implies that fossils
A. are usually found in the midwest
B. are usually found in beds containing complete skeletons
C. are few in comparison to the number of dinosaurs that roamed the earth
D. are easy to discover but difficult to excavate
3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Interest in fossils is relatively recent
 B. It takes advanced techniques to find fossils.
C. The search for fossils has been going on for many years.
D. Dinosaurs were confined to a relatively small area.
4. Which of the following can be inferred about T. rex.?
A. It was small but powerful dinosaur.
B. It was a strong, meat eating dinosaur
C. It was fast, plaints-dwelling dinosaur
D. It was a gigantic, forest dwelling dinosaur
5. The passage implies which of the following?
A. Not all conclusions scientists make are accurate
B. We have all the information we need about life millions of years ago.
C. New discoveries are confirming old bones.
D. A whole skeleton is required for information about a dinosaur.

WORD FORMS OR WORD FAMILY

Choose the correct word family member from the list below to complete each blank
Car manufacturers are developing a 1…………… of electric car especially for 2…………. .
These cars are quite small and may have room for only one or two people. They are not intended
for carrying large loads or many passengers. They are not intended for carrying large loads or
many passengers. Their main purpose is to get the driver to and from work. Because of their
small size, they 3…………. little energy. They are 4………………. because they cost much less
5………………. than larger cars to run. In fact, there is 6……… difference in fuel costs between
these new small cars and the larger cars that we are used to seeing.

1 class classification classify

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2 commuters commutes commute
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3 consumer consume consumption
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4 appeal appeals appealing
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5 monetarily monetary money
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6 marked markedly mark
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